For the past month or so I've been rebuilding and outling a world for my Nano project this year. It's consumed much of my time and I've gotten about as far as I can without actually writing anything at all. So, naturally, my brain is all fired up to go ahead and launch into the story.
In order to prevent myself from cheating and getting an early start, I've decided to start working on a short story idea I had a few days ago. It's also serving to get back into the saddle of writing, This peice is about as far removed from my Nano project as you can get, but it's definately working to get things moving.
Naturally, I'm curious if anyone else has projects that they are currently working on? How do you handle the days leading up to november? What do you do to keep yourself from cheating if you can't wait to work on your ideas?
~Tish
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46,085 / 50,000
Oct 19, 2009 - 13 31
I can't speak for others but NaNo is not my only writing project. I write a newspaper column every week and I publish a blog that I post to a couple of times a week. I have been doing character bios and interviews and timeline because I have multi-generational and eras to deal with and it gets confusing when naNo is wedged between other writing deadlines.
In my LJ NaNo support group some people have been pre-cooking for the month, and pre-cleaning for Thanx company; I have never gone that route.
----------2009 "Iron Lung in the Window"
The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start. -John Bingham
17,697 / 50,000
Oct 20, 2009 - 16 07
The short story idea is a good one and I am trying to get myself into that mode more. I have, in the past, did a little personal challenge where I had to write a short story a week. Talk about a warm up.
6,319 / 50,000
Oct 21, 2009 - 09 03
I actually reread what I started last year and never quite completed and realized that I really liked what I wrote. I've given up on my 2006 story that just seems to have finally died. I'm actually pretty motivated with the work I have done on last years book. So far it has been everything I hoped it would be, funny.
18,342 / 50,000
Oct 21, 2009 - 11 57
I must finish up work related writing projects prior to november so I don't have to worry about them while nano-ing.
13,801 / 50,000
Oct 22, 2009 - 20 17
My plan was to work on something that spun off from my 2006 novel. It was an attempt at space opera, but it got sidetracked by the main character's angsty romantic subplot. Everything I got finished on that story were those scenes, and whenever I tried to revise it, all the story wanted to do was throw romantic scenes that didn't really fit within the story at me.
So I meant to just write the romance to get writing every day and as writing practice since I don't normally write romance at all. I had this idea, oh, around the 10th. I have four or five half-finished scenes. And two new knitting projects, and I've cut my backlog of photographs that needed to be edited down from 1200 to 250 over the last month or two (and bumped it back up to 860, since I went "OMG it's nice out!" the last couple days and ran off to Aullwood and Eden Park down in Cincinnati to waste some frames).
50,605 / 50,000
Oct 27, 2009 - 10 27
I'm (frantically, since I just found out about NaNo end of last week, LOL) trying to finish up other writing projects I have going on that are under deadline, so I can focus all of my time and attention on NaNo. Yikes!
Basically, trying to clear my plate of anything I can that will free up time in November. Since I tend to be a really slow writer (which will make this interesting, to say the least), I'll need all the time I can get.
36,647 / 50,000
Oct 29, 2009 - 09 36
I started a novel when I was 14. I'm almost done with it (I've rewritten a lot since the verbiage needed to be adjusted. There are 107,000+ words so far. It's a fantasy novel and geared towards YA.
www.ladyfromday.com
^ that's the condensed audio drama version. Some of it aired on the radio on Sonic Society in Canada a few years ago.
The title of the actual novel (for publishing) is called Tales From Orinda: Lady From Day. The one I'm going to start in November for NaNo will be spun off one of the books mentioned in the story.
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