Nanowrimo ‘09 Review
Hey,
So, I’ve just finished Nanowrimo. What a totally crazy experience! For those of you not familiar with the unique brand of bitter-sweet torture that is November for those of us involved, allow me to explain. You sign up and agree to write (or try to write) fifty thousand words of fiction… in one month! Nuts. Well not for Kai, she’s amazing at writing fast and well, but for those of us who are mere mortals, nearly 1700 words a day is an intimidating prospect. I decided to take a new tack with my writing, and produce a young adult fiction novel about ghouls, vampires and a poor girl who gets stuck in the middle. I got to spend the month ‘being’ a 17 year old girl in my mind, not the easiest of propositions for a 26 year old man, but there you go, and it was a total blast! Ok, so I only managed 27k, but I’m still going strong, if I can keep it up, I should have the complete 60k piece drafted by February. Then it will be a matter of line editing etc. and packaging it up for submission. I’ve decided to include a bit of an excerpt here as a teaser – I was going to include the first chapter, but it’s only first draft, and it’s definitely as rough as it gets, I really need to draft it at least once more in order to iron out the most prominent folds. You can see the excerpt in another blog post here, and a synopsis here.
So what of my first (and definitely not my last) Nano? Well I got to meet some great people, chat about writing, drink much coffee (makes me type faster, and meting everyone in Starbucks helps) and spend hour upon painful and exhilarating hour watching my characters come to life before me. They did things that I didn’t expect, and I had a 3 day delay as Jen decided to properly kick off with each draft of one particular scene. Stupid girl! Anyway…
Many congratulations to rachel_c (over 50k), Kaibeirie (pure insanity – 117k I think), and Scotstimberwolf (24k) – you’re all legends! Thanks to each of you for all your kind support.
James
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