NaNoWriMo
It's the time of the year where novels are written in thirty days or less, and where souls are devoured faster then you can say 50K
So yes, I finally took the plunge and signed up for the 50,000 word writing challenge and with a day already wasted in indecision, I spent most of my Saturday trying to get my story up and running.
For those wondering: I'm writing an original story, one I hope to publish some day, but one I've always put off writing the first draft because seriously: first drafts are beautifully hideous and loving them is the worst thing you could possibly do which is why I decided my time to write was now - in my nineteenth year of existence, I was going to pen an original story with no previous story background to catch me and characters completely of my own imagination.
I did it before, once, when I was fourteen and let's just say it was a blend of the City of Bones and Twilight which made it horrifying in more ways than one.
In any case, alongside trying to get to my 50K word count goal, I'll be updating my very neglected blog in order to track my progress:
Day One
I saw this somewhere on Facebook and the urge to join in on the challenge niggled.
I had already declined to join in on another Facebook group event called FAGE and I regretted it enormously.
I didn't want a repeat of that regret, regardless of the fact that I was doing exams (theory and practical, kill me).
As the day passed by, I came across hundreds of articles on how to get started and how to win NaNoWriMo.
Still, I was hesitant.
What if I just couldn't do it?
I posed this question on Facebook and the response was simple: Irrespective of whether you reach 50K, as a writer you'll always win. 1000 words or 50 000words, that's more than you probably would have before.
The next day. I signed up and it began.
Day Two
I was so torn between doing NaNoWriMo, stressing over exams and just generally trying to keep up with life that I had forgotten one of the most important things about writing a story.
The story.
For hours since I joined up, I wrote and rewrote line after line going absolutely nowhere. On the Facebook group for NaNoWriMo, I posted: All I'm coming up with is brain fart. My first NaNoWriMo is brain fart *dies*
OMFG why did I do this to myself.
What have I done?
Noo...I'm not ready...
Hours later while searching through old stories that were ambiguously titled(I have more than fifty "THIS ONE" and "COMPLETE THIS DAMNNIT" documents) and while rereading them, one story caught my eye.
It was a disjointed mess of "fight scene", "chase scene","interrogation scene" and "opening scene 1/2/3", but there was a summary I had wisely written down and it was the story I decided I would finish.
Once I get far enough I'll let you in on it, but at 2K so far, the story's under wraps.
Until tomorrow.
Anyone taking part in NaNoWriMo? Want to buddy up for the writing? How's your experience with the challenge? Is this your first time?
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