National Novel Writing Month

While I was surfing through a Catholic site that I visit often, I came upon a thread which at first look, just to be an announcement of one of those writing contests. It turned out to be an invitation to a web novel writing contest. But here is the catch, you only have 1 month to finish the novel. And here is the bigger catch. It must contain 50 THOUSAND words. As for me, at first I underestimated the huge amount of word count. Until I tried to write page one of a story that I just came up with on the fly. It turned out that it took me roughly 1 hour to write it and it only contains 700+ words. If you do the math, you will find out that it will take 72 pages to fill it up. That's not bad for a writer. But its really a monumental number for me. I mean, I can only managed to write one page stories most of the time.

It got me interested. Since I enjoy challenges that can make me hone my skills, I joined the contest. That means I have roughly 2 months before it starts. Plenty of time to prepare ( or to cheat for that matter ) . I'm interested in how this will turn out.