I’m considering defecting.
With November very much nigh, the annual torment / glee / disaster / panic / joy that is NaNoWriMo is upon us once again. I am, yet again, taking part. This will be year five, my first year in Glasgow and it was – initially – a chance to meet some more people in this sprawling – yet insular – city. Continue reading
It’s only the 29th, the story isn’t finished but oh yeah!
The story so far:
In 2006 I tried to do NaNoWriMo. I did it without going to any meetings, without having any plot, characters or anything more than a deluded sense of literary grandiose. I failed.
In 2007 I tried to do NaNoWriMo. I went to one, maybe two, meetings, I had no plot but I had a pair of half-formed characters. I tried to tell the same story twice. I failed.
In 2008 I tried to do NaNoWriMo. I went to a metric shit tonne of meetings. I drank an equal volume of white wine. I had something resembling a plot and a whole cast of stereotypical characters. I won. There was much joyousness and a little bit more wine.
In 2009 I am trying again because I am a glutton for punishment. I have two half-formed characters and I know I need to flesh out another three or four. I have a start of a plot, but I still need to work out where it’s going and how it’s getting there. I have a list of things to research for accuracy’s sake as this year I’m heading down the dangerous road of historical YA [okay, it's East/West/the no man's land between Berlin in the 70s, but it needs to have some accuracy otherwise it's pointless setting it in a real time and place]. I have all that to do, but I have almost two weeks before kick off and I’ve got the most important thing: a shiny new web badge.
