Are You a Daring Writer? NaNoWriMo Insights Day 1

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It’s National novel Writing Month, and I made it through day 1 of  NaNoWriMo with a 1,550 word count. (about 6 pages)

What a fun and intense challenge! It truly is a journey of self mastery. Writing 50,000 words in 30 days, 200 pages,  means crafting 6-7 typed, double-spaced pages per day on average every day.

I have to say that a part of me wanted to participate without telling anyone, but I decided being public would help me stay on track.

Here’s a video showing 1 author’s effort to write a 50,000 page novel draft in 30 days.

Month of Writing Dangerously from David McFarland on Vimeo.

Today’s insights

While writing a scene in which Kassidy recalls an incident from her childhood, complete with dialogue, an interesting insight came to me.

How much do you trust memory? Law enforcement will tell you getting reliable witness testimony is a challenge, yet in stories and books, characters flashback to old memories, and we readers accept it as their truth. Interesting, n’est pa?

Today’s Reveal from They All Died Smiling

I promised to share something from the book in each post. Today, meet Kassidy, the woman in whose head you live throughout the book.

Kassidy does not use her true first name.  She’s living in a Chicago suburb, working for the Chicago Tribune and freelance writing.  But at heart, she’s a country girl. She spent most of her life in the Missouri Ozarks. Her father is a Baptist preacher with a secret mean streak.

Want to watch my progress?

If you want to find out whether or not I finish the book this month, come on over to WriteOnPurpose.com and look in the sidebar, where you’ll see my accumulating word count.

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