NaNoWriMo Prep Fail A cluster of adults eyeing questionable...

NaNoWriMo Prep Fail

A cluster of adults eyeing questionable outfits for Halloween parties and kids jumping in and out of superhero and princess costumes caught my eye today at my neighborhood Goodwill thrift store. The procrastinators were really trying to search the racks for the spirit of the holiday last minute. That’s how I feel about National Novel Writing Month aka NaNoWriMo because I failed to prepare for the November marathon of writing novels about to launch in less than 48 hours.

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My version of stuffing myself in a Cinderella dress is cramming my head with thoughts on which novel idea to use. The problem: I have too many ideas. Did I know this situation would ever arise after years of writer’s block? Nope. But it’s happening. It’s overwhelming.

I have a young adult novel modernizing “The Little Mermaid” tale with a teen girl in Chicago falling hopelessly in love with the popular guy. I started it months ago during a workshop but had the hardest time conjuring up emotions to write about 16-year-olds. So it was dropped for the time being.

I have a chick lit novel about a Silicon Beach romance between a tech blogger and an up-and-coming entrepreneur where the blogger feels their relationship is threatening her journalistic integrity. This was my NaNoWriMo project from last year. I had reached the 50,000-word goal and won a digital pat on the back. I even completed the rest of the novel, an additional 30,000 words, in December. I was so proud of myself. Fast forward a year later, when an idea to make it a funny superficial thriller popped up in my head, so now I’m thinking about redoing that project.

Then, of course, there are a few other unbaked ideas that I hoped would be baked by this time, but they’re still suffering from the lack of literary oxygen.

Mind you, this should’ve all been straigthened out earlier this month. This last week should’ve been spent on meditating. Nov. 1 will roll around, and I might not be able to find the old file, or my pens wil run out of ink at the same time, or something disastrously awful would happen because of my lack of preparation.

I will blog about my NaNoWriMo adventures or misadventures. I might do my own alternative or keep up with the international program. Either way I’ll be a creative mess all month.