NaNoWriMo
I’ve resolved that this year will be the year I join in with NaNoWriMo. For the uninitiated, this is a global month of novel-writing, where everyone who has at some point considered writing a novel is challenged to actually write one during the month of November. Last year they had more than 119,000 participants.
The goal is to get to 50,000 words by the end of the month – the “Great Frantic Novel” – with the idea being to concentrate less on crafting the perfect phrase and more on actually writing a novel.
I’ll be updating my profile at NaNoWriMo and posting updates here if anything exciting happens.
Wish me luck!
[...] I wrote a novel in November. As I put my 50,000th word on the page, three hours before the final deadline, I surprised myself not by my relief in having pushed through the intense challenge of the previous thirty days, but in how enjoyable and pleasant they had been. Writing is easy. You just have to do it. Then you’ve done it, and it’s written. [...]
Things I learned in 2009 at Luke Alexander
8 Jan 10 at 11.18 AM