Current mood:	inspired
Current music:	Heart Attack at 23 - Y Kant Tori Read

Shannon's Personal Goal #[put-far-too-high-a-number-here]:
Write a novel.

For those of you I haven't rambled about it to already, this year I plan to participate in National Novel Writing Month. For those of you who don't know what that is and are too lazy to click the link and read, the goal of NaNoWriMo is for everyone who participates to write a novel of at least 50,000 words between the beginning of November 1st and the end of November 30th. Of course, I realize that 50,000 words in a month while I'm at college with classes and everything probably isn't going to happen. Still, I plan to write as much of it as possible during that month, and set a more realistic long-term goal of writing that much (which is a couple hundred pages, a perfectly respectable novel length for a fairly novice writer IMHO) by the time November 1, 2006 rolls around.

I've already got a basic concept, the beginnings of a backstory for my setting, a name for my main character, and a couple ideas for a title. I'm going to keep coming up with ideas, typing up rambly notes and eventually a plot outline over the next few months, though as per the NaNoWriMo rules I won't start on the text of the novel itself until November comes.

If I like my results, I'll self-publish it through CafePress or some similar site. Then you all can buy it and read it, and I can make a small profit. Though I'll need to hunt down any friends I have who can actually draw worth crap and hopefully find someone willing to do cover art for me, because my artwork sucks big-time. ¬_¬ But that's a long way off anyway. I have to write the book first, or at the very least write a good physical description of my main character. =P

Hey, it's certainly not going to be The Great American Novel. That's an amazingly pretentious goal anyway. I'm perfectly happy with just A Novel That Doesn't Suck Too Badly. =P