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Nano starts today!

November 1, 2010 / by Jodie / Leave a Comment

Today is the start of National Novel Writing Month (Nanowrimo).  I’ve always wanted to do Nano–where you aim for a novel-length manuscript in one month–but the past two years I have been knee-deep in already started projects.  This year, I’m set.  The new book is ready to go and, in about five minutes, I am going to open a blank Word document and set down words.

And that’s scary.

Books are written one word at a time.  One sentence.  One page.  One chapter.  It is very, very weird to sit down and look at a blank screen and know that it will one day be as long as a book.  There will be words there.  There will be a whole world populated with people there.  But they will only exist if I get my rear end into a chair, my hands onto a keyboard, and I type.  It’s a minor life and death, writing a novel.  A writer can succeed and make a character live, or they can create a character and lose the flow somewhere in the middle, and the character “dies.”  Oh, I never want to fail a character that way.  I never want to kill off a character without giving them a chance.  I tend to like my characters.  I want them to breathe.  To fail them is unthinkable.

Only other writers understand that.  The rest of you “normal” people out there would say that means I need psychiatric meds.  🙂

So, if you are so inclined, say a little prayer for me (and for so many other writers who are typing away madly) as I start Taryn McKenna’s story.  She’s a pretty cool chick, even though she has one Very Big Fear.  So off I go… Here’s hoping Taryn lives!

-JB

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