{"id":1115,"date":"2008-11-02T23:48:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T07:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2008\/11\/02\/nanowrimo-has-begun\/"},"modified":"2008-11-02T23:48:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T07:48:00","slug":"nanowrimo-has-begun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2008\/11\/02\/nanowrimo-has-begun\/","title":{"rendered":"NaNoWriMo Has Begun"},"content":{"rendered":"

That’s National Novel Writing Month<\/a> to you. My current progress:<\/p>\n

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D and I got a head start at a midnight write-in on Friday, and an after-hours library write-in on Saturday night. Then we totally slacked off today and played Rock Band and watched movies and ate pancakes. Tomorrow, it’s back to work.<\/p>\n

It’s going to be a bit of a crazy month. Since I’ve won<\/a> NaNoWriMo the last three years–by writing at least 50,000 words during the month of November–I decided to challenge myself this year to write 100,000 words.<\/span> There are also practical reasons for this upping of the ante; most novels run around that length, and my output is going to be a meandering, bloated first draft that will need to be cut by at least 25% to have any chance of selling.<\/p>\n

(On a related note: this will probably be my last NaNoWriMo, at least as a participant. Since I’m spending the next two years working toward becoming a professional writer, pretty much every<\/span> month should be a novel writing month for me. I’ll likely stay involved to some degree, since the community is a lot of fun, but I’d feel like a bit of a ringer.)<\/p>\n

Anyway. As if reaching 100k wasn’t enough of a challenge, I’ve also booked every other weekend this month. Next week D and I drive down to the bay area for Ghost Patrol<\/a>; the weekend after that, I go to LA for The Sitcom Room<\/a>; then we fan out at OryCon 30<\/a>; and finally, our friend Mike and his girlfriend Amy have invited us over to their house for Thanksgiving. At least the last two events are local<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But it’s all in the NaNoWriMo spirit. As founder Chris Baty says in his book<\/a>: “If you have a million things to do, adding item number 1,000,001 is not such a big deal.”<\/p>\n

~CKL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That’s National Novel Writing Month to you. My current progress: D and I got a head start at a midnight write-in on Friday, and an after-hours library write-in on Saturday night. Then we totally slacked off today and played Rock…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[36,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-writing"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}