Everybody’s doing it and I just made it with 50,228 validated words.
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Writing a Novel In a Month – Everybody’s doing It
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NaNoWriMo Update Everybody’s doing It
I’m not on target, but my NaNoWriMo is very nearly on target.
Highlights of NaNo include meeting lots of Edinburgh and Scottish writers I knew not of before.
A carriage full of lovely characters have been driven onto the screen by NaNo. They’ve been around since New voices 2011. I’m now hearing them talk – truly necessary for the way I write a play or a novel.
Today, I hope, the villain is going to slither from his hole. Who knows.
NaNoWriMo is all consuming – although life clearly gets in the way – now at 16,000 words.
I did make time to get to Tightlaced theatre’s double bill at the Storytelling Centre. Charlie & My ’45 by Robert Howat explored the exploitation of the young by war-mongering old men and the power hungry. A rather bleak exploration, but hit the mark for Remembrance week, I thought. The other play by Fiona McDonald, I Promise I shall Not Play Billiards, showed much writing promise. Using four actresses (yes, I’m unreconstructed – they were women) to good dramatic effect to explore a divided personality, McDonald re-told the story of Madeleine Smith. Perhaps relied a little heavily on what the audience would know about the girl found Not Proven of the murder of her lover/paramour/friend, but overall interst holding. Debbie Cannon’s performance as the baddie stood out for me. Titles are important and this play’s was counter-productive for me. Tightlaced theatre are bringing great productions to the Story Telling theatre.
WRITING A NOVEL IN A MONTH:EVERYBODY’S DOING IT
Writing a novel in a month – not possible? Everybody’s doing it.
Everybody’s writing novels, or would like to write novels, or has a novel in them. Some novels you read look as if they were written in a month and never re-visited before hitting the shelves.
I’ve tried writing a novel in a month myself. Radio Scotland ran events in Februarys – that time of the year when you do need a kick start – and I tried my hand. It was energising. So I’ve signed up for NaNoWriMo in order to push up the word count on my second novel.
What’s this? Second? Yes, everybody’s doing it. Even me.
Lovely MuseItUp of Canada are to e-publish my first novel in Mayish time, 2013. There will be further details…
Back to the present. I may update my progress here from time to time, but on the other hand, November has its own pressures in my family. It, lack of progress, may be too embarrassing.
On the subject of plays. I did see The Guid Sisters. Even now, I find it hard to describe the disappointment. Where was the plot? I stayed to the end, but I’ve spoken to people who simply couldn’t. I do so hope A Midsummer Night’s Dream is going to be better. Please.
Later in the month, writing permitting, I’m hoping to catch Tight-Laced Theatre’s new production at The Story-Telling Centre in Edinburgh. More from Robert Howat, Charlie & My ’45 together with Fiona McDonald’s I Promise I shall Not Play Billiards. Box Office 0131-556 9579 Check out Robert’s FB page for a smouldering hero to challenge James Bond.
Write a novel in a month – go on – everybody’s doing it.