Soph, this is all your fault.

Just when life couldn't get any crazier, it just did.  Thanks to the very persuasive skills of a certain Mrs.Ngian, I've officially become a NaNoWriMo-er.   Along with over-40,000 fellow madmen and women across the globe, we've been tasked with writing a 50,000 word novel in 30 days, starting Nov 1.  In Malaysia, around 20 people have signed up, inc. yours truly.

If you do the math, that's around 1,666 words a day, 67 words an hour and slightly more than one word a minute. That is, if all you do in November is sit in front of your computer typing away furiously, while sipping on your 45th cup of Nescafe and estranging family and friends. 

There's no million dollar reward.  No gold-plated trophy.  No shining new Ferrari at the finish line. Believe it or not, it's just for the heck of it.

This is permission to write absolutely crappy fiction.  And thanks to the beauty of deadlines, some of us will do just that.

And so can you. ;)

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