I am not prepared for this!

Another year, another Nano. Once again this year I find myself with enough plot/characterization for a short story. A really, really short story. And for the second year running I find myself in the middle of a college term with assignments already demanding all of my time in October. How am I ever going to survive November? I have no clue.

And yet, I'm excited. I get to do the kind of writing I like to do instead of the kind of writing that (hopefully) will pay the bills in a year or two. Instead of getting lost in someone else's universe, I get to create my own. And as any of you who've done this before know, you never know what's going to happen in that universe. Just because you create your characters doesn't mean they'll go where you want them to go or say what you want them to say. I'm going to tell myself a story and I have no idea how it's going to end or what will happen along the way.

I can't wait!