NaNoWriMo 2007
So I’m gonna give it a try again. I failed the last two years, but just might could make it this year…
NaNoWriMo: National Novel Writing Month, 2007!
I was going to try and restart the book I’ve been trying to write for the last four years. I know: LOL. I seriously get started then I scrap it then I start all over. And again, I started it and scrapped it for the fifth time… already. It’s another historical fiction based on some ancestors (sounds boring, I know, but it is a really cool story), much like the short story of 1861. However, I just need more research on the times and such before I really get into that. So when I start to get to the point where I need help, I get frustrated.
So a few months ago, this whole first chapter of a book popped into my head out of the blue and so I’ll go with that one. Total fiction, none of this ancestor stuff. Plus, I seem to have a real problem with what I refer to as “filler.” I have the basics all worked out but I have a hard time getting from Point A to Point B and an extra hard time writing dialouge. So hopefully I can keep this one flowing enough to finish before running out of steam like I typically do. I have so many ideas started, gone in a few hundred words, then dropped, uninspired.
So here’s my excerpt, or rather, first few lines. What you think, bored yet?
It was one of those ponds that was deep, covered in that green algae that spanned the whole of the surface water. Stagnant. Stale. Putrid. When the sun was setting, if you looked at it just right, from the East, it would seem it was just another dry, boring patch of land. You might expect you could actually walk on it.
Heck, that and the 500 words following totally DO NOT even sound like anything I would ever write. I mean, seriously, it’s weird. Really weird…
