warning: nnnnnanowrimo

(Sit down.  Take a deep breath.  Exhale.  Stay seated.  Repeat -- the breath.  No need to sit twice.  Steady on.  Ready there, folks?)

(Exhale.)  So.  Umm.  Yeah.  I have a confession.  No, it's not about porn.  (That'd be Steve Kryger's column, not mine.)  Phew.  But anyway.  I.  Um.  Yeah, um I was thinking about doing that November writing thing ever since a friend mentioned it on the phone when I was home and I kind of brought it up slightly at my writers' group and they weren't super keen, but then GarryWith2Rs wrote this blogpost about it and I kind of sort of thought it might be fun to try so I stupidly mentioned it to my mother who thought it was fantastic and the best idea she'd ever heard and offered I could do it with her 70-year-old friend from church who wants to write a book about how much he loves Mondays which didn't quite do it for me somehow but evidently at some point I must have messaged Garry about maybe possibly kind of sort of thinking about it and and and I'm not quite sure what happened but now I'm signed up and supposed to write 50,000 words in November and what's more I told Garry he was going down so now it appears that I really have to do it or suffer an incredible loss of face but really what is face and how necessary is it to save in the big scheme of things really gosh I'd say that's practically pride but anyway I guess I'm doing it now and you as loyal blog readers get to bear (haha!) the brunt of it all because where else am I going to post things but here except possibly no where which is a rather enticing option when it comes down to it so I might do that too but yeah anyway I just wanted to give you a heads up that this is probably about what you can expect for the whole month of November (yay!) except of course 2000 words a day instead of whatever this is probably 300 or so so yay nearly 90% more regularly I knew you could hardly wait!

Phew.  That wasn't so bad now, was it?

You're telling me.