Into the fray
Since so many others are doing it, I decided today, partly out of sheer boredom at work, to jump on the NaNoWriMo bandwagon. The idea is I'm supposed to churn out a piece of work, at least 50,000 words (which supposedly qualifies as a "short novel") by the end of November. I can't start actually writing until tonight at midnight, which isn't going to happen because I will be in bed then. But it will start shortly thereafter.
I'm actually pretty excited about this. Sure, I have a full-time job now (when the partner I work for has things for me to do, anyway), but I've always thought I'd like to write a book, and this seems to be a good way to motivate me. The working title of my novel is The Magical-tastic Turkey. It doesn't have a plot yet, or even a genre. But I like the name. It's kind of fun and seasonal and random. ... or is it?
He he he.
posted by Law Fairy @ 4:33 PM
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9 Comments:
I think you'll have plenty of free time to work on your book. You seem to blog waaaaay more now that you have a full-time big law firm job than when you were a student. How the hell does that happen?
We hyperverbal types can do 1800 words a day easy! Especially when it doesn't have to be high-quality!! Looking forward to reading your Turkey Novel!!
Seriously! I haven't figured that one out yet. Hopefully the answer is something that will make me very wealthy :D
Hehe, thanks Eve -- I'm looking forward to reading your Barzam story!
Just surfing some blogs and found one that has a lil' countdown graphic about this contest that you may be interested in: go here.
Now get back to work!
Isn't there supposed to be a theme, or a storyline, or a plot, or the like? Hmm, I've got an idea for a novel, several in fact, but in this one, a lawyer dies. It's OK, one lives too.
Casca
Most good novel do have plots, true. But I'm an open-minded writer.
Perhaps I'll kill off a lawyer or two, myself...
Indeed I'm doing it, as you already noted via my alter ego, but I am so already a day behind. It's harder than I thought, and I don't have as much inspiration for the novel as I'd like.
I'm way more than a day or two behind. I have like five lines of dialogue. What I have trouble avoiding is making it sound too much like an autobiography -- not because I don't think my life is interesting, but because I don't want people reading it and thinking, she did WHAT? She thinks WHAT about me?
Of course, gosh, I guess for that matter I shouldn't be blogging. :)
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