The NaNoWriMo Experience

1. Never proofread your NaNoWriMo novel until you reach your goal. NEVER.
2. Grammatical errors are for proofreading and so, see above.
3. Remember your characters, they're kind of important, even if you'll kill them next chapter.
4. I didn't draw this. 

So Kayla posted a little bit about NaNoWriMo, and I thought it would be really cool to post a tidbit from what I've gotten out of NaNoWriMo this past month. I've never actually reached my goal of 50,000 words, but this year I finished (just today actually) and it's definitely been worth the ride.

Kayla touched a bit on how this 50,000 word novel forces you to get ideas down and out as fast as possible. Through this, NaNoWriMo is a great lesson and great exercise. It teaches you to force yourself to trudge through the dull parts of a story, to think about what's going to happen next, or better yet, to not know what's going to happen next and just watch as the words for some crazy scene just start filling the screen. There's nothing more rewarding than watching your own creativity suddenly appear in ways you never thought it would infront of you. With NaNoWriMo, I had this happen a lot.

Boring dialogue would suddenly turn into this intense conversation between two characters that might result in someone dying. Or maybe someone falling in love. I still don't get how the romance showed up in my story, but it did. My favorite part though, is not knowing how I'm going to end this crazy novel of mine, I just know it'll happen.

I am going to attempt to explain my novel. I can't ever really summarize it, but I'll try--or at least I'll try to explain what I have so far.

Nevermind. That could be a bad idea. Short post! Yeah!