November is National Novel Writing Month. It is a challenge to write 50,000 words by the end of the month, which is about 1700 words a day. The goal is not to have a perfect, polished novel at the end, but to write for quantity rather than quality. If at the end you have absolutely no workable material, that's fine because you just wrote a piece of work the same length as a novel, which helps make the process less daunting and you can get back to it again without fear.
So this year I am going to take the challenge to help get back to writing. It will be interesting because I haven't written any fiction since maybe my play about a monkey my freshman year in college. (It was pretty great because our class had to recite the play and one lucky person got to be the monkey.) It will be a double challenge - getting myself to write in the first place and learning how to use my imagination again!
Today was my first day of writing and success! 1700 words down! 48300 to go!
- Megan Leigh
3 comments:
That's a great goal! One of our friends is a sci-fi writer and he said the same thing. That it helps to just write and write and the good stuff will catch up with you eventually...or maybe even a lot of good stuff!
This may be the most exciting news to ever come from you! I LOVE the way your write and would gladly purchase any novel you pen!!! I don't think it is because you are my niece either. I just think you are very clever and have a great writing style. Wouldn't Grammy and Gramps be thrilled????
Finally!!!!!!!!!!!! That makes me so happy. Hope you can find time to do it. I know you will.
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