I have successfully completed NaNoWriMo once. So, you many are asking why I would do this again, 50,000 words in one month or 1667 words a day. Well the answer to that is I like a challenge and this is a challenge. But I feel it is more than that, NaNoWriMo is more than a Marathon for writers, it is a creative out pouring which you can then take and mold like clay into something more than what it was when you first put word to screen. For me, writing is the act of editing to some extent. So writing 50,000 words is the process of making the medium in which I will later work.
As for the clay I made last year, it is currently sitting on my desk. I have worked it over once and now I am sitting staring at it wondering what, it will become next. That work was the first Draft of Cave City, part of a dystopian post-apocalypse story about one of the remaining colonies of human kind. Even after that first rough draft, I knew it needed major work. In the months following NaNoWriMo at took the spade out and started to dig into the novel. Now a year later it is still a work in progress.
So what to do with it now, that I have come fully round to a new year of NaNoWriMo, which means a new project, new clay. This year I am making a double down challenge for my self, Not only will I write another 50,000 words, but I will also edit 50,000 words of Cave City though the book is slightly longer than 50K, this goal will get me 90% through the second edit.
Over the Next Month, I will post my progress in this endeavor with the goal that maybe I can come up with a game plan to keep this momentum going into December, January and Beyond.
So here is to a month and hopefully a life time of writing madly.
Ten Days and Count tell November....
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