NaNoWriMo wrapup
November 30, 2003
Well, folks, my NaNoWriMo novel never got off the ground this year. I had more dedication to my novel idea than I did the idea of finishing something. Which sounds better than it really is — I didn’t like my novel concept, but I would not allow myself to change my mind, which felt like giving up of another sort. But I just couldn’t get interested in my own story, which isn’t good.
Congratulations to my mother, however, who finished her novel. And Glen is apparently down to the wire. Go, Glen, Go!
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November 30th, 2003 at 11:31 am
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>>I had more dedication to my novel idea than I did the idea of finishing something.
Yeah, I’ve done that the last two years. You’d think I’d have learned by now. Next year, I’m writing something COMPLETELY STUPID that I CARE NOTHING ABOUT. I’m going to start the book with ninjas, pirates and a girl spy or something, AND IT’S JUST GOING TO GET DUMBER FROM THERE. Yes… mark my words… next year I will finish. And it will completely suck.
November 30th, 2003 at 5:17 pm
Huzzah! Word count verified and everything!
Thanks for the encouragement, bro - and I know you’ll blow this away next year. Right? RIGHT?
November 30th, 2003 at 11:42 pm
I, too, spectactularly failed to complete my Nanowrimo novel. In fact, I never got past the 1,000-word mark. Which, sadly, is a good bit of writing for me in a month. I’m working on getting better, but I so far don’t have a novel to show for it.
I’m struggling. I still take solace in Larry Gelbart’s comment that “A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
December 8th, 2003 at 10:48 am
I intended to blog my NaNoWriMo, and my concept was to expand out a short story I’d started writing two years ago. But it wouldn’t expand; the inspiration was just for the original characters and the short story length. All attempts at expansion were cardboard.
I think you have to have the characters talking to write anything. It’s fine if it all comes out as crap, but silent characters = no novel.