Thursday Thirteen
Thirteen Ways to Start Your NaNo
1. “It was a dark and stormy NaNovember…”
2. With a good, strong cup of coffee.
3. “I know! I’ll do a stream of consciousness NaNo. That’s right. Stream of consciousness NaNo that I can just type along as I think…”
4. “Once upon a time in ALABAMA! Yeah!”
5. With a bit of nail-chewing, drink/drug of choice, and a lot of padding.
6. Falling asleep before midnight and starting the next morning.
7. “There was a boy. There was a girl. They were in a white room with no doors or windows. Let’s see what happens!”
8. “This story is about an author who is struggling to write… No! It is so not about me!”
9. Contacting everyone you know and asking them for ideas.
10. Writing a page and then spending the next fifteen minutes taking out all the apostrophes and padding as much as possible.
11. With a prompt from Write Anyway.
12. On November 29th.
13. Actually taking one of my suggestions seriously.
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November 1st, 2007 at 2:31 pm
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November 1st, 2007 at 5:39 pm
I would love to participate in NaNoWriMo if it happened in February. November is just never going to happen for me. I run the book fair at my kids school and that takes up an entire week of my life. I always host Thanksgiving dinner. I tried two years ago, but it’s just a bad month.
I’m just going to have to write my first novel the old fashioned way - over many, many years!
November 2nd, 2007 at 12:25 pm
Not bad ideas. Sadly, I can’t tell you the first line of the WIP, but I CAN tell you the first line of Trevor’s Song. It’s NSF, most likely. Definitely not for polite company.
That Trevor…
November 3rd, 2007 at 8:09 pm
Robin - Yes, I don’t think November is the greatest month to have NaNo either. I’m sorry you can’t participate at all.
Susan - I think that’s a great first line.
November 4th, 2007 at 7:25 pm
LOL! I love it. I think you have something there with the stream of concious idea.
November 4th, 2007 at 7:53 pm
Hehe. Glad you like it, Sara. Stream of consciousness is a great way to pad, but not a great way to write.
It will give your editing side something to do when you’re finished, though!