SeptNoFinMo
In one of my previous posts I mentioned my brief bout with novel writing doing NaNoWriMo. National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is a month-long forced march approach to novel writing. Every year hundreds of thousands of writers sit at their computers on October 31st, buzzed from the Halloween sugar high with their coffee drip IV at the ready, waiting for midnight to hit so that they can start on their newest November novel creation. Fifty thousand words in thirty days (coming out to roughly 1667 words written per day) is the requirement to “win” NaNoWriMo.
Last year was my first experience with novel writing, and I hit my 50k words in the first 16 days. The issue is that although I’d won NaNoWriMo by my word count, I didn’t actually finish my novel. So, I’m going to attempt to take September and part of October and make it SeptNoFinMo (September Novel Writing Month – I know it only has September in it, but SeptThruOctNoFinMo sounded too complicated), and I’ll see if I can’t finish up my story from last year before it’s time to start on a story this year because whether it’s another 25k or a whole new 50k to finish off my story, I want to have it done before NaNo ‘09.
As much as I’d like for this to be solely a September project, I’m 99.9% sure it will overflow into October, mostly because it will take me some time to re-read my story from last year and decide where I want to go from where I left off. Plus I have a lot of grad school applications to fill out, a few books I want to read, and a play-by-post game of Exalted I’m participating in that should be starting up sometime soon (more on this in a later post).
Posted on September 8th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
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