SubscribeNational Novel Writing Month starts tomorrow and I’m eager for it but I keep going back and forth between the projects I want to work on for it. Neither are technically begun, which is their precise appeal for NaNoWriMo, but I’m so conflicted I might end up writing half and half, which will just be plain old bizarre. That, and the project I’ve been working on for the last few months is still not finished and I keep writing scenes (in my head, ugh) for it, and those really do need to get written. (All of this brain-clogging with not-yet-written stuff will be detrimental for speedy neuron processes, I’m certain.)
The first project I wanted to work on was something entirely new. It’s set in the same world of my other projects, but because I’m a single-novel girl, it’s its own single novel. New characters, different country with different customs, all of that. I only have a bunch of disconnected images and a few sketched characters for it (all in my head) so that project’s appeal is in its complete new-ness.
The other project is a novel I started (the first draft) back in high school. That draft is unrecognizable as the second major draft of it, which I wrote in 2004-05. And that again is completely different from what it now is — in my head. I’ve been editing this story mentally for years now and I really want to write it down. But I am so busy with my other projects that I’ve put it off, procrastinator style. I would be following the tenets of NaNoWriMo — fresh document, blank page, just go – but the difference is that I know a lot more of what will happen in my head for this one than I do for the other. (The odds of me referencing its old drafts? Slim to none. It’s that different.)
I probably will end up trying to write 50,000 words for one and 20,000 words for another, just because I want to do both, I think, and I want to make sure I write 50,000 in one novel to truly win NaNoWriMo. We’ll see how it goes… that is a lot of words… but I know I’m fully capable of that level of (attempted) insanity.
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Thanks for the great info! Too Shy to Stop just featured a discussion with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Cunningham as inspiration for NaNoWriMo. You can read the article here.