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I've had a Twitter feed called @PatMoranWrites for a while now. It's just for my thoughts about writing. Didn't use it much at first. Mostly I got it so no one else would take the name before I had a chance to use it! I figured I'd use it a lot more once I become a famous author. Ha. You can see the most recent updates over there on the right, in the nifty little Twitter gadget I got for this-here blog. >>>

Lately, I've been tweeting more more frequently because I've been writing more regularly...and loving it. Mostly, my tweets have been about my novel-in-progress, The Bog, which is at about 40,000 words in its first draft. The feed only has eight followers, but I'm hoping to get more, because...

A few days ago, I made the rash decision to participate in NaNoWriMo this year. What is NaNoWriMo? It's an annual challenge to writers to write a 50,000-word novel in one month -- the month of November.

That is a big challenge. And one that, I'd hazard to guess, is not completed by the vast majority who undertake it. I suspect I won't complete it either. I'm notorious for getting all gung-ho about a project and then losing interest in it after only a short time. Especially if it requires a lot of work, which this most definitely will.

But, it's only for one month, and I figure that the more people I tell about this crazy thing I mean to do, the more embarrassed I'll be if I become tempted to quit, and the less likely I'll be to actually drop out. Not sure if that kind of psychological self-blackmail will work either, but it's worth a try. And hopefully, in the process, a few people might enjoy what I have to say.

I welcome and invite your comments on any post you will see here. Part of what makes up a successful blog are the quality and quantity of comments posted by readers. I hope to see lots of dialogue from you all, and will always do my best to reply.

Cheers, and tally-ho!!