Happy NanoWriMo, 3.5 readers.
Here’s a column I wrote last year, explaining what National Novel Writing Month is all about, as well as imagining what it would have been like had Shakespeare participated in NanoWriMo.
Are you participating in National Novel Writing Month?
If you’ve never heard of it, the two-cent summary is that it is a challenge to write a novel of at least 50,000 words by the end of November. It doesn’t have to be a good one. The end result does not even have to make sense. Don’t bother editing. Participants will be quick to remind you to write first, edit later.
Write first, edit later? Seriously? “That novel will be a bunch of garbledeegook!” you might say. And you would not be wrong for saying that. The thing to remember about NanoWriMo is – every novel starts out as a pile of garbledeegook.
Take any classic novel, film, TV episode, whatever. They all started out in the brain of a writer and said writer had to mix the thoughts around in his brain for awhile before he got things right. Consider…
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