A Month of Writing

Blog posts are probably going to be a little lacking this month, I'm afraid, because this is a month of writing. I just have so many things that need writing down or typing up over the course of this month, so blog posts are going to take a bit of a back seat.

First off, the big one is National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo for short. Every November, the founders of NaNoWriMo set a challenge; to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days. This year I've decided to take up that challenge. It's pretty straightforward really - you just sit and write, and if by the end of the month you've written your novel, you've succeeded. It doesn't have to be publisher worthy, so it's a great way of getting a first draft done if you're terrible with procrastination. At this precise moment in time, I have about 3,500 words, and I need another 1,500 by the end of tonight if I want to keep on target. So that's going to be sucking up a lot of my spare time for the whole of November. If you want to check NaNoWriMo out, they have a website, though obviously you're too late to take part this year.

While that is the big writing thing I'm doing this month, I also have a lot of other projects that are lagging a little. There's a brand new article on video games that I've been working on, ever since I put up that Map Mechanics post, because that sparked some of my interest in video game design back up. There's also another reason I'm writing the article, but I'll tell that story some other time. I've also got a short story I was planning on writing, but haven't had time to get round to. And of course there's the usual work for Re-Incarnated, editing and writing stories for that always takes up time.

I just wanted to make a short post about how the blog might be a little less active over the next month. Just letting you know. So there's all of the things I've been working on recently. I'll try and keep you updated on NaNoWriMo, but apart from that don't expect too much. Thanks for reading.