Crazy November
NaNoWriMo has begun. More than 100,000 people across the world are now frantically trying to write novels of at least 50,000 words by the stroke of midnight on November 30th. While this has been going on since 1999 I’m participating in the madness for the first time. Eventually there will be a widget in the right column of the blog letting everyone know how many words I’ve managed to spout but it’s not working yet.
For those who are curious, I don’t know if I’ll be sharing my finished product with anyone. I may post some excerpts here but probably not until I’m finished. For now just please wish luck for me and sanity for DH who is going to be starting a new job next week while holding down the fort so I can be a noveling machine.
Oh, and for those who are curious, my current word count is 7108.
Can you at least tell us what it’s about? What genre?
It’s a chick lit mystery. Here’s my synopsis.
Melissa is a single mother with a rambunctious toddler, a pushy family and a rock-solid best friend named Jim who lives in her apartment building. She splits her time between taking her daughter to the emergency room for all the ouchies she gets during her escapades and trying to finagle a guy into sticking around past the appetizers. That all changes when Jim gets named as the primary suspect in a bizarre case involving stolen wildlife and women attacked for their hair. Melissa has to try to find the real bad guy to clear Jim’s name, find Mr. Right on an online dating site and keep her daughter from flushing her cell phone without being late for work so she won’t get fired.
You are really knocking those words out! You’ll be flying past 50k in no time. I can’t seem to get that counter widget to work for me either…
Congrats on the new job for hubby, yay!!!