participate in NaNoWriMo 2006

Moreover, I’ve finished the story. So it’s not 50,000 words. Ok, so it’s not even 16,000 words. But the narative is complete. I don’t know if it’s any good. I’m pretty sure some of it is, but it’s hard to say how much. I’ve learned a lot, expecially about the differences between writing a short story, a novella and a novel. Starting with: what sort of idea makes a novel and what doesn’t.
Fun I have had. Lots. What a great, great thing NoNoWriMo is. I will deffinitly do it again, and next time I will try at a longer story.

said something like: writing about flowers and trees is a crime when so many wrongs are being done.
I should write about children dying in Beit Hanun.
I’m writing about the seal woman.
I will go to hell. The special hell for lazy radicals.

Not because I don’t like it, but because my novel has turned out to be hardly a novella. Still, it’s what I wanted to write. I’ll keep writing it and finish it by the end of the month, but I won’t officially “win” nanowrimo.
In order to write a novel, one has to have details. They slow the story down and enrich it. I have two problems with details: one is, I don’t know anything about anything. The second is, my symbolism doesn’t welcome them. I guess I’m not used to the novel pace. I write too fast.
In a novel there should be more characters and more story lines. I hope to find out that I can do that. I’m learning. So far I’ve only written poems and short stories. Now, a novella. I’ll get there in the end! There may yet be a Thackeray in me!

How much is 208 out of 50,000?.. but the day is not over yet, no no!

and finally I got a new idea. I’m switching… 8)

and got registered.
I made a typing error in my user name. Can’t change it, can’t register a different user on the same e-mail address. I feel so stupid. I guess I didn’t get my indian name for nothing.

Then I went to their website and registered myself for a NaNoReminder.

My immediate reaction was: “I want! I want!”. But it’s too late this year. I’ll join next year, and I’ll plan ahead to make room for it in my routines.