I’m a little behind. As of 7:56 pm, I’m over 6,000 words.
There’s an anti-NaNoWrimo article on Salon. I think Miller is definitely missing the point. It’s like she is saying “Forget about running that marathon, just run a little bit everyday.”
It isn’t to write a best-selling novel. It’s more like a challenge to have the discipline to write everyday and jotting down ideas and reaching hard but yet doable goals. Trying to at least make the storyline coherent. It doesn’t have to be perfect. I’m just to challenge myself if I can create a novel (if not the whole world) in 30 days or less.
I guess I went safe with trying to write a collection of short stories revolving the same character. I decided to make the book take place over a ten year period. I’m just going to keep writing and see how far it’s going to take me. I mean when I first started–actually on the night of October 31st, I realized I had NOTHING, NOTHING prepared. Some or if not all authors when they write fiction novels don’t come up with ideas and story lines, they come up with a whole world. They think of the characters, they come up with their backgrounds, the house or apartment they grew up in, the place they live now, the city its located and what part of the world is that, their friends and family, their hopes and dreams, and their friend’s and family’s hopes and dreams. You see, there is a lot of thought into writing a novel and on the night of October 31st, I didn’t think of any of it. I started thinking these things as I go even town names, my characters names, minor character names, etc.
Would write a non-fiction but I don’t have a specific thing. My memoir wouldn’t be worth a 50,000 words.
In other news, my boyfriend wrote his first blog post all by himself on Meet Mocha. I guess he’s kind of getting into writing on top of his other hobbies such as video games, computer games, and working on his car.
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