It's almost on

This weekend will be a test. It will be a serious, serious test to see if I’ve got the chops to write all weekend, without some national event or deadline bearing down on me. I’ve done this before. I’ve done it lots of times before, but it’s always been as a part of the Three Day Novel Contest.

I’ll make a little confession here. Once, during my first year in Wisconsin, we had a three day weekend and I decided to try to turn that into a three day novel writing time of my own. I failed really badly. I ended up spending most of the weekend playing this ridiculous video game called Baldur’s Gate.

It’s going to happen this weekend. I’m not 100% sure what I’m going to write about. I have a couple options, but I am going to really pound it. I’m going to write and write. I’ve still got some social activities planned for the weekend, too, but that’s okay. As long as I get in the zone and as long as I get a few hours in on Friday and then eight hours on Saturday, Sunday and Monday (we have it off), then I can do a lot of good.

A lot of people doubt that writing can be done this way. Can you really produce the quality? Can you focus on the words? Will it make any sense?

I say you can. I say I can. I say it’s the only way I really can. Whether or not I can, though, the more important point is this: I will. If I do, then I pass the test.