Today is one of my last days of sanity. Ok so maybe I shouldn't be negative before this project even starts or else November is going to be one looooong month. For those of you who don't know exactly what I'm doing here it is:
National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.
Valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over painstaking craft, NaNoWriMo is a novel-writing program for everyone who has thought fleetingly about writing a novel but has been scared away by the time and effort involved.
Because of the limited writing window, the ONLY thing that matters in NaNoWriMo is output. It's all about quantity, not quality. The kamikaze approach forces you to lower your expectations, take risks, and write on the fly.
That's straight from the website which is http://www.nanowrimo.org/ if you want to check it out! I'm looking forward to this project: it's my senior year as a creative writing major and I feel as though I haven't put out even half the amount of non-academic writing that I should have by this point. It's also a relief that the novel doesn't have to be a perfectly edited final draft, which could mean that I'll end up with 175 pages of nonsense but hey, it might be good nonsense that eventually develops into something sweet. I'm just trying to go into this with no expectations because then I'll just bum myself out.
Thankfully there are other students here at Hope doing NaNoWriMo with me and the English department is being incredibly supportive and helpful by hosting write-ins and having a facebook group where we can commiserate...I mean encourage each other.
Send positive thoughts my way during this month!!
<3 katelyn
