30 Days of Insanity -- (Day 10)

It is the 10th of November. November is a very special month to me, and to many people out in the world. November is the month of National Novel Writing Month. To those of you who do not know what it is, it is basically where you [try to] write 50,000 (count the 0s kiddies) words of a novel in the 30 days of November. To prevent myself from going completely crazy over this third noveling project, I have decided to blog about my NaNoWriMo experience this year.

First, a little bit about Jess Fong, the writer.
I am an novelist. I've been happy to call myself a novelist every since July of 2008 when I put the "The End" on my first ever novel (Runaway). Before writing a book, I never gave much thought to the whole world of noveling. Afterwards, well...
So what do novelists do? We write like there's no tomorrow. We carry around notebooks and pens like lifelines. We think of plots and scenes everywhere we go (including shower and other bathroom activities). When we (or myself at least) are really intensely involved in a project, there is no life beyond its pages.

What do novelists eat? Ink and coffee. :D

Exactly how crazy are novelists? Crazy enough. I have stacks of notebooks sitting in my room because they are my handwritten manuscripts and simply cannot be recycled, even if it saves trees. I also refuse to throw out the ancient keyboard I'm currently typing on even though it's been around since before I was in fifth grade. Why? Runaway was written on this keyboard. So was SQuared. Finally, I crashed a computer trying to write a book. Granted, the computer was at least four years old when Runaway was done, but just a few weeks after I finished it, my computer completely died. According to my father, I killed some hardware in the CPU (technology-deficient here).

And this is where I bring us back to NaNoWriMo, the adrenaline boost in the year of many, many writers out there. If any of you are wondering why I have been scribbling nonstop in the last section of my 5-subject AP Stat notebook, NaNoWriMo is why. And so far, my progress (including the 4 day weekend where I was away in Baltimore, indicated here by the flatline) stands thus:
As of this moment, my word count stands at 17,356.

Anyway, this project will most likely be novel #3. I've been looking for it to happen since I finished SQuared back in February. Yes, I do belive I'm dangerously addicted to writing (as Ali so wonderfully put it this morning). Or I could just be, as Srishti said, "out of [my] freaking mind."

Either way... 50,000 words here I come!