...that is the question, formed using only
four different letters.
Should I participate in the forthcoming official
National Novel Writing Month for 2009? I've "won" the challenge for the last two years, cranking out the first 60-70% of my
first and
second works-in-progress...but I don't think I'm going to indulge this year.
Frankly, I don't need another work-in-progress.
What I think I'll do is what some other pseudo-NaNos have done in the past: challenge myself to meet some editing / finishing goal over the month of November, instead of creating a brand new 50,000 word piece. I really need to finish
Bring Me to Life. It was started second, but would make a better first novel than my NaNo2007 result,
200 P.C. That one would be a good second novel. If, of course, I ever get [either of] them finished.
I did make headway in another writing-related area this past week. In amongst working on the electronics prototype I mentioned in my last blog post, I managed to do eleven critiques for
Critters in one week, which not only erased one-third of the deficit I had accumulated by slacking off over the past year, but also earned me a jump-to-the-head-of-the-queue pass (a "Most Productive Critter" award). I need to do the same thing for a couple more weeks, and then I'll be back to the required 75% participation ratio and allowed to submit a story to the queue.
By then, I hope to actually have something to submit.