Five (LAME) Reasons Not to do NaNo

1) I could never write that many words in one month! Golly-jee-whillikers, that’s 1667 words a day!

Answer: Don’t be weird. Join the Young Writer’s Program — you can set your own word count goal. You’ll find a link to the YWP on the NaNoWriMo.org home page.

2) I’m way too busy. I have a job, a life, a wife and four children. They need me, and besides, NaNo is just a waste of time.

Answer: Stop it. You’re making dumb excuses. You know you have time to burn. You had time to eat dinner last night, didn’t you? Huh? Well, skip it in November!

3) I don’t have a plot, and I can’t think of one right now.

Answer: I’ll give you a plot idea right off the top of my head. Your MC is driving down Main Street minding his own business, when suddenly he gets a mysterious phone call from a man with a husky voice. He threatens to blow up the local Big Scoop within the next ten minutes unless you surrender the mysterious stauette of Johnny Depp you discovered last year while digging for buried treasure in the jungles of Africa.

4) I can only write at certain times.

Answer: Yah, that’s what I thought last year. Actually, I found that inspiration is created, not given. Go out and find it with a baseball bat.

5) I won’t win.

Answer: Terrible to be you. If that’s the best you can come up with, you’re probably not cut out to write anyway. Go back to your day job. Millions on welfare are depending on you, anyway.

-Trevor