Status Report! · 2:05am Nov 5th, 2017
Well hello, internet!
I suppose this is my impromptu writing blog, because ... well, I dunno where else I'd put it. My friends on Facebook would probably just skim over it, and I figure I've got a built in 'fanbase' here. For, all, like, seven of you reading this. But still!
In case you haven't been paying attention, I'm giving NaNoWriMo a go this year. And, uh, so far, so good? I'm just a little over 7k right now, which means I'm ahead of the game (if only by like a few hundred words). Got a bunch of writing done this morning (yay!) but not QUITE as much as I could have, as I wound up doing, well ... other stuff. Some of which was actually productive (buying food, cooking food), and some of which ... not so much (watching Stranger Things, playing Star Fox 2). But that's a Saturday for you, right?
As for my 'novel' I'm working on, I'm going with a time travel idea I've had for awhile. At the moment, it's almost 'Little House in the Cretaceous,' which should be fun. I'm drawing from a lot of ideas that spun off of Let Me Tell You About My Character, so that's mildly interesting, right? Only instead of dorks LARP-ing time travel, it's gonna be dorks ... actually time travelling. It's almost 'Doctor Who, just without the Doctor,' to give it an elevator pitch. Just some random folks (and their dog) blundering through time. Hijinks ensue!
But yeah. Three days in, and I'm doing alright. But ... I'm already stewing up some various ideas for yet another installment of The Flash Sentry Papers. The whole damn series stemmed from my failure at NaNoWriMo last year, so that's ... something, right?
Still, because too much internet has given me an inner craving for instant gratification, I'm giving vaaaague consideration to sharing the couple thousand (terrible, and rather disjointed) words I've got hammered out so far. As, I know, the whole point of NaNoWriMo is to just get words on the page (or in the word processor, as it were). But I'm already wondering if the story would work better if written from a first person rather than a third person perspective-- it'd certainly do more to flesh out the viewpoint character, who thus far is something of a stick in the mud. His sister, on the other hand, is pretty awesome. She punched out a clown once.
This is turning out to be a pretty silly novel already, if you haven't figured it out.
Silly is good:
Silly is always good.
Mike
Yup, silly almost always works.
If something of the quality of The Sentry Papers is the result of your failures then you need to fail far more often!
Good luck with the rest of the month's exercise in word construction.