Maybe Next Year

Before any one asks me, even though I have talked about it a few times on this blog over the past year, I am not participating in National Novel Writing Month this year. The event challenges would-be writers to bang out a 50,000-word novel during the month of November.

I've desperately wanted to give this event a try since I learned about it last year. I even spent some time over the summer hashing out some ideas for what I would write about this fall. Unfortunately, I don't know how I would find the time to dedicate writing almost 1,700 words a day, each day, for the entire 30 days of November this year. I've got three website development projects going at work, plus nine clients I work with on a daily basis helping them with their sites. I'm traveling one or two times a month (only day trips, but still disruptive). It's so much work that I've actually been having to take about 30 minutes to an hour of work home with me most nights. Of course there are still things to do at home. Among that I make times for the kids, but I'm not making enough time for Heather. I just don't know when I could write a book this month.

I know one of the reasons for NaNoWriMo is to get the aspiring writer to stop making excuses and write the damn thing, but I don't know how I could do it this year without going without sleep - literally.

I hate to sound like a procrastinator, but maybe next year.