OMG everyone, I gave National Novel Writing Month a try and I actually did it. I’ve been wanting to give it a go for a few years, but school kept getting in the way. Now that I’m graduated, I finally felt I had no good excuse. And it worked. I actually wrote 50,000+ of fiction that actually resembled a novel! The whole thing with nanowrimo is that you just get the words down. The idea is you show yourself you can write a substantial quantity of words, and you worry about quality later. I got some reassuring advice from experts along the way suggesting that’s how you do it. I don’t actually like the story enough to go back and do editing, but I could tell that if I were to do this ever year, in a few years I’d be pretty good. I could also tell that I’ll start reading fiction differently (which surely would help the process, too).
But, in the course of the month I fell behind on Scrabulous games, email, my RSS reader, and (as I’m sure you know) blogging, so there definitely were trade-offs.
I have another writing project of about the same length coming up, but fortunately I don’t have to do it in a month. That’ll be nice because I can work on it while maintaining my regular life. The main lesson I have learned from nanowrimo is to just sit down and do it. If you do, you can accomplish projects way bigger than you imagined. (Or at least that’s how it worked for me.)
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