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Last Thursday night I was tired.  I had just gotten home from my evening class and Joel came running down the stairs.

“I just did something stupid and crazy and I think you should too.”

Then in a rush of words he told me about NaNoWriMo.  An organization dedicated to writing a 50,000 word novel in a month.  The month of November.  I know November is going to crazy, afterall, it is the last month of my last undergraduate semester.  I will have books to read, papers to write, projects to perfect, presentations to deliver, not to mention going to classes and working 15 hours a week.  But I was hooked.  I didn’t think it over pondering my busy schedule.  No.  I found the online form and dedicate myself to writing aproximately 1,800 words a day, for a month.  I started last night.  November 1st.  I have a grand total of 1,680 words under my belt and I love some of my characters.  I know that pretty soon I will most likely be sitting at my computer night after night prodding them and hoping that my listless prose will weave itself into somthing magical, but even when that happens I think I will love this month of writing.