I’m absolutely definitely going to full-steam-ahead participate in NaNoWriMo 2008. I have the workings of a new project poking and bouncing around my brain and I refuse to write them down, only dream about them further, until November. (I don’t want to cheat by outlining or going to town on things yet; it’ll ruin the crazy fun!) I’m looking forward to it a lot, actually, because the most fun I’ve ever had writing have been the all-consuming story-churning months (usually one month or three weeks here and there) I’ve had, when it’s all I can do to peel myself away from the screen to do anything else. Those are fun. And those have only ever really been with brand-spanking-new things, or brand-new rewrites (from scratch versions from old characters and plots). Those are so much fun. I’m sort of slogging with my two major projects (ignoring the two minor) at present, so I think jumping head-first into something fresh come November is going to be amazing fun. Especially if I can drag a few friends into doing it with me.

That doesn’t mean, of course, that I’ll be ignoring the major stuff. What I really need to do is start focusing. This morning I downed a lot of coffee before 8am and I felt uberproductive. Then that fell by the wayside by the time the gym came around, then groceries, and now I’m about to head out to do some wedding stuff. (Yay for almost-maybe booking a location?!) And laundry, oh, the pain of laundry. Tomorrow, though, we shall see who is productive. We shall see.

It’s the fall, and I’m always more productive in the fall… right? Unless I discover a new genre like I had last fall (damned urban fantasy and lack of casual college reading turning this last year into a voracious year of book devouring)…

Who knows what October will bring?

Maybe I should make that into my own personal NaNoWriMo, but for my existing first priority project. Just word-dump until it’s done, even if I haven’t a clue of what I’m doing. (I could do that now but I keep getting hung up on the gaps. There are lots of planned scenes that haven’t been written purely because I keep staring at the gaps between them wondering what will go there and inevitably getting distracted by something shiny and wandering away to look at it being all shiny.

But I shall prevail. Optimism!!