Doin’ my own NoWriMo

Ok! Novel Number Two is currently just a little zygote and it needs to be born, so I’m going to do my own NoWriMo from Feb 16 – March 16! Join me yay!

NoWriMo – qu’est-ce que c’est? The famous awesome national version (during which I wrote “Shadow Swans”), NaNoWriMo (www.nanowrimo.org) is an online community of writers that comes together every November, and they all commit to writing 50,000 words in a single month. Every day, each writer enters into his/her profile the number of words written, and they check in with each other to make sure they’re on track. It’s fantastically motivating and inspiring. It’s also f’ing HARD if you have a day job (which I do), because that means you have to basically spend every waking minute either writing or bringing home the bacon. But it’s totally possible.

But I wans’t able to do this in November 2011, so this year, I’m gonna do my crazy intense inspiring writing month from Feb 16 – March 16 (just because that’s when I can do it). I would LOVE to have partners in this endeavor, so please email me or reply here if you want to do it too.

What it boils down to is that I (or we) will have to write about 1,700 words per day. This blog only has about 300 words in it, so it’s a pretty hefty undertaking. But once I (we) get to 50,000 words, I (we) will have over half of a novel draft written! (In case you’re not familiar with novel lengths, I can tell you that Shadow Swans was about 80,000 words and 280 pages. That’s on the shorter side for a novel, but it’s long enough to be a novel rather than a novella)

So, now I just have to refine the story outline for my new story, and maybe I’ll share some deets from that soon if you’re interested. My main issue now is that I have so MANY novel ideas, but I obvie can’t do them all at once, so I’m settling on one, and I think it’ll be a killer adventure. Me so excited.

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