*deletes irrelivent story*
What? Yeah, I know, I push my luck trying to make these things all tie together sometimes anyway, but that was one that was really better off behind password on WDC. *Waves at work person reading my blog*.
I was listening to music again this morning. Still trying to find a soundtrack for ‘Contagion’ (still like the name, too, btw). I didn’t quite run the gamut, but I ran the rock/pop-punk gamut. Disturbed, Good Charolette, The Offspring (told ya), Concrete Blonde, Queensryche…etc, etc.
I still haven’t found the right album for my current story idea, but I may have found the one for the novel I’ve wanted to write for like two years now and haven’t been able to. ‘Apathy’s Hero’. This story and it’s characters sit in the back of my skull and taunt me every time I try and write something new. They’re all like “hey, pay attention to us. We’re sexy and god-like and apathetic and brutal. Don’t you want to come play in our world?” And I’m all like “Well, yeah, but no one’s explained the rules to me yet.”
I suspect the only reason I want to write it now is because I had planned to do something else. If I had decided two months ago that this would be the year for ‘Apathy’s Hero’, I’m almost certain I wouldn’t have had any interest in writing it now. So to spite myself (because I very much want to go play in their sexy, sadistic, overrun with egotistical gods world), now I’m thinking about writing both stories at the same time. I’ve heard people do this – write two novels in November. Honestly, I have a hard enough time with one. But I’m really tempted…
So I know I’m not even the only person who gets new ideas while trying to finish the old ones. And I know I’m not the only person who gives in (*waves* Hi Dawn, Kate, Mireyah, everyone else who’s ever been distracted by a shiny before their current project is done). So I won’t ask the obvious question. I’ll ask instead – would you shoot for 100k in November instead of 50k? What would make you take that plunge?
Wow! 100K! That’s insane. Well. maybe not insane, but it feels a little that way. I think I’ll struggle with the 60K I’ve set myself, but then, I have 3 festivals at work in November too.
I think to write 2 books, you’ll have to be organized, and work out how you’re going to work on them. Otherwise you’ll get confused between them. But good luck!
*waves hi* *displays the last five shiny ideas from the past two months proudly*
Well, I tried to have a goal of 100k for November before. 2009, I did the nano prep and decided I was going to write a novel for my mom and a novel based on a game me and my sister used to play (she was a princess – I was a pauper boy, yeah we were weird). I wrote nothing in November 2009 because personal issues came up.
Now to the more positive. There are plenty of people that claim to write well over 100k in November in the nanowrimo forums. I’ve seen a few claim 150k.
I’ve never written that much in one month. The most I’ve done is 67k, which 50k was done in 15 days and then I slowed down majorly. So, if I didn’t have the slow done, I might be able to do 100k in one month. Part of the 100k goal that seems attractive is that it is a challenge, just as 50k was. It is crazy and yet, might be possible. This year, my goal is to try and get the first 50k done on the new novel, thus following the technical rules of nano, and then go back to working on my already started novels. Since I usually write more than one novel at a time *cough*FIVE*cough*, larger goals are tempting because if a success then I’d be that much further in my goals.
It’s so easy to become sidetracked to shiny new things, or anything, really, as long as it’s not what you’re supposed to be doing. The quickest way to get my house cleaning done is to block out time for writing. I’m doing so much, in so many different areas now, yet I feel completely unproductive because at the end of the day, I haven’t finished anything. Sometimes I think a writer will NEVER voluntarily finish revising, but may just give up and send the darn thing off anyway…