Okay, someone enlighten me. I have heard about Nanowrimo as a big month-long writing marathon. Some may use outlines/plot summaries, etc but without a big head start, right?
Doubledutch is winging it (I'm sure others are).
Does it matter that if I, as a total novice to writing novels (but not to writing), will totally suck at it? Is all that matters the 50,000 words and not at all what kind of nonsense I'll create right?
The word count doesn't bother me, nor does only having a month's time to do it in. I blog pretty excessively at times.
The hardest part would simply be coming up with any kind of story that would make sense at all. The only writing workshop advice I ever remember from my high school days is "write about what you know". That and the criticism from my instructor (the illustrious Mort Castle - yeah, you are saying who???? but hey, he's got his own
wikipedia page) that told me my characters were 2 dimensional and my plot line was weak thereby forever crushing my dreams to become a novelist. Thanks Mort.
At any rate, for years I'd been thinking about trying it, but eternally scared to do so. However, after blogging for about a year, I think I might actually enjoy it.
I don't know. Is it enjoyable. Have you written crap but was okay with it?
What happens if you start down on path, and then find your story going in directions you never intended it to go?
I think the only way I could do this is make it semi-autobiographical. I mean, taking bits and pieces from my own life and making it into fiction.
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