Marathon Writing and the Abhorrent Void

November 1, 2009

Nature abhors a vacuum. Perhaps that explains why I would sign up for NaNoWriMo. Until I had read the entry life seemed to be in its usual rut of non-writing. But the thought of spending the next month trying to write a 50,000 word novel, was compelling. Perhaps it would be a way to correct the writing imbalance plaguing my blog? Perhaps it would be a way to finally get the story of the Hapless Photographer out of my head!

Is that what drives people to write? The voices in their head? “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy?”. Maybe by giving those voices a conduit, a way to escape that inner world and infect others. So if you want to see how I’m doing, check out Coleaus. In case you’re wondering about the username, I mis-spelled Colaeus, who was an ancient Greek explorer. Coleaus, as far as I can tell, was never Greek, or an explorer. He does fit well into the NaNoWriMo mold though of type type type and revise in December!

Maybe the excessive writing exercise will even spill over onto the blog. It couldn’t hurt!

Entry Filed under: Da creative process, Hapless Photographer. .

2 Comments Add your own

  • 1. fencer  |  November 1, 2009 at 9:32 pm

    Hey!

    Glad to see the new entry, and congratulations on trying on NaNoWriMo…

    I haven’t tried that particular exercise (maybe I should someday), but I did try our local 3-Day Novel Writing Contest a few years back now on a Labour Day weekend. A lot of coffee, no sleep and I did manage a short novel of uncertain quality. Now you’ve got a whole month to do sort of the same thing… Good luck!

    Regards

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  • 2. sputnki  |  November 1, 2009 at 11:44 pm

    Hey Fencer!

    It’s good to hear from you! I quite enjoyed your watercolour post. Personally I would have been happy with one of the first ones but it’s good to see someone put some craft into their art.

    I don’t know if I’ll make it to 50,000 words by the end of the month, but I do know I’ll have more than if I hadn’t tried it.

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