NaNoWriMo

I should be writing about Mayor Newsom following the lead of South Carolina Governor Stanford and disappearing, but the National Novel Writer's month contest sponsored by The Office of Letters and Light is much more important to me right now than following Mayor Newsom's supposed stressed jaunt. If you want to know what stress is, you should see me hunched over my notebook, sipping tea or coffee as I write a 50,000-word novel from scratch in the thirty days of November. Why? There's no money involved; just a certificate of accomplishment. But, it's more than that. It's the challenge to join others striving for the same goal; a draft novel in a race against time. It stimulates even the worst procrastinator to write. I was successful last year, hitting the 50,000 verified word count in twenty-one days with “Welcome Home, Naomi,” so I jumped at the challenge again this year. I'm into day seven on “Climbing a Glass Wall, a sequel to last year’s novel, running well ahead of the daily word count, and hoping to reach twenty thousand by Monday. Excuse me, for bowing out so abruptly, but I’ve got to get back to my novel.