NaNoWriMo - Write-in
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janestarzNaNoWriMo brings the world's writers together in one frantic month of writing. When you sign up for the official website, you get some great tools at your disposal, including a word count meter, statistics of your average words per day, and a forum of local NaNoWriMo'ers.
(I like the term NaNo, so I immediately cut off half the word since it doesn't influence my word count anyway.)
The "local" forum includes people from all over the Netherlands and Belgium and I've been following a thread for Write-Ins in Den Bosch which actually took place in Tilburg. At 2.30 pm I packed my laptop in my Tuxie bag and walked to the center of town, combining a creative outing with some exercise and getting off my ever larger-growing butt.
I met up with Tamara, a 28-year old writer living quite close by and we braved the re-decorations of the local La Place, writing for more than an hour until the batteries of our laptops gave out.
We checked out the HEMA, which had all its power-up points hidden as well and decided to write a little more at her place just around the corner. By the time I went home (after nearly three hours of socialised writing) I had 4300 words under the belt for the entire day.
This puts me squarely back in the game, right on track for today and well underway to get a bit of a head start for the weekend, which I'll be spending at Legendfalls, meaning no writing for me.
What's going on? Someone's after Roland's research!
Anything special happening? Swashbuckling gentleman was promoted to friend of the family. I've also worked the cat thing out. And the chase scene happened all by itself.
What'll happen next? Lydia and Roland will go on a tour of the ship, which will allow me to go into detail as to what it is, exactly (oh dear). They trust Thomas the Swashbuckler Clarke to watch over the precious research, but will he be worthy of that trust?
Noteworthy snippet:
Their sitting room was empty but for Sebastian, who was sleeping in an awkward pose, draped over the pillows of the couch. From the bedroom was the sound of someone digging through a trunk.
Lydia opened the door to her bedroom, and stopped in her tracks. Instead of Roland, as she had expected to see there, a grimy young boy was rummaging through the trunks containing Roland's research. As she stepped inside, he bolted past her and ran out the door.
By the time Lydia had ran after him, the boy was gone, but she heard a crash from the hallway. She lifted her skirts and ran towards the noise. The boy had ran into Thomas, and in dodging past the tall man had crashed into one of the service carts the waiters used. A half-eaten breakfast tray had come crashing down in the collision, and the boy was picking himself up from the floor before running on. Thomas had lost his footing in surprise, and straightened as he saw Lydia.
“Are you alright?” he asked.
“Yes, yes, but I want to know who he is. Could you...”
“Say no more.” Thomas said, and turned, and ran after the boy.
First milestone reached; 10.000+ words and still going strong.
(I like the term NaNo, so I immediately cut off half the word since it doesn't influence my word count anyway.)
The "local" forum includes people from all over the Netherlands and Belgium and I've been following a thread for Write-Ins in Den Bosch which actually took place in Tilburg. At 2.30 pm I packed my laptop in my Tuxie bag and walked to the center of town, combining a creative outing with some exercise and getting off my ever larger-growing butt.
I met up with Tamara, a 28-year old writer living quite close by and we braved the re-decorations of the local La Place, writing for more than an hour until the batteries of our laptops gave out.
We checked out the HEMA, which had all its power-up points hidden as well and decided to write a little more at her place just around the corner. By the time I went home (after nearly three hours of socialised writing) I had 4300 words under the belt for the entire day.
This puts me squarely back in the game, right on track for today and well underway to get a bit of a head start for the weekend, which I'll be spending at Legendfalls, meaning no writing for me.
What's going on? Someone's after Roland's research!
Anything special happening? Swashbuckling gentleman was promoted to friend of the family. I've also worked the cat thing out. And the chase scene happened all by itself.
What'll happen next? Lydia and Roland will go on a tour of the ship, which will allow me to go into detail as to what it is, exactly (oh dear). They trust Thomas the Swashbuckler Clarke to watch over the precious research, but will he be worthy of that trust?
Noteworthy snippet:
Their sitting room was empty but for Sebastian, who was sleeping in an awkward pose, draped over the pillows of the couch. From the bedroom was the sound of someone digging through a trunk.
Lydia opened the door to her bedroom, and stopped in her tracks. Instead of Roland, as she had expected to see there, a grimy young boy was rummaging through the trunks containing Roland's research. As she stepped inside, he bolted past her and ran out the door.
By the time Lydia had ran after him, the boy was gone, but she heard a crash from the hallway. She lifted her skirts and ran towards the noise. The boy had ran into Thomas, and in dodging past the tall man had crashed into one of the service carts the waiters used. A half-eaten breakfast tray had come crashing down in the collision, and the boy was picking himself up from the floor before running on. Thomas had lost his footing in surprise, and straightened as he saw Lydia.
“Are you alright?” he asked.
“Yes, yes, but I want to know who he is. Could you...”
“Say no more.” Thomas said, and turned, and ran after the boy.
First milestone reached; 10.000+ words and still going strong.
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Date: 2012-11-07 08:53 am (UTC)I would like to know what will happen to your finished novel. What will you do with the story?
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Date: 2012-11-07 10:26 am (UTC)To me, NaNo is more a question of dedication to one goal (writing every day) than writing a book. I know I have some talent with writing, but what I'm writing now "isn't good enough". My world is still not defined (is it steampunk or historical?), my main character's research seems to be important but nobody knows what it is, and these are glaring faults in the story I will need to fix at some point.
I'm planning to keep writing the story because it does develop on its own, but I think I first must fix the boundaries and sidelines to make it all more interesting, and I'll be even better off. I plan on making the fifty-thou at the end of the month, and I bet it will get easier as I fix these things because the story will develop even faster on its own that way.
After that, I might publish it as an e-book via Amazon, just to see how that goes. Tamara said yesterday "all you need is a few reviews and some mouth-to-mouth advertising". I don't need to make a million dollars with it, but it would be so cool to point my mom to Amazon and tell her "buy my book".
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Date: 2012-11-07 03:00 pm (UTC)Will you ask friends for help with revisions? If you would need any help with revising the story - I'd be happy to help!
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Date: 2012-11-10 06:20 pm (UTC)