You heard me right. National Write
a Novel in November is soon approaching, and the question is still looming over
my head, should I participate in it this year?
For those of you who are not
familiar with what Nanowrimo is, it is when authors push themselves to write a
50,000 word novel in one month over the course of the month of November.
Firstly, I would like to give
credit to everyone who can actually complete Nanowrimo. You people have
wonderfully talent and deserve to be appreciated more.
Having tried doing this before, I
would like to say that this is a very hard thing to do, especially for me. I am
not the type of writer who can just keep writing and writing, but I’m the kind
of author who goes back and edits parts I don’t like or fix plot elements that
don’t make sense, while I’m in the writing process, which makes Nanowrimo very
hard to do.
I had originally planned on doing
to before, having part of a novel planned out, but I decided that it probably
wouldn’t work considering I tried the same thing the past two years and hadn’t
gotten past the first 500 words.
I then was going to set myself a
personal goal instead of following the main Nanowrimo goal. Instead of writing
a 50,000 word novel, I was just going to write 50,000 words in general, whether
that have been short stories, poems, blog posts, or the start of a new novel.
The idea however occurred before I
had started school when I realized that attempting anything close to Nanowrimo
would be nearly impossible. With my school work, I don’t have much time to do
anything anymore. I barely have time to edit The Unusual Isles or keep up on this blog for that matter, so
writing a 50,000 word novel is just not even something in my grasp this year.
So long story short, am I doing
Nanowrimo this year? No. Hopefully next year though, and hopefully one year in
the future, I’ll actually complete it.
~K.M.D.
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