“cos i’m a nanowrimo dynamo…” :::
Had to go and put that lyric in a song, didn’t I?!
Though I took part in NaNoWriMo last year I didn’t complete the 50,000 target due to various overambitious slip ups – I can miss a day or two, or three, I’ll catch up!…um, yeah – and was determined to give it another go in 2009. I was hoping to be less busy so I’d have more time to concentrate on writing something decent, but that hasn’t happened and as I’m of the Chris Baty (NaNo founder) mindset that busy people are better able to write 50,000 words in 30 days than people with time on their hands (because we’re already good at juggling so many things and we have less time to procrastinate. Which is why I’m writing a blog post…yep) I’m doing it anyway. I’m excited!
I got a cheeky headstart last night just after midnight when I managed 1231 words which, to my surprise, were not complete and utter drivel. I did accidentally create seven characters though, which could work for or against me. For: there are seven people to write about which means I shouldn’t get stuck for action. Against: weaving seven stories in to a cohesive whole probably isn’t very easy.
Anyway, the novel is called “Who Is Bruce Fish”, the idea for which comes from seeing someone holding up a sign for BRUCE FISH when I landed at Heathrow recently from somewhere or other. I thought it was an excellent name and have stolen it, da-daaah!
Now I’m going out to watch Ruby Wax do a ‘sermon’ on the ego, pop in to the British Museum to check out the Day of the Dead celebrations and hopefully go and experience Mutate Britain. Then more novelling.
If you’re NaNo-ing too make sure you add me so we can share the pain of the next thirty days!
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best of luck with it this year! i’m gutted i can’t take part, but i’ve got the launch of my first novel and all that that entails coming up and i literally don’t have a spare moment, however, i’ll definitely be following how you get on this year. I plan on editing and revising the novel i wrote in it last year for my second release sometime in the new year!
also, seven characters is definitely a good thing i think, if oyu can keep tracks on where they’re all going, you’ll have loads of dialogue which will bump your word count massively
Thanks Richard! It’s very cool seeing your novel on Amazon, you’ve obviously put a lot of hard work in to the design and all the stuff surrounding it as well as the book itself, I love that attention to detail
Well done you!