NaNoe'en

[vaneramos]

On the way home from OOTS, I stopped at Business Depot to pick up a new 400-page spiral-bound notebook. This year I intend to tackle National Novel Writing Month in handwriting. At an average 190 words per page, I need to fill about two-thirds of it. It's an exercise in lubricating the creative engine. And I'll keep the bottle of glycosamine tablets close at hand.

Don't worry, you'll still be able to read my novel—if you want to. I plan to transcribe everything by keyboard at intervals and post it in my friends-only fiction journal, blind_king. If you're interested, add it, and I'll add you back.

I'm still uncertain about what the novel will be, but leaning toward a plot discussed during ghostsandrobots' visit, concerned mainly with a supernatural setting and characters. I suppose it could fall within the mythic fiction genre. Unlike 2003 and 2004, this year I have not written any back story or character development. I'm going into tomorrow blind.
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In other news, the element on the water heater is gone. The plumber will present my landlord with prices on a new one tomorrow. Meanwhile, I haven't had hot water for a shower since last night, and doubt the problem will be resolved before Thursday. Sounds like a good excuse to seclude myself and write all day tomorrow, except I can't.

Comments

[eloquentwthrage.livejournal.com]

I'm doing NaPoWriMo, which is unofficially National Poem Writing Month. Folks from my local poetry group and I are writing a poem a day for thirty days.

[missprune.livejournal.com]

I guess you must have some trouble with your hand too? I'm sad because I hurt my right hand so badly ( probably in some fight with a tight lid a couple years ago) that about all the hand writing I can manage now is... well, very darn little. I think it would be fun to try a novel, I even dreamed the start of one -- but in reality, I have no talent for inventing characters, and don't pay enough attention to the world to create a setting, either! Good luck with yours though, it sounds promising.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Cool, are you doing it in November?

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Arthritis is more of a problem in my hips and sometimes knees, but occasionally affects my hands. So if I'm going to write 50,000 words in a month, I better keep my joints lubricated.

I have some of the same problems as you with the nuts and bolts of writing a novel, especially the observation part, but I'm going to do it anyway!

[eloquentwthrage.livejournal.com]

Yes, starting today. I'll be using my old nanobobmo account to post the results, if you want to watch.

[deanarae.livejournal.com]

I'm not. I only tried once, several years ago, and that was non-successful. I decided it would really just be another thing I would fail to accomplish every day if I tried for it this year. I might invent my own version of something though, just to try to get some creative juice flowing through my brain again. November's such a rotten time for NaNoWriMo! Those of us who have to deal with the holidays have LESS time than usual for such projects! Why can't it be in March?

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

I can see your point. November is the gloomiest month for me, and I like having a big project to distract me.

[justapostcard.livejournal.com]

yes, i'm going to try but i can barely even say it because i've started a couple of times before and quit embarrassingly soon.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Go for it!

[hankdmoose.livejournal.com]

I would love to try, but I know I shouldn't. I've got a thesis to write, after all! Regardless, I'm going to add the fiction journal in hopes that I can keep up. But I think ideally you would get way ahead of me, because that would mean you were doing wll toward your goal.


I wish you luck on your writing. As I say to all of my friends before an exam, break a lead!

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Hehe, thanks! I'll add you back momentarily.