I love November because that’s when NaNoWriMo happens and we write novels together. I love the camaraderie, the intensity, the goals, the notes, the team challenges. I love having a story at the end of it. There are 50 days until NaNoWriMo 2012. Scared yet?
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Days til NaNoWriMo
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Fifty days for me to:
- pick a notebook for scribbling ideas into.
- hit a coffee shop for some serious brain-storming.
- turn my grain of an idea into enough of an outline to sustain writing two thousand words a day about it.
- figure out what my main character wants and how to ensure he or she doesn’t get it.
- assemble reference pictures for my cast of characters.
- find the reference articles and web pages I will need.
- put my notes into Scrivener.
- find the Travelling Shovel of Death in time for our St Louis launch party.
There’s a whole bunch of people I almost never see outside of NaNoWriMo, and more who have become year-round friends and fiends. Couldn’t do this without them, wouldn’t want to try.
Bring it on NaNoWriMo 2012, I’ll be ready for you!
Love that you get so excited about it every year. I will do it again some year, but until the little one is out of diapers and can really play on his own without too much supervision, I think NaNoWriMo is going to have to be a month where I support people like you.
Good luck!
Will you be doing your regional stats page again this year?
That’s the plan. Same bat URL, same bat channel
http://alison.caffeinatedbliss.com/nano.php