NaNoWriMo 2012
Well, tomorrow it all starts again. The big NaNoWriMo writing challenge! Last year my dad participated in it and achieved his 50,000 word goal. I myself wrote a novel of 80,000 words at the beginning of this year and one month of it was spent writing 50,000 words in just the same way as during NaNoWriMo. This time round, I will join the actual challenge as well. From experience I know that I can make the word count in one month, if I concentrate a bit. I also really wanted to get back into writing regularly, since I am basically stuck at home at the moment due to a recent flare-up of a chronic illness, which makes me feel entirely uncreative.
These last few days I have been working on blog posts for my numerous blogs and I’ve generally brought myself into a writing mindset, so that I can just jump right in once November starts. I will make an effort to keep you updated about my progress on achieving my 50,000 word goal. The project for this month of writing will be the one that I alluded to in my last post. Here a short description:
The novel will be an exploration of mental driftwood. The main character jumps from association to association in a world coloured by paranoid delusions, dreams and coincidences. It will be accompanied by visual fragments, photographs or graphics that relate to the content in one way or another. The idea is to take normal everyday occurrences and interpret them in a way that is bound to seem threatening to the main character. The reader in this case will have to decide for himself whether he wants to get drawn in by the visual aids and the use of the pronoun you, or pull away into safer waters if that is possible. Main themes will be urban alienation, loneliness and depersonalisation / derealisation.
So far I already have quite a number of words, 11,000, so the goal for the end of November will be 61,000 words. At this I will probably not stop and try to get to 70 or 80,000, because 60,000 is still a bit short for a novel in my opinion.
bearable is barely enough 