NaNoWriMo ready

NaNoWriMo starts at midnight (local time) on November 1st.
It's currently 4pm on October 30th.
32 hours to go.

People are posting on the forums and Facebook that they are nervous.
But I am itching to go. I can't wait, I want to start now.
Whether I will be as excited and enthusiastic next week remains to be seen.
The goal is to write around 1650 to 1700 words per day to get a total of 50,000 in the space of the month.
The aim is not to have a finished novel, not to have perfect prose, not to have edited it all to bits and not to have driven oneself insane.
The aim is to have fun, write loads and be some way towards knowing if your idea can be turned into a novel.
Editing and polishing is for later.

Wish me luck!

NaNoWriMo

NaNoWriMo = National Novel Writing Month (although it is now international). It is now an annual event that takes place over the course of November. It is essentially a challenge to write, from scratch 50,000 words that will form the basis of a novel. Most novels are around about 90 to 10 thousand words. The idea is to just write. Not to worry about the quality, not to fret over details, and even not to worry about the thread of the plot. Just go.
This is the first time I've done this and since I have hit a brick wall with the story I have been working on I figured I may as well drop that for now and go down the WriMo route for four weeks.
I have the vague beginnings of an idea forming so I hope that when November 1st arrives I will be able to get started.
Wish me luck.