I have been feeling a desire to do some more creative things besides just throwing up blog posts on the internet on a near daily basis. I actually started out in the blogging world because I started reading blogs by fiction writers and decided that I should play along in the hopes of actually getting peer pressured into writing something fictional myself. No luck so far and I managed to wander into writing different kinds of blogs over the last couple or so years.
The whole NaNoWriMo has always seemed crazy (50,000 words in a month!) and tempting to me but I have always chickened out before committing. Paul managed to get his rough draft written last year and I know he’s a little crazy.
We have a little vacation coming up in the near future so I stopped to by a nice fluff read during the trip. I also managed to wander over to the Writer’s Reference section and buy a copy of No Plot? No Problem!
Not in Novemeber. Right now. Like starting last night.
After all, I have no plot…so I must have no problems starting a book, right? The book is pretty motivating and really makes you want to dive in.
Actually, I do have at least a character and a location. The location is one that I have kicked around and wanted to write about for a little over a year now. The character is new. See that blue curvy line in the face. Pookie drew that on a piece of paper the other day. It is the letter R. I added my own R’s to it and ended up with a face. He’s my first character. The script was entirely supplied by Pookie and I have no idea where it comes from. But he was very adamant that I write it exactly as you see it.
The story is going to be aimed at the Junior High age (hopefully) and I should have the rough draft done by August 31st (I’m giving myself a couple extra days because of the vacation and a very high pressure work deadline that also happens to be August 31st). Yes, I know this is a bad month to start something like this but from what I can tell writing a book is like having a baby. There is never a good time to start.
To meet my goal, I’ll have to write 1429 words a day. Yesterday was Day 1 of my 35 day month and I managed to write 1700+ and had fun thinking of ways to get everybody started on having lots of troubles. I’ll try to give a weekly update or something like that. I’m really hoping peer pressure can really drag me along.
So, if posts around here tend to have a lot of pictures and few words or happen to only show up every couple days, please forgive me. I’m writing a book.
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You don’t need guest posters. Just link to my awesome blog everyday. I write very interesting stuff that your people would LOVE to read.
The script is from the Fisher Price Laughtop, my twins play that game over and over!
Erin, Awesome and thanks. We have one of those and Pookie and Geetle love that thing from time to time. I haven’t seen it in a couple months. Too funny.