NaNoWriMo 2006
Okay, we are less than 1 month until the official start of NaNoWriMo 2006.
I've tried this every year since 2002 and only succeeded 1 year out of all of those.
I came really close last year and I really enjoyed the work and the creativity that flowed, however, I just got swept away by some other issues.
2002 -- House of Broken Mirrors (I think)
2003 -- Darkness Reigns
2004 -- Unknown Name (???)
2005 -- Spirit's Calling
2006 -- "A Desperate Lie" or maybe "A Dream Unraveled" or maybe "Over the Rainbow Blindly"
What I'm thinking of doing is revisiting some of the topics from the last few years that didn't quite bloom into a full story and see what happened. Almost like a young writer who uncovers a bunch of unfinished manuscripts in the attic of her grandmother's house.
There is one thing that intrigued me. On the NaNoWriMo boards for 2005, there was a topic that said... "why would a 90 year old woman adventure?" And that started me thinking about a lot of things.
I have a lot of things that I'm interested in. A lot of things about reality that I don't agree with and some things that I see, that aren't really there. But I usually just shake my head and keep walking through my sleepy existance.
What if... we are all existing in a dream state. Sort of like the Matrix, except that there is no one doing it to us, except ourselves. The problem with this dream state is that we don't realize that we are in it, living or not really living it, until its too late and we are almost 90 years old. At that age, the fragile body that houses our fantastic spirit and adicts us to the 5 senses peals away... it fades and breaks. And we are left floating in a totally different realm that makes us forget what we left behind. Mostly because we learn that the limitations of the physical body were really more like a prison than something to be joyous about.
But what you gain in one realm, of course you lose from another. There is this unspoken rule that you can't have it all. But who ever said that? Did they really know? What were they to speak such limiting words?
Hmmmmm....
What if the Gods that we look up to now, are only the great, great grand children of an ancient race that learned that you can't always get what you want??? Or when you do, you have to take the responsibility for it also?
Hmmmmm....
What if the human race wasn't worth saving? What if they proved themselves beyond the realm of understanding some basic truths... and so were judged and condemned... would they accept their judgement or would they fight? Would the fight futher prove that they were like the lowest bugs... just an infestation?
Hmmmmm....
What will I write about this year? Can I make 50,000 words and does it all have to really be related? Can if just be related by "What if" statements and lots of writing exercised?
50,000 words in 30 days... that is 1,667 words a day.
Last month I wrote over 20,000 words in letters to carnelianstar and his brother, and the journal entries that I wrote. I wonder???
NaNoWriMo 2006 -- Why I hate reality and where I would rather be...
Hmmmmm....
I've tried this every year since 2002 and only succeeded 1 year out of all of those.
I came really close last year and I really enjoyed the work and the creativity that flowed, however, I just got swept away by some other issues.
2002 -- House of Broken Mirrors (I think)
2003 -- Darkness Reigns
2004 -- Unknown Name (???)
2005 -- Spirit's Calling
2006 -- "A Desperate Lie" or maybe "A Dream Unraveled" or maybe "Over the Rainbow Blindly"
What I'm thinking of doing is revisiting some of the topics from the last few years that didn't quite bloom into a full story and see what happened. Almost like a young writer who uncovers a bunch of unfinished manuscripts in the attic of her grandmother's house.
There is one thing that intrigued me. On the NaNoWriMo boards for 2005, there was a topic that said... "why would a 90 year old woman adventure?" And that started me thinking about a lot of things.
I have a lot of things that I'm interested in. A lot of things about reality that I don't agree with and some things that I see, that aren't really there. But I usually just shake my head and keep walking through my sleepy existance.
What if... we are all existing in a dream state. Sort of like the Matrix, except that there is no one doing it to us, except ourselves. The problem with this dream state is that we don't realize that we are in it, living or not really living it, until its too late and we are almost 90 years old. At that age, the fragile body that houses our fantastic spirit and adicts us to the 5 senses peals away... it fades and breaks. And we are left floating in a totally different realm that makes us forget what we left behind. Mostly because we learn that the limitations of the physical body were really more like a prison than something to be joyous about.
But what you gain in one realm, of course you lose from another. There is this unspoken rule that you can't have it all. But who ever said that? Did they really know? What were they to speak such limiting words?
Hmmmmm....
What if the Gods that we look up to now, are only the great, great grand children of an ancient race that learned that you can't always get what you want??? Or when you do, you have to take the responsibility for it also?
Hmmmmm....
What if the human race wasn't worth saving? What if they proved themselves beyond the realm of understanding some basic truths... and so were judged and condemned... would they accept their judgement or would they fight? Would the fight futher prove that they were like the lowest bugs... just an infestation?
Hmmmmm....
What will I write about this year? Can I make 50,000 words and does it all have to really be related? Can if just be related by "What if" statements and lots of writing exercised?
50,000 words in 30 days... that is 1,667 words a day.
Last month I wrote over 20,000 words in letters to carnelianstar and his brother, and the journal entries that I wrote. I wonder???
NaNoWriMo 2006 -- Why I hate reality and where I would rather be...
Hmmmmm....