How is it that I always end up writing here when I'm already long overdue to bed? Again, it's past midnight. But it only just now occured to me to tell you that I signed up for NaNoWriMo today!
NaNoWriMo is short for National Novel Writing Month. It takes place in November and every writer's goal is to create a 50,000 word novel in that time. So, it's 30 days and 50K words. A novel.
Of course you have to throw editing right out the window and just write. I love the idea. I've always loved the idea. I usually edit as I go, but it's just another form of procrastination for me - as long as I edit what I've already written, I don't need to write anything new.
You can find me and make me your buddy in the official NaNoWriMo site by my username EllieMary. This is my first time attending NaNo though I've thought about it and read other peoples' NaNo stories for, I think, four or five years now.
Which brings me to the subject relevant here, as this is a writing blog. I most certainly will not be publishing my NaNo text here. It's going to be so horrible, full of typos and bad sentences and terrible passages, that there's no way I'd show it to you. However, I will probably blog about my word count, feelings and other NaNo related stuff. (Another great form of procrastination.)
I know already what I'm going to write. I will start The Dust Saga Book One, A Girl of Dark and Dust. It's a good way to get myself going. Otherwise I'd probably just sit around writing random scenes for the next God-knows-how-many-years because I'm too afraid to really start writing a book.
I have the general overview of where Book One is set and what happens. I have also decided to make both Nia and Nesa narrators from the get go. I might inform you guys more about these plans later - now I really need to go to sleep.
(I'm so excited!!!!!)
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