Baby Evil Writers 101: NaNoWriMo
Julie Butcher
November is coming my sweet evil cherubs, and this is the
month when you find out if you can hack the writing life. Their website says:
National Novel Writing
Month (NaNoWriMo) challenges you to write a 50,000-word novel, from scratch, in
the month of November. It's a global, uproariously fun endeavor, where
participants exchange advice and writing tips on the NaNoWriMo? website and in
real life, with group write-ins held in coffee shops, living rooms, and
libraries all around the world. In 2011, more than 250,000 people took part in
National Novel Writing Month.
I know a lot of you have evil jobs and even more evil
children of the corn running around your house and you think you absolutely cannot
write 1, 667 words per day.
Well, guess what?
After you get the Supreme Contract of Malicious Publishing
Goodness, you will have to do this. You will still have small children running
about and mucking up the works, you will each day attend the job of food money
and rent, and yet, you will still need to produce around 2k words per day to
hold up your end of the Deal of Awesome and Sprinkles.
Get up off the floor these are just numbers. I did the math
for you.
The very, very smart thing to do is to start thinking about
your story right now. Outline that sucker or timeline if that is what you do.
Make your character sheets and get your tags and traits ready for each
character. Then on November 1st, you are ready to go. You won’t sit
there wringing your hands and moaning. You’ll be EVIL INCARNATE! You’ll slam
words onto the keyboard like this is what you were born to do
.
I do not suggest that you SEND THIS BOOK TO PUBLISHERS AND
AGENTS DECEMBER 1st. You’ll need to edit and fine-tune this
manuscript for at least 3 months, mkay? In my eyes, the purpose of NaNoWriMo is
to convince yourself that you have ovaries made of brass, or iron, or something.
You’ll learn everything from meal planning skills to getting the kids to bed in
the fastest way possible. You’ll know you can do this as a stone cold fact.
This is important my evil darlings.
None of us know what we can accomplish until we try. So get
all your colors and papers out and get ready.
I know you can do this
.
You can sign up at their website here. http://nanowrimo.org/
I'm trying out reverse count nano this year. Day one you write 3600 words and every day it gets smaller until on day 30 you only really need one word. :) who can argue with one word?
ReplyDeleteYou are so smart!
ReplyDeleteSounds like Frances has a cool plan there. :) I like to just keep pounding out and see if I can get done earlier than I did last year. LOL!
ReplyDeleteI'm working now on brainstorming and mapping where I'm to go. Sometimes it's rough until I get the scenes down, but at least I know about what's to happen. :)
Have a great time all!
Oh, I'm not smart! I just found it on a smart person's blog. :) Here's the breakdown if anyone is curious. http://crazedmom.com/reverse-nanowrimo/
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