By way of introduction

Howdy, stranger. I am going to keep this short because I need to save up all my words for the next post. Here's a list of contextual information:

• This blog represents my attempt at writing 50,000 words in the month of November for National Novel Writing Month ("NaNoWriMo").
• It's the 12th, and I'm just getting started, so by a friend's calculations I need to write 2,380 words per day (on average).
• I have never written a novel; I'm actually a pretty bad fiction writer in general. Although I do write poetry, most of that is inevitably bad too. All of this is to say that this is an exercise in quantity, not quality. Not quality!!!!!! I wrote this bullet more for myself than for you.
• This is the fourth bullet.
• And finally, a warning: because I have no idea what is going to come out when I start typing, I wouldn't advocate sharing this with children, the elderly, or anyone currently taking heart medication(s).

Ok...from now on, I'm not here. Wait, I'm still here. Give me two minutes.

Enjoy with a grimace,

Jillian