I'm envious of other writers who have a plan, main characters and something of an outline. I feel woefully underprepared. Then again, I tend to be a seat-of-my-pants writer anyway. I tend to blitz through articles the night before deadline, plow through reseach papers in the last two weeks, etc. That's part of what I like about this write a novel in a month thing, because it's an automatic time container. Plan or no plan, I know that I tend to fill whatever amount of time I have. If I have a lot of time, I spend most of it fooling around. If I have a litle time, I write like a demon.

That said, I want to try something different. I would like to create at least a rudimentary sketch, just something to act as a container. Otherwise, my plots tend to get, ah, baroque.

After reading about other's NaNoWriMo experiments on LiveJournal, I finally decided to give it a go this year. I'm worried because I work two jobs, and I am applying for grad schools. On the other hand, I've been studying for the GRE English subject test all month, so I have a head full of beautiful writing. On the other plus side, I'm single, and I live alone. No one is around to be bothered by the horrid state of the bathroom or the empty cheetos bags.


Wish me luck!