Camp NaNo

 Since I'm writing more this month, and since I've challenged myself to get my 2021 novel written during this hiatus between classes, I've (apparently) been in "Camp NaNo."

I did not know that NaNo had a summer camp, but I'm glad to be a part of it. 

I'm writing a novel I'm tentatively calling Front Running. Just like the other in this series, the main character enjoys fitness and running. What's different is that he enjoys it in a way like no other character I've written. 

Perhaps I was inspired by Lawrence Sanders (see here), who loves to include descriptions of the cocktails his main characters drink, or perhaps this is based too much on my real life, but the main character is a lush (truthfully, I'm a tad jealous of my main character).

Regardless, as a quick check-in on the writing, I'm moving right along. I feel certain I can get to 50K by the time my next class starts. That's the goal. 

What's interesting about this is the following:

1) I joined NaNo in 2004! WOW! I didn't know it had been that long!

2) I've only completed NaNo 6 or 7 times during that time. Yet I've written about a dozen novels. That means that half the time I like writing my novels as a part of NaNo. 

3) I've written a grand total of 265K words with NaNo. I'm a tad surprised it's not more!