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What you all do to yourselves!
Participants must write an average of approximately 1,667 words per day in November
to reach the goal of 50,000 words written toward a novel.
I want to thank Lee McKenzie
for hosting my giveaway for
SILHOUETTES IN THE KEY OF SCREAM
CONGRATULATIONS
to the winners:
Tonja Drecker, J Lenni Dorner, and Mary Aalgaard!
But back to NaNoWriMo ...
Does a good novel have to be 50,000 words?
Let's check out a few:
- The Old Man and the Sea Hemingway - 27,000
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens – 28,000
- Animal Farm by George Orwell – 29,000
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck – 30,000
It took Dickens six weeks to write
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
I did my New Orleans' version of his novel
in the same length of time.
{35,000 Words}
WHEW!
Good luck to those of you
writing all this month!
Oh, look for
BEWARE THE JADE CHRISTMAS
around Black Friday.
Christmas Eve, New Orleans, 1946
Not a good time
to walk the streets at night!
Hi Roland - I could never do it ... but I don't want to write a book - so that helps!! We just need to be ourselves and get on with things ... and write - as you do ... take care - cheers Hilary
ReplyDeleteYes, just be ourselves and follow our own individual dreams. :-) Have a great weekend!
DeleteSome use NaNo to encourage themselves to write every day for a month. I write every day, every day of the year. I already have 5 NaNo unfinished novels. Don't need any more. I'm not knocking it - but I hate writing a mess I have to clean up later. I like Hemingway's ides - he wouldn't leave a sentence until it was perfect to him. Not the philosophy of 2018.
ReplyDeleteIt's the Bandwagon mindset. Habits form within three weeks. If you get into the habit of stuffing words into your prose for the sake of words, it is hard to break yourself of it.
DeleteIt took Dickens SIX weeks to do his short novel. It has stood the test of time. Like Mark Twain and Hemingway, distilling what we write instead of inflating it is the way to excel. But to each their own. :-
Writing a book boggles my brain, I take my hat off to you. And be safe, do not walk on those dark dark nights....
ReplyDeleteStart with short stories, it is both easier and harder at the same time! :-) I try not to even drive those dark nights! LOL. Thanks for visiting and commenting, Shadow!
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