I’ll be plugging National Novel Writing Month (known to the oldies as NaNoWriMo) pretty much until November 1. (Be afraid. Be very afraid.) For those of you who don’t know, it’s a crazy month-long novel-writing all-out sprint to 50,000 words of novelesque beautimusness, which happens in November every year. I participated last year and ended up with the first draft of my (sort of) complete romance novel manuscript. Know how many first drafts of manuscripts I’ve written since last November? Hm, none. There’s just something about the craziness and camaraderie of a shared and hard-to-reach goal that keeps me going.

So I need your help.

1. Please vote! (And thanks Emily, Bridget and Ben for voting already. So far Valleys is in the lead, with a unanimous vote, which surprises me a little bit. I kind of just included that one to round out the voting options, though I will say that the characters are probably my favorite out of the three excerpts I posted, maybe because I’ve spent the most time thinking about them.)

2. Consider being my NaNo buddy! I’m already counting on the illustrious Skye to fill this position, but I can always use more people! Your job? Do NaNo. Post your word counts. Leave “nyah nyah nyah” comments on my blog if you’re ahead of me. Allow me to leave “nyah nyah nyah” comments on your blog if I’m ahead of you (which I will be– I kick bootay). Hopefully Kate’s back in this year. She and I nyah-nyahed each other to the finish line last year. Exciting stuff.

3. Leave comments! I’ll plan on posting my novel this year, which I didn’t do last year. I’ll at least post excerpts anyway. Give me feeeeeeeedback. I crave feeeeeeeedback. Hey, that’s why I have a blog in the first place. So, in summary: feeeeeeeedback. Thanks.

End plug. For now.