Law Students

NaNoWriMo

By Pete

No, the title to this entry is not my Inuit name, or something bizarre like that. You see, November (in addition to being the birth-month of one of the coolest guys any of you know) is National Novel Writing Month. The point behind it is this, as best I can tell: the main thing standing between most people and writing a novel is not writing skill, or ideas, or time, or anything like that… it’s actually just writing the damn thing.

For the last several years I’ve toyed with the idea, rolled it over in my head, and then ultimately (usually due to laziness) just didn’t ever even start. I anticipate this year will be very much the same, but every year I’ve been taking little baby steps toward eventually doing it. So maybe one day I’ll actually follow through.

This year I was thinking it might be fun to take a “fictional book” and write it. In a way, that’s like back-filling the past… or a cheap ploy to trick people into reading it. The problem is that, to do it right, you’d actually need to do a fair bit of research into what that book is actually supposed to be about and write it in such a way that it fits in with the source reference. It could be a fun project… but which one would I choose?

After all, what’s 50,000 words, right?

Full post as published by PeteHoliday.com on October 23, 2008 (boomark / email).