Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Getting Ready for NaNoWriMo - No Plot, No Problem . . . yeah, right. =/


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As most of my Twitter and FaceBook followers already know, I started my NaNoWriMo planning on August 1st (just as I do every year.) My problem, as always when I start a new book, is that as soon as I get an idea and start researching it, while I'm researching, other ideas pop up and I end up planning several books at once. This can cause problems with NaNoWriMo, because with a timed contest like this, you have to write at the seat of your pants, non stop break neck speed, which means once the contest starts, you really can't stop your novel and start a second, third, or fourth one dead in the middle! In my early years of NaNoing this has been a problem - heck, it was a problem last year too!

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Anyways, in order to give myself time to change my mind about my plot 10 or 20 times, I start my NaNoNovel plotting in August instead of October with every one else, and it's a good thing I did. This year I ended up with 13 plots between August 1st and September 30st!

In August, my goal was to write about a creepy circus. I love creepy circuses, always have, always will. Throughout the month of August all my Tweets chattered about my circus history research, but as the month wore on, more ideas popped up and my circus idea changed and evolved many times. From Steampunk to Horror to Romance to Fantasy and than back and forth between them all, my NaNoNovel has yet to settle down into a genre, but it's plot, has become more clear.

Find Out More About My 2009 NaNoWriMo Project


What's your take on this? I'd love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!


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The Top 5 Tools For NaNoWriMo
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Where Do You Get Your Ideas?
Improving your writing with what you read.
Have You Written Your Author's Interview Yet?
How I Reached 50,000 in 30 Days and You Can Too!
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