7:Introduction

The music swells, reaching a piercing crescendo as the sun filters through the stained glass window, the frenzied  musicians bathed in glorious light. 

That sentence probably aptly captures how may people are feeling around this time of year. Why? you ask. The answer is simply. NaNoWriMo. 

For any of you who may not know, NaNoWriMo is short for National Novel Writing Month. It is an even pretty much described by its title, though now this event has become so popular that it is INTERnational. Run by The Office of Letters and Light, NoNoWriMo takes place all during the month of November, and is a great chance for everyone who loves to write.  

The basic idea of it is to get you writing, to challenge yourself to write during a time of year when people are officially challenging themselves to write. 50,000 words is the goal for those who dare this month. Why 50,000? Will apparently it is the smallest length that a manuscript can be and still be considered a "novel." Less and it is a novelette or novella. It doesn't matter the quality of what you write. During NaNoWriMo, it is all about the quantity. Revising and editing come later, when you're not preoccupied with writing about  1,667 words a day.

It is a community and challenge and event all rolled into one. I, as you may have guessed, am planing to partake of NaNoWriMo this year. I did last year and it was AWESOME!!!!!! Being extremely excited, I have taken upon myself to count-down the last week before it officially start. So every day, I will be posting something equally NaNo-y as the days tick off. 

Hey, I could be worse. There are actually people who stay up all night before the day NaNoWriMo starts and begin writing right at 12:00 AM the first day of November. Where as that would be fun...my typing would be even more riddled with mistakes than usually and I would...be...going...very...slow...ly. 

So join the insanity, or at least check it out.