Runaway Future

In about half an hour, the clock will turn to midnight and November first will officially begin. The change of the calendar will indicate (among other things) the beginning of National Novel Writing Month, a creative writing project that challenges participants to write a 50 000 word novel in November.

I have previously flirted with the idea of participating in this, after learning of it back when I was in college and I’m actually going to do it this year, after some encouragement from Mel.

My hope is that instead of limiting the time I have to associate to writing (not just the novel, but also for things like Hockey’s Future, this blog and any other venture I wish to partake in), this challenge will provide the necessary stimulus to focus and produce more.

I’ve been soaking up ideas and making notes like crazy for the past few months in particular and yet I have little to show for it in terms of actual typed words.

So this whole challenge, to me, is more then just a novel. It’s a call to arms, a whole focus on producing content. The novel itself is secondary. Based on my preliminary thinking, it’s probably going to be pretty amateur, borrow from a lot of books and TV shows that I liked and I don’t really have any idea where the story will go.

But in the end, here goes. Colin Berry once said “writing, difficult as it is, is for me easier than not writing.” Let that be my guiding light.