Up until a few minutes ago, I still wasn't positive about it. But now I've made up my mind. I am going to at least try to do NaNoWriMo. If I can average 1,667 words a day, I'll get 50,000 words out of my system. Will that be a novel? Maybe, but probably not. Will it help break the creative dam? I think so.
I've been feeling very mentally lazy recently, so I think that trying to write while I work, post, and do my normal daily activities could be intellectually stimulating. And while intellectual stimulation isn't as fun as penile stimulation, it'll do.
I hope to finish, but if not, at least I will have tried.
So I think I'm gonna do it.
And I think the first sentence is:
"On Tuesday, the world ended, and I missed it."
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Good luck!
Comments by Amanda
Write hard.
Just not too hard or you'll break the keyboard.
Or the desk.
Comments by NYCWD
I like the first line! Are you going to let us read what you've written at the end? I assume you only use one had to write, so why are you limited to intellectual stimulation?
I really liked the idea of NaNoWriMo when I heard of it, so I'm tempted to try, knowing that 50,000 words in 30 days is not going to happen. Even though my blog posts tend to be verbose (my last post was 1,575 words), I don't blog everyday, nor am I a fast writer.
Comments by Girl, Dislocated
Wow! I can't wait for the book tour. I hope it makes a stop in Cleveland!
Comments by hot coffee girl
Only 49,991 words to go.
Comments by Mr. Fabulous
Damn, Mr. Fab beat me to it.
;-)
I know you can do it.
Comments by Mike
Sounds challenging. Good luck! Keep us posted on how it's going.
Comments by Aunt Robin
I would read a book that started with that line.
Comments by DaisyJo
Good luck! Glad I know at least one familiar person doing it as well ::big grin::
Comments by Zanthera
Uh, if the world ended, then wouldn't you be dead, so how could you miss it?
Just teasing you. I hope writing 50K words in one month is a lot more fun than it sounds. Some of us don't do well with a deadline.
Comments by ADW
That is a killer first sentence.
Comments by Poppy
i'm all about impressed. hell, i don't even blog sporadically, let alone daily. can't imagine trying to knock out a novel on top of everything else you do. go avi!
not to distract you or anything, but
and
Comments by hellohahanarf
That is a very good way to start a novel. Or whatever it turns into.
I hope your creative dam breaks.
Comments by themuttprincess
is it too late to request a starring role in your novel?
like... say... the force that ended the world?
or how about supreme ruler?
monster hot temptress?
bus driver?
Comments by Miss Britt
Good luck with the writing. Please let us see it. Pretty please?
Comments by metalmom
Here's the formula Adam:
2936 words on how the opening sentence relates to an earlier/similar incident in childhood (Kafkaesque. No N-word please).
2522 words used to develop metaphor for the hopelessness of charity (in the manner of Gogol).
654 words used as a mindless comic aside related to a spoof on Armageddon (for people under 30 - holds their interest).
4158 words turning the theme on its head by demonstrating how the end of all things is actually a benefit for certain segments of the Third World (think Tolstoy here).
3504 words revealing all that came before was just a subversive lead-in to the remainder of the work; which is really a love story about 2 nerds in a DNA lab (sexual orientation optional).
That should do it for now.
Comments by RW
I am doing it also, starting today... Good luck.
Comments by Nina
RW, you are suggesting that Avi go Kafka on us? Niiiiiiiiice.
I loves me some cockroach existentialism.
Comments by Poppy
LOL! I think Douglas Adams stole that idea from you.
damn avatars....
Comments by Jennifer
You can totally do this. At least you are off to a really interesting start.
Comments by Amy
Oh crap it's November already, I was going to do it so I better think of something and get writing.
Good luck, great first sentence.
Comments by Michael
If anyone can you probably can...some crack will probably help.
Comments by Robin
Yes, those are mighty fine first words.
If I were to do NaNoWriMo I think I'd go Jack Nicholson's route in the shining.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
Comments by Dan
Whore.
Comments by annie
Yeah...what she said *point up to Annie*
Comments by CP
If you were any more intellectually stimulating you'd glow in the dark.
Comments by BOSSY
so what color will the towel be in your book?
Go with white. It worked well the first time.
and above all?
Don't Panic
Comments by bluepaintred
Amanda, thanks. I'll need more of that when it gets closer to the end, I think.
NYCWD, I do tend to pound the keyboard.
Girl, Dislocated, I might, although for the security of what I've written, I'm not sure yet.
HCG, I don't know. I mean, there are lots of people I love in Ohio, but I'd prefer to stick to real cities like NYC and LA for the tour.
Mr. Fabulous, woohoo!
Mike, thanks.
Robin, oh, I will. It might be hard to seriously blog if I'm trying to do this, too, so many posts might be about it.
DaisyJo, but would you pay $20 for it?
Zanthera, I'm familiar? Are you a lurker?
ADW, I think the point of the deadline is to try to just get words out there on paper so that you can see how easy it is to write.
Poppy, I know - where do you go from there? Can it be a 9-word novel?
Hello, boobs never distract. They inspire.
TMP, thanks.
Britt, how about the apocalyptic bringer of death to the entire world?
Metalmom, I might.
RW, only 654 words as a comic aside? And it's eerie that some of your elements are in my outline.
Nina, good luck to you too!
Jennifer, I was wondering how long it would take for someone to point that out.
Amy, I'll probably get lots of discouragement at work that will send me into a tailspin before I finish it.
Michael, so you're going to do it as well?
Robin, I was thinking speed.
Dan, with the length of some of your posts, you could probably do it easily.
Annie, why? I mean, yes, of course, but why this time?
CP, I'm more of a gigolo.
Bossy, stimulation = radioactivity?
BPR, yeah, you're too late. Somebody already said that.
Comments by Avitable
I'm not sure wether to take that as a compliment or an insult. I shall go and compose a 3000 word essay on my blog about the dilemma you have caused me.
Comments by Dan
Dan, do you really want to be so taciturn?
Comments by Avitable
I love that opening line! And I agree with you, NaNoWriMo may not make you a novel, but it will start the habit of writing every day and will get your mind going. Good luck!
Comments by Devilish Girl
Devilish, thanks - same to you.
Comments by Avitable