Hey, jerks!
Wowza, well what's new guys? Oh, me? Well hmmm, let's see...I am seriously considering participating in National Novel Writing Month (link), which is basically a bunch of people trying to write a 50,000 word novel from November 1-30.
The more I think about this challenge, this more I think I would really enjoy doing it, but I am also starting to realize how much work this could be. First of all I'd need some good characters, and characters I wouldn't get sick of writing about. Second of all, I need a story. I'm not really concerned about what the actual story is but it needs to provide a good framework which will let me fuck around and do my thing.
Another problem is that I don't read enough novels to emulate or imitate the "traditional" novel style, so I'd kind of need to figure out what works as I go along.
The other problem is writing a shitload. 50,000 words in one month is over 1,500 hundred words a day. It honestly wouldn't be very difficult for me to meet the requirements if I tried. I can easily stomp out 1,000 words in an hour, especially if I can say whatever I want, which is part of the appeal of this whole process anyway. The only problem is I am a horrbile procrastinator and I let myself get behind in almost everything I do. This could be my opportunity to actually apply myself to something, although I'd feel like an asshole for crapping out. I'm not sure if I should try to oull this off...I guess we'll know on November 1st.


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At 10:19 PM,
Jenna said…
Now that you mention it, the novel month thing sounds like a good idea! I think I might do that too because i've been wanting to write for a really long time and finally, now that I actually don't have the time to do it, I'm going to! Let's have a contest to see who can write the first chapter first. Starting now! Oh by the way nice new changes to the blog! THe music is kind of annoying though, but kind of not at the same time.. you should leave it.
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