Of the bajillion book ideas I have rolling around my head, I think it's high time I got one of them on paper from start to finish. The biggest challenge for me will be the lack of editing-as-I-go. Now that I've publicly outed my goal on the internet, I have no choice to follow through, right? Seriously, if I don't finish you must swear to shame and/or shun me. To help prepare my family for the inevitable freak-outs and lack of attentiveness to real life, I printed off a copy of a recent McSweeney's entry, "From The Complete Guide to the Care and Training of the Writer in Your Life."
The plan for the blog during November is to finish up a series of twenty-six events that have shaped my life, whether major or minor. Each will correspond to a letter of the alphabet. I've seen this done by many bloggers and this past week has been the perfect time to write and draft them for the upcoming month. For the most part, the posts are very short, but they should keep you entertained in my absence. The Office recaps will continue, since I can't quit on my show. Because I'm apparently super crazy, this means I'm also unintentionally participating in NaBloPoMo (National Blog Post Month).
Any past NaNo winners? I'm looking for tips on word-padding, music, late-night snacks, and sticking with it through the end. If you're participating, find me under "gretchasketch" and we can stress out together!
5 comments:
Wow go you! There is absolutely no way I could write a novel in a month. None at all. I am however doing NaBloPoMo! Good luck with it girl!
I won last year (a couple days early, too!).
I didn't have an outline, which meant that I just wrote and wrote and repeated myself and contradicted myself but as long as I was writing it was all good, right? (Uh...) I didn't know what 50000 words was really like, and maybe I wasn't focused too much on *finishing* it (you just need 50000 words to win).
So my advice is when in doubt, just write something. Even if you wouldn't use it in a final draft or whatever. Even if it really has nothing to do with your story. Just write it anyone. It's not like anyone's going to know. (But not having anything to do with your story, I mean writing backstory or a pointless scene or something, not something cutesy about penguins when your novel is high fantasy.)
Good luck!
Good. Luck.
i'm doing nano too!!! I'll totally stress/commiserate with you!
:)
I'm doing Nanowrimo, too, and I'm worried about the same thing. I've attempted it for the past two years and gotten NOWHERE near the word count. Hopefully since I'm no longer in class and workin full time at the same time, it'll be easier?
We'll see.
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