Apparently next month is National Novel Writing Month.
Entrants are to submit fifty thousand words in their attempt to capture the
imagination of the paying public. Fifty Thousand is quite a lot of words though
you could probably sit down and do it in a day if you were that way inclined. I
am just thinking of the Novel Writing Sketch that Monty Python served us all
those years ago.
To put this in perspective I’ve been jotting some notes for
my blog while I stay in Craster. Because there is no internet access, I’m doing
this in Word before transferring it to the blog when I get home. On the fifth
day I’ve just written eleven hundred words so far, so that’s two hundred and
twenty words a day , so at this rate ,
if I were writing a novel it would take me two hundred and thirty days , that’s
about seven and a half months, with no editing or quality control!!
So if I do decide to go for the Novel this month, looks like
I have maybe two weeks to do it, I will have to increase my throughput to three
thousand six hundred words a day (that is eighteen times my current rate) , and
of course, think of a story. I’d love to do it, but really need the inspiration,
and not end up in the book of worst opening lines!!
So even with a full month you would be looking at twelve and
a half thousand words a week, that’s above two thousand words a day! I may, at
some point see if I can do twelve and a half thousand words in a week, just to
see if I could actually have the output to produce a novel. I thought that this
would be some going for me.
Seriously probably my only attainable goal in this is to hit
a thousand words by the end of this holiday , and I’m about half way through
, so by the time this is published on
the blog I should have done my thousand words , one fiftieth of a novel!!
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