Well, I've gone and done it. I've signed up for National Novel Writing Month (or NaNoWriMo as it's affectionately known). I'm going to spend the month of November immersed in words. The object is to write over 1600 words a day in order to amass a thirty-day total of 50,000 words, the equivalent of a short novel.
I did something like this three years ago, when I purchased a book entitled No Plot? No Problem!, written by Chris Baty, the originator of NaNoWriMo. The book goes into great detail about how the thirty-day novel works and gives some excellent advice and suggestions. So, although I haven't "officially" done NaNoWriMo before now, I did write an "unofficial" thirty-day novel in the middle of the summer.
The damn thing still isn't finished, though. I wrote the requisite number of words, but I didn't finish the story. And there it sits. I've read through it a number of times in the past three years, and I really like most of it, but I haven't added anything new to it. I know where it's going, and I know some of the scenes I want to write, but I haven't written them yet.
This is typical of me. I write a bunch of stuff, and then I let it sit unfinished for eons. Read the rest of this entry »
Catching the Wave (Google Wave, that is…)
November 25, 2009 in Blogging, Internet, Software, Technology, Writing by faltarego | 2 comments
(Don't skim. Read the whole post. There's a surprise later.)
Just over a month ago, my friend Asheyna sent me an invite to the preview of Google Wave. Since then, I've been going to the site nearly every day, playing with features, catching up on some of the public waves I'm following, and generally just checking things out.
First off, Google Wave is cool.
No doubt about it. It's like a discussion groups forum with document editing and formatting features and bit of instant messaging.
But it's much more than that. Read the rest of this entry »
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