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50,000 Words!

I wrote an entry on 750words.com earlier this morning about… whatever I was writing about. I don’t recall offhand, but I do know that I was really ticked off about something that happened earlier tonight, so I decided to go online and vent about it. I apparently vented a lot more than I expected because when I was done, my word total for the month was 50,274 words. Victory!

NaBloWriMo Goal #1 (write 50,000 words): Achieved!
NaBloWriMo Goal #2 (write every day): Results TBD, but if at least one thing ticks me off on each of the next three days, I’m golden.

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NaBloWriMo, 2012: Ready……GO!!!

Much like last year, I’m throwing my hat into the mix for National Blog Writing Month (NaBloWriMo). And as an extra source of abuse, I’ll be writing on 750words.com every day. Why? Good question.

Part of my brain was tempted to join the novel-writing collective: NaNoWriMo. However, it’s a verrrrry tiny part. I’ve written random short stories in the past and that’s what they’ve been: short stories. I’m not sure if my brain is capable of pulling off a large-scale effort with a decent plot line, engaging characters, something that doesn’t involve too many poop jokes… I’m not sure if I’d be able to pull it off.

However! I don’t need to hold myself to those restrictions. I plan to spewing the proper amount of drivel on 750words.com to reach the minimum requisite for NaNoWriMo (50,000 words, so an average entry of 1666 words a day), but with random thoughts, narratives, etc. Nothing specific, just writing. To know that I can write that many words in a month sounds pretty awesome.

Admittedly, there’s a high likelihood that what ends up on that website will be drivel, so I decided to make these two sources distinct. Write at least semi-decent blog entries here every day, then I can copy and paste these words (even if it’s only a few sentences) into the collective mess that is my daily effort on the other site.

I like the sound of it, but we’ll have to see what happens. In the meantime, I’ve just decided that I should write in here first because my brain is already glazing over. I’m not entirely sure that what I’ve been writing here makes a whole lot of sense, but after pounding out 2100 words already today, I’m on the verge of not caring too much and that’s not fair to you. It’s not fair to me. It’s not fair to life, the universe and everything. Plus it might make me cry if I read this in a couple hours. Normally, I take time to reread and edit my blog entries in extremely intricate detail, adjusting minor word choices and everything. Right now, I just want to avoid too many spelling errors.

So that’s the plan: write a blog entry every day for NaBloWriMo, then write my daily entry in 750words.com, the combination of which should push me past the minimum length of NaNoWriMo: 50,000 words. If I manage to accomplish all that, it’ll be awesome and I’ll totally deserve a pat on the back. Thankfully, I’ll be able to do that even if my eyes have glazed over.

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NaBloWriMo

I guess that “National Blog Writing Month” coincides with “National Novel Writing Month”, so I’m gonna give it a shot. (Last year, I found out about it too late and decided to write a blog entry every day in December instead.)

I suppose I could have tried working on a novel, but for those of you who have read my blog for any length of time, you’ll know that there’s no way I could put 50,000 words together into a single story. Some days, it feels like I’m lucky to get in a couple hundred without drifting too far from my original point. Maybe it’s because my mind is like a butterfly that can’t move in a straight line, then flutters across the street and gets splattered against a car’s windshield… you get the idea.

Anyway, I’ve put this challenge to myself and I’ve managed to keep going for the first two days. (Hell yeah!) Now that I think about it, it might have been worthwhile to mention this website to you all ahead of time in case you’re indulging in any kind of writing over the course of this month. I use it from time to time, but given how much fun I have writing long blog entries, 750words.com doesn’t always work. Sure, I can sit down and blow 750 words out of my ass in twenty minutes or so, but would that content be worthy of a blog post? Not likely.

So for those of you who have started this endeavor as well, solidarity! I hope we all do an excellent job this November.