Can’t say I’m not more than a little nervous, regarding NaNoWriMo. I’m taking Tuesday off, to get a jumpstart on the first day of the thing, and am hoping to get a good start, at least, on just the process of turning out words. I don’t have any illusions that it’s going to be good – I did a sort of “test run” just for a few minutes during the day last week, to see if I could even get into a narrative mindset. It’s definitely not something I’m used to, and I’m just hoping I can keep a sort of mental image of what’s going on in my head long enough to write it down.

Speed of typing, fortunately, isn’t even a remote issue – I was just trying to see how fast I could write, given a subject I was pretty intimately familiar with, and was able to crank out ~1700 words in ~20 minutes. But, actually thinking about what’s going on and how to describe it will be harder. I expect that I’m going to be writing in sort of a skipping-stone fashion – just stringing together the basic points here and there at the beginning, capturing whatever scenes enter my mind that illuminate the characters. Fortunately, because I’m working from a pre-built skeleton (an RPG concept that we worked on for several months last year), there are a couple characters that I already know are pretty damn compelling. Just a matter of actually making them walk and talk, which is the hard part. 🙂

Looking forward to it. Nervous, but excited.