NaNoWriMo
Hey everyone! Have I got news for you.
For the first time in all my short little life, I will be participating in National Writing Month! Fun, write?
Now, I’ve had my entire plot written out for months now, but the inspiration is what I lacked. Not only that, but I had approximately three thousand words missing from chapter six through chapter ten. Yesterday, in a sudden slap of inspiration and motivation and all the -ations, I wrote and snipped and criticized and patched up all the gaps I’ve been agonizing over for so long. I even snipped an entire chapter of fluff, and so fixed the pacing of my exposition. (Thank the writing gods I deleted that chapter—I mean, it was rough.) And I was thinking, there must be a reason why I’m so inspired all of a sudden. Perhaps the correlation to NaNoWriMo? I do agree, other me.
My goal is not to necessarily finish my novel over the next twenty-seven days, but to double my word count and reach the climax/mid adventure-ish spot in my book. I’m actually not sure what that would be, quite honestly, since my book is split into two seperate-but-still-corresponding plots and three perspectives. (It’s a lot. Doable, but not easily put to words, friends.) Oo and by the way, I just wanted to share the chapter names because I think they’re just so cool.
The Bad Decision
The Thief
King Emerald’s Fall
The Larkspurs
Testing the Waters
Before the Storm…
Checkmate
Unexpected Visitors
A Family Matter
Into the Black Forest
Chapter 11… 👀 (I don’t have a name for this one just yet…)
Don’t Talk to Strangers
Heroes of the Black Forest
So that comes out to thirteen chapters and 26 thousand words. Oh my gasp! That’s a lot! I’ve passed the quarter mark! 😏 I’m quite proud of this milestone, and am always dreaming of the day I write those simple yet fateful words…
The End
Though really it would be more like “To Be Continued…” in my case, but… You know what I mean. Also, the day I can hire an illustrator to design my book cover, and then actually own the cover image instead of just taking it from the internet… which actually… actually that’s illegal… Um… I’ll be right back—
*creates new book cover on Canva*
So, this AI, and I know how people are going to feel about this. A lot of people think that using AI is going to start this major apocalypse and people are going to go out of jobs and the world as we know it will end. And I hear you. But I’m not going to publish my book with this AI generated cover, this is simply a place-holder until I can hire a human to design it for me. We’re all on the same page? Yeah? Good.
Somewhere between talking about my wordcount and announcing National Novel Writing Month, I fell down a multi hour rabbit hole and created a book cover. How my brain works shall forever remain a mystery to me.
So who else is participating in National Novel Writing Month this year? What are your writing goals and stats? Let me know in the comments!