NaNoWriMo is away!

For those who don’t know what this is, NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month. Now an international movement, it is a writing challenge to get people motivated to write the first drafts of novels that they have never gotten around to writing. The idea is for people to prove to themselves that they can indeed write a novel and that time is now. It’s to force people to figure out how to write about 1700 words a day, for 30 days, regardless of work, children, life, and personal hygiene.

I’m doing NaNo this year. However, I’m not doing a novel. I already have one partially finished and another in the final stages of editing (I just figured out the plot hole that was driving me nuts). Instead, I’m working on 6 shorter projects (3 short stories and 3 novellas) that I haven’t had the time to focus on.

The next six days are dedicated to project #1: Untitled F/F romance, or maybe erotica, or maybe mainstream, or maybe literary. I’m still figuring out if it’s going to be a romance or not. It is about a widowed Albertan farmer who takes on a summer helper in the form of a young feminist and gay rights activist who is working on her masters degree in women’s studies.  The unlikely pair form a bound working on the farm and learn a bit about life from each other.

I struggle with the entire happy ending concept, so I figure it will be a depressing literary story by the end…We’ll see, though!

Who else is doing NaNo?