50,000 To Go

I've signed up for National Novel Writing Month (link via Liz Maryland).

The idea to take one month (November) and try to crank out a 50,000 word novel between the first and the 30th. It shouldn't be that hard; according to my trusty calculator, that works out to only 1,667 words per day. Which I can do (I think my daily target will actually be 2,000; this way I'll have a little buffer in the event that I have to miss a day, for something like, say, making Thanksgiving dinner). The only problem is making sure that I set aside the hour or two each day I'll need to crank it out. That, and I'll have to resist the urge to constantly revise my work (like I'm doing now)...

Incidentally, a writing tip I read about recently was to always leave the last sentence of the day unfinished. This makes a lot of sense to me, as I'm one of these sorts of writers who always has trouble getting started. So I think that I'll try it.