Every year since 2012, I’ve participated in NaNoWriMo. This year is a little different, since officially, NaNoWriMo is no more. Due to incompetence and mismanagement, the organization that ran NaNoWriMo killed the entire thing off earlier this year. A couple of years ago, my bud Amin created Writing Month, an open source and community driven replacement for NaNoWriMo.

This year, I’m utterly unprepared. I actually kind of forgot about Writing Month until this morning when I saw Sudo Science talk about it. So, I’m going into this with very few expectations. I’ll probably float between a couple projects for a few days and see what can grab my attention. Or maybe I’ll ease my way back into something I’ve written before.

I’m not hopeful in getting to 50,000 words, so I’ve set my goal to 20,000. And that too is probably too ambitious. I haven’t written at all this year. Maybe 300 words total all year long when it comes to fiction. I’ve written a ton here on this blog and on TLC, but nothing in the fictional world. Maybe Writing Month will get me off my ass and get something written.

Are you going to do something for Writing Month this year? Let me know! My username on Writing Month is drmdub, feel free to add me as a writing buddy.