National Novel Writing Month.

November.

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This November, I will be participating in NaNoWriMo (national novel writing month). The goal is from November 1st, 12:00:01 am until November 30th, 11:59:59 pm, I must write a novel consisting, for the most part, of 50,000+ words. This is no easy thing. Ask my friend Jake Christie, who valiantly accomplished such a feat last November successfully with flying colors and such. He wrote "The Angel Del Oro" (now available for purchase). I've read The Angel and it's quite a read. Action. Adventure. It's sitting on my bookshelf right now, in fact. Jake lent it to me and I totally accidentally kept it all summer. Sorry for punking your book, man.

Anyways, I'm prepping myself to get some serious writing down. I'm also going to be operating the soundboard for Arms and the Man, my school's next Mainstage production, during this time. I'm sure a sleu of other things will come up too, that shall impede my progress. I'm going to invest a lot of money into Red Bull and maybe not sleep ever, but one way or another, I'm giving this thing my best shot.

It starts in 8 days. And I have some ideas.

Ideas I am not fully confident in, through and through.

Idea Number One. (working title: Copping Jake's Style)

An action/adventure novel based on your average-joe protagonist in extraordinary circumstances. He is accidentally mistaken for an agent of a secret organization and is delivered a package of highly valued materials that he must deliver, protect and keep his skin while he's at it. I have book called 101 Things to Do Before You Die, which is essentially that. A list of exciting, bizarre things to accomplish. In this story, I'd like the main character to do all of them as he goes along. Exciting? Suspenseful? Retarded? I don't know. The goal here is not to write a "good" novel, just a novel that has 50,000 words in it.

Idea Number Two. (copping Chris's Style)

I would feel guilty about this one. It would essentially be about college dorm life and the fucked up crazy social webs and situations that people get caught in. All while the world is ending. It would be very character-based, going in depth into histories and perceptions. It would be taking a lot out of my real life here, in Robie-Andrews. There would be an underlying theme of the degradation of communication in our current digital age. And the world would be ending entirely as the book progresses. Tsunamis, Earthquakes, Ice Caps Melting, Extinction, dayaftertomorrow THE WORKS. It would all be happening outside of the drama of the college campus. The protagonist will be a strong female character, but it will focus primarily on all the characters as a whole. I won't base the characters directly off of people I know, but bits and pieces of real life experience exaggerated and embodied fictionally will piece them together.
The unfortunate part is that this is slightly similar to a play done by Mr. Gyngell, and I hate to seem like a complete tool ripoff ass. They're different, for I'll include far more characters than four and it'll be a novel and not a staged production. It'd be fun to write, and easier than anything else. Once again, that's what this is about. Quantity over Quality.

50,000 words. Got to get it done.

Somehow...