Yep, that's right. In less than a month's time, I will be furiously crouched over my laptop, trying to hammer out 50,000 words as a participant of National Novel Writing Month. I am going to try and do something different this year. The last two years, I worked on one single work. I think this year I am going to do a collection of stories that sum up to 50,000 words. I'm not entirely sure if this will work. However, I have been wanting to do these stories for a while now. So even if I don't win, I will at least have all my stories done.
Of course the down side to doing several shorter works in lieu of a single long one is that I have to come up with several different plots. I think that might be the snag that gets me. What if I can't come up with enough stories to make the word goal? And on top of that, I changed my genre to one that I have never written before. I just hope that I don't have to change plans mid-November.
So now I have to start brainstorming. Because I thought I wasn't going to do this, this year I didn't plan anything out. Last year, I started brainstorming back in August with a story idea that hit me while I was driving. This year, not only am I starting late, but I am still studying for STEP 1. I almost feel like I am going to be figuring this story out as I go along. Which is going to be a different experience since I usually have a road map to guide me through the story before I even start.
If anything this year should prove interesting. I have a feeling there will be a lot of blogs coming from it at least.
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