NaNoWriMo 2006
As the dark days of November approach, it is time again to prepare for National Novel Writing Month. Last year was my first NaNoWriMo, as lightly chronicled in my blog, and it was such a fun experience, I just had to give it another go.
One of the fun things about last year was learning the kind of story and the way of telling it that interests me the most. And of course getting deeper into the characters’ heads in a way that I never could in a screenplay and letting the characters run with it. Some of it got a little messy of course (and a little long), but it was fun getting into the world of Samuel Jinx and it helped me answer a lot of the problems I was having in developing it in script form.
I’ve had about a year (well, eleven months) to think about whether I wanted to do NaNoWriMo again this year and what I would be writing. For a time, I was worried that I would have no time to tackle another WriMo project, but as of today, November is looking just open enough. This is for fun, after all.
I’ve pretty much decided to do a quasi-sequel to Samuel Jinx, even as I continue to develop Jinx as a screenplay. As I will be working on them both simultaneously, I imagine that the continuity will not exactly align. In fact, I expect it not to. Still, I am mainly doing it to develop the characters further. I have a pretty good handle on them as it is, but if I let them run in a free-form novel (the wonderful freedom that NaNoWriMo gives you) some ideas may sprout that will inform the script.
And if I happen to write a pretty darn good book, that would be fine, too.