Hi everyone. I'm afraid I haven't spent much time here, as I've been away from writing original fiction for about, um, a decade or so. And that made me sad. Anyway, I'm glad to see that there are a lot of people on the board getting their writing on.
erikaj, I'm sorry you're not getting much response from your submissions. College-wise, maybe Boston College or one of the state colleges. Not necessarily less rigorous, academically, but less snoot factor.
Go P-C!
So, is anyone doing Nanowrimo? I'm thinking of giving it a shot this year.
I'd like to, although I've never succeeded at it before. I've been having a really hard time carving out time for writing with my job, so I don't know if an added deadline would be a good thing or a bad thing, but I have a few different ideas, so it wouldn't be for lack of a story.
Even if it just kickstarted me into writing regularly again, it would count as a win.
Now I have to think about how I would do it. Figuring out the time to write beforehand is key for me or it just slips by.
Every year I mean to do NaNo and don't. This year I have a friend whose whole family is doing it and she's poking me with sticks to get me to keep her company. I can find time to write at least an hour a day most days. It's getting my butt in the chair and putting words on the page that's hard.
Still haven't settled on a concept. I may just start writing with no idea what will come out of me, and see what happens.
I may just start writing with no idea what will come out of me, and see what happens.
That can be fun, and also sometimes enlightening.
So far I have three paragraphs. But it's a start, right?
I have written a sentence.
A post by Maggie Stiefvater (she wrote the Shiver books -- werewolves -- and The Scorpio Races, and the Raven Boys books) on NaNoWriMo: [link]
I don't know my ending. I do know why I'm writing what I'm writing, more or less. I think.
I'm realizing, though, that I have characters, setting, and themes, but not an actual plot.
I wrote about 1,200 words today. The nanowrimo site said I should have 1,600, but whatever.
Go, Calli!
If you do 1,600 per day, you get 50,000, yeah.
I'm going to try to start tonight. I'm going with a loose interpretation of "50,000 words total of novel and world-building/characterization notes," because I didn't have time to do anything like as much pre-writing as I'd planned.
