Nanowrimo 2009

Here's some news hot off the press: I managed to do 50 000 words in less than a month. There's hope for my writing career yet.

The funny thing about writing is that I want every chapter, every paragraph, even every line to be interesting in some way. People walking around their daily lives should sound like they've stepped into a painting, and every dramatic event should be dramatic. But I don't want to overload the readers with too many adjectives, so what's the alternative? Probably taking a step back from writing and then coming back to it in another month's time to start again. Or printing it out and putting all 270 pages up on my walls. Hmmm... That idea sounds awesome.

Writing is possibly the greatest thing I've ever committed myself to trying, and with a trilogy mostly written, and ideas for two other books I'm hoping that I can really do something about this. I'd really like to take a writing course, though, since I've never done much writing outside of what they teach in high school, which is pretty much obsolete 4 years later. I can barely even remember the linguistic rules taught in primary/high school English, and then there's the authors who say things like, "Were you taught in school never to use 'and', 'but' or 'because' at the start of sentences? Well, throw that out." Which has actually made writing something other than a pronoun at the start of each sentence a lot easier.

Chrissi