NaNoWriMo
Signing up for National Novel Writing Month is completely irresponsible, especially since the month is November. Who's idea was that? It's like the worst month for something frivolous like this. Unlike some NaNoWriMo-ers, it's not making me insane. But I keep asking myself, what was I thinking?
Fortunately, the whole attitude of NaNoWriMo is silliness, to take the pressure off. They want you to turn off your internal critic, to focus on quantity and not quality. The idea is: if you want to be a writer, you're gonna have to write, and if you're gonna be a novelist, you have to write a novel. Unfortunately, my novel sucks.
The point is to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days, from midnight on the night of October 31 to midnight on the night of November 30. It doesn't have to be good, it doesn't even have to be complete, it just has to be 50K words. Some people have a hard time keeping up the pace. My problem is, I couldn't start until yesterday. I mean, I could, but I didn't. Lesson #1: When writing a real novel, it's not a good idea to just dive right in with only loose ideas of characters, and there's something called a "plot"...
Anyway, I've written a couple of times in the last two days and I'm already almost to 6,000. The average number of words per day one must write to reach 50,000 in 30 days is 1,667. Man, that's no sweat. I mean, that's nothing. I don't have a problem writing. I sit down and I can bang stuff out. My problem is the novel is boring as fuck. Oh, things happen, but none of it is all that interesting. Next time, I'll have this all thought out first. Thank God NaNoWriMo is all about the sheer numbers.
We stopped by the Neighborhood Book Store and I happened upon a good book and bought it: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing a Novel. That'll come in handy. That, and my new desk. ;-)
5,857 / 50,000
(11.7%)
Fortunately, the whole attitude of NaNoWriMo is silliness, to take the pressure off. They want you to turn off your internal critic, to focus on quantity and not quality. The idea is: if you want to be a writer, you're gonna have to write, and if you're gonna be a novelist, you have to write a novel. Unfortunately, my novel sucks.
The point is to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days, from midnight on the night of October 31 to midnight on the night of November 30. It doesn't have to be good, it doesn't even have to be complete, it just has to be 50K words. Some people have a hard time keeping up the pace. My problem is, I couldn't start until yesterday. I mean, I could, but I didn't. Lesson #1: When writing a real novel, it's not a good idea to just dive right in with only loose ideas of characters, and there's something called a "plot"...
Anyway, I've written a couple of times in the last two days and I'm already almost to 6,000. The average number of words per day one must write to reach 50,000 in 30 days is 1,667. Man, that's no sweat. I mean, that's nothing. I don't have a problem writing. I sit down and I can bang stuff out. My problem is the novel is boring as fuck. Oh, things happen, but none of it is all that interesting. Next time, I'll have this all thought out first. Thank God NaNoWriMo is all about the sheer numbers.
We stopped by the Neighborhood Book Store and I happened upon a good book and bought it: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing a Novel. That'll come in handy. That, and my new desk. ;-)
5,857 / 50,000
(11.7%)