Challenge Accepted

Yes, I am quoting How I Met Your Mother. Yes, I'm that cool. Anyway, what is this challenge you may ask? Well, November is National Novel Writing Month. This month writers will be trying to write a novel in a mere thirty days. They count words, pages, and just try to write for a month. Now, while I applaud this concept and support anyone who has decided that they will be able to write a novel in a month, this is not something I myself want to take on. Firstly, I have written the rough draft of a novella and it took a year and seven months (although I didn't work on it every day). It's too much pressure to try and write anything resembling a novel in a mere month. Secondly, while I know that most people who participate in NaNoWriMo are in fact dedicated writers, for me, writing is something that lasts all year long, for every year of your life, not for a month a year. I want to get to a point where writing or editing every day for even 15 minutes becomes a habit. So, my challenge for myself is to try to write every day for the rest of the semester which is about a month. My hope is that if I continue for that long then I will have formed a habit and will be writing every day. This is something I should be doing already and am working on. Now that it is public though, I really do have to try. Check back over the next few weeks and see if I've actually posted anything...and if I haven't please remind me to keep writing!