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SharNoWriBlo

by Sharkdaddy

Rated: E · Book · Experience · #1802604

Rambling thoughts about the NaNoWriMo trek

I tried this journal thing before. It didn't resonate. It felt like air escaping from a let-go balloon. When it was empty, the balloon wasn't inspired to write on.

Trying to write something each day is an excellent routine to get into, however, I'm not so sure about gathering random thoughts that may wonder into my head, and putting them out there for you to read in the form a journal entry. My writing can be bad enough when it's charged with purpose. But turning out boring, self absorbed, meandering thoughts won't make the world a better place for any of us.

So why is this different? I've decided to take on the insane NaNoWriMo challenge. On my way to November, I will be getting ready for the big blast. Since I can't write on my novel before then, what am I going to do? You guessed it. A journal on the pre-NaNo experience.

And who would want to read that stuff? Another NaNoNut, of course.

So gather around, but don't expect much. It's just another lame-brained writer who can't produce a novel in the traditional way, trying something, anything, to break the fifty-thousand word mark.

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Karen

Oct 16, 2011 at 9:13am
In response to "In the beginning"

I laughed when I read this. I love it.

Lana

Oct 1, 2011 at 8:26pm
In response to "The inspiring, intimidating Doctorow"

Your entry made me laugh. If it makes you feel better, I haven't tried NaNoWriMo either. I try not to research my favorite authors as to avoid discouragement from their background of education. WDC is my education and all the books I read. Practice practice practice and read read read.

Brother Nature

Sep 7, 2011 at 8:34pm
In response to "Writing Season"

I love it, that, you appreciate your company for their contribution to your writing. Maybe thats the difference between company and visitors. Company is enjoyed and appreciated (value added). Visitors start to smell after a few days.
Good luck with your "Big Crazy Plan!"

Uncommonspirit

Aug 25, 2011 at 12:40am
In response to "Big Plans"

It is not crazy to write a novel in 30 days. It will be an astounding thing for you to accomplish this November. Good luck with it! :)

LinnAnn -Book writer

Aug 23, 2011 at 3:54am
In response to "Beginning"

make a time line graph. Pencil in ideas as you go and in an approx. order. You can always change it.

fiddle with ideas, wacky or not and write them in a list.

look around for interesting people and boring ones to possibly use in the nano.

like the kid that rides goats. I'll put him in the plot

Inspiration may not come all at once, but you'll get it and you can write pre wrtiing ideas and all now.
love, LInnAnn

Itchy Water~fictionandverse

Aug 19, 2011 at 9:51pm
In response to "Big Plans"

Crazy? Maybe, to the Lazy. You can do it if your mind, body and soul believe you can do it. Writing an entire dictionary sounds crazy. But Samuel Johnson did it. He did all by himself. Letter by letter, word by word. It took more than a month to complete. But dedication is what the both have in common. You can do anything you put your mind to.

Karen

Aug 19, 2011 at 9:05pm
In response to "Big Plans"

I admire your big crazy plan. I wish I had the gumption to give it a try, but I'm not sure novel writing is in my future. I tend to write shorter pieces when I write prose. You go with your crazy plan and ignore the nay-sayers. They are merely jealous!

very thankful

Aug 18, 2011 at 9:32pm
In response to "Beginning"

I just got my copy from Amazon Saturday, and I'm on page 92. I will be writing the second book for my Deacon series, so I already know who the characters are, where the setting is, and what the plot is since the first book has already been written (I wrote it during NaNo last year, and I've been editing it ever since). The title will be Blood on the Blue Moon. The book I wrote last year is called Bloodshed on the Setting Sun.

Rixfarmgirl

Aug 18, 2011 at 8:36pm
In response to "Beginning"

Hey, Sharky! I started with only an opening sentence for last year's NaNo--my 1st attempt--and was amazed how it poured out day after day. I think I hit 50,000 in three weeks. I want to be your star and, of course, we'll have Brad Pitt in the lead. {e;Laugh} Hope the idea doesn't upset your stomach. We'll have a great adventure!

Uncommonspirit

Aug 16, 2011 at 11:18pm
In response to "Beginning"

You could also work a little on an outline for your story. I'm working on that right now for my NaNoWriMo. My characters and settings are ready to go, but what will they all do? Hmmm. :)

The book is really good. I've read most of it already, long before I signed up for the NaNoWriMo class. You'll do just fine. :)

October 22, 2011 at 5:00pm

#737639

Rule # 23

THERE'S NO CRYING IN NaNoMo!

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October 9, 2011 at 12:07pm

#736305

In the beginning

In the beginning the novel was void and without form.
And darkness was upon the face of the author.
And Chris Baty said,
Let there be NaNoMo.
And there was writing.
And the novelists went forth
Even to the ends of the earth.
And though it was not great,
It was novel.

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September 22, 2011 at 2:32pm

#734740

The inspiring, intimidating Doctorow

I'm reading Doctorow. He puts more into one sentence than I could force into a novel, even if I could finish the novel. It's rather intimidating. I get frustrated, thinking that he's making it all too vague, but I keep reading until it suddenly becomes clear about where he has been leading my mind. Fascinating stuff.

My NaNo novel won't be like that. I will try to write in enough simple sentences to keep my word count on track to finish. I don't know why I believe I can do that. Faith in the impossible? Fear of failing to meet the expectations of all those people that I bragged to about doing it? Whatever it takes.

Doctorow has nine years on me and a literary background and education that I would need another two lives to attain but I'll bet he never tried NaNoWriMo. So there.

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August 31, 2011 at 1:52pm

#732863

Writing Season

We have two seasons here in the mountains: winter and company. So, now it's company season, which just happens to double as social season. Company left this morning. We'll socialize until Sunday when new company arrives. It's a bad time for writing, but a good time for writing ideas. Company always consists of characters. If they were fictional no one would believe them, if they bothered to read. They have too many inconsistencies and can't get into the mold of either hero or antagonist.

Change their names, add a few more flaws, beat them up with a few more problems and let them head off into the world of fiction and they will do fine. Thank you, very much.

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August 19, 2011 at 7:04pm

#731990

Big Plans

Daniel Hudson Burnham, the architect and planner, credited with the success of the Worlds Columbian Exposition in Chicago of 1893, allegedly said, "Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood. . ." To write a novel in a month is not an insignificant plan. When I mention it to friends I get double takes and snickers. But behind those chuckles I can feel the esteem that would ensue if it actually came to pass.

Dan Zadra says, "Trust your crazy ideas." He talks to executives in training, who mostly have shed their crazy ideas on their way up the corporate ladder. Authors aren't usually afflicted with the same inhibitions. The idea of writing 50,000 words in November, in the hopes that someone out there will want to read it is, well, crazy.

!Big crazy plan!

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August 16, 2011 at 4:35pm

#731717

Beginning

I got the book, No Plot? No Problem! and have read the first hundred pages. Not supposed to read the next sections until the starting gun sounds. With all the warnings I'm worried about over-thinking it.

I have an idea that includes the setting, where I live, a main character who thinks like I do, but isn't me, and at least two other characters to make it interesting. Since I can't start writing, I'm busy designing the book cover, casting parts for the inevitable movie, and trying out appropriate background music.

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