Nick 2.0 jumps to the 5pm newscast - By N.L. Belardes

Kinda weird to be on at 11am and 5pm. Who knows how long it will last? I think I'm up to around 53 segments. Anyway, here I am talking about the latest Nick 2.0 blog, "National Novel Writing Month Goal Fulfilled, What's Yours?" which plugs an article I'm working on about novel writing (NaNoWriMo) and www.thenervousbreakdown.com:

Busting out a comedy novel, NanoWrimo style - By N.L. Belardes

Other than taking time off work this week (only actual took off two days) to spend with family, I am also busting out a novel since it's national novel writing month. It's the first year for me to join nanowrimo.org for their cool user profiles that you can generate with up-to-date word counts that are addicting.

So I joined 17 days into the process. That's a little late since the NanoWrimo goal is to bust out 50,000 words through November. You're supposed to spread out the writing, not necessarily write in huge clumps. But since working for ABC23 I'm pretty busy not just managing the www.turnto23.com website, but writing articles, a lot of them in my off-hours, though I do write and edit boat loads of hard news during the day.

I've put in writing on and off for a few days now and I'm up to 20,485 words. I'm working on a comedy titled, "Man Liberty" that I hope when I'm done will give some folks a chuckle.

I encourage writers and novelists-to-be to tackle writing novels in any way that you can be motivated and committed to follow through. I found the NanoWrimo site to be a great motivator. But maybe some of you might rather join a class or local writing group. Here's my NanoWrimo Noveltown profile if you want to check up on my progress through the week to see if I meet my goal.