I'm going to put my knitting aside for about a month, at least somewhat, and try NaNoWriMo again. I got to 18k+ words in 2002, and less than 2k words in 2003, so my success rate so far is pretty lousy. I don't really expect it to improve, but I'll give it a go.

I'd really like to continue the novel I started in 2003, despite the rules. I mean, really, it's 1.8k words, and it was 2 years ago. It doesn't seem to fit into the "bringing a half-finished manuscript into NaNoWriMo all but guarantees a miserable month. You'll simply care about the characters and story too much to write with the gleeful, anything-goes approach that makes NaNoWriMo such a creative rush" reasoning. We'll see. I'm usually really a stickler, and don't want to even skirt the rules on anything. I rarely even speed when driving, and almost never intentionally. But I really like the story. Shame that's just an excuse for bad behavior.

Gah. Sometimes being a growned up sucks.

Either way, I'm really looking forward to the B&N Write-Ins. I'm tempted to get a backup battery so I can hang out for more than a couple hours.