I have decided to attempt NaNoWriMo this year. It's an unofficial attempt, because I'm keeping my own tally as opposed to posting the word count at https://www.Nanowrimo.org .

I setup my old computer again the other day and found it was built for gaming and not typing. Only has WordPad, and for those of you unfamiliar with it, it's functionality is little more than a typewriter with the ability to delete words. No spell check and no word court either, which means if I hit that 50,000 count at the end of the month, then it'll do so without counting day-to-day. Talk about tough.

I'm approaching NaNoWriMo as a fun expedition rather than a full-out attempt to write a coherent novel. I'm guessing I'll only be satisfied with about 25% of what I write when I move to revising (if I get to that stage), so I'm just going to enjoy the ride.

I like to think of it in these terms:

Those who do nothing, achieve nothing.
Those who do something, achieve something.
Even those who fail, achieve a result.
Those who do nothing fail to achieve even failure.

I hope you can see the positive in that, past the continual use of the word "failure." If I simply try to write something for NaNoWriMo, I'll still have more than if I hadn't tried at all.

-Vaperfox