Double Your Word Count, Double Your Pleasure, Double Your Fun
The great thing about NaNoWriMo is that doubling your word count more than doubles the pleasure and feeling of accomplishment of the endeavor. Today (well yesterday) I wrote 3,781 words in six hours. That pace absolutely sucks but the end result is I'm topping 20,000 words when all is said and done.
The thing is that I didn't even really concentrate much on writing today. Nearly my entire early afternoon session was spent chatting with nikhak about her adventures with footcer players yesterday night. Tomorrow afternoon she may similarly distract me if we go to The Globe to watch the MLS Cup final. Footcer was, in general, a distraction today as I didn't start writing until 2:30 p.m. as I spent the morning watching the United States/Scotland match and then the Australia/Uruguay match in the background of nikhak and writing.
So much for thinking footcer wouldn't distract me because there were no MLS or EPL matches today.
Apparently I'm getting into the mindset of my main characters as nikhak actually thought I was a Republican. So today's evening writing session was spent writing about the Federalist Party in my alternate historical timeline and having the Socialist Matthew Starwood knocking them in a televised debate.
What I love about this year's NaNoWriMo novel is that I can do that and it actually fits in with the story. The novel that I edited last December and January (and what an adventure was for those who were around at the time) contained an anti-George Bush scene in the middle of a superhero road adventure (the kind of thing that only a 15-year old writing a NaNo can kick out) and it was out of place. But I can screed as much as I want since my novel is political.
Historical fiction is my genre and I can't believe I wrote outside of it last year. Though next year I may just write political satire. There have been plenty of opportunities to fall off into the funny tip this year but I vowed that I wasn't going to discombobulate the reader like I did last year sticking funny scenes in the middle of a novel about depression.
This year's novel is serious politics, no room for humor. Though that being said by the end of November I may be forced to write silly just to get through as so many NaNoers do.
Been listening to a lot of Black 47 to get back into the really political mood. Liam, my MC, has seemingly lost his way politically. The way I presented him in the first few chapter, he was much less of a conservative pragmatist and much more of a ranter. The political voice of the novel has really switched to Matthew Starwood (who is, of course much closer to my real politics). Liam is too busy trying to avoid the police, being jealous of Mia's increasing involvement with Starwood as an aide-de-camp, and working menial jobs for Matthew Starwood to have his own politics anymore.
I think it's about time he has another big monologue on politics, but this time trying to gain the floor and steer the direction at the John Harper Society.
I think even this will be involving Matthew Starwood and how the group should support him more financially. Liam was officially inducted into the inner circle in some of today's writing (I think I also need to have a creepy ceremony involving goat's blood or something to really set the mood of the secret society as it reaches levels closer to the inner circle) so he's now in more in a position to do so.
That and I think I need to bring his conspiracy theory nature to the surface. Though in the society created for the novel, there's no need to be conspiratorial. Maybe this link will come in some handy. "On the Effectiveness of Aluminium Foil Helmets: An Empirical Study" (yoinked chaptal and samca).
Don't know how that will help, really, but I just thought it was a great link as are these (and these are actually NaNoWriMo related):
www.nanowrimo.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=18340&forum=203&poll_id=279 - a poll of possible plot elements for those having writing block
www.languageisavirus.com/ - text generator for coming up with poetry, songs, etc. for use in a novel
I yoinked both of those links from other people. Still not cruising the message boards as much as I'd like. I was too busy writing or chatting or something today. But it's all worth it as not only am I back on pace for 50,000 but I also passed squirrelgirl22's word count. Though I'm sure once weekend festivities pass, that will no longer be the case.
2004 NaNoWriMo: 21,157 words
2005 NaNoWriMo: 20,723 words
reliantfc3: 25,028 words
incendiarymind: 20,723 words
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The thing is that I didn't even really concentrate much on writing today. Nearly my entire early afternoon session was spent chatting with nikhak about her adventures with footcer players yesterday night. Tomorrow afternoon she may similarly distract me if we go to The Globe to watch the MLS Cup final. Footcer was, in general, a distraction today as I didn't start writing until 2:30 p.m. as I spent the morning watching the United States/Scotland match and then the Australia/Uruguay match in the background of nikhak and writing.
So much for thinking footcer wouldn't distract me because there were no MLS or EPL matches today.
Apparently I'm getting into the mindset of my main characters as nikhak actually thought I was a Republican. So today's evening writing session was spent writing about the Federalist Party in my alternate historical timeline and having the Socialist Matthew Starwood knocking them in a televised debate.
What I love about this year's NaNoWriMo novel is that I can do that and it actually fits in with the story. The novel that I edited last December and January (and what an adventure was for those who were around at the time) contained an anti-George Bush scene in the middle of a superhero road adventure (the kind of thing that only a 15-year old writing a NaNo can kick out) and it was out of place. But I can screed as much as I want since my novel is political.
Historical fiction is my genre and I can't believe I wrote outside of it last year. Though next year I may just write political satire. There have been plenty of opportunities to fall off into the funny tip this year but I vowed that I wasn't going to discombobulate the reader like I did last year sticking funny scenes in the middle of a novel about depression.
This year's novel is serious politics, no room for humor. Though that being said by the end of November I may be forced to write silly just to get through as so many NaNoers do.
Been listening to a lot of Black 47 to get back into the really political mood. Liam, my MC, has seemingly lost his way politically. The way I presented him in the first few chapter, he was much less of a conservative pragmatist and much more of a ranter. The political voice of the novel has really switched to Matthew Starwood (who is, of course much closer to my real politics). Liam is too busy trying to avoid the police, being jealous of Mia's increasing involvement with Starwood as an aide-de-camp, and working menial jobs for Matthew Starwood to have his own politics anymore.
I think it's about time he has another big monologue on politics, but this time trying to gain the floor and steer the direction at the John Harper Society.
I think even this will be involving Matthew Starwood and how the group should support him more financially. Liam was officially inducted into the inner circle in some of today's writing (I think I also need to have a creepy ceremony involving goat's blood or something to really set the mood of the secret society as it reaches levels closer to the inner circle) so he's now in more in a position to do so.
That and I think I need to bring his conspiracy theory nature to the surface. Though in the society created for the novel, there's no need to be conspiratorial. Maybe this link will come in some handy. "On the Effectiveness of Aluminium Foil Helmets: An Empirical Study" (yoinked chaptal and samca).
Don't know how that will help, really, but I just thought it was a great link as are these (and these are actually NaNoWriMo related):
I yoinked both of those links from other people. Still not cruising the message boards as much as I'd like. I was too busy writing or chatting or something today. But it's all worth it as not only am I back on pace for 50,000 but I also passed squirrelgirl22's word count. Though I'm sure once weekend festivities pass, that will no longer be the case.
2004 NaNoWriMo: 21,157 words
2005 NaNoWriMo: 20,723 words
reliantfc3: 25,028 words
incendiarymind: 20,723 words
posted by incendiarymind at 11:20 PM
2 Comments:
Historical Fiction? You are brave indeed. I could never. I'm not smart enough!
It's alternate historical fiction so it's not that much different than writing a fantasy novel.
The only difference is that it has to be based on actual historical facts and how they would carry through if changed slightly.
Plus, pure historical fiction doesn't necessarily take brains, just a love of research.
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