NOT!
Yeah, being an Australian (and so normally having exams in November) has never made it easy to NaNo. So, when I have attempted it, I’ve always felt pretty jazzed! Of course, now I have no exams, and should be able to get up at 3am before a full days work and make a mash of it, yes?
… Nope! I’m still not going to do it this year.*
However, writing about past (and future) projects in these ‘Monday Blurbs,’ along with my ‘Wed Poetry’ series has inspired me to revisit a NaNo I did… it was before 2007… it was 2005–while I was studying to be a librarian!
The Song of Dalsarion was a bit of a failure re: NaNo, coming in at under 30k. Still, that was almost thirty thousand words of verse! So it felt like a valiant effert at the time. Unfortunately, after I hit the end of my plotting, my wits, and the end of the 30 days, I was a foolish young writer and thought I was done (yayay?!)
Looking at it now? No. Where. Near. Done.
So! Guess who’s going to do a NaNoEdMo this Novemeber? (Stop looking around so blankly! Here! Right here!) I am. While this could be almost as dumb as doing something new (or probably more so…), at least I don’t have to be ‘creative’ per sa (meaning I can sit and ‘relax’ with my words.)
So, who’s with me?
*See overloaded teaching, theory and a third draft of the novel I am writing (for ‘credit.’)
Kandace Mavrick
Paul McLaughlan
Coco del Corazon (@CocodelCorazon)
26/10/2011
I’m hoping to do this in December, a collaborative effort with my late mother who has left me an incredible body of work, or rather “a multitude of beginnings”. It is a sad fact that many brilliant writers remain unpublished, but it is a tragedy when such work remains unfinished. Come November, your mission will be just to put the words on the page. Edit in December.
All the best with NaNoWriMo, Paul. This is a great blog to encourage you
http://museinks.blogspot.com/2011/10/top-5-reasons-you-should-do-nanowrimo.html
Oh, if 3am starts seem unreasonable, find a place in the world where your 3am is a more reasonable hour and just imagine that you’re writing from there.