Mike, a friend of mine, who is a fellow lover of books and writing has been suggesting that I join NaNoWriMo for quite some time now. He will be happy, upon reading this post, to find out that I have decided to do it!
I know, I know Blog Land...I can already hear your question...What the heck is NaNoWriMo??!
Haha.
I shall explain.
It is an acronym for National Novel Writing Month. In case you weren't aware, November happens to be said month.
So, the general idea is to start writing a novel on November 1st and to complete it on November 30. It must be at least 50,000 words, which is roughly 175 pages. It cannot be part of a previously started work; it must be new.
Quite a feat, eh?
I have to admit that I was leery and a little hesitant to commit to this particular challenge. I mean, I have hardly worked on my thriller since the semester started...how in the world am I going to start and finish an entire work in 30 days?!
I have no idea. Ha. But I'm sure going to try!
Mike suggested that I do something that's not quite so serious...just something light and fun....and I've decided that I'll do just that. I haven't quite decided what it will be yet...but I do know that it'll probably Alice-esque. That's code for weird and off the wall. Haha. I've only got 7 days to formulate characters and a plot!
Oh the frantic madness of it all! Muwahahahahahahaha!
Ahem...anywho...I digress.
If this sounds like something you'd be interested in trying you can find out more about it at www.nanowrimo.org.
Wish me Luck!
Yay! So glad to see you're going to join in the joy that is NaNoWriMo. :)
ReplyDeleteI have a few characters and a very vague plot, but not much else. Weird and off the wall is perfect for this sort of thing. :P