I'm crazy and I need you to keep me that way.

[readingredhead]

I've decided I'm going to keep writing the NaNoWriMo novel. Not edit or revise--just keep writing, with another word count goal and another deadline. 150,000 words by the end of January. It's my new year's resolution. I'm starting now and taking it as well as I can. But since there's not the weight of 100,000 other people doing this at the same time I am, I'm gonna need some help. So here it is: pester me, poke me, ask me how it's going, remind me I need to be doing it. This is the first time I'm going to try something like this and I'm a little worried but also a little excited. It's something I need to do, and so I'll do it.

Hopefully, it all turns out well. Hopefully, I can make it to the end of the story. And then, hopefully, after it's over, there will be enough of it for me to be forced to make it better, make it actually good.

And maybe this won't work out at all like I expect it to, but even then...at least I made the attempt.

Please, don't let me break this promise to myself. Don't let me make excuses. I know I need to do this if I ever want to see this story in print, and right now I want that more than I want a whole lot of things that I should want a whole lot.

43 days from now I might actually have a finished novel in my hands.

Comments

[cucumber-eyes89.livejournal.com]

Ambitious. Good luck...

[readingredhead.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Kinda scared. But usually that means I'm doing something worthwhile. Thanks for the support.

[alexandria-skye.livejournal.com]

hey you. you need to finish your novel so i can read it :D good luck!

ps~ i still haven't finished going through your antarctica story yet... sorry *sheepish smile*

[readingredhead.livejournal.com]

:) thanks...maybe I should post an excerpt here that I actually like, but I feel like if I post something from it, people are going to want to see more, and I'm not ready for it yet. I feel like if I post something, I'll be mobbed by people who want to know everything.

Don't worry about the other story, just tell me when you do get around to it.

[incaseineedyou.livejournal.com]

I'll pester you! But do I get to read it when you're done?

[readingredhead.livejournal.com]

Um, all I can promise is that you'll get to read it before it's on the shelves of all the major bookstores. How far before is difficult to say. You're definitely one of the first people on my list, though -- you know exactly what to say about what I write, and when to say it.

[pippins-smile.livejournal.com]

This is the best kind of crazy :D Best of best of luck.