For the last month, I have been rabidly participating in an even called NaNoWriMo. Its taking away my sanity bit by bit. The goal - write a novel of 50,000 words within the month of November. When I tell people that I'm doing this they feel bad for me, thinking this was some sort of assignment for class. Nope. I'm doing it for fun. I'm a little behind, but I think I'll actually reach the 50,000 word mark this year (its my third year participating and the highest I got before was 31,000. Currently I'm at 42,873). What's great about it is that its forcing you to write, sort of like what Stanton says about animation - get it out and get it out fast so you can make your mistakes quickly. The novel of NaNoWriMo is not supposed to be a finished project - just a very rough draft. But it forces you to write and think through things, and sometimes the things you write in the spur of the moment is better than what you had been planning all along.
My story this year is about a post-appocalyptic future set in the desert (semi-inspired by a Book Of Eli/Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind/Fullmetal Alchemist/Legend of Zelda/Avatar: The Last Airbender environment. Yeah. Lots of different influences), following a naive and goodnatured boy and his owl Chillo (on my head in the picture above) as they get caught up in...stuff. Its complicated.
But its super fun :3
I like the owl idea.
ReplyDeleteThank you ^__^ I quite like Chillo as well (even though I know nothing about how to work with an animal sidekick-esque character. Though the idea is sort of lampooned since the boy, Ari, treats Chillo like a person...)
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