NaNo: Getting started
Nov. 1st, 2007 06:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shalanna(Those of you not doing NaNo may want to filter these out by subject header, but maybe you'd like to read about what happens when a nutcase decides to write a novel in a month anyway. Will have concomitant craft posts, including one about how you shouldn't use big ol' words like "concomitant.")
My NaNo page is at http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/205498
I think this should be fun. Especially because I'm not putting any limits on whether this could ever sell or not.
1570 / 50000 words. 3% done!
In other news . . . I found an agent who divides her time between NYC and Marfa, Texas, and she's asked to see the "first several" chapters of the Marfa Lights mystery. I'm going to send that today. I'm also going to send that book to the MWA contest. What the hell. The year ain't over yet (except for those who started their spiritual year over at midnight last night!), and I did say I was going to give it all I had to sell a novel or get an agent this year.
I have already written my required wordcount for NaNo today. I may write some more on it if I feel moved to.
Favorite line so far in NaNovel: (actually, the opening line)
We were in the treehouse when I saw the black-and-white police car heading down our street.
My NaNo page is at http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/205498
I think this should be fun. Especially because I'm not putting any limits on whether this could ever sell or not.
In other news . . . I found an agent who divides her time between NYC and Marfa, Texas, and she's asked to see the "first several" chapters of the Marfa Lights mystery. I'm going to send that today. I'm also going to send that book to the MWA contest. What the hell. The year ain't over yet (except for those who started their spiritual year over at midnight last night!), and I did say I was going to give it all I had to sell a novel or get an agent this year.
I have already written my required wordcount for NaNo today. I may write some more on it if I feel moved to.
Favorite line so far in NaNovel: (actually, the opening line)
We were in the treehouse when I saw the black-and-white police car heading down our street.
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Date: 2007-11-01 02:15 pm (UTC)Catherine
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Date: 2007-11-01 05:33 pm (UTC)P.
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Date: 2007-11-02 02:12 am (UTC)NaNo Musings
Date: 2007-11-02 03:56 pm (UTC)I think, so far, that NaNo is a liberating experience. It's nice to open the channel and let what's inside the old brain just dribble out. Or, in your case, spurt out pretty darn fast. Impressive word count! See what people whose fingers have not yet turned arthritic can do?
Of course I'm writing another book at the same time--you probably are, too--and that takes its toll. But all I HAVE to do is average 1667 words a day, and I managed 1712 yesterday. Still got work done on COLOR RADIO, too. And wrote the three trombone parts for a march to be sent to my friend in Indiana. Then went to my lady friend's for dinner.
Your list of names will be of great use to me on the NaNo Project. It might amuse you to know that fellow you asked me to treat kindly...well, he's the minister at the lead female's church, a pleasant and long-suffering fellow who devotes one day a week to listening to various parishoners' woes in informal counseling sessions.
I'll figure out how to get you my NaNo page link to you...at least today I could insert my word count and that picture of me in my Modernaires tux.