NaNoWriMo 2006

The NaNoWriMo site is officially online again and set for this year's month of furious creativity. Excitement is rife in our household as both my daughter and I are looking forward to another month of NaNoWriMo insanity. I think I'm in the same pickle this year as I was this time last year: trying to finish up a project so that I could gear up to start a new one. The one I'm trying to complete is the one I was itching to start last October. Full circle, I guess.

As to my progress, it's inching along. We're busy with home renovations and other time-stealing business, but I've been writing some each day. My handy-dandy notebook is a lifesaver. Each night I'm just too tired to face going down to my office and "working," but if I tuck myself up in bed and set out to write just a few sentences, I usually have three or four pages done in no time. It's not NaNoWriMo-speed writing, but it's progress.

I'm accumulating quite an intriguing cache of generated ideas and names for this November. So far it's looking like a science-fiction/fantasy noir murder mystery. Never heard of this genre? I think I may have invented it. Hey, if Charlaine Harris can invent Southern Vampire detective novel, I can invent one, can't I?