NaNoWriMo!

Wow!  I blew my goal to write a blog entry at least once a week because, on November 7, I discovered NaNoWriMo.  WOOHOO!  National Novel Writing Month.  The challenge is to write 50k words in the month of November.  And I have proven that I am a chatty thing - I won with 51665k words.  Yikes!  And I started on November 7 instead of November 1.  I have either written the great American novel or that I am in serious need of heavy medication.  Big grin! 

I have started a young adult science fiction novel about a girl and her cat and a boy and his dog saving the world from alien invasion.  And I now will be participating in NaNoFiMo:  National Novel Finishing Month (insert smiley face here.)  It's not bad.  A lot of junk I am afraid, but there is a nugget there which I need to polish up.  With joy and trepidation.

It is a huge deal to me because, as my bio says, I used to act and now I write.  When I left acting I suffered a severe identity crisis.  If I'm not an actor, what am I?  Thank Gods and the Universe, I am a writer (in training).  And I am thrilled.  And grateful beyond words.  Which is funny since I claim to be a writer.

No words were harmed in the making of my novel.