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A new beginning
Nov. 1st, 2020 10:55 pm1: "There's a reason so many of your stories start in places like this," Yagmar said as he unrolled a worn map on the table between us.
Yep, that's right, it's back to #1.
A new beginning for a new story, and a new method to boot.
This year, the timing was right, and I'm participating again in NaNoWriMo. If you're not familiar with it, NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month, in which a whole bunch of people take on the challenge of writing a 50,000 word novel in a single month. Or, at least get 50,000 words into a document.
Traditionally, one starts a new work during this time, which is what I'm doing. Also traditionally, this new work is a single novel, which I'm not doing. A novel, traditionally, is 80,000 - 120,000 words. A range within which, you may notice, 50,000 doesn't fall. So, those 50,000 word novels would need to be expanded quite a bit. Traditionally, I say. There are plenty of works in the Kindle store calling themselves novels which are around 50,000 words long, and there seems to be a market for them.
I'm not doing either of those things, though. I'm planning on writing two separate novellas, each about 25,000 words long. That works for both the traditional wordcount of NaNoWriMo as well as the traditionally wordcount of a novella (anywhere from 15k - 40k).
And, just for fun, I've decided to resurrect the Yagmar stories that I wrote a bunch of in high school. They're all long lost now, and truthfully it's probably for the best. Yagmar was my take on Conan the Barbarian. And by take, I mean pale copy. Very few people ever saw those stories and none of them are available any more to tell of what horrors they witnessed therein.
Also, speaking of word counts, 50,000 words in November comes out to an average of 1,667 words per day, so there's my goal. Today, I wrote 2,394, which I think is a pretty good start.
Yep, that's right, it's back to #1.
A new beginning for a new story, and a new method to boot.
This year, the timing was right, and I'm participating again in NaNoWriMo. If you're not familiar with it, NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month, in which a whole bunch of people take on the challenge of writing a 50,000 word novel in a single month. Or, at least get 50,000 words into a document.
Traditionally, one starts a new work during this time, which is what I'm doing. Also traditionally, this new work is a single novel, which I'm not doing. A novel, traditionally, is 80,000 - 120,000 words. A range within which, you may notice, 50,000 doesn't fall. So, those 50,000 word novels would need to be expanded quite a bit. Traditionally, I say. There are plenty of works in the Kindle store calling themselves novels which are around 50,000 words long, and there seems to be a market for them.
I'm not doing either of those things, though. I'm planning on writing two separate novellas, each about 25,000 words long. That works for both the traditional wordcount of NaNoWriMo as well as the traditionally wordcount of a novella (anywhere from 15k - 40k).
And, just for fun, I've decided to resurrect the Yagmar stories that I wrote a bunch of in high school. They're all long lost now, and truthfully it's probably for the best. Yagmar was my take on Conan the Barbarian. And by take, I mean pale copy. Very few people ever saw those stories and none of them are available any more to tell of what horrors they witnessed therein.
Also, speaking of word counts, 50,000 words in November comes out to an average of 1,667 words per day, so there's my goal. Today, I wrote 2,394, which I think is a pretty good start.
