Almost NaNoWriMo Time
Thursday is the first day of November, and you know what that means! It’s almost time for National Novel Writing Month!
I’m excited and a little nervous about the whole shindig: excited for obvious reasons, but nervous because I still have absolutely no idea what I’m going to write about, so I might have to resort to my backup strategy.
My preferred strategy for NaNoWriMo is to have a plan, and possibly an outline for my book before November 1 arrives, but it’s starting to look like that’s not going to happen. So my backup strategy is just to start with a character in a ridiculous situation and go from there, writing without a plan. This strategy can definitely be fun. It’s exciting to have no idea what lies around the next corner. But it also makes me a little nervous.
Either way, I’m really excited about November, even though I won’t have much of a social life for 30 days. Anyways, if you’re doing NaNoWriMo too, drop me a line and keep in touch!
P.S. When I was typing “Thursday,” I realized that it might be the only common word in the English language with the letters “rsd” in succession. The only other word I can think of is “Marsden,” and that’s the goof who played Cyclops in X-Men.
October 27th, 2007 at 7:36 am
Good luck with your NaNo project - we’re nearly there and I for one can’t wait to get started.