NaNoWriMo

I signed up for NaNoWriMo!  Write a novel of 50,000 words in the month of November!

While the concept is fascinating, I am afraid of starting it, and then fizzling out.  I am afraid it will take up too much time at the office.  I am afraid I will write something stunningly awful.

What better way to grow as a person than to confront those fears?  I signed up.

Yesterday I did a trial run, seeing how long it takes to write 3,000 words. 

Writing non-stop, stream-of-consciousness, I can do 3,000 words in 80 minutes.  Or, 40 words per minute.