Planning for NaNoWriMo
November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). The goal is to write 50,000 words by the end of November. That means an average of around 1700 words a night! So, all through October I’m using Evernote.com to organise my thought, ideas, plots and chapters. I’m shooting to have 30 decent chapter ideas ready to go so that each night, I start afresh on a new chapter. I’m not going to worry too much about sequence and voice at this stage. I’m going to just bang out the story in my head and see what develops.
So, if you’re game enough, sign up on the NaNoWriMo site and join me. If you’re already signed up, find me there and let’s encourage each other along, I know I’ll need it.
Read MoreNaNoWriMo – National Novel Writing Month, 2009
A couple days ago I curiously watched as one of my fellow tweeters, Benjaminsolah, seemed a little on edge “@NaNoWriMo Ahhh, can’t wait!” and was clearly excited “Waiting for @NaNoWriMo relaunch still”, ” Jumping up and down like crazy” and ” Want! http://bit.ly/59y80 #nanowrimo. ”
I followed the link see what all the commotion was about. I think I now understand his excitement. Check out his blog post regarding NaNoWriMo too. NaNoWriMo is a public commitment to write a 50,000 word novel within one month. That’s a 175 page novel! Yep, that’s right, within a month. The aim is for quantity and not quality. Now you might think this is a disaster waiting to happen. But the philosophy behind NaNoWriMo is to get the creative juices flowing and not to hinder them in anyway. No worries about grammar, plot, character development and etc …. just pull the stopper until there’s nothing left in the tank.
They reckon that in order to meet the 50,000 word goal, you need to write at least 1,666 word each and every night … even those nights that by the time you get back home they are not really nights anymore.
So, I’m gonna take the challenge and try and bang out that novel about Redneck Buddha that’s been pinging around in my skull for the past 5-6 years. If you decide to do the same, find me and befriend me on the NaNoWriMo site!
Until 1 November, I’ll be pondering …
