November is National Novel Writing Month

And that’s what I’m going to be doing for all of November. Over at NaNoWriMo.org, they run National Novel Writing Month, where people attempt to write 50,000 words of a novel from scratch in 30 days. The only thing on the line is personal pride, and that’s really all you win too.

So since I need to average about 1667 words a day over the next 30 days, Renal Failure is going into TURN BACK THE RENAL CLOCK mode, which is pretty much like when your favorite morning radio show goes on vacation and plays “The Best of” clips. And there will probably be more Mikka’s Video Jukebox posts than usual as well. But I may get inspired by something else and decide to take the time to post on that. So in the meantime, keep checking back here to see all the posts from the past that you’ve missed while I’m off writing my novel.

Figures that this happens as the Renal Failure audience has grown. We went over 200 hits for the day for the first time on Tuesday.  But that’s okay, because if most of them are new readers they’ll want to check out some of the previous Renal tales that have shaped this blog.

And no, you can’t read what I write for National Novel Writing Month, because it will suck. No, seriously, in the rush to write 50,000 words in 30 days based on a half-thought out idea it’s inevitable that a lot of it will be awful soupy unreadable dreck. They even tell you that over at the website. The point is to just write something, which many aspiring writers never seem to do. Then you hack it up later into something more readable, or toss it in the incinerator and never think of it again.

We’re back to regular postings in December.