Constructing A Bestseller #NaNoWriMo #NaBloPoMo #TMOTR
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I will probably never do this again! Goodness, this is a lot of work.
No, not the NaNoWriMo (#NaNoWriMo) alone, nor THE
NaBloPoMo (#NaBloPoMo) alone but combining them is a lot. Don't get
me wrong, I have written plenty of stuff in a month or less
before--it's kind of my average for a full-length novel--but never
have I had to do the posts every day too, coupled with the garden
clean-up. MAN, November is just such a busy month for me. Is
there any way we can move this to January when it's longer, there's
less happening (no Thanksgiving means no Thanksgiving travel), not to
mention it's actually snowing then and more people are snowed in and
missing school or their other work because of the weather? Seriously,
the NaNo people should look into that. Just imagine the rush of
energy writers will feel from completing a book at the beginning of
the year. Major bragging rights for the rest of the year, but I
digress.
This Monday, as I am writing this, I am up to about 80,000 words and
still have somewhere between 20 and 30 thousand to go. The book I'm
writing--you know, the future bestseller that I told you about in my
first NaNo post--is a mystery and it has a lot of moving parts to it.
Oh, and remember that hashtag up top, #TMOTR, cause in about a year
it will be everywhere, ON everything. Seriously, I cannot
stress enough how big this book will be, people.
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Having now come to the hard part of writing for me, I am faced with
the near insurmountable task of having to cobble together the
sequence by which what I've written should actually go in the book.
Revealing a little more of my writing process as talked about on my
Twitter-friend and fellow author S.M. Dahman's blog, when starting a
book, I just write. I have the details of what I want in the story, I
have a basic structure of how it goes, I have THE plot from
start to finish, and I have a few clear visions of scenes. Starting
with the easiest scenes, I push forward and I don't stop until I hit
a wall where I have to stop to force myself to think of how to get
from point A to point Z (usually the ending is one of those things
written first).
I have nearly reached that point. Now, I'll most likely spend a few
hours trying to slot the things I've written into where it should go,
shaving off what can and can't fit so that the transitions are
smooth. Because it's a mystery, I actually will keep a hint of
confusion for the reader to feed into the overall aura of the book;
everything else must flow. Hopefully I can make that happen for TMOTR
and still produce a bestseller. Remember that success starts first
with convincing yourself that it's possible, then convincing the
world, sometimes one person at a time. When you read this book about
this ROOF, you'll know that I succeeded at convincing not only
myself, but you as well.
What about you, fellow writers and readers? Writers, are you reaching
any of your goals to finish a book or get to a particular word count
or scene count (that's important too, as some stories needn't be long
but every scene impactful)? Are you already finished or trying to
rush to the finish line? And how do you feel about your finished
draft? Is it good or did you just slop some words together just to
say you did?
What about you bloggers out there? Are you succeeding at the
post-a-day for the month of November or did you miss a day or two?
How do your readers/subscribers feel about the onslaught of posts?
Are you ready to go on vacation from blogging? I sure am.
Well, wish me luck on completing these two challenges as I'll
probably be working a little on Thanksgiving too. Anyway, let me know
what you're writing/reading in the comments below (hint: click the no
comments button if you see no comments).
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Until next time, "you want me to
do what?"
'Read a book!'
"Fine!"
'And picture books
don't count!'
"What hell is
this?"
P.S. I like that sign-off. Gosh, I might keep that one. It's just
such a long conversation, though. Maybe I can fix it in the editing
process. I'll see if it works for the next time.
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