As November approaches, friendly emails start arriving in my inbox, trying to get me geared up for NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). I look forward to NaNoWriMo all year, and yet now as I consider the fact that I have no idea what I want to write about let alone have an outline for it, my stomach tightens and a slight feeling of dread comes over me.
In the past, I have started novels and scrapped them 20 pages in. When you’re aiming for at least 50,000 words in a month, losing that many pages is … well, it’s pretty bad. But I do have until November 1st to come up with something, over a week, so hopefully I can get my creative act together! In addition to updating my personal blog, I will update here as well, to keep all of our fellow story tellers and story lovers in the loop. If you are also a NaNoWriMo participant, you can friend me on their website — I’m squirtt7.
If there are any novel writers out there, what do you come up with first for your novels? What do you build on initially? Characters? One character? The setting, or the plot? The antagonist?
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