Preparing for NaNoWriMo

[vdansk]

This next week is going to be hectic, as I prepare to immerse myself in writing. I'm pretty much committed to no housework, grocery shooping, laundry, and pleasure reading, so there's a lot to get settled. Need to set up orders by Peapod, clear counters and dining room table, put away the girls' summer clothing (which means also, Pack for Florida in December), and start warning people that I'm not going to be on-line much for the month of November.

Consider yourselves notified!

I've never really understood the concept of writer's block--I ALWAYS have something to say!--but it will be interesting to see if I run into it with the need to write so much on a single subject. My research has gone well, and talking at length to a friend from Kentucky has given me a lot of info as well as an additional chapter idea. I've got a basic outline, ten pages of notes, and a lot of enthusiasm for the project.

Read the book _Fairest_, by the author of _Ella Enchanted_. Incredible book, highly recommended, with a great heroine and no easy outs. If her next book is out, it will go on my Christmas List. I may try to sneak in a last book or six before November 1st; I've never gone 3 days without pleasure reading, so we'll see how this goes. Kind of an artistic Lent!

Comments

[deva-fagan.livejournal.com]

Yay, NaNoWriMo! I am planning to spend the next week preparing too (more in an outline-and-brainstorm sense than in a life-organizing sense though). I am having last minute waffling over what book to actually work on for the challenge. I have three different ideas jostling for brainspace.

I liked FAIREST too, though not as much as ELLA ENCHANTED. Gail Carson Levine has another book that came out since then: EVER. I think it may even be coming out in paperback soon since it's been out for a while now. I have not read that one but have heard good things.

Good luck with your prep!

[chris-warrior.livejournal.com]

i've still been debating. i'm not going to "sign up" or any such thing, but debating trying to do the assignement. :) just between work and the class i'm taking, i bet i'll flake. :)

good luck!