11,000 words so far...

5 days into NaNoWriMo and I'm 11,000 words into my so-called "novel" but it's not really a novel at all, right now it's a recap of my bout with cancer for my kids to read one day.

I suppose when the Nano challenge is over I will spend December editing whatever I produce this month and work it into a memoir of sorts.

I figured the challenge was to write 50,000 words in 30 days. November is National NOVEL Writing Month not National MEMOIR Writing month, but since I'm not sending my manuscript to them to critique or grade or anything, it's more about me getting off my ass to write this out.

I am taking the challenge to write in a marathon rather than in a slow jog...in fact I haven't signed into the NaNo site since it started. I could certainly do this when ever I wanted to, but somehow it seems more fun during November.

But I haven't checked in with any other writers in any forums and maybe it's because I'm not making stuff up this time.

So we'll see if my story needs 50,000 words or not. Once it's on paper I can make better sense of the narrative and re-write it to actually be read one day by the kids. Although my daughter keeps peeking over my shoulder as I am writing, I have to keep shooing her away.

I also plan on writing for Helium.com more often I will post those links when they're available.

More later...