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So, in my infinite insanity, I've decided that starting June 1st, I'm implementing my very own National Novel thing. I don't require any other participants, the only one accountable is myself and there are no prizes for this accomplishment besides my own sense of pride and amazement.
What does this entail precisely? I'll tell you. I will write one finished novel per month (at least 50K words in length). This could be a project that's been sitting fallow, a brand new one, one you've been putting off, whatever. But after looking through the host of projects I've got sitting around, I realized I had to do something. I had to finish them.
So, I'm implementing this schedule. If a novel is finished short of that extra 50K, I'll start on another one. The word count is mandatory, the amount of projects worked on is flexible, but one of them must be finished in that month, and it must have at least 50K words to it's credit. This does include packets of shorts stories. (RELATED TO ONE ANOTHER), but not poetry. Unless it's a 50,000 word epic poem, in which case, you are awesome.
My personal schedule will be as follows, based on projects sitting around for the longest amount of time. If a novel is completed ahead of schedule, then I will move on to the next one on the list.
Novels on the list that are there for heavy rewriting have a companion novel listed as well. An attempt will be made to finish both.
June : A Nefarious and Evil Tale FINISHED! June 27
July : ////////////////////
August : Blood Lines FINISHED! August 28
September : Vampirism and You FINISHED! October 3
October : Blood War - Sequel to Blood Lines Failure... Word count was close, but I just couldn't finish it.
November : NANOWRIMO - Necromancy and You! From A to Zombie FINISHED!
December : Illness did me in on this month...
January : Adder's Ghost - FINISHED!
February : N/A
March : The Night Shift
April : ?
May : ?
June : ?
If I finish all of those before May, I'll move on to my secondary list of a further twelve projects. Part of this project will be trying to remain focused on these particular stories, and not starting a bunch of new things.
Of course, new ideas will be written down and played with a bit, and if something new is on a roll, I'll work on it. But I hope to complete at least my first list, and some of the second. If you'd like to join in with me, for solidarity, I'd appreciate that. Just comment after this post to join in. I'll be keeping track of my own work on my blog, and on LJ. Updates to stories will be made on FictionPress (obviously) as things are completed.
It's an honor system, mostly, but trust me on this, I have very pushy friends so...I may just make it on this. Words counts will go up weekly, because I'm not very good at posting, but I'll try my best for weekly.
I may go mad before this is all over, just as a heads up, but these projects really need to get done so. . .yeah. So join in, watch me crash and burn, cheer me on, whatever you like. Starting tomorrow, all hell breaks loose.
One can never consent to creep when one feels and impulse to soar.
-- Helen Keller
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So where are you right now then? And where are you flying to? O:
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(Wow, age-old question.)