WTF, I Must Be Crazy?

I have embarked on a very strange journey this month; it is not something I planned, it was a spur of the moment decision made with little to no thought.

If you know me well, you know this is an odd thing. I am a bit of a control freak (yes, I said it). I like to think things through... thoroughly. Control freak like, wake up at three in the morning and mull over something for hours while the clock slowly ticks my potential sleep time away type of control freak.

I don't 'take the plunge' easily. Yet, here I am doing it.

It all started on Twitter with the hashtag #NaNoWriMo (if you don't know what a hashtag is, don't worry about it, it's a twitter thing, it basically just specifies a specific topic people are tweeting about). Several of my Mommy friends were tweeting about #NaNaWriMo. Some were saying they were going to participate, some were saying they did not have enough time.

I had no clue what #NaNoWriMo was. I am nosy, I am a busy body, I had to find out what #NaNoWriMo was. So, I Googled it and found the National Novel Writing Month website and for some crazy reason I sighed up right there and then.

WTF, am I crazy?

I just signed up to write a novel in the month of November. As if I don't already have enough things to do.

Even though I know it is crazy and irrational and probably unattainable, I am totally and completely giddy about this little challenge. Along with hundreds of thousands of other people from across the world, I am actually going to try and write a 50,000 word piece of crap novel in the month of November. It is going to be garbage - there is no way I could actually produce quality work in such a short period of time -  but, I don't care. It will be my crap and I am so excited to do it.

I am on day three and I already have close to 4700 words.

Will I actually finish?

I don't know.

Will the enthusiasm wear off?

Likely.

Will I hate the finished product?

Probably.

But, I am doing it and that is the important part.

WTF is wrong with me right? The Halloween candy must have gone to my brain.

Gotta go write now. #NaNoWriMo baby!