NaNo has officially begun

[smeddley]

And all I know for sure is I'm writing a brand-new sci-fi romance that begins with the line "A witch, a vampire, and a pixie walked into a bar..."

Maybe... maybe first I need to make an official 'this is a NaNo post' icon. *nods* Yeah, I think so. Ohhhh, and I need to make those cinnamon rolls... and some coffee... and I really should clean off my desk. *nods* And then we need to work on the yard (a little girl dressed as a princess made disparaging comments about how messy our yard was last night!). And I have to play with my serger today. *nods* And laundry, there's laundry to do, of course...

Good luck to everyone, may your fingers be nimble and your muse brimming with ideas. Let the madness writing begin!

Comments

[cdpeck.livejournal.com]

Okay, so I'm not really big on adhering to the rules of this NaNo thing one hundred percent, but it's not necessarily against the rules to, say, write different parts of different novels and put them all toward your word count, is it? Because I don't know what I'm going to write yet, and I'm thinking of just trying to start each of the fifty or so novels I've been planning to write since I was a teen and see which one works out for the best. I know you don't necessarily have to finish your novel, you just have to get like -- what was it? -- 50,000 words?

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

Correct. I know a few people have posed the 'can I just write a bunch of short stories' question, and the answer is that it's not against the rules but it does go against the spirit. But! I also know people who, say, have added to a story they're already working on, then started another, and the combined new wordcount is over 50,000 and that counts.

I'd say as long as you put down 50,000 novel-ish words (whether towards one novel or 50) you've accomplished the 'goal' - which is more about getting you writing than churning out anything publishable, anyway.

[cdpeck.livejournal.com]

My story starts with: "It was a very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very warm day." I don't know where to go from here.

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

Next line:

"Unfortunately, I had dressed in a heavy, itchy red and green wool sweater that was festooned with appliqued fuzzy brown reindeer that my beloved - but crazy as a bear trapped in a bit with a pot of honey dangling just out of reach - Aunt Mathilde Renaldo Cerese had given me about three Christmases back, the year I went to stay with her in her cabin for the winter because my cozy English countryside-esque cottage house had been over-run by deceptively cute little grey mice bent on world domination."

[cdpeck.livejournal.com]

Not enough sex.

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

That was supposed to be your next line - someone has to peel that sweater off the main character's hot, sweaty body, right?