Steamrolling right over my euphoria of the contest with (of which I regard myself at least the moral victor, since he stooped so low as to actually employ demotivation tactics in an attempt to remove competition ) comes the typerhigh of NaNoWriMo! [link]

This month is all I have to produce a novel of no less then 50.000 words. After all the modeling of the past year, I really feel like putting my keyboard to good use and pound away to describe the stories that are continually running around in my head, often chasing each other around.

In my case it won’t be a finished novel of 50.000 words, but a continuation of the Nullworld novel I’m writing. I used this for my first participation of NaNoWriMo in 2006 and 2007 as well (couldn’t do it in 2008, because I was knee-deep in debris that used to be my kitchen) so I have roughly 100.000 words on paper already.

When you’re typing like mad to make the 1.667 words a day quota, you don’t spend too much time on quality control, so it’s my intention to use everything written so far as a draft that will need a complete re-write sooner or later. I’ve revised important parts of the storyline in my head on numerous occasions. That’s planned for next year, when I’ve moved into my new house with the awesome office / game room / home cinema in the attic. Ooooh, I’m gonna spend some sweet hours there!

But for now it’s loads of coffee and typing like there’s no tomorrow every evening… And I’m already 1400 words behind! :'(