If you haven’t been following my Twitter feed, then you may not know that I have been doing something a little crazy this month. To be specific, I’m trying to write a 50,000 word novel entirely in the month of November. We’re not talking final product, here; merely the first draft. Apparently this is the ninth year that people have been doing this.
It’s called “National Novel Writing Month,” or NaNoWriMo for short.
Anyway, when the graphic I’ve added to the sidebar near the top updates (hopefully daily, at least), then you can see my current word count. I’m actually over 16K words as of this morning, which puts me right on track to finish as of today. Unfortunately my weekends tend to be busy, and while I may write a lot, it won’t be about this. So, if I don’t catch up a lot on the way home tonight, I won’t be ahead of the game at all after the weekend.
I’ll post excerpts from time to time on my page at NaNoWriMo, but you won’t see anything else until it’s been through another draft, at least. Unless somehow it ends up being better than I think it will be, I will eventually make an e-book out of it and post it on the Fiction page. (The alternative would be to seek a publisher.)
Tentatively I’m calling it “Saviors.” It’s sci-fi, because at the moment I think I have to get more of that out of my system, and to be honest most of my ideas are essentially sci-fi anyway: posit one or two things that change about the world we live in, and create a plot around those changes and their impact on characters.
This, to be honest, was my main reason for buying the Neo. But I’m pretty sure I’ll keep using it, and not just for fiction. I have a lot of notes to write for Sunday School and Wednesday nights, too.
Jeff is doing it, for certain values of “doing it” which include “being too busy at work to do it,” and seeing that he was doing it is what made me decide to take it on. So is CalvinDude, a blogger at Triablogue. If you’re doing it and I don’t know it, leave a comment here, and for what it’s worth, I’ll add you as a “Writing Buddy.” (Ugh, this is so Web 2.0.)
That and six dollars will get you a cup of coffee these days.
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Coffee costs six bucks these days! Man. Where have I been?
But I can’t wait to read your novel, Charlie! It sounds really interesting. Not to mention I pretty much enjoy reading whatever it is you write about, non-fiction or fiction, so I’m sure it’d at least be fun to read.
I wish I could join NaNoWriMo with you guys and write one, too, but I sadly don’t have time for it right now. Plus, I think if I ever attempted to write a book, I’d wanna write a silly children’s book or something light-hearted, not a full-fledged, serious novel.
It can be silly or light-hearted. It just has to be 50K words.
But it is a little late to get started, and you might be a little busy, what with moving from the gates of hell to the Promised Land and all.
*smiles*
Hehe, “the gates of hell”! I really like that for some reason.
And I did just read the very short excerpt of your novel you have on your profile. Definitely a good hook, I want more!
Here’s some more hook, if you want it: only the bottom half of the vehicle is a tank; the top half is an RV.
Oh, and, things will get worse for poor Steve and Beth before they get better.
NO! NOT STEVE AND BETH! ANYONE BUT THEM!!!
How could you? *sob*
Oh, I guess I better go and read this excerpt then…
I don’t see anything about Steve or Beth. Only Kris, his father, an Aussie, and a nurse.
Yeah, you missed the Steve and Beth excerpt. Sorry.
Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Oi, oi, oi!
Well, it’s not really an Australian. Kris just doesn’t know the difference in the accents.