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i haven't blogged much at all this nanowrimo have i?
well tonight at the writing session i crossed the 50,000 mark for another year. i didn't jump up or cheer or anything. it was more a feeling of "glad that's over!" not that the story is done... but then again, there was barely a story to begin with.
this is easily the second worst nano novel i've written (the worst being 2006). it is total garbage.
i may retire from nanowrimo. i don't get the same thing out of this as i used to...
well i still kind of hate my novel, but at least i'm managing to write more words without wanting to off myself.
it helps when i remind myself that nanowrimo novels aren't like regular novels. i was in the middle of writing a very boring scene when i decided that out of the blue, the wall of the office would be knocked in by an explosion. i hadn't planned on any explosions happening for quite a while, and i'm really not sure who caused the explosion or why, but it got me writing again.
my novel looks like it's turning into a series of somewhat random action scenes strung together, instead of what i had hoped it would be. that's the nature of nanowrimo, though--letting go of things like expectations and lofty goals :P and i like writing action scenes, even if i'm not actually good at it... i just like writing them.
word count: 5037
It's only day 2 of writing my Nanowrimo novel and so far I'm already hating it. Bleah. Sorry for the negative post so soon. But this year feels almost as bad as 2006 did.
I think this is partly because I did not plan enough in advance-- that is to say, not at all. So I don't have any good idea of where any of the story is going. I get bored way too easily and if I just plunk words down on the page without something interesting up ahead to look forward to, I just want to stop.
In the years in which I had more success, I definitely did more plotting and thinking in advance. But I even tire of my premise now.
So hard not to just throw in the towel, especially since I've done this five times before already.
Sorry again for the downer post...
i am back for nanowrimo 2008, after not participating in 2007 due to general nano-burnout, but i am rested now for this year!
i've not even been blogging much in the last couple of years, or even writing much email, so all of my writing muscles are withered and atrophied. except for the code-writing muscles, that is, but writing stuff like
anim_cb.addEventListener(Event.ACTIVATE, function (e:Event) {
var dp:DataProvider = new DataProvider();
for (var i:String in AnimInfo.info) {
dp.addItem({label:i, data:i});
}
e.target.dataProvider = dp;
});
doesn't really help with the fiction-writing.
i'm not particularly prepared--all i have is a vague premise--but i am hoping that the kick-off party will help inspire me :)
my nano novel is going to be about a group of people who were monster hunters together in high school in the 80s, but now, more than 20 years later, they are called upon again to fight some new threat or something. it will be about growing old, 80s nostalgia, and giant monsters. in theory, anyway.
i don't have a title yet but i'm sure that will come shortly!
i'm glad i took a break from nanowrimo in 2007. i didn't enjoy nano 2006 much because i was too burned out. i know i made the right choice-- not only did i not miss it, but i'm starting to come up with ideas for nanowrimo this year! that's a good sign.
i'm going to have to get this :D
in other news i will be in halifax from august 21 - 30
the book is about the three people who were stranded aboard the international space station after the columbia shuttle disaster in 2003. since all shuttle flights were grounded, they had lost their ride home.
two fascinating things i learned during the interview:
- crying in space is weird because your tears do not run down your face, they stay in front of your eyes until you knock them away
- underneath each seat in the soyuz spacecraft, there is a triple-barrelled shotgun. it's a safety feature, added after cosmonauts were once attacked by wolves after landing off-course in the woods
i will probably read this book after i finish reading anna karenina.
[reposted to get vox to cross-post this PROPERLY. argh]
for a much, much better representation, have a look at this slideshow on their site.
