I've got a really busy month and a half ahead of me. To start with, I'm planning on taking part in NaNoWriMo, 50,000 words in 30 days. To make it even worse, though, for some reason I decided to take in on myself to become the Bookdriver-in-Chief for the Great NaNoWriMo Book Drive in my city. So not only am I going to be trying my hardest to reach that elusive 50,000 word mark, something I have yet to accomplish, but I'm also going to be working at trying to gather 3000 books for the book drive. At least that's the goal.
So, the last couple days have left me wondering what the hell I've gotten myself into. How did I think I was going to be able to manage all of that? Especially since I work nights.
Another thing that I started wondering just today is whether I've got a good, marketable idea for my NaNo. I mean, of course it's good in that it's got me interested, but I would like to try and sell it, to publish it once I've finished. Problem is, the one that's leading to this uncertainty, is that I've never seen anything like my idea in any books.
It's a vampire story, and there's already a lot of those out there right now. But I'm going to be trying to look at how a person changes when they become a vampire, whether the fact that they become a monster is because of the person they are, because of the nature of the vampiric being, or a combination of the two by looking at a number of different types of vampires. Hopefully it'll draw some attention once it's finished.
I need to push this worry out of my mind, at least until December so I can get through NaNo. Write first, worry about publishing later, I'm going to just have to keep telling myself that. Well, tell myself to stop worrying and simply write.
Wow, that's a lot on your plate! But don't worry--Nanowrimo, as you know, is all about joyous too-much-to-do syndrome.
ReplyDeleteI'm also doing a vampire novel for Nano this year. So long as it's a compelling story, it doesn't matter how much of it's out there! :)
You can do it! It won't be easy, but it will totally be worth it when you look back and can say, "Look what I've accomplished."
ReplyDeleteThanks for the support! I'm sure I'll need more of it once we get rolling in November, but hopefully I'll have created enough momentum for myself that I'll keep moving along.
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