Nanowrimo
I've decided to participate in National Novel Writing Month — Nanowrimo. The goal is to write a 175 page novel (50,000 words) during the month of November. If you do it, you're a winner! You don't get anything — other than being called a winner. Sounds good!

As a would-be writer who has two incomplete novels to his credit (one 154 pages and the other 218 pages), this little project will triple my output and, hopefully, get me over viewing whatever I write as entirely too precious. Speed is the order of the day (month?) here.





If you were wondering, I looked up:

flash fiction — shorter than 1,000 words
short story — 1,000-7,500 words, although some count up to 20,000 words
novelette — 7,500-17,500 words
novella — 20,000-40,000 words (another source says up to 60,000 words)
novel — more than 40,000 words (another source says more than 60,000 words)
epic — 200,000 words or more

Funny how the length of the work gets longer as the name gets shorter...