Welcome to Part One of a seven-part series of entries revolving around NaNoWriMo: National Novel Writing Month. All the month of November, thousands of aspiring and established writers from around the world will be engaging in a thirty-day creative blitz where they will try to write a novel within said time limit.
I've already discussed what I know about NaNoWriMo in a previous entry, so in this one I would like to state my intentions for not only writing but also how I will go about it.
To start, every Saturday (and on the thirtieth) I will be posting an entry reporting on my progress, triumphs and tribulations. The week after NaNoWriMo I will give a critique of my experience, as well as a report as to if I have continued with my project if I did not finish... which I'm quite sure I will not, but that is for another time.
No journey could be accomplished without the right tools on hand, as well as being prepared for any situation. Since I spend so much time subbing and working, I oftentimes do not get access to a computer until late at night or in between jobs. To counter that, I have decided that most of NaNoWriMo will probably be spent working on a hand-written rough draft that I can then edit and transfer to my computer. To that end, as Alton Brown might say, I have the following hardware:
*One 5-Subject College-Ruled notebook
*Three black pens (For writing the novel)
*Three blue pens (For writing notes)
*Two red pens (They need no introduction)
*One white-out dispenser
*One three-pack of sticky post-it notes (For applying to opposite pages as side notes)
My daily plan of attack is as follows: Write as much as I can during the day, edit during whatever lunch breaks I get, and then either in between jobs or after work transfer everything I've written onto my computer. With any luck this will allow me to not only undergo quality control but also keep me focused and on-task, two things that I seem to have trouble with when writing. I would like to think those times are behind me, but I would never know.
Best of luck to everyone involved in NaNoWriMo, and I'll see you all on Saturday.
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