To Nano or not to Nano?

     I'm about to drop a bomb on you guys. I'm a procrastinator. Sit down if you need to. Here's a glass of water. A teenager with procrastination issues? Somebody call the Times.

     But what I'm really terrible about is procrastinating with writing. If I get to writing at all, it's always an hour before I go to bed. I put it off and put it off and before I know it's 11 o'clock. For God's sake my url is a joke about me procrastinating on writing. I'm putting it off right now.

     That's why National Novel Writing Month is perfect for me. NaNoWriMo is an online challenge to write a 50,000 word novel in the month of November. It's based on the idea that writers are so afraid of failure that they end up not writing at all, so it's better just to get words on the page. 30 days, 1667 words a day, no excuses. I've done it for the past three years and it's been amazing every time.

     But this year I'm having second thoughts. Thoughts beyond the usual "I don't have time to write an entire novel in a month what am I thinking oh my god." I've just started a new novel and I don't want to abandon it to work on another project. NaNoWriMo has a way of completely wiping your brain clean from the shear immensity of the work and that's not the step creatively I need to be taking now. But I also know that after three years, I would feel weird not doing it this November.

     So here's the compromise. I will write every day in the month of November. It doesn't have to be 1667 words, but it must be something. No excuses, no procrastination. Emma write already.