Do you smell something burning???
The time is NOW!!
NaNoWriMo 2007 has officially begun! And if you guys, like me, have
opted to receive motivational emails from the main website, you should
have gotten a very good email (peptalk). I'd like to quote a
paragraph here for you all, because I think it is the most brilliant
thing said about writing that I've ever seen in print:
As the great Nelson Algren once said, "Any writer who knows what he's
doing isn't doing very much." Most really good fiction is compelled
into being. It comes from a kind of uncalculated innocence. You need
not have your ending in mind before you commence. Indeed, you need not
be certain of exactly what's going to transpire on page 2. If you know
the whole story in advance, your novel is probably dead before you
begin it. Give it some room to breathe, to change direction, to
surprise you. Writing a novel is not so much a project as a journey, a
voyage, an adventure.
I don't think there's anything more to be said!
GOOD LUCK ALL!!!
NaNoWriMo 2007 has officially begun! And if you guys, like me, have
opted to receive motivational emails from the main website, you should
have gotten a very good email (peptalk). I'd like to quote a
paragraph here for you all, because I think it is the most brilliant
thing said about writing that I've ever seen in print:
As the great Nelson Algren once said, "Any writer who knows what he's
doing isn't doing very much." Most really good fiction is compelled
into being. It comes from a kind of uncalculated innocence. You need
not have your ending in mind before you commence. Indeed, you need not
be certain of exactly what's going to transpire on page 2. If you know
the whole story in advance, your novel is probably dead before you
begin it. Give it some room to breathe, to change direction, to
surprise you. Writing a novel is not so much a project as a journey, a
voyage, an adventure.
I don't think there's anything more to be said!
GOOD LUCK ALL!!!