Taking The NaNoWriMo Challenge

NaNoWriMo is short for 'National Novel Writing Month', an annual event that started in the USA and has become international.
Okay, so I'm mad. Nuts,perhaps, but a touch of insanity never did anyone any real harm. The challenge,for those who don't know it, is to write at least the first 50,000 words of anovel during the month of November. This requires an average daily word countof 1,667. It's generally considered good going to produce between 500 and 1,000words per day; James Joyce once famously admitted to having written only 1 wordon one day whilst writing, I think, Ulysses, and Hilare Belloc took 13 years towrite one of his novels. On the other hand, Antony Trollope was pretty speedy,and he's not alone.I've been known to write acomplete short story of up to 4,000 words in a day and, whilst writing myfantasy trilogy (still a work in progress, by the way), I've managed between 2and 3,000 words a day fairly frequently. I start this challengetomorrow. A Tuesday. Tuesday is my long day at work (I'm employed part time,doing 18.5 hours over 3 days), the rest of the time, my writing is my work. I'vecreated my characters and have a basic framework upon which to hang events. Iknow roughly where I intend to go with the story and I have a theme and a styleI wish to use. With this book, I want mostly to entertain and amuse; so I'maiming primarily for comedy. Having previously written only short spells offunny stuff, I've no idea how I'll perform on a longer work. But, hell, that'sthe whole point of this: to set yourself a challenge.It's a self challenge.You're not in competition with other writers in this forum. The idea is foreach individual writer (and it's estimated there'll be over 250,000 of us!) toset out to do the very best they can in the time allocated.So, I invite you all tojoin me as I make this journey. If you're a wannabee novelist who has never hadthe courage, determination, will or opportunity to begin that opus you'vecarried in your head, I suggest you use this as the stepping stone tocompletion of your dream. The link for the supporting site is http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/dashboard  and it's a five minute job to register. Youhave until midnight tonight to join in the fun.If you're a reader with nopretentions toward writing, then I invite you to follow my progress and ask foryour support in the form of comments as I feed you the daily progress. I'm making a publicdeclaration of this aim, and I stand to make a fool of myself if I don't manageat least the 50,000 words, but I'm taking the risk in the hope that somethinggood and useful will come out of the effort.Wish me luck. I'm going toneed it!