A few summers ago, between one semester and the next, I picked up No Plot? No Problem!: A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days at the library. I remember a general sense of being amused and intrigued, but not enough to be really inspired. When I found out there was a website, I was even surprised.
Now as you know, I attempted to join this year’s NaNoWriMo challenge but dropped out after I decided to apply to graduate school. Tonight I sent off two portions of the text I wrote at that time to Shiver who was pretty amused by it. She said my writing had improved. When I was researching writing tips, I had gotten a few ideas on how to make my writing more accessible and less sucky and incorporated them. The basic idea there was: sentence variation.
I still haven’t picked back up on my book because I’m taking a couple days off from having finished my grad school application. Tomorrow I’ll send out the padded envelope of the remaining materials. I had to fork over $7.50 to buy a new ink cartridge (which is annoying because this summer, the same cartridge had costed $6) in order to get the pages printed out in black ink as opposed to blue or pink. The next step is to look for scholarships. I want to spend my 2 years in grad school, actually concentrating on school as opposed to working and being too tired to study, but I also don’t want to go completely into debt.
So going back to the subject of this entry. What’s my review? It’s a fun introduction, but to really understand what NaNoWriMo means, you have to get to typing. I’ll add write a novel to my list of projects for the new year.
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