October 21, 2009
Hello, World!
Please excuse my utterly cliche and uninventive title.
Here we stand, on the precipice of what is considered normal reality, about to fall into the brinks of the abnormal, subnormal, supernormal, bizarre, and unpredictable (add other adjectives here: __________).
NaNoWriMo begins in ten days. That’s right, ten days. If you haven’t started or joined up, go do it. Now. The owl commands you.
In a way, I am completely unprepared. I don’t know what I’m going to do, or what I’m going to write, usw, but that’s part of the fun. I might pull out a notebook and jot some semblance of outlines before I begin.
Some things about myself: I am Oka, two-time NaNo winner. I first started in 2006, when I first heard of NaNoWriMo. The sad part is that it happened to be in the middle of the month, and I only got about 9 000 words completed. The next year, I threw myself into the flesh heap with aplomb and came out on top with 70 000 words. In 2008, I decided to take an extra leap and completed 250 000 words total.
This year, my new word goal is 500 000 words, twice last years. I’ve been thinking about raising the word count every year, but it seems as though the wrist and finger damage might be too much to really trade off the extra word counts. I’m excited at the idea of making a possible ten drafts in the next month, but that also means that those are ten extra drafts that I have to edit into submission and make decent stories out of them.
At the moment, I am writing two warm up novels, one of them a GothNoWriMo, the other not so lucky. I am far behind on the both of them; the longer of the two is still halfway behind. Hopefully this does not foreshadow my progress during November proper.
