For the entire month of November the Weekly Blog Recommendation will be The Office of Letters and Light for two reasons:

1. It’s a funny and informative blog for National Novel Writing Month participants.
2. I will be too busy all month writing a novel in 30 days to evaluate any other blogs.

I don’t exactly understand it, but this writing thing is addictive…especially when you throw in a competition, albeit a prizeless one. The only real reward for participants is the warm fuzzies we get from meeting daily, weekly, and ultimately, the monthly goal.

We’re all really friendly about the whole thing. We have Writing Buddies to join us in the fun. Except when I checked my Writing Buddies’ stats and saw one of them had totally blown me away with her word count, I sorta had a red haze descend over my eyes. I said, “The heck with dinner!” Then I grabbed a glass of water and pecked out 800 more words.

Whew! Now I can sit calmly and edit my writing. Oh, by the way…do this before you take your writing to critique group. Pecking out words in a red-haze-covered frenzy may leave you with red flaming cheeks after the group gets done with you. (Yep…I took my pre-edited manuscript pages. Ouch!)

Write On, friends! Don’t forget to check frequently throughout November with The Office of Letters and Light for inspiration or just a few chuckles.

**50,000 words, here I come!!**