DeNoWriMo

NaNoWriMo has taught me a number of very valuable lessons.  First, it's helped me work quickly and efficiently on plotting and organization.  Second, it's shown me that I can, when I've done those things, write a prodigious amount in a short period.  Finally, and most importantly, I've learned that I can't write a novel in the same month that I have a persistent illness, final papers and exams. 

That being said, I've come woefully short of my word count, with only a day and a half left.  I've decided, then, not to give up but to shift my goal to December, when I've not got classes or, God willing, some kind of plague.  I'm calling my own little novel writing month DeNoWriMo and it works the same way.  I'll write, by New Year's Day, 50k words and finish the first draft of my novel.  Here we go...again...