NaNoWriMo 2011

I just signed up for NaNoWriMo. For those unfamiliar, NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month and is an annual contest held every November around the world. The idea is to write a 50,000 word novel between Nov. 1st and Nov. 30th. That's an average of 1666 words per day and somehow you also have to work in Thanksgiving and early other holiday preparations. If you make the 50,000 word goal you only win the right to call yourself a winner, but you also have the beginnings of a real, potentially publishable, novel!

This year I'm going to be writing the novel that inspired my short story Regarding the Barry Fitzpatrick's Navigator which I podcast on Form Letter Rejection Theatre back in 2008. That story is about the navigator, but my original idea centered on the first mate, a woman named Allison Grant who joined the crew of the Barry Fitzpatrick to escape her past. Set in the early days of galactic colonization, where massive cargo ships jump the wormholes between Earth and new planets, the crew is subject to a time dilation effect known as The Rip. That is until a medical advancement changes everything.

I'll be updating you all on the progress during November right here, but you can also follow my progress on my author page at NaNoWriMo.