Writing Kick

Damn! I am up to my 588 post or so…that is what WordPress tells me. I seem to be on a writing kick– I have written over 4400 (about 11 single-spaced pages) words over the past 12 hours. I hate to go to sleep and lose this writing fire. Maybe I am starting to perk up. I hope I can keep this up through November. I have to try to write about 1670 words a day or 11670 a week to finish a novel in a month– if it is only going to be 50,000 words long. I think 50,000 words is rather a short novel. I don’t know…

All I know is I want to keep writing and I hope this transfers over to writing my papers for school.

Published in: on October 24, 2012 at 5:39 am  Leave a Comment  

NaNoWriMo

November is National Novel Writing Month– writers aspiring writers attempt to write a novel (50, 000 words– about 1700 a day) in a month. The Writing Center at my school is doing a couple of events and I want to be involved so I was thinking hard on what kind of novel could I write in a month. Something fairly easy that would not require a lot of research. I do have an awesome idea for a novel I thought of months ago (and have done a little work on) but it would require too much research and take longer than a month to write– have to save that one for later.

I was racking my brain at work last night and finally I came up with another idea– a cross between three recent bestselling novels:

Fifty Shades of Twilight Games 

Ha! A hybrid of Fifty Shades of Grey, Twilight, and The Hunger Games. It will be a best seller in no time! Maybe at the adult bookstore, he hee!! If only I could work in Harry Potter somehow…just kidding!

But I really did come up with an idea I think will work. I was talking with a customer (she had been reading a book while she waited for her food, LOL) about NaNoWriMo and I told her I had only written short stories but I was going to attempt a novel if I could come up with an idea that would work. She gave me that old advice, “Write what you know.” Good, solid advice but when I hear that I immediately think of memoir and creative non-fiction. If I write what I know I am going to write about my life and all the BS I have been through; that isn’t a fictional novel and doesn’t really fit with NaNoWriMo. Then a light bulb went off over my head– I could expand on a short story I wrote for a creative writing class a couple of years ago and turn it into a novel! I wrote it from a story prompt but with some tweaking it should work. I was really proud of that story because it kind of read like the first chapter of a book and I wrote it in one day, all 5200 words of it.

So now I have lots of the story planned out (thanks to a slow night), some characterization done, and a small list of easy research to do. I think it will be a pretty good story with strong characters. Nothing to it but to do it! I just hope I have time in November to work it in.

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I published my blog post and quotes pop up to the side once its posted. This is the one I got:

“My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.” ~ Anais Nin

So true!

Published in: on October 24, 2012 at 5:15 am  Leave a Comment