October 1 Means 31 days ‘til NaNoWriMo

Not to take anything away from October…but this is what I think about as the calendar turns and we get into the 10th month. In another 31 days I will be once again headlong into my favorite month of the year, and what I refer to as my personal Super Bowl of Writing: National Novel Writing Month. I will be doing some pre-Nano blogging which you can read right here.

Part One: the Misfire.

I hate to admit it, but last year was a misfire.
My idea was absurd but that never stopped me before. I was trying to write a story about a guy who had a condition that made it necessary for him to take a nap every three hours…or die.

Admittedly, I had no idea of why this would happen, and that is where I got hung up in trying to offer an explanation for the guy’s condition. At one point I even bit the bullet and just tried to explain that the guy was in fact a defective robot. It went so far off the rails so quickly that while I’m sure some of it was okay, I just haven’t bothered to revisit it.

(How I wished for another Pain Center: the Novel!-kind of experience. THAT one came out about 85 percent of the way I intended. And that is a brilliant made-up statistic.)

It wasn’t good but I was in too deep to stop. That November 30th deadline looms over everything you do.
I hit the 50 thousand word mark, I won my prize of bragging rights, and yeah, it’s not irredeemable…but I really don’t see the need to dwell on it, other than as an instructive exercise in...I have no idea what.

But…I’m pretty excited this time around. I’ve been writing notes all year and I have story in mind. It’s hard to know how it will go once I start the actual writing. But hopefully it’s not another misfire.

For more info about the National Novel Writing Month, click here:
https://nanowrimo.org/
Read Pain Center: the Novel! My 2017 Nanowrimo Novel http://davecookson.tripod.com/PainCen...