NaNoWriMo - National Novel Writing Month
Posted on November 12, 2009
Filed Under Plotlines, Uncategorized, Writing Process |
Here is it November 12th. It’s twelve days into NaNoWriMo and I didn’t write a single post. My, my.
NaNoWriMo is a contest for fun. Thousands of writers sign up to write 50,000 words in a month. The NaNo organizers don’t care what kind of tripe is written. Their word counter jumbles up all the words anyway.
I decided to get a good start with my Bellian novel that I worked on for the Liberty Hall Writers Group Bloody August.
I guess I get a bit compulsive when I get going. Here it is 40% through the month and 20,000 words would be the target. I’ve written nearly 65,000. I hit the 50,000 word mark on the eighth day.
The good news is my writing isn’t gobbledygook. I’ve used my initial Bloody August treatment and world building and then I created a wire-frame of scenes to use as targets for my story. Then I’ve been writing by the seat of my pants. The story has just taken off and achieved a level of complexity all on its own.
I originally started this as a heroic fantasy, where the hero does his deeds and changes his character and charges off into the sunset. The book has turned into the first volume of an epic fantasy. I didn’t think I was really capable of doing this, but I’ve got multiple plot threads including three thousand year old women, sidekicks galore and a war between the gods using wizards as soldiers. The god-wizard part is only set up during the first book. It will resolve in the last book and I’m not sure who will become Emperor of the world in the middle book… but that will come.
It’s been fun and my goal is to get a first draft complete by the end of the month… then a quick cleanup in December. One doesn’t go back and do any editing during NaNoWriMo. It’s full speed ahead without a glance to the rear.
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