Post by Craig on Oct 29, 2011 20:22:25 GMT -5
I really didn't think I was going to do this again, but something inside me doesn't want to let the streak die. I'll have to get creative (and bend the rules just a little) but I'm going to do my best to win NaNoWriMo again.
Since last year's novel, I've realized that my niche -- at least for now -- lies in short fiction. I always had an idea of this, I suppose. My strength in The Neopian Times was always the short story, and, looking back, those are the work I'm proudest of. So it makes sense.
Having said that, my goal for NaNoWriMo this year is to complete a collection of short stories totaling 50,000 words.
Now, here's where the rule bending happens: ever since I took a fiction class last spring, I've been producing a few short stories here and there, and I think I'm going to take the best of these and revise them as part of my collection. I'm not going to just plunk in something that's already finished, though -- I'll definitely go through the full editing and rewriting process, which will be pretty extensive I'm sure. But at least that'll give me some flexibility so I won't have to be sitting down to write 1,667 words every single day, which, at this point for me, would be an impossibility.
So, we'll see how it goes. ^_^ I'm excited.
Here's my NaNo profile for this year, where you can see an excerpt from one of the stories I'm probably going to revise and include.
Wish me luck!
Since last year's novel, I've realized that my niche -- at least for now -- lies in short fiction. I always had an idea of this, I suppose. My strength in The Neopian Times was always the short story, and, looking back, those are the work I'm proudest of. So it makes sense.
Having said that, my goal for NaNoWriMo this year is to complete a collection of short stories totaling 50,000 words.
Now, here's where the rule bending happens: ever since I took a fiction class last spring, I've been producing a few short stories here and there, and I think I'm going to take the best of these and revise them as part of my collection. I'm not going to just plunk in something that's already finished, though -- I'll definitely go through the full editing and rewriting process, which will be pretty extensive I'm sure. But at least that'll give me some flexibility so I won't have to be sitting down to write 1,667 words every single day, which, at this point for me, would be an impossibility.
So, we'll see how it goes. ^_^ I'm excited.
Here's my NaNo profile for this year, where you can see an excerpt from one of the stories I'm probably going to revise and include.
Wish me luck!