New Website & the Run-Up to NaNo Begins

If you're here, you probably reached it from my new website. Hurray! I'm so happy it's up. What do you think of it? The original idea was to have something like a Harlem speakeasy from the 1920s, but that didn't quite work out. Instead, we have the interior of Harlem nightclub that still evokes the atmosphere of the times.

I'm busily trying to finish up the latest draft of my newest effort. I have two more days. Why two days? That's when NaNoWriMo starts. (As a matter-of-fact, I just realized I was supposed to have gone to the "official" NaNo kick-off event for New Yorkers. Missed it. Oh, well.)

I came up with two plot ideas for this year's NaNo (neither of which I'll share with you right now. Ah-hem.) It suffices to say that both are FANTASTIC. Will I do a fantastic job of transferring them to paper and developing them? Well ... that is "the $64,000 question," isn't it? (By the way, where did that phrase come from?)

At any rate, with my next post, or the post after next, you'll see my little Writertopia Meter Guy, showing you my moods. (Why would I think anyone would care? Just in case ...)

As I'm sure you know, NaNo is all about writing a 50,000-word novel in 30 days. (Well, it's not all about that actually. It's really about writing so fast that your inner critic doesn't have time to catch up with you.) In order to achieve that lofty 50,000-word target, you have to average some 1,667 words a day.

Do people cheat? What do you think?

Will I cheat? Of course not. (You do believe me, don't you?) :-)