Why you should NaNo
NaNoWriMo approaches. Should you bother? This is a whole month of your time ensuring you reach your 1666 or thereabouts word counts of your draft novel per day. For what?
As of Oct 2013, I had never heard of NaNoWriMo. A few days prior, I had been conned into participating. 'Conned' because the conners actually didn't do it. But I did, and at the end of November I had around 55,000 words of a novel that had been lingering in my head for a lot of years. This became The Third Moon.
Mind you, it took me another year to get it to pitch stage. Satalyte Press picked it up and its due out any time now, and definitely before the end of 2016.
The Third Moon had been in my head for many years but when I fronted up again in 2014, I had no ideas for a stand alone at all - but two long standing projects interrupted by NaNo 2013.
My challenge was whether I could conjure ideas on command, as well as write the novel over the 30 days again. It turned out that I could. It became my first ebook, soon to be pbook, The Emerald Serpent https://amzn.com/B016GGTUXO
So, in answer to my original question: Should you bother? The answer is yes.
It will make you write that book you were meaning to get around to and it might show that you can write a book you hadn't even thought of.
As of Oct 2013, I had never heard of NaNoWriMo. A few days prior, I had been conned into participating. 'Conned' because the conners actually didn't do it. But I did, and at the end of November I had around 55,000 words of a novel that had been lingering in my head for a lot of years. This became The Third Moon.
Mind you, it took me another year to get it to pitch stage. Satalyte Press picked it up and its due out any time now, and definitely before the end of 2016.
The Third Moon had been in my head for many years but when I fronted up again in 2014, I had no ideas for a stand alone at all - but two long standing projects interrupted by NaNo 2013.
My challenge was whether I could conjure ideas on command, as well as write the novel over the 30 days again. It turned out that I could. It became my first ebook, soon to be pbook, The Emerald Serpent https://amzn.com/B016GGTUXO
So, in answer to my original question: Should you bother? The answer is yes.
It will make you write that book you were meaning to get around to and it might show that you can write a book you hadn't even thought of.
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