So why now? A very good question, though perhaps not as good as the one which asks: what makes you think you can do it this time?. I even started a couple of times only to be thwarted by some innate inability to read my own work, let alone embrace the apparent enormity of the task. Have I not had the time over the intervening three years to read, revise and improve on that initial effort? Absolutely. Sure, the actual story or first draft is finished – it has just never been revised and edited. Where my thinking lies on that continuum varies day-to-day, however one thought always remained – I never quite finished it. Memories of how November went in 2014 fall somewhere on a continuum between I never want to do that again and I wouldn’t have had it any other way. At the time, I wrote a couple of posts on the tools I used to get there, and a quick search of the term NaNoWriMo on this blog will pull up a few posts outlining how I managed to fall over the 50k word deadline before month’s end.
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While not diving into the full NaNo experience myself this year, I’ve decided to take a slightly different approach (though I’m not sure whether to suggest its an easier or more difficult one), and revise the 55k words I committed to pixel and paper in 2014. To those participating this year, I wish you every success, and to those “I’m already behind” tweets – where there is a will there remains hope – a thought which worked for me a few years ago.
With things having kicked off on November 1st, the progressive daily word counts are now beginning to appear in my social media feeds. Depending on who or what you follow online these days, you‘ve likely seen NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) mentioned as the month of November approached.
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