2 posts tagged “nanowrimo”
Twas the night before NaNoWriMo
And all through the World
Writers were thickly anxious
To scribe their first word
Horrible rhyme, I know. Anyways, I'm not really frightened. Seriously, although part of me is afraid that at the end of it I might feel like Mr. Furley looks. I have so many ideas that have been churning in my head it will be fun to just let them loose on the page. No outline, no notes, no guru, no teacher. I have some names though. Expect to see one or more of these characters in the book:
- Mitzi Babbitt
- Wrisley Magurgle
- Fender Trook
- Thal Fuws
- Ora Lee (that's a real name actually)
- Cecil Barnes, Jr.
And concerts by The Murders, Camera And Sound, Saigon Cinnamon, The Fat Snaps, and Jean Juke.
How much fun is it to come up with names? Too much fun, let me tell you.
I'm in a fiction writing class and I've realised that my writing habits are my own worst enemy. To that extent, I've decided that attempting to write a 50,000 word novel will help me just put word on paper and leave artifice and editing for the next step. Man that's gonna be tough.
The thing I've realised with sculpture, drawing, and the visual arts is that in the creative process there, you can see the whole as it forms. You don't work on one part to get to the next part to get to the next part. Sculpting from a model, you build up the shoulder here, then adjust the thickness of the hip, add a little to the waist. I prefer to do it that way as it comes together as one, rather than getting a complete shoulder but a basic waist.
With writing, the whole is in your head, very often nebulous by choice and always malleable. You have to put it down in a causal order, and if some of those causes haven't been worked out yet, you gotta yank em out of you. With writing I almost feel that the product is in my head, not on the page. The page and words are just the medium. So when the sentence doesn't sound right to me, I make sure it sounds right before I go to the next one. If I read the paragraph and a sentence sticks out, I rearrange the paragraph. This I do on the first draft, and it constipates the story. That's why I'm doing NaNoWriMo. I need to free the story and characters from the medium and worry about my placement of sibilants and prepositions later.
Well, I don't have time to write my treatise on the creative process, nor do I have the priveledge of experience to condone your heeding of my advice.
