November 2008 Archives
Write-In: Hooked on Colfax (Pre-show)
Today’s Starting Word Count: 3393
Today’s Word Count Goal: 6750
Today’s Nano Average Goal: 5000
Word Count at the time of Writing: 4010 (Track)
Current Funds Raised: $25 (Donate)
The first write-in at the Hooked on Colfax coffee house starts in a little over an hour. I’m planning to attend, if for no other reason than to get caught up on my word count. I’m a little behind since the landlord had someone in to spray for bugs. We had to keep the kitten out of the bug spray.
Anyway, I’m nervous. Meeting my peers. I’ll let you know how it goes.
One Thousand Fifty-one. Well Begun.
Bits of advice from an inexperienced Nano: choose between the Halloween party and starting Nano ASAP on the first. The Halloween hangover will not leave you at your most creative or productive. Also, if you write using a pen name, be sure to do your fundraising with your real name. If you aren’t careful about that your friends and family will have no idea who is hitting them up for money!
I’ve written my first thousand words. I know that it doesn’t seem like much of a mile marker, but there are days when I can hardly force myself to write 100 words. I write poetry where I feel justified in stopping before I reach 50 words. I’m out of practice with prose, thanks to laziness, tech writing, and a stretch of poetic outlet. 1000 word feels like a real accomplishment!
I’m currently working on an expositive prologue written from the perspective of the antagonist. Call it ”Why I Went Bad” by Naughty McMeanie-Pants. I’m setting up the inciting incident, the Black Mother laying her curse, and attempting to do so in such a way that the reader sees this fantastic, over-powered, over-blown, vain, wicked, self-centered beast as a victim right up to the moment when she shreds the only scrap of moral fiber she had left. I’m hoping to get in another five pages before I call it a night.
