For those of you not familiar with the growing annual online event, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) is a challenge for anyone with the desire to write a novel, to start writing on November 1, and finish a minimum of 50,000 words by midnight November 30th. That’s a very tall order of 1,666 words per day.

If you’ve ever tried to write 1,666 words of quality in a day, then you will no doubt fear the thought. But NaNoWriMo is all about quantity. Forget ideals of writing the next literary classic, just write all the words you can and edit them later.

I haven’t done it yet

Timing has always been off for my participation. Either I have been travelling, have heavy day-job workloads, or, like last year, was already enveloped in my first novel, Persistent Spirit.

This year, if all goes according to plan, I might manage to make it, providing I can get the latest draft of Persistent Spirit off my to-do list. I have no concerns about working on two books at the same time, particularly because one follows the other and involve many of the same characters. But I need to get Persistent Spirit finished and delaying that another month is not something I want to do.

Yet, I am also itching to write the first draft of the second TableRappers book, A Shot in Time, which was planned for this year’s NaNoWriMo.

UPDATE (Oct 19): Decision made, I’m pausing Persistent Spirit editing for a month and doing NaNoWriMo. This way I can get the first draft (equalls “totally shite draft”) of book two out of the way then have a gap to let it simmer (while completing book one edits) before writing the second draft. You and me, NaNoWriMo, outside, now…