OK, I finally got around to logging on to this year's NaNoWriMo site.

You can find me there if you want to add me to your NaNoWriMo buddy list or whatnot.

Writing, for me, though, is a solitary thing. Plotting and planning, reviewing and revising--those are group activities. But writing itself... I do it at odd hours when the mood strikes me and that's just how it is. I don't particularly see the point of "write ins" and the like. (But I am willing to learn... so, go ahead, convince me.)

In all the years I've been doing NaNoWriMo, I have yet to even get near 50K words. I think the most I ever made it was just under 15K... and most of those were utter crap. Most years, it seems, I've barely made it to four digits. Why? Because I can't turn off my inner editor... so it takes me 10K words to make it to 5K (on a good month).

I've started many stories in NaNoWriMos past... I've never gone back and finished any. I should. I really like most of the ideas I've come up with. I even know how most of them end... and what comes after the ends of those stories.

It's the middles that get me stuck.

Kinda like life.

But that's another story. ;)

This year, I think I'm going to do something very different. I think I'm going play through with an idea I came up with years ago (and, of course, never followed through on).

I think I'm going to take my Arthurian Legend Tarot Deck, pull out all the court cards and draw myself four characters. Then I'm going to shuffle everything back together and start the story with a single layout (haven't decided which layout to use yet... probably nothing more complex than a ten card Celtic cross and staff layout). Every day of writing will start off with a new spread and that will get added to the previous day's story.

I figure that may keep me from getting tied up in too many plot preconceptions and help subvert the editor by treating each session as a stand alone story bit (that will, inevitably, link backward into everything else).