My NaNoWriMo Novel for 2009
Aug. 27th, 2009 03:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
river_kateThis year I've barely thought of NaNoWriMo. Oh, in May I did do some crash editing on last year's novel in an attempt to accept the CreateSpace offer for winners, but was unable to figure out the formatting thing.
Last year, I hadn't ever heard of it until October 24th and I impulsively joined with no plan at all. It was fun and way more difficult than I expected; I did the 50,000 plus words but the work wasn't good.
Briefly, I'm healing from something that affects my brain and thus, my writing skills. There was no plot, barely any dialogue and most of the other few characters were referred to in the third person. So, never again I thought. Unable to visualize anything or anyone normal in my imagination, I considered it a one-time thing.
Earlier this spring, I became curious about twitter. I amused myself by creating an account for Dr. Julia Hoffman, a character in the original Dark Shadows series. One of the most entertaining activities of my healing journey has been watching the entire series on DVD again.
After awhile, I attracted a few followers who weren't spammers and found my way to a very small rpg site, something I'd never participated in. With practice, I found that I could actually write dialogue and then amazingly, whole plots would come to me. That's the first time I experienced what I'd only read about happening to writers.
Then, I thought up a character to kind of represent me to interact with the Dark Shadows characters and began writing a little backstory. There's still not much dialogue, but it is brilliant compared to where I was at last year. Also, it's very enjoyable and adds much to my daily life.
Seemingly out of nowhere, I began looking forward to NaNoWriMo again and discovered that fan fiction is allowed. So, I guess this is how I will learn to write. By November, I hope to have learned enough about my created character to be able to do a 50,000 word novel with dialogue, plot and characters.
I will be rather shyly posting what I've written of my fan fiction so far. This seems like a lovely site, what I've seen of it.
Last year, I hadn't ever heard of it until October 24th and I impulsively joined with no plan at all. It was fun and way more difficult than I expected; I did the 50,000 plus words but the work wasn't good.
Briefly, I'm healing from something that affects my brain and thus, my writing skills. There was no plot, barely any dialogue and most of the other few characters were referred to in the third person. So, never again I thought. Unable to visualize anything or anyone normal in my imagination, I considered it a one-time thing.
Earlier this spring, I became curious about twitter. I amused myself by creating an account for Dr. Julia Hoffman, a character in the original Dark Shadows series. One of the most entertaining activities of my healing journey has been watching the entire series on DVD again.
After awhile, I attracted a few followers who weren't spammers and found my way to a very small rpg site, something I'd never participated in. With practice, I found that I could actually write dialogue and then amazingly, whole plots would come to me. That's the first time I experienced what I'd only read about happening to writers.
Then, I thought up a character to kind of represent me to interact with the Dark Shadows characters and began writing a little backstory. There's still not much dialogue, but it is brilliant compared to where I was at last year. Also, it's very enjoyable and adds much to my daily life.
Seemingly out of nowhere, I began looking forward to NaNoWriMo again and discovered that fan fiction is allowed. So, I guess this is how I will learn to write. By November, I hope to have learned enough about my created character to be able to do a 50,000 word novel with dialogue, plot and characters.
I will be rather shyly posting what I've written of my fan fiction so far. This seems like a lovely site, what I've seen of it.
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