Tuesday, November 04, 2008

New stuff

Well not too much has happened in this period of silence. Just school and work mainly. Not very interesting.

However, in the past 4 or so hours I have decided that I will be writing a novel this month. November is National Novel Writing Month and a friend of mine was talking about it a while ago so I started thinking tonight that it would be pretty cool if I could have a novel to my name. There is an organization for people who feel like participating in writing a novel this month. The point is not to make a pretty piece of prose but instead to get the majority of the work done. they encourage quantity not quality. The goal is to write a 175 page or 50,000 word novel in one month. I think this is a good thing because the hardest part of writing a book is actually writing it. If you can get 175 pages in a month you can take the rest of the year to make sure those pages are amazing. I think it's going to be a pretty interesting month. We'll see how this thing goes. Maybe I'll make this an annual thing. Well if anyone wants to join in just let me know and maybe we can swap ideas and plots off of eachother. Be aware that it is the 4th of november already and it needs to be done by the 30th. You can submit it at the site and they award little prizes (cirtificates of recognition and stuff like that) if you finish. And other people can read your book.

Any who. time for bed. More writing tomorrow. Yay :-)

2 comments:

Monika said...

Did you finish?

DHG said...

No I didn't. it's sad but school got really busy right about the time I started so I had to choose between doing well in school and finishing the novel. I chose school but I do want to keep working on it. And I'm going to try again next year.