Monday 1 November 2010

NaNoWriMo - a.k.a. National Novel Writing Month

It's November, which means it's National Novel Writing Month. I haven't taken part in this writing extravaganza before because I've always had some job or other on already. However, today I am starting to write my seventh Ulysses Quicksilver novel Anno Frankenstein.

NaNoWriMo sets a very arbitrary 50,000 words in 30 days, or 1,667 words per day. To meet my deadline and overall word count, I need to aim for 3,000 words a day, and polished, final, submittable-to-my-editor words at that.

So I guess enough chat, it's time to crack on if I'm going to make my deadline today before I have to meet the guys down the pub later for our Monday night league pub quiz.

Until next time - wish me luck!




BTW - if you're planning to write your own magnum opus this month, you should check out this and this first. And good luck!

2 comments:

ediFanoB said...

NaNoWriMo AND Anno Frankenstein - that is ambitious but I'm sure you will manage it because you enjoy it.

GOOD LUCK!

In the meantime I wait for the Dark Side ...

Jonathan Green said...

Hmm...

Unfortunately, today's word count ended up as 0. Still, better luck tomorrow...