Sun Sep 21 17:11:23 BST 2008
I'm thinking of participating in the 'National Novel Writing Month' this year (a.k.a nanowrimo). The aim is to write a novel in a month. For nanowrimo's purposes, a novel is defined as 50,000 words. They don't have to be very good words, but there have to be at least 50,000 of them, and you have to have written them in a month.
I'm currently dreaming up ideas that I think I could sustain over that kind of word-count. I'm not sure whether this is strictly in the rules of nanowrimo; they only seem to have guidance on when you actually start writing, but I feel it's fair enough. Today's idea is a fantasy adventure centred around a small boy who can't leave his bedroom: every time he tries he wakes up back in bed.