& I might as well add a gah!
So, here it is - November - aka NANOWRIMO - National Novel Writing Month!
Basically try and write a 50,000 word novel with pure literary abandon in 30 days. Simples or so it would seem - thats only approx 1,700 words a day -in fact I have written more in a blog! (I believe - I have not gone back to check any!)
Now normally I can write something, in fact there are several half started efforts and this year I was all geared up ready for Nano - had plot and everything worked out...
BUT
It seems that creativity does not come at will - that when you want it to turn up, it appears to abandon you - like sleep!
The first few seconds of Nano were brilliant - Odd Bob & I at the very stroke of Midnight on the 1st of November, picked up our respective laptops, settled down into a comfy position and said to hell with sleep - we will type till our batteries die out! (We even declined to remove our Halloween Costumes - some say that I am still wearing mine - hah!)
We typed and I managed a respectable 1,700 words... and that is where it ended :(
& I have to add that there are lots of books written in the first person!!! <-- you know who you are who that is aimed at!
Is it possible to write a book about writing a book?
I actually thought that updating this might help spark some creativity and get back but for some reason its not working - similar to the lack of sleep which is the other option I would quite like -
& there are lots of books waiting to be read, films to watch & new softwares to play with!
One final pah is aimed at part-man-part-cat who seems to be able to curl up & sleep at a moments notice!
Meh! On that note going to start recruiting shepherds to look after the many sheep I am acquiring!
On a huge positive - I had an awesome Sat night! Whoo whoo!
Millie
PS - I am not counting the number of words here either! :p
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aw! But I really thought that you were going to do it this year! It's that awful thing called work always getting in the way. That and :~)!! he he!
ReplyDeleteI still want to read the story even if you don't do it for nano. Maybe taking it a bit slower and fitting it in between work and :~) and stuff will make it twice as good!