First of all, I'm definitely changing my blog template. It is so flowery that I'm sick of it. I don't want a soft green. I want interesting. I want ME. I am flowery sometimes...all into nature and what not. But that alone does not define me. Anyway...that is not the matter at hand.
I am definitely on a mission to write this novel for NaNoWriMo. At first, I was a little worried. And honestly, I still am. But that has been stopping me from writing for years. I am the exact type of person they are trying to reach with this project. They said so themselves. The said something like, writing a novel is usually a "One day" thing....like "One day, I'll write a novel". Well, here I am. I'm ready. I think I know what the plot will be and the genre (spirituality/new age). And I don't have a main character name yet, which I would like to have. But for now, I am using K. And...I have an idea for a first line and I love it. It's bad. It's rough. It's very Stephen King. I can't help but be influenced by him since he is the only fiction I really read. I thought that my novel was going to be flowery. But, I don't think it can be with this first line:
Fuck it.
Two words. In italics...to show that she is thinking it (Stephen King totally does that in all his books). Not the novel in a nutshell. And I'm not even sure what my character is saying that about. But that's how it starts. And it also encompasses my feeling on the whole novel writing thing. Thank you and good night!
*curtsey*
Sunday, October 9, 2005
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So this one month novel... are you at least allowed to plan it in your head in advance?
Definitely you can plan in your head! You can even outline it on paper...just no actual writing.
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