NaNo, the end.

So you're all probably wondering how NaNoWriMo went for me. Well for my first year I'm proud to say I wrote nearly every day up until the last week. Just not on the story I wanted to write for NaNo. I started a story just for the month of November, but it just didn't want to be written. I got about 5,000 words in and stalled out. Instead I spent some time writing my fan fictions. Over all, for the month I wrote about 10-12k words. Just not on what I was supposed to write. *sigh* Then, about 3 days before Thanksgiving, I got my hand slammed in a car door. I didn't break my finger, but I was sidelined for a long time. I'm just now getting back to blogging.

Despite not finishing, I still think it was a cool thing to do. Maybe I'll be more involved next year. Or maybe I'll have decided this isn't the thing for me. Either way, for now I'll still be writing, just maybe not a massive novel. I'll happily stick to my short stories for now.


Warning, gross finger picture after the break. Don't click on "Read More" if you're easily grossed out.

NaNoWriMo ~ Day 4

Day 4 of NaNoWriMo and I've managed to procrastinate just enough to make me think, meh, I'm not that far behind. One good solid day and I'll catch up no problem. *goes back to playing Minecraft and watching reruns of Supernatural*. Yeah. that's me. I need to do 2 thousand words a day to make my goal of 50,000 words by the end of the moth. I'm at...umm... 2,787 total. Yeeeeaaah.... And to procrastinate even father, I'm writing a blog post. That is me in a nutshell. Maybe if I had a good solid idea of what I was writing, but honestly it's just a vague notion. I'm not sure how I'm gonna turn it into a book. I guess, even if I don't hit the 50k mark, just writing everyday will be an accomplishment.

An odd thing I have noticed writing this story, I've created a very weird tone in the way I'm writing it. It's almost like a formal medieval fantasy style. I didn't really know I had that in me. Here's a snippit of what I've written:

“Mistress Baker, How are you this lovely day,” A tall watch officer strode through her open door. “And might I add you are a vision yourself.”

“Corporal Donal, you've a silver tongue in you're head that you waste on me. I'm no doe-eyed maiden to cling to your coat tails and write poetry of your eyebrows.” Kalisin put on a playfully annoyed manner. She did enjoy the banter, even if she knew Donal never meant it truly.

“It was of my eyes, and Rosana was very passionate about that poem. I think I might still have that parchment. It was an inspired bit of verse if I say so myself.”

See what I mean? It's an unusual tone that I've fallen into. I kinda like it but not sure how I can keep it up. If I slide back into a normal speaking voice this will sound out of place. Meh, I can change it later. I just have to get it on the page right now.

NaNoWriMo: Dipping My Toe Into The Pool

I hated writing as a kid. I'd read constantly, but I hated to write. Somehow over the last few years that has changed. It started with just a few sentences outlining story ideas that grew into a few paragraphs. Then last year I discovered Fan Fiction. It was silly and fun. It wasn't until a few months ago that I realized I was putting more and more effort into my stories, researching history and actually trying to craft a decent plot instead of just slapping words together. It was then that a friend pointed NaNoWriMo.org out to me. A neat concept, you challenge yourself to write a 50,000 word novel in one month. Neat, but not really for me. I didn't like writing, didn't I? Well, NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) is next month, November, and I think I might give it a shot. Dunno, I have about 3 weeks to come up with an original idea. I'm playing around with one, but I have no idea if I can stretch it out to a whole novel. This is intimidating. Wish me luck!