So National Novel Writing Month officially drops in eleven and a half hours when the clock strikes midnight.
Writers across the world drop into the word mines and hope to hell that when the clock strikes midnight on December 1, that we have something complete we can work with on a second draft.
I’m not doing NaNoWriMo this year. Well, kinda sorta not really.
I’m doing NaNoFinMo aka National Novel Finishing Month aka NaFiTFuckThiMo aka National Finish The Fucking Thing Month.
Again.
Really I get a couple extra days (plus that extra Daylight Savings hour this weekend) because my actual goal is to get this done by my birthday. Remember how I did that for my last novel? Yeah. The “Finish by my birthday” goal was very reasonable back in June. Now that I have 36 days to go? Eh… not so much.
It’s still doable. I’ve got 29k written right now. Based off the length of my outline, I estimate the draft of In A Murphy Minute will hit 90k. So that’s 61k in 36 days. That’s 1700/day. Because my birthday is on December 4 and not December 1, I really only have to do a little bit more than a NaNoWriMo pace.
So I guess that means I’ll be ignoring the blog a lot this month. Again. Writing takes priority until this novel is done and then I’ll breathe during the month of December then I have another grandiose project I am going to start in January when I’m rev’ing Murphy Minute.
Not joining me in the word mines? Well I’ve read some great books lately you should read too.
The Mirror Empire by Kameron Hurley. I will be surprised if this one doesn’t win all the awards and Hurley is one of the smartest people in the genre. Read her blog just as fast as her book.
All You Need is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka. This is a fast paced military sci fi book from Japan that reads kind of like Old Man’s War. It was made into that Tom Cruise movie Edge of Tomorrow. When I get a chance to see the movie, I’ll dust off my film degree and write about that.
Perdition by Ann Aguirre. This is the first in a new series that takes place entirely on a prison space station. As in, someone docks, dumps in prisoners and then that’s it. Who needs guards when there’s no where go to? It’s a dark sci fi starring a kick ass heroine in a world where everyone is the worst of the worst convicted killers.
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Oooh I really liked Edge of Tomorrow!!! – Please stop adding to my booklist. 😦
I’ve been wanting to participate in NaNoWriMo since my freshman year in college. Since it’s taken seven years to enter my final academic year, it’s no surprise I’ve never been able to participate. But thanks to your NaFiTFuckThiMo, I can enjoy NaNoWriMo on my own time. I still haven’t started a novel, so there’s *that* little problem–can’t finish the fucking thing if I haven’t started the fucking thing, yeah? Anyway, you’re a real inspiration to all of us sinners our there, the ones who have yet to get the ball rolling. Keep plugging away, I can’t wait to read it.