Saturday, October 08, 2005

on the threshold of fulfilling a dream

i think it was in kyels' blog that i left a comment stating what i wanted to do in life. one of things i listed down was "write three books".

at that time, my idea of "three books" was, well, perhaps medicine-related stuff.

maybe something chronicling my mission/medical work around the world.

or you know, a college textbook i will make minor changes to every year and release it as a new edition so i can make money off students who would have to scramble to take note of what's new in case Professor I.M. Ewell decides to test them on those minor changes.

however, it didn't occur to me how close that dream of writing three books could be, until i received this email:

Date: 6 Oct 2005 06:20:03 -0000
From: "Chris Baty"
To: chualishun@blahblah.com
Subject: Welcome to NaNoWriMo 2005

Dear Writer,

Many moons ago, you visited our website, and asked us to send you a note when your date with literary destiny had arrived.

It has arrived.

National Novel Writing Month has opened its doors for another raucous noveling season. Won't you join us?

Just go to www.nanowrimo.org and click on the Sign Up Now link. Or, if you already have an account on our site, just click on the User Login tab.

Best of luck on your novel this November!

Warm regards,

Chris Baty
Director, NaNoWriMo

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You are receiving this email because you or someone you know put your email address in the NaNoRemindMe box of the NaNoWriMo.org site. Unless you sign up to participate in National Novel Writing Month event and elect at that point to receive further emails from us, this is the only email we will ever send.


when i read that email, all sorts of thoughts came rushing in.

when on earth did i sign up for a reminder??

50,000 words...isn't that like 1667 words a day??? what the...???

what the hell am i gonna write a novel about?!?!?!?

...

i went straight to www.nanowrimo.org and signed up. immediately.

lishun at 9:28 AM

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