No, I’m not jumping ship to go swing a lightsaber.
But I’m toying with an idea.
Oh, and I have a D3 update, let’s do that first.
So there is expected to be a D3 beta character wipe next week. I’ll be starting over from scratch so this time I can take some notes and whatnot on the play experience to pass on to you guys.
Oh, look a squirrel!
And back to my idea…
I have a story floating about in my head.
It’s been there for at least a year now, probably pushing 2 years.
I’ve got a page of random scribbles for the story, most of which contradict each other.
If I decide to become brave and put some serious effort into this wisp of a plot bouncing in my brain, should I do it now or should I wait to participate in NaNoWriMo?
Specifically, do I have readers that have done the NaNoWriMo marathon?
I’m worried about being able to meet any goals I set for myself about writing, and NaNo would take care of that.
The story has been simmering for quite some time and has recently began to heat up. Would I gain more by attempting to bring it to life now or continue to let it mature until November?
NaNo sounds like a lot of fun… would anyone else be willing to sign up with me if I do it?
I’ve thought about doing it for a few years now. I have a few ideas and have tried writing them into a story before but the problem I have is I get horribly embarrassed about what I’ve written, and the idea of letting people read it scares the hell out of me! I guess I need to grow a pair :)
From what I can tell, no one has to read it. Whenever you want to tally up your official word count your draft is “read” by a program that just pulls the word count and then is deleted. Something like 200k people participated in 2010, they only have a staff of about 15 people including the volunteers. Your stuff only gets read if you post to the forums.
I’m afraid to do NaNoWriMo. I’m lucky to finish a chapter in a month. Trying to do a whole novel would just end with someone finding my broken corpse splayed across the keyboard.
Sounds like fun! You should totally do it.
I was reading some of their forums and a lot of people talk about this being what broke their writer’s block on an idea. Yeah, a lot of what they wrote was crap dream sequences, but the exercise opened up ideas that they wouldn’t have thought of before and changed the direction of the story. The idea isn’t to have a publish-worthy draft in a month. Just 50k words.
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