Spam on A Stick: The Animated Series

2006-10-12

You do realise that, the nearer we get to All Hallowed E'en, the scariest thing isn't the witches, goblins, ghosties, vampires, or other things that go bump in the night.

Yup. You have it. The day after that, All Saint's Day, also marks the beginning of National Novel Writing Month. I mean, what could be more frightening than te prospect of writing 50k in 30 days?

Now, I won at NaNo in 2004 when I decided to write five scenes per day. That pretty much carried me through, despite computer problems and the loss of all but the one, singe, solitary backup disk that I almost didn't check, because I almost despaired of finding a usable copy of my NaNo.

2005, I barely eked past 12k. Not that i ran out of plot; the story just grew backwards beyond my control.

Hm. Seinfeld did the backwards episode. Maybe I should write a backwards novel. Think about it imagine the thrill of starting a story at the end, and then working your way backwards towards the beginning.

Killer, huh>


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When I face the desolate impossibility of writing 500 pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's works is all I can permit myself to contemplate.

- John Steinbeck