May Your Muse Flog You Hard

Unbelievably, NaNoWriMo starts in two days. Considering I’ve said in the past I wasn’t the biggest fan of it, I can’t say I’m overly excited. I mean, writing a novel in 30 days is hard. I still don’t understand why people looking to write a novel feel the need to write 50K in 30 days, all the while ignoring the other 335 days of the year. This year alone I’ve already written 230,000 words (which is lower than my estimate of 300,000 words, which is where I thought I’d be already), so why the s...