NaNoWriMo 2009

For some insane reason this year I signed up to do NaNoWriMo. For those who don’t know that is; National Novel Writing Month. The idea being you spend a month (30 days of November) writing a novel of at least 50,000 words. It’s not about having a polished, even readable novel on December 1st. It’s more about challenging yourself to write a lot in a short space of time to see what you end up with. There’s a big chance most of what you write will be utter rubbish, but there’s also the slight possibility that within the rubbish there may be a novel trying to escape. Once the big push is done you’ll be able to see if it’s worth pursuing. This approach means November is not the time for editing. It’s all about quantity, not quality!

I signed up a week ago and didn’t even think of a plot, characters, outline until 00:00 today. I was starting to worry it wasn’t the best approach, but I find planning this kind of thing extremely hard without starting to write so it was the only way for me. By 02:00 this morning I had 1,200 words written. I was amazed! Once I started it flowed pretty well. I’m not sure where my ideas are coming from, I really hope they’re not too influenced by a single film or book! One thing I really didn’t expect was to find myself writing Sci-Fi! I don’t even read Sci-Fi, what do I know about writing it?!

I’m on there as Hexy, I need people to bug me about it as I know it’ll be too easy to drift out of bothering otherwise!