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NANOWRIMO
Thursday, September 30, 2004 6:45:03 PM
As you may or may not know, November is National Novel Writing Month and the good folks at
http://www.nanowrimo.org
are hosting their annual event. The goal is to write a 50,000 word novel during the month of November. Wait!! keep reading this and calm down! 50,000 words is doable, even for those with a full time job or full time school schedule. The novel can be about anything and fanfic is perfectably acceptable novel fodder.
Why would I do this you ask? Well, three reasons (from the nanowrimo website)
1) If you don't do it now, you probably never will. Novel writing is mostly a "one day" event. As in "One day, I'd like to write a novel." Here's the truth: 99% of us, if left to our own devices, would never make the time to write a novel. It's just so far outside our normal lives that it constantly slips down to the bottom of our to-do lists. The structure of NaNoWriMo forces you to put away all those self-defeating worries and START. Once you have the first five chapters under your belt, the rest will come easily. Or painfully. But it will come. And you'll have friends to help you see it through to 50k.
2) Aiming low is the best way to succeed. With entry-level novel writing, shooting for the moon is the surest way to get nowhere. With high expectations, everything you write will sound cheesy and awkward. Once you start evaluating your story in terms of word count, you take that pressure off yourself. And you'll start surprising yourself with a great bit of dialogue here and a ingenious plot twist there. Characters will start doing things you never expected, taking the story places you'd never imagined. There will be much execrable prose, yes. But amidst the crap, there will be beauty. A lot of it.
3) Art for art's sake does wonderful things to you. It makes you laugh. It makes you cry. It makes you want to take naps and go places wearing funny pants. Doing something just for the hell of it is a wonderful antidote to all the chores and "must-dos" of daily life. Writing a novel in a month is both exhilarating and stupid, and we would all do well to invite a little more spontaneous stupidity into our lives.
Signups begin October 1st. Hope to see some other browncoats take the plunge!
Be Well!
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Several degrees and many TV seasons latter Suenos graduated with an advanced degree in history and settled down to doing serious research.
Her quest to find a unifying theory of history was briefly interrupted by a stint in cooking school, dog training and the solving of a serial homicide.
Suenos loves all things Firefly, good books and her family.
Keep flying fellow browncoats!