I am still flicking through this but thought I'd pass on the link. Very interesting series on writing a book in 30 days in The Guardian.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/series/how-to-write-a-book-in-30-days
I am still flicking through this but thought I'd pass on the link. Very interesting series on writing a book in 30 days in The Guardian.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/series/how-to-write-a-book-in-30-days
I got a certificate to print off and a little avatar for Facebook to say I'd won...
...and a smile that lasted all the way through December that year.
Isn't obsessive, dysfunctional, anti-social recluse in our job description?
Thunbs up, Victoria for a good reply.
But, I have better things to do than, 'wit my pits' against my imagination
What do you get if you succeed in this very productive and worthwhile task? Kudos perhaps? money? ( Interesting), a divorce ( I am not married, and besides, who in their right mind would want to marry me? ) or a medal for being an obsessive, dysfunctional, anti-social recluse?
Oops, I just described myself.
To hell with the reader, there is nothing like churning out fifty thousand words in thirty days. Out there across the world there are people stocking up on Pro Plus and Red Bull, checking out their city meeting dates and running their laptops through general maintenance before the big event. Movember will pass them by. The Christmas build-up will go unnoticed. Birthdays will be forgotten. The first of December will arrive as if it jumped out of August and those few hundred thousand successful people won't care.
No one expects a masterpiece in thirty days, Adrian. That's not even the point of it. This is you, pitting yourself against your imagination, registering your claim on the internet that you will be triumphant and suceeding where the narrow-minded will fail before they've begun. This is a test of creative ability like no other. This is NaNoWriMo baby!
And any Nanoer will tell you that that article is written by someone who hasn't done it because at no point in those six steps is there time to ACTUALLY WRITE THE BOOK!