NaNoWriWhat?
NaNoWriMo is national novel writing month. It's pretty self-explanatory, you try to write a whole novel (defined as 50,000 words) within one month.
Yes, I'm trying to do it (just finishing will be challenging, let alone trying to work around a 40 hour work week, but that's why they call it a challenge right?).
I'm doing it for a couple of reasons:
1) Since Colgate I've been feeling this creative black hole in my life.
2) The resulting novel will probably be crap, but the experience will be good. I've always wanted to write and practice makes perfect so maybe I'll come out of this thing with a more natural ability to write fiction (that's my hope anyways).
3) I've had this really cool plot idea for a couple months now that I can't get out of my head. Actually, it's more like three plot ideas. So I'm making a go of it, lumping two of those ideas together, and seeing if those two lumps will join together into one superawesome lump of a novel.
Why am I blogging about this, you may ask?
I'm doing it for a couple of reasons:
1) One of the motivation techniques the NaNoWriMoers recommend is telling everyone you know that you are writing a novel within a month. That way, if you start second guessing yourself or think about quitting halfway through, you then have to explain to all those people that you're a failure at novel writing. Granted, I don't think anyone reads this blog anymore after Ban and I FAILED at updating it. Could you comment if you still read this so I know who's still around?
2) If I can't think of anything else to write during a writing session, I decided to write a little blip in this blog (a blog blip!). That way I'm still at least writing.
So here's where I stand right now: 2,600 words (about 1/25th of the way there). I should be near 10,000 words right now, so I'm REALLY behind schedule. But I got sick earlier this week which put me out of commission for two days.
That's it for now. I'm a-gonna write like crazy. Daily updates to come about my process, the plot (as I figure it out), and the writing rules I created for myself.
Here's the website if you're curious: www.nanowrimo.org
PS. Sorry Ban, I changed the blog color scheme because it was hurting my eyes. The colors are still a little weird...
Den out.
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We're not actually twins, in fact, we're not even related but PEOPLE often MISTAKE US FOR EACH OTHER. We think this has something to do with our coloring, as we're vaguely men. But that's neither here nor there...
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Even though we're not related, our mothers are. They're cousins. Or was it sisters? Distant sisters? Like the kind that you have when you're sent away to boarding school for thirteen years of your life. Or the kind of sisters that you have when you have different parents. Sometimes we can't remember how exactly but trust us, we're telling you the truth when we say we're related.
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