I feel like a challenge. I feel like testing myself. I've had an idea for a novel growing in the back of my mind for sometime now and very recently a plot has begun to emerge.
It deals with 70's terrorism but from a fantasy prospective. The Baader-Meinhof complex or Black September through the lens of Hellboy, Planetary and Harry Potter.
A cat and mouse game that criss crosses a world not unlike our own, but with differences. Some minor, some large.
Last night whiles watching the Carlos the Jackal mini series, I came across a link to the National Novel Writing Month competition or NaNoWriMo colloquially is its called. I though about participating last year, but retrospect it's best that I didn't. I didn't anywhere near as much confidence in writing then as I do now. I had a unhealthy fear of the the blank page which used to take me days to overcome.
Not now though.
The deal with the Novel Writing Month is, that you have 30 days to write a novel a minimum of 50000 words length. Which works out at something like just over 1500 words per day, everyday during the month of November. The competitions goal is to inspire creativity and short deadline liberates the participant from major rewriting and editing. The idea is to get the idea on paper no matter what. You can plot the novel before hand and do research, but the 50000 words have to be written from scratch during that 30 day period.
Sounds steep, huh? Well, not really. Either way, want to get from the experience is the pressure of having to work from to a deadline and the liberty from rewriting and editing during the writing process. Christ I'm looking forward to this!
Well I've just under four days to read several books, watch several documentaries and write a plot.
See you in 30 days.
Who knows. I might even illustrate the novel I'm going to write.
Wouldn't that be cool?
Addendum: Is anyone else whose reading this participating the the competition?
It deals with 70's terrorism but from a fantasy prospective. The Baader-Meinhof complex or Black September through the lens of Hellboy, Planetary and Harry Potter.
A cat and mouse game that criss crosses a world not unlike our own, but with differences. Some minor, some large.
Last night whiles watching the Carlos the Jackal mini series, I came across a link to the National Novel Writing Month competition or NaNoWriMo colloquially is its called. I though about participating last year, but retrospect it's best that I didn't. I didn't anywhere near as much confidence in writing then as I do now. I had a unhealthy fear of the the blank page which used to take me days to overcome. Not now though.
The deal with the Novel Writing Month is, that you have 30 days to write a novel a minimum of 50000 words length. Which works out at something like just over 1500 words per day, everyday during the month of November. The competitions goal is to inspire creativity and short deadline liberates the participant from major rewriting and editing. The idea is to get the idea on paper no matter what. You can plot the novel before hand and do research, but the 50000 words have to be written from scratch during that 30 day period.
Sounds steep, huh? Well, not really. Either way, want to get from the experience is the pressure of having to work from to a deadline and the liberty from rewriting and editing during the writing process. Christ I'm looking forward to this!
Well I've just under four days to read several books, watch several documentaries and write a plot.
See you in 30 days.
Who knows. I might even illustrate the novel I'm going to write.
Wouldn't that be cool?
Addendum: Is anyone else whose reading this participating the the competition?
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