Ever since I heard about it two years ago, I've wanted to participate in NaNoWriMo also known as National Novel Writing Month. Yes, you read that correctly. Month. You have one month to write a 50,000-word novel. It doesn't have to be any good, of course, it just has to be the best you can do given the allotted time period. The idea is that if you don't write it this way, you probably won't write it at all, so you best get to it.

The problem is that it takes place in November, which is an excruciatingly busy month for people in my profession. If it took place in, say, April, it would be a no-brainer. Or so I tell myself. But November is difficult. Plus I have a new comic coming out in November, and I need to work on that, blah blah blah.

My novel idea is a science fiction satire in the tradition of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. It's about a guy who finds a portal to another world where he encounters a Cro-Magnon-like tribe. Through technology and wit, he becomes a sort-of god to them, and he helps them whenever he can in ways they can't begin to fathom. In addition to this, he exploits their world to his own benefit. Back on the other side, he's a lowly criminal who begins to make a name for himself. Soon, his worlds begin to collide and his paradise is threatened.

Maybe I should just bite the fricken bullet. Hm. 50,000 words? That's only 1,700 words per day. Seven pages. It can't be that hard can it?

Ugh. I feel sick.