I am told that in order to really make yourself do something, you have to write it down. I not really sure that will work for me, but I am making a new pact with myself to write at least a little bit every day. I’m not saying that I will be blogging every day, cause Lord knows I can’t post everything I write… However, I plan on making this blog more interesting to the few people who read it. So, here is the pact in “formal” format…
- I am going to write everyday!
Why? I am gearing up for NaNoWriMo. I am going to seriously give it a try. I just learned about it a few months ago, and I’ve been toying with the idea of trying to do it. What is NaNoWriMo? Well, I’ve just created a link to the website for everyone who’d like to check it out, but for those of you who’d just get the nitty gritty version, it’s National Novel Writing Month. It occurs during the month of November. It really isn’t a good month for me, but then again, what month would be? That’s the month we elect our new president, the month I celebrate my birth, the month of Thanksgiving (family ordeals), and the month I am scheduled to travel to a conference at work. So, with all that I have going on in November, I really think this is going to be a challenge.
Back to what NaNoWriMo is… You are supposed to write 50,000 words in 30 days. That equals out to about 1,667 words a day. Kind of daunting when you think about it, isn’t it? But I’m going to try. The point of the exercise is to force you to open up your creative side and close off the editor within until you are ready for the editor to do his work. That is the thing I struggle with the most in my writing: to let my creative juices flow and to turn of the grammar and punctuation tsar. Maybe this exercise will help me do that.
I am looking forward to this challenge, I’ll keep everyone updated along the way!
Shannon
Okay, so I’m not doing so well about writing every day. I didn’t write at all yesterday… But I have been working on a test run for NaNoWriMo. Thursday evening I started a project and wrote 3000 words. Friday evening I wrote an additional 2000. My goal is to write every week night at the very least on this project. We’ll see how it goes…
Comment by S Starr — August 17, 2008 @ 9:43 pm |
To get going, you need a good title. Elmore Leonard of Get Shorty fame says that if you don’t have a title you haven’t got anything. Also, consider his advice on the actual writing process: write the story the way you think it should go, “then give it to somebody else to fill in the commas and shit.”
Comment by buck — September 8, 2008 @ 5:23 pm |