I have succumbed to peer pressure, latent ambition, and perhaps a little vanity, and thrown my lot in with the National Novel Writing Month crowd.
The hard drive is littered with notes, plot devices, and character sketches for a short story that quickly complained it was too much for a short story, so….what the hell. As Tony Noland blogged about here, it’s all about discipline.
It’s been almost a year that I have been diligent about doing something writerly everyday, at either Six Sentences, 13 Stitches, or my Twitter short-short-short stories at 3S_stories. Over the past 11 months, it has gotten easier to write longer pieces than shorter ones. I choose to accept this as a sign that I should just bloody well go for it, so I am. My NaNoWriMo profile page is here if you want to read a brief synopsis of the work in question (and at this point, believe you me, it is questionable).
Hats off to my writer pals who have suggested/encouraged/inspired me in making this decision:
good on you trev. a better man than I. No novels in me yet, but like you trying to be disciplined and write every day..it does get easier..
Had I been able to squeeze this one idea into 5k-6k words, I probably would’ve passed. Just seemed like a good time to say wtf, and go for it.
Yay, Trev! This is my first time for NaNoWriMo and I figure I must be crazy, so don’t feel alone on that.
Yeah, crazy ’bout sums it up.
2 weeks to get organized and pre-post at least a couple #fridayflash so I don’t feel like a quitter on that front.
YAY!!!!!
The more the merrier… off to buddy ya! Peace, Linda
Thanks for the link, Trev! I’m glad you’re giving it a go this year. It’s all about proving it’s possible to write a lot every day. I’m going to try to stick to 2,000 words a day, which’ll give me five days grace.