So...I'm back. After a successful year one (2006) and an unsuccessful year two (2007), I took a year off. The being unsuccessful, I'll admit, had a little to do with my lack of enthusiasm in 2008, but at that point, I'd "grown up" and graduated and become a big girl with a real job. And, frankly, if I couldn't finish a novel that I loved when I had endless freetime (thank you, college) and a real-life support system, I didn't think I could handle it with a 40-hour a week commitment already in place - at a job I started 2 weeks earlier, no less - and all of my support systems far far away.

But I'm ready to give it the old college try again. I've been excited about NaNo ever since the beginning of the year, when I'd realized what I'd missed out on the November before and I'd re-read my novel and decided I loved it and it wasn't as bad as I had thought. It actually had potential - what luck!

In exactly 3 weeks from now, at midnight, I will begin my third attempt at novel-writing mania. I'm semi-cheating because I'm continuing my novel from 2007; NaNo says no pre-existing stories are allowed. But, let's be honest, without NaNo I can't write because I suffer from a severe lack of motivation and an overdose of self-editing. And I love love love this novel (and NaNo-ing). I want it to work and actually become a finished product. Who wants their main character stuck at 22 in what is supposed to be a lifelong story? Not me.

Anyways, I just wanted to share in my excitement and begin the countdown.
21 Days to go.