NaNoWriMo

A few friends and myself are attempting the "...fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing" that is nanowrimo.  The object is to write a novel of at least 50,000 words in the month of November.  Quantity, not quality is the goal.  That said, I am still hoping to take an existing idea, write the novel, and then after November, revise it.  In the end, the story may not be worth revising, but I won't know until it's written.

Those of us involved are doing some prep work this month.  Our first assignment is to plot out (very basic three act structure with hooks) three ideas and present them for consideration.  My ideas have been kicking around in my head for so long, I don't even know that they're good.  So I'm very interested to see what the others think.

I'm hoping to get a lot of outlining done here with the rest of October.  I think I'm a discovery writer.  I say that having written quite a few short stories, but no novels.  What I don't think I can do though, is discovery write a 50K word novel in a month.  So this could be a good exercise for me.  I may find that to tackle something the size of a novel I need that structure regardless of time.

I've started blogs before for various reasons.  I've even started one to blog about writing.  We'll see what happens after November - I guess we'll see what happens during November - but I hope to keep up with my writing on here; maybe do some reviews of books I'm reading and those I've read, talk up some other authors. 

I'm working now on a structure for my days in November (and possible beyond) that will give me a few hours to write.  This exercise will require, on average, 1,600 words a day to make the goal of 50K.  I'm not sure what to expect once I get beyond 'chapter 3'.  I've written 1,600 word stories in an hour, and spent days on one that came in under a thousand.  Will the book get easier the further in I get?  Will I bog down on the 'boring bits'?

I'm hoping the outline, and prep work we plan to do this month will keep things rolling along.

Time to go outline...