{"id":1471,"date":"2005-10-04T15:06:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-04T22:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2005\/10\/04\/nanowrimo-third-times-the-charm\/"},"modified":"2005-10-04T15:06:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-04T22:06:00","slug":"nanowrimo-third-times-the-charm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2005\/10\/04\/nanowrimo-third-times-the-charm\/","title":{"rendered":"NaNoWriMo: third time’s the charm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Encouraged by some co-workers, I’ve signed up for NaNoWriMo 2005<\/a>, wherein I will attempt to write a 50,000-word novel during the month of November. I failed at this twice before: in 2002, I banged out less than 9,000 words before losing steam, and in 2003, I didn’t manage to write one word.<\/p>\n

This time, I’m using a premise I scribbled down several years ago and never developed, but every time I read my notes, I get excited. The working title is By the Light of the Moon<\/span><\/a>. It’ll be my first attempt at historical fiction, and I expect to get many things wrong. I’m also crossing hard-ish sf with pure fantasy, which will be interesting.<\/p>\n

I’d still like to finish the novel I started in 2002 (Star-Cross’d<\/a><\/span>, which I describe as “Romeo and Juliet<\/span> in space” or “Contact<\/span> meets The West Wing<\/span>“), and flesh out the short story “Working Graves”<\/a>, which really cries out to be the first novel in a bestselling series. (Hey, I can dream, can’t I?) But NaNoWriMo encourages participants to start new works of fiction– outlines are okay, but no actual prose until November 1st.<\/p>\n

As the FAQ<\/a> says: “Give yourself the gift of a clean slate, and you’ll tap into realms of imagination and intuition that are out-of-reach when working on pre-existing manuscripts.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Encouraged by some co-workers, I’ve signed up for NaNoWriMo 2005, wherein I will attempt to write a 50,000-word novel during the month of November. I failed at this twice before: in 2002, I banged out less than 9,000 words before…<\/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":[1,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471","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=1471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}