National Novel Writing Month

Why You Should Burn Your NaNoWriMo Novel

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If you’re reading this, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) is over and you have one of the following in your quivering, coffee-stained hands:

  1. A string of nonsensical words that closely resemble the ramblings of a mad centaur.
  2. 50,000 words that are mostly just alternations of “I hate this” or “Crap!”
  3. A pretty solid attempt at something that might be considered a novel someday, somewhere, somehow.
  4. Something ready to be published, by George!

I’m assuming none of your answers are #4. If your answer is #4, then you’re a more talented and braver soul than I could ever be. Good luck to you and your prodigious career as the most awesome writer who ever lived.

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Embracing My Inner Fanboy – 10 Things That Fuel My Obsession With a Story

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Tardis“I don’t really like Fantasy or Science Fiction, but I think I’ll write stories in those genres anyway.”

-No one

This month I decided to participate in NaNoWriMo.  It had been a while since I had written anything, and I felt like it would be a good opportunity to try.

Then life happened…a lot.  And, long story short, the only way I’m going to make 50,000 words is if I change direction and write a graphic novel where I draw 50 pictures.  Get it?  Because a picture is worth a thousand words.  Sorry, bad joke.

The good news is that I do have a story, and a mythology.  I even have some characters.  I’ve done some of the foot work.  And, one of the exercises that accomplished this for me is that I pulled from my inner-fanboy.

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