NaNoWriMo 2012 - Day 1

[ladyseishou]

Day 1 - 29 days remaining


You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

― Stephen King




The word count for today is 1,667! Easy, right? That’s about seven pages of a typed manuscript (following standard format). Of course Your Mileage May Vary and don’t think you have to stop when you hit the day’s quota! This is the time to tap into all that good writer mojo and let yourself go with the flow!

Questions? Comments? First word? It’s all good! So Keep Writing!

Comments

[lap_otter]

787 words between midnight and 2AM. More when I get up tomorrow. First word: "The". First word that isn't lifted directly from my secondary source material: "After".

If I do this all in order, as I am hoping to do, the first several days are going to be an awful slog as I drag my way through the primary source material. I have a rough idea of what to show and what to skip and what to skim, but like I said before, trying to find a source of narrative tension when the reader already knows everything that's going to happen is hard. Gotta dig deep into John's brain, and honestly, I'm much better at Sherlock.

Okay, that was a huge rant. Here, let my share with you my first paragraph a slightly altered version of the first paragraph of Paper Towns by John Green:

"The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle. Like, I will probably never be struck by lightning, or win a Nobel Prize, or become the dictator of a small nation in the Pacific Islands, or contract terminal ear cancer, or spontaneously combust. But if you consider all of the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us. I could have seen it rain frogs. I could have stepped foot on Mars. I could have been eaten by a whale. I could have married the Queen or survived months at sea. But my miracle was different. My miracle was this: out of all the flats in all the streets in all of London, I ended up living with Sherlock Holmes."

[ladyseishou]

I like it. It sounds like you have a plan. And you're stretching your writer muscles and digging! Good luck!