Arts Start Your Novels Today
posted by on November 1 at 10:38 AM
Happy National Novel Writing Month. For the third November in a row, I will be writing 1,667 words a day until the end of the month, whereupon I will have a 50,000-word unpublishable novel. Shut up. It’s an exercise.
This year I will be joined by two potential first-time-novelists: Our Worst Enemy Cienna Madrid and Stranger contributor Davida Marion. In an attempt to make our private pain a very public one, we’ve agreed to check in once a week on Slog with exemplary passages from our respective novels.
Will Cienna become the next chick lit phenomenon?
Will Davida go on to inspire the next generation of literature?
Will I get nailed for copying my books from Wikipedia?
Answers by November 30th.
NaNoWriMo kicks my ass every year.
I can't decide if I'm going to jump on the bandwagon this year.
Jumped in for the 3rd year. The challenge for me is not so much the writing, but finding the time between work, school and other pursuits. I came very close last year but topped out around 46K.
I have a good plan this year, better discipline and it's gonna work.
Just because my novel is tentatively titled "Sassyflaps: One Woman's Journey to Self Discovery" does not mean it is chic lit, Paul.
Cienna, that has inspired me to call my book, "Flappysass: One Man's Journey Far, Far Away From That Book About One Woman's Journey to Self Discovery".
Okay, I'm kidding. Best of luck.
And just because mine is called The World According to Ulysses, does not mean it's literature, Paul. Jeez.
I just finished my first 1667 words, and already I can tell that it will be the most hilarious thing I have ever written. In the bad way.
I started naplwrimo this year !
18 of us are writing plays !
if anyone wants to join...
http://www.naplwrimo.org
:)
You can publish your book for free with no pesky screeners at www.lulu.com. They can even get your book on Amazon so I can give you 3 stars.
I'm going to write an alternate history book, which asks the question, "What if the jews won the holocaust?" I'm going to title it, "The Da Vinci Code 2: Da Vinci's Revenge." I'm pretty sure I'm going to be #1 on Amazon.
PS does anyone know how to win a copyright infringement lawsuit without using any money
snoooooooooze.
This was covered by the Weekly YEARS ago by that annoyance Longenbaugh (who sounds like charles mudede)
http://www.seattleweekly.com/arts/0147/arts-longenbaugh.php
god. Can't the Stranger think up ANYTHING that the Weekly hasn't covered before?
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