Novel-writing Month
October 25th 2002 -
Novel-writing Month
Once again, I’m seized by a frenzy of enthusiasm for some speed-challenge. Previously I’ve been enthralled by the possibility of doing 24-hour comics and 24-hour short films, but haven’t done anything about them. Yet. Now I’m excited about Novel-writing Month, an effort to co-ordinate many ordinary “I’ll write a novel some day” people into an act of group masochism – writing a 50,000 word novel(la) in 30 days. November.
I’m up for it. It’ll take a silly amount of effort but I’m sure I can turn down my quality-control dial a little further and make a serious effort. Let’s see… roughly three-thousand words per day… two hours writing, say… that’s only 25 words per minute! No worries!
Gaaah. Anyway, I’m in. I figure, with work and the sugar-free dairy-free challenge and now this, it’ll be a fun November. My current plan is to write a Monastery story, the one I’ve been thinking about for a while about the competitive gardening. I may throw in a couple of the other Monastery ideas, and maybe include some stand-alone short story bits if I run out of main story.
The title: A Lotus blossoms in the Monastery Garden