It’s that time of year again, when men grow beards for charity and writers write a novel in a month more or less just for the hell of it.

What can I say, we’re a wacky bunch.

It’s all part of National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo as it’s known on the street. It’s when nutbars like me attempt to write a 50K word novel in 30 days.

That’s 1667 words a day, give or take a word here and there, and in the past, I have done that while also keeping up with my blogging and whatnot.

Admittedly, up until the 60 60, I had very little in the way of whatnot.

But this year, I plan on devoting as much of my creative energies to my writing as possible, and that means that for the month of November, there will be no new videos and no regular blog entries.

I might blog, I might not. Sorry I can’t be more specific. But this year I am adding editing to the mix. I will bang out my requisite wordcount per day, take a break for a little while, then come back and edit the damned thing to within an inch of its life.

Adjectives will be struck down harshly. Sentences will be brutally rephrased. Darlings will be murdered.

But dammit, at the end, those will be 1667 (or more) damned good words.

I am hoping to thus avoid the daunting task of having to edit a 50,000 word novel all at once. Doing the same thing every day really works for me, and so I hope this leads to a higher quality product in the end.

Who knows, maybe even something worth sending to a publisher.

I am sorry this means abandoning you all for a month, but I will make the final product available to anyone who asks nicely enough at the end, and come Dec 1, it will be back to music and videos and blogging and all kinds of merry mayhem here at Chex MJB.

I am wandering off into the wildness in search of better prose. Wish me luck!