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Counting down the days to NaNoWriMo. This last week before the contest begins is always the time I take to flex my mental muscles – because really, they’re the only kind of muscles I’ve got.

National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo for most of you who have a life, is a yearly month-long competition where people from all parts of the world head on over to http://www.nanowrimo.org for the sole purpose of writing. Despite the “Novel” in National Novel Writing Month, an anthology of short stories, essays, poetry, etc. are welcomed, as long as they total 50,000 words. At the end of November, people upload their writings into the NaNoWriMo website via a custom-built tool that ‘counts’ the words in the file, to be officially declared a winner. And what do winners get? Nothing really, except a small NaNoWriMo awards logo you can display on websites or social networking accounts. And, of course, the quiet satisfaction of completing a 50,000-word affair that may eventually wind up as lulz fodder over at fanfiction.net.

Most years, I really just do it for the lol myself. This year though, I’m buckling down, and writing what I call the Book I’m Trying to Convince, Hopefully, Printing Unions to Publish.

Or my B.I.T.C.H.P.U.P., for short.

This is a tough one, too. I’ve dreamed of writing supernatural fiction since almost from the cradle, but now that I’m old enough to warrant better writing, it seems like everyone else is doing it too.

But onwards with the dream, I guess. And the B.I.T.C.H.P.U.P.