NaNoBlogMo
I have free time and I don't. I can have it if I make it, and if I use it well and responsibly. If I don't make sure that I get some, I don't get any. One good way of making sure that I get free time, and don't waste away the time that I do get, is to give myself a project. Since my course load has dropped from three courses to two, I need to ensure that I use the equivalent amount of time "studying" or doing academic stuff, and this project idea helps to ensure that. What I was going to do, was finish my play that I have mentioned before. However, I'm kinda stuck in the play-writing. I think that part of the problem is that the idea was that the play would sort of be about me, but with a different ending, so the beginning would be more like my actual life than the end. I've written the beginning, and now I have to create new things, and wind together the themes and all that.

Blogger, the company hosting this website, is encouraging people, for the month of November, to write a novel in their blogs. November is NaNoBlogMo, National Novel Blogging Month. 50,000 words in a month, writing every day. It's a novel idea (pun intended). While I am writing something, I won't go for a full length novel, but what I'll do is, write out the story behind the play, and maybe seeing it in a different way will make telling the story in dramatic form easier, because I'll see it coming together in a different way. I will write every other day. I won't be posting it in here, but I will have a link to where it can be read.

This project is for my own benefit, and writing is not my profession or my education, so I don't claim that it will be publishable. While I do appreciate feedback, I am quite aware that people read blogs as a short time diversion, and not part of their regular novel reading. Also, having a huge novel entry would make it tougher to find previous entries that you're looking for. Disclaimers aside, I invite you to read the story as it develops, and I welcome your feedback. Part of deciding to do it, is telling people about it, so that they can keep be partners in accountability, spoken or assumed. It starts November 1.

   [ posted by William @ 5:22 PM ]