Many people want to write a novel. They, like me, decide it will be written during the oft-busy period of One Day. I’ve already got shed-loads of things I’ve shoehorned into One Day though, so I signed up for NaNoWriMo. No, it’s not a new Japanese game console, it’s National Novel Writing Month, and it runs from 1st – 30th November 2009.

The aim is to write at least 50,000 words in this period – my Dashboard calculator has smugly told me that this means I need to write 1,666.66667 words a day. It also means I need a new chair. I did have an office chair – granted it was a little cheapo basic one, but it served me well for many years. Until my husband recently pulled the back off it. Now it masquerades as a stool, gives me a flat arse and provides no lumbar support.

Anyhoo, I’m very eager to get started on My First Novel, but er, I should probably spend the rest of October coming up with a plot. It might help.