A way to unclog the writer’s block
November 5th, 2006 — VyomaA long time back I did write on writer’s block. I had even ventured out on writing a novella. But to be honest, that writer’s block remained to date. I could make all sorts of excuses to not to write the novel that I had so much passion to write.
But I think, I have stumbled upon something that I hope can remove this writer’s block - NaNoWriMo. It is a event that happens every year in the month of November. It stands for National Novel Writing Month.
At NaNoWriMo, thousands of ‘want-to-be’ authors gather for the online event where they participate to crank out a 50k word length novel. The emphasis is on quantity and not on quality. All unite and support each other in beating the deadline.
One may ask, at this point of time - of what use, the result of such event may be? It serves one puporse - unclog the writer’s block. It stops the participants from giving all sorts of reason for not writing. At the end of the month, we get a novel, albeit one with lower quality. We atleast have something instead of nothing now. We can always work on it, and refine it to get something out of it.
So, what is my word count now? It is hanging somewhere around 2k at the moment, but right after this post, before calling it a day, I would be pounding my keyboard, writing out the novel. You can check out the progress at my profile page at NaNoWriMo:
November 5th, 2006 at 6:53 pm
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November 5th, 2006 at 6:54 pm
And one more thing, please switch over to full feeds, I hate partial feeds
November 5th, 2006 at 8:13 pm
Thanks Thilak. I will switch over to full feeds.
November 6th, 2006 at 8:53 am
Thanks for adding me to you blogroll
November 6th, 2006 at 4:55 pm
Well, TechBuzz was one of the reason I came back into blogsphere.
November 7th, 2006 at 12:29 am
I’ve never heard of NaNoWriMo before… It sounds like a really helpful event! I’m glad you posted about it in your blog. Maybe I’ll join next year… It’d be helpful. I’m off to check out your progress now- good luck, Vyoma-san! Just don’t work too hard, okay? ^^
November 7th, 2006 at 4:30 am
Thanks for all the care, Little. I am sorry I forgot to mention about it earlier. You would have loved to participate there.
November 9th, 2006 at 2:50 am
All the best Vyoma !!! Dint hear bout NaNoWriMo before.. It sounds real cool
November 9th, 2006 at 2:55 am
Thanks a lot for your well wishes Sandy. I hope I can beat the dead line.
November 9th, 2006 at 8:10 pm
[...] I have been participating in NaNoWriMo and I have been using a handy technique to keep track of the plot. I am writing a fantasy fiction, and it involves a handful of characters. As some of you who have attempted or written a novel would understand that it can be quite cumbersome, because it becomes a bit hard to keep track of them, their motives, and all the plot scenes in general. [...]
November 30th, 2006 at 7:19 pm
[...] Here is a quick blog post on the results of my participation at NaNoWriMo that I had joined some time back and had started writing a novel at the beginning of November. [...]