Recently I’ve become obsessed with the Web site, NaNoWriMo.

With all the creative minds at Eastern, the site should be more popular.

NaNoWriMo is short for National Novel Writing Month.

The object of the game is to write a 50,000-word novel by the end of November.

No one can produce a flawless novel with just a month to prepare.

A month is not a very long time to write 50,000 words, especially when it’s nearing the end of the semester and projects and papers start piling up.

But the point of NaNoWriMo is not to be flawless – in fact, it’s to be the complete opposite!

What you have to do is write fast – this will probably be one of the only times when you’re concerned more about quantity than quality.

The editing process after writing might take a while, but at least you’ve got your main ideas there, so in case you don’t come back for a while you’ll remember what the book is about.

It’s always been my dream to write a book, and I can’t tell you how many times I’ve attempted to write one, and I can’t get any further than chapter two.

I’ve always had the urge to tell a story, ever since I was younger, it’s what I’ve wanted to do.

I know there are a lot of others out there like me, and so far I’ve found NaNoWriMo to be very helpful.

I know it’s nearing the end of the month already and if you’re reading this and you feel like you haven’t had a chance to start – don’t feel like it’s too late.

Try and see if you can get a smaller version accomplished – maybe 25,000 words.

I know I started on Nov. 3 and right now I’m at about 10,000 words. I do a lot around campus and one of the things I do is that I am a DJ for Eastern’s radio station, HitMix 88.9 WEIU.

For my shift I’ve created a soap opera. I’ve written about 60 or so episodes and they are two minutes each. A few other DJs play the characters and it’s like a mini old-time soap opera radio show. They air every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 12:50.

My NaNoWriMo idea feeds off my soap opera – it’s about a super hero named Antenna Boy, a villain named the Terror Tormentor and a family who gets entangled in their conflict.

That’s my NaNoWriMo in a nutshell.

If you don’t have an idea to write and you’d still like to write, there are plenty of ideas out there! Write a book based on your life.

Write a book about an incident that affected you strongly in the past but change your name and your friends’ names. Make it a moral story. You can even write fan fiction.

But the point of this column is to urge all of you who have a story to tell to get started.

If you won’t now, then when will you?