NaNoWriMo

I don't think I'll be posting much in the next month due to all my writing energy being taken up by National Novel Writing Month!! The idea behind NaNoWriMo is that you write as much as you possibly can of a "novel" (loosely defined) during the month of November, avoiding editing at all costs, thereby letting your creativity flow forth onto the page in the form of "laughably bad prose" with the knowledge that in that mess there will be gems of literary genius. It's been going for nine years, I believe, and it starts at 12:00am (local time of wherever you are) on 1 November (tonight). The goal is to write upwards of 50,000 words by 11:59pm, 30 November. Are you up for it? What have you got to lose?

It's going to take a team effort, so if anybody else is doing it, we've got to encourage each other! This is going to be a hard month on the brain...

In other news, my job is going well. Training is slow, but necessarily so because there's a lot of information to take in. I also now have an apartment - at least for the next month. After that, I have the option to stay until June. Things are coming together, and yet, I still feel a restlessness - some kind of uneasiness at the whole situation...

Why? Is this just post-college funk? Am I alone in this feeling? I don't get it. Why am I suddenly so jittery? My world hasn't changed dramatically. I mean, I still sleep, breathe, eat, etc. True, I'm in a different city, with different people and things around me, but I've experienced that before and I don't think it's ever fazed me this much. Something's weird in my life and I don't know what.

It just dawned on me that I haven't done this in a long time. It's really hard to write this stuff...

Something's gotta give. Maybe NaNoWriMo will help...