This year I’m going to do NaNoWriMo. I have no expectation of success, I have just as good an excuse as I had last year (if not even better — crazed project deadlines at work) but what’s the most awful outcome? I only get a few hours worth of writing done towards a story that’s been rattling around in my head?
From a test today, it seems i need twenty four days of writing for at least an hour and a half to meet the 50,000 word goal. I’m dividing the outline into twenty four sections as i want eight “chapters.” Emma has a “hidden calendar game” in which many events correspond to thefolk-festival-church and calendar year. I’ve found that intriguing since reading the novel, and have wanted to write this work around the eight spokes of the wheel of the year.
(As i reread a plot summary, i imagine that my main character will be in some ways an anti-Emma. )