NaNoWriMo Progress
All this month there has been a curious little icon in the right sidebar. Some of you may have noticed that I joined the NaNoWriMo. I have joined in the past but have not actually written anything most of the time because I completely forgot about it. This year I told myself that I would finish my current novel and I would do it during NaNoWriMo. Well I currently have 6,308 words out of the required 50,000 to complete the challenge. That means in two weeks time I need to write 43, 692 words to complete the challenge (but possibly not the novel). This time I actually think that I can do it. The novel I am working on is more of a collection of short stories about different people all living in the same area. Norwood started off the story with two characters that he both hates but at the same time loves (he loves them only because they are funny to imagine their actions and words). They are a comical pair of drug addicts that find love across generations (this section is based somewhat on the truth of two people we encountered in Florida). I picked up the story and have helped to fill out the characters by adding more people around them. My real focus is on another couple who moved near the comical drug addicts because their father wanted to keep them out of trouble. The story is a satire. Inspired by Henry Fielding’s characters in Tom Jones (of course, if you only knew how many times I read that novel!) and some of the people we have encountered these last few months in Florida this story is actually coming out pretty good. Once it is complete and edited I will have it for sale at Lulu.
Well now back to writing…
Labels: NaNoWriMo 2008, writing










