NaNoWriMo Update
November 16th, 2011 § 1 Comment
Well we’re at the halfway mark and I have to say this is way more difficult than I anticipated. Don’t get me wrong, I knew that it was going to be hard, but this…this is hard.
So far, I have managed to scrape together about 6,000 words, which puts me pretty dang far behind. I’m having a couple of problems:
1) Turning off the internal editor/critic.
2) Finding time to write.
3) Staying motivated.
NaNoWriMo
October 10th, 2011 § Leave a Comment
National Novel Writing Month is coming up. For those of you who don’t know what that is here’s a brief sum up. Every November NaNoWriMo challenges people to sit down and write a 50,000 word novel. It can be about anything, as long as it’s fiction. You don’t have to finish the story to ‘win’, all you have to do is hit the 50k word count. The idea is to prove to yourself that you can in fact sit down and write 50,000 words. It’s not really about quality. In this instance, it’s about quantity. You allow yourself to turn off that internal editor and just let the ideas flow. Your main character’s name changes six times? So what? The book morphs from a sci-fi western to a horror romance? Who cares? Just write it.
I’m really looking forward to this. I’ve never done it before, so the prospect of sitting down and writing 50,000 words in a month is a tad overwhelming, but I’m pretty determined to do it. Hopefully at the end of the experience I will have something more to show for it than just 50,000 words of nonsense (i.e. maybe I’ll manage to write a good story), but in the end, that’s not what I’m going to focus on. I’m going to focus on getting the damn story done and to Hell with it making sense.
[Insert clever sign off phrase here]
