On November 1st, all across the world, literally tens of thousands of people will be accepting the challenge to try and write 50,000 words of a new novel in the next thirty days. Yes, it’s time for the National Novel Writing Month where people of all sorts of writing experiences and none set themselves a target of trying to complete a good chunk of a new piece of work.
I did it last year and found it inspiring, exciting, and rewarding, and from it I produced my novel, Radwinter. Between Novembers there are also writing ‘camps’ and I ‘attended’ the April camp which again I found useful, but with the actual NaNo experience I seemed to ‘meet’ up with more people who were on the same wavelength… and I think this is one of the things that I found most useful in the experience – apart from the discipline of having to meet my target, that there were so many interesting other people to compare notes with.
So this year… the day after tomorrow in fact… I’m not quite sure what I am doing… maybe writing my first ever romantic novel, maybe do a complete rewrite of a novel I wrote over twenty years ago – I don’t mean copying it, I mean taking the storyline and writing a new novel – or maybe, just maybe writing part III of my Radwinter story!.
My most popular novel, thanks to NaNo:
… and if you are inspired to join me…
Lois Elsden 