Writer's block, an owner's guide: Scene a day

Don’t think I can do NaNo this year. I have six writing projects on the go right now including a non-fiction book that I promised to edit and haven’t begun, and I’m doing contract research on top of my own research that I told you about. Oh, and I’m running my business. And I have a huge new work commitment coming up in the second half of the month.

I’d like to do NaNo, and I’m almost inspired to do it by the people who tell me they wrote 15,000 words on day one. But I don’t think I can do it this year.

Moving right along, here’s yet another speed writing idea that I like. I’m not even sure if it counts as speedwriting or if it’s just applying butt to chair and doing what it takes. Anyway, here it is: the Scene a Day club. If I still wanted to be a screenwriter (that’s so last century – belongs to when I didn’t work among movie people every day, and when I didn’t have a job I loved) I’d be interested in making “a scene a day” a rule. Probably a good way to write a novel, too.

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Huh. “Scene a Day” is kind of how I’m approaching NaNo. A whole bunch of fairly disjointed scenes with only the sheerest filament of an idea how I’m going to tie them together in something resembling a “novel.” But I had a write-in with a NaNo’ing colleague today, and he claimed to be hooked already by my vague and bizarre attempt at a synopsis, so it can’t be all bad. Either that, or he smoked some good sh** before coming to lunch…

Comment by hollyjahangiri — November 3, 2006 @ 2:22 pm

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