Write Drunk, Revise Sober
Monday, October 1, 2007 . 4:29 PM
Octoberfest begins today! No, not Oktoberfest, which technically began in September this year. I'm talking about the inaugural edition of our 31-day festival of preparation for that most overwhelming feat of literary abandon, NaNoWriMo!We'll be starting each week with a "lesson" on a specific topic, and the daily prompts for the rest of the week will focus on that topic. By the time the month is over, each of us should have done enough pre-work on our novels that when we actually have to start writing them, we'll be practically drowning in ideas.
The one rule for this month, in keeping with the rules of NaNoWriMo, is that you absolutely cannot write anything that is intended for direct use within the novel. By that I mean you cannot write any scenes, excerpts, dialogue--nothing that would be copied verbatim later, because that would be cheating. All you can do is make notes and outlines and diagrams; NO WRITING OF THE ACTUAL NOVEL CAN BEGIN UNTIL NOVEMBER 1.
For more information, the NaNoWriMo website is http://www.nanowrimo.org/. Sign-ups should start tonight, barring technical difficulties.
Happy Octoberfest! Let the drinking games begin! 0 comments