Novel Idea - I went

Novel Idea - I went to a National Novel Writing Month ("NaNoWriMo, or just Nano_ meeting tonight. It might have been mistaken for a Star Trek convo, or maybe an offseason RenFest get-together.

It was a lot of fun. The goal, of course, is to write a 50,000 word novel in the month of November - essentially, to keep up a 1,300 word a day pace for 30 days.

Now, that seems like a lot of writing - and it is. But last month, I downloaded the "Shot In The Dark" archive into a Word file - and it turns out I've been averaging over 650 words a day since the beginning of this blog, and that includes a lot of the short days of posting before Garrison Keillor launched me into "Huge Fargin' Blog" status about a year ago. I imagine that during my slowest work stretch last spring, I may have averaged well over 1,300 words a day, easily.

I have three possible novels to write:

• The sleazy action-adventure novel I've been outlining for the past two years
• A novel about the Norwegian Mafia - working title "Gøödfellers". Never heard of the Norwegian Mafia? Heh. That's how ruthless they are.
• "Crime and Punishment" from the landlady's perspective

Maybe I'll combine all three...

My biggest question at this point: Will I do more actual writing of the novel, or blogging about my fellow NaNo writers?

At this point, it's a tossup.

Posted by Mitch at October 31, 2003 06:00 AM