DuNoWriMo?
As I was doing NaNoWriMo back in November, my brother was in the process of talking me into trying it again in January (he had wanted to try it for a few years now, November was bad for him, and he wanted someone to keep pace with). So here I am on another 50k word novel month-long challenge--one I'm tentatively calling Duck Novel Writing Month (thus the subject line).
Surprisingly, it's been much easier the second time around. Part of that is that my current story is more enjoyable to write, but I think much of it is that I'm just in the habit of writing from a couple months ago and it seems easier now. After eleven days, I'd already crested the 23k word platform, so I'm on a fairly insane pace (I'll hit 65k if I don't slow down, but that's unlikely). I have very little idea what I'm going to write about from one day to the next (my outline is already totally abandoned, except as a useful character reference), but that's part of the fun, too. Eh, we shall see.
Provided this goes as well as the first half has, I think I might give a stab at editing it after I have a month or two to put it aside and do other things. Any of you NaNoWriMo junkies out there interested in either a peer-edit or just keeping pace with one another this spring for editing one of these damn things? Let me know if you are...
Surprisingly, it's been much easier the second time around. Part of that is that my current story is more enjoyable to write, but I think much of it is that I'm just in the habit of writing from a couple months ago and it seems easier now. After eleven days, I'd already crested the 23k word platform, so I'm on a fairly insane pace (I'll hit 65k if I don't slow down, but that's unlikely). I have very little idea what I'm going to write about from one day to the next (my outline is already totally abandoned, except as a useful character reference), but that's part of the fun, too. Eh, we shall see.
Provided this goes as well as the first half has, I think I might give a stab at editing it after I have a month or two to put it aside and do other things. Any of you NaNoWriMo junkies out there interested in either a peer-edit or just keeping pace with one another this spring for editing one of these damn things? Let me know if you are...