JulNoWriMo
OK... I've avoided the "for real" NaNoWriMo for YEARS now... But Aimee has a writing bug, and I've suddenly got a lot of time on my hands at work. The boss will be going on vacation for the holiday weekend, and will be away the first week of July, then at an event the week after, followed by a different event the week after THAT, and then one MORE week of vacation before I ever see him in the office again... Ah, sweet relief... and impending BOREDOM.
SO... I find myself with some suggested subject matter that I'm actually excited to try to write about, and a lot of writer's block to overcome... About 10 years worth, actually. I look forward to seeing if I can make anything come out of this that is worth working on some more down the line (not even a real "novel," per se, but SOMETHING), or if it's even worth showing to anyone else at all by the end of the month... We shall see.
Apparently, it's a 2000-words-per-day goal... With the "word-count" feature included in every version of Word these days, that should be a reasonable aspiration, and easy to keep track of. I'd write in a notebook (like I always imagine that "real writers" do), but I revise so much that it would only be a good way for me to give up almost-immediately. So, I'll try to work on it here on the work computer during my long days of empty in-boxes, and then upload it to somewhere accessable at the end of the day--just in case inspiration strikes during a weekend, or on a weeknight.
So here's the blog to publish and make known my intent... November be darned... This July, it's "JulNoWriMo" for me. You have all read it now, and I will seriously attempt to complete this project without bailing on it. I've wanted to write "SOMETHING" for a very long time, with no inspiration or plot-bunnies at all. I haven't written recreationally since college (early college in the dorms, at that), so I'm very out of practice. I'm ready to see if I can get a story out of my brain that doesn't correlate directly to an RPG character that I've had to come up with for games. Because, as Aimee pointed out, I HAVE done some reasonably good writing for games lately... But if I can get it to feel less like homework and more like something I really WANT to be working on with some amount of passion, it will be a project-worth-doing.
Here goes nothing.
~S~
PS. ALSO... "FOREVER WEDNESDAY" just premiered our 2nd episode today, so CHECK IT OUT, and SPREAD THE WORD! :-)
SO... I find myself with some suggested subject matter that I'm actually excited to try to write about, and a lot of writer's block to overcome... About 10 years worth, actually. I look forward to seeing if I can make anything come out of this that is worth working on some more down the line (not even a real "novel," per se, but SOMETHING), or if it's even worth showing to anyone else at all by the end of the month... We shall see.
Apparently, it's a 2000-words-per-day goal... With the "word-count" feature included in every version of Word these days, that should be a reasonable aspiration, and easy to keep track of. I'd write in a notebook (like I always imagine that "real writers" do), but I revise so much that it would only be a good way for me to give up almost-immediately. So, I'll try to work on it here on the work computer during my long days of empty in-boxes, and then upload it to somewhere accessable at the end of the day--just in case inspiration strikes during a weekend, or on a weeknight.
So here's the blog to publish and make known my intent... November be darned... This July, it's "JulNoWriMo" for me. You have all read it now, and I will seriously attempt to complete this project without bailing on it. I've wanted to write "SOMETHING" for a very long time, with no inspiration or plot-bunnies at all. I haven't written recreationally since college (early college in the dorms, at that), so I'm very out of practice. I'm ready to see if I can get a story out of my brain that doesn't correlate directly to an RPG character that I've had to come up with for games. Because, as Aimee pointed out, I HAVE done some reasonably good writing for games lately... But if I can get it to feel less like homework and more like something I really WANT to be working on with some amount of passion, it will be a project-worth-doing.
Here goes nothing.
~S~
PS. ALSO... "FOREVER WEDNESDAY" just premiered our 2nd episode today, so CHECK IT OUT, and SPREAD THE WORD! :-)