I Cheated!

I cheated. Last night I started my NaNo novel. Go ahead and slap me on the wrist–I don’t care–the oppresive shackles of NaNo rules can’t hold back my muse!

Seriously, though. Zombie Town is driving me nuts right now, and I don’t have any short stories I want to work on (though I do have some I probably should work on), so why the hell not? I’ll only count what I write in November toward my official NaNo wordcount. November’s going to be an insane month for me anyway, so anything I can do now to make progress on this novel is money in the (word) bank.

I’ve been on a novel kick ever since the 3-Day Novel Contest. I don’t know if it’s because now I have bigger, longer story ideas or if it’s because my summer/autumn of rejections has got me down or if I’m just making some natural, writerly progression, but I’ve been itching to start this novel since September. So last night I gave in and scratched. And no, I’m not sorry.

How about the rest of you? Are you totally itching to start that NaNo novel, or are you already thinking of ways to procrastinate?