Well it’s that time of year again. I mean, of course, the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) which starts on 1 November 2009. Those of you who take note of these things will remember that I took part last year but didn’t manage to complete my novel, although I did write well over the required 50,000 words during the month, just not on my novel. Mainly the reason for this was a lack of organisation over what I was intending to write about and major sidetracking by other projects.
So I’ve signed up again. In some ways I’m even less prepared for the novel than I was last year, although I do have a vague plot in mind, or at least more of a plot than I had last year. However, as this and the last blog post are the first things I’ve written for almost three months it is going to be far more of a challenge. To be honest, I’m not really bothered if I don’t get the story completed again, what matters most is to get back to writing. At the moment I feel stripped of imagination and I’m hoping that focussing my mind on something, however flimsy will clear the block I seem to have erected around the creative part of my brain.
I worked out last year that I had to write 1,667 words a day to complete the 50,000 word target – which seemed easy enough then. At the moment that seems a huge task, but I’m hoping that if I can actually get writing again the job will get easier. At any rate it gives me something to do in those dark and dreary nights of November when we’re not otherwise engaged in going to concerts.
So I’ve signed up again. In some ways I’m even less prepared for the novel than I was last year, although I do have a vague plot in mind, or at least more of a plot than I had last year. However, as this and the last blog post are the first things I’ve written for almost three months it is going to be far more of a challenge. To be honest, I’m not really bothered if I don’t get the story completed again, what matters most is to get back to writing. At the moment I feel stripped of imagination and I’m hoping that focussing my mind on something, however flimsy will clear the block I seem to have erected around the creative part of my brain.
I worked out last year that I had to write 1,667 words a day to complete the 50,000 word target – which seemed easy enough then. At the moment that seems a huge task, but I’m hoping that if I can actually get writing again the job will get easier. At any rate it gives me something to do in those dark and dreary nights of November when we’re not otherwise engaged in going to concerts.
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