write a novel

Writing is a process consistent of Writing, then Writing some more, then editing, then editing even more, and then being satisfied. I’m on the first writing session with a billion more sessions to go. I’m thinking im going to devise some sort of plan where I can jot down all of my thoughts where they can be easily accessible to me.

And I am feeling like I have never written this much crap in one week, which is actually true.

But I SHALL NOT kill my novel again.

% 10 done!

looking through the two unfinished novels I mentioned in my first entry under this goal.

And you know what? The quality of the writing isn’t that bad, at all.

One is your stock ‘visitors from our world get into another world and have to learn magic to outwit the bad guys’ saga (there were going to be three volumes!). Written when I was very much younger, naive, hopelessly romantic and in a failing marriage, and it shows (the heroine is a total Mary Sue with an indifferent husband, she meets a good-looking mage and, well, you can guess the rest)...but still interesting. There are certain phrases, names and the odd whole character I’m probably going to lift from that and tweak slightly to re-use. Otherwise, to save purely for self-entertainment value, considering there are huge chunks of plot missing which I can’t easily recover because I don’t have the whole edifice in my head, like I did when I was obsessed with it.

The other was my attempt, from just a few years back, at a mainly ribofunk novel, which I had neither the biotech knowledge, nor the intimate knowledge of the outskirts (as opposed to the center) of Cambridge (i.e. the British uni town), to sustain. What did work in that was a sort of culture that incorporated bits of biotech, computer tech and spirituality in an eclectic, slightly scuzzy and dystopian underground urban milieu – and that’s something I’m trying to keep in the current book, although it’s a totally different story in a different, imaginary location.

I suppose this kind of cannibalism is more or less normal.

Is there anyone else out there who habitually uses main characters of the opposite sex from your own? In the ribofunk thing and in this, my main characters are guys, and I’m writing the present one in first person. Don’t know if that’s going to end up being confusing…

It’s Nanowrimo month! Now’s the time. I’ve got my word count going at jianda.net.

(www.nanowrimo.org reveals all!)

So I dropped everything and started a new book. But only because NaNoWriMo made me do it. I am doing awesomely on the wordcount and I am going to nail this by the end of the month.

I didn’t say it would be good though ;)

I’m doing NaNoWriMo.
I’m already behind in word count but I can always catch up.
I’m predicting this novel is going to be pure crap, but that’s okay. This first novel of mine is to see if I can actually stick with it and accomplish it. And when I complete this novel, I’ll get more serious.

I can get about 1,000 words per Fat Tire, and I just cracked another one. At this rate, I need about 46 more Fat Tires to finish NaNoWriMo.

I’ve finally finished not only an outline for the first book but I’ve outlined an entire trilogy, created in-depth character backstories, I even geeked out and created a map of my fictional world. Now if only I could figure out how to start it and start putting the pieces together.

doing it. starts today. heck yes!