October already!
Which means it’s one month to go till the official start of National Novel Writing Month, and also means that the NaNoWriMo website has crashed under the numbers of people getting registered (and reregistered)!
Of course, we lucky Irish WriMos have this blog to hang out on (don’t forget our chat room!) so we can discuss things here. Not that there’s all that much to discuss at the moment… Does anyone have a plot figured out? I’m proud (and relieved) to say that I do, although I’m hoping it will be enough to write 50,000 words around - possibly not, though that’s where the arcane art of word-padding comes in to play!
Anyone else ready? Not ready? Looking forward to November, or looking at it with trepidation? Anyone not doing NaNoWriMo this year for whatever reason?
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I’m not ready. I’m dreading it, in fact. Work is manic right now. I do have an idea, have had one since last NaNo in fact, but somewhere in the evolution of it it became a great character, a great setting, a decent idea… the story part however is still MIA.
Why do I do this to myself?
Wednesday 15th October 2008 at 4:06 pmJoin the club! (Oh, you have done - the one called NaNoWriMo!)
I have a vague idea of three of my characters - the main one and two initial ones. I have an idea of my outline (’plot’ is too stronga term) but don’t have a title and have only the vaguest idea of where it will go. The beginning is fairly clear, and I have the ending pretty well sorted. It’s the gap in the middle that will take time.
My process is to organise dinner as soon as I get home from work, then sit down at a computer for at least 2 hours immediately afterwards. During the previous 20-odd hours I will have been mulling over where to go next.
Some time in the next week I shall have worked out an approximate outline of the whole thing.
My first year I had worked out the whole storyline, but got to a fairly neat half-way point at 53,000 words, so I kept the second half for last year, and completed in about 90,000. Since then it has sat glowering at me to edit and delete and add, but I will leave that to next year, when I am scheduled to retire from work.
Wednesday 22nd October 2008 at 9:52 amYeah, I’ve had my novel idea since last NaNo, then last Friday while driving to Dublin I saw a place called ‘Two Mile Borris’. My imagination went into overdrive and within about a half hour I had ditched the idea I’d nursed for a year in favour of new-fangled newness.
I may regret this.
Wednesday 29th October 2008 at 12:27 pmGotta love that kind of random inspiration, Frostie!
Wednesday 29th October 2008 at 12:42 pmI’ve had my idea since April and even wrote a few words back then - which are being soundly ditched in favour of November’s outpourings. Getting excited though…
I’m definitely getting excited now, I can feel it in the pit of my stomach, but it’s that nervous excitement. I’m not sure if it’s a nice feeling!
I’ve basically cleared my schedule for this weekend (well, everything except Taleweavers anyway as I might need a moan by Sunday!) so I’m hoping to get a bit of a head start on my word count and get ahead of myself in case work catches up with me next week.
I’m glad I’ve ditched my old idea - it’s a bit serious and I just need something a bit fun and different to my usual fare!
Wednesday 29th October 2008 at 8:58 pm