Don't Follow My Lead

Here we are in the eve of the start of National Novel Writing Month.

I’m excited about it.  I don’t know what’s going to happen in the next few weeks.   But just wanted to let you know a few things.  The story that I’m trying to write this month, has nothing (as far as I know) with any of the other premises I have currently written.  Is a story about love.

Someone told me once to write about what you know.   And if you knew me, you would say….so you know about love? And after both of us stopped laughing, I would tell you, that no.   I don’t know much about love.  But this story is not about what I know, but the story that feels the biggest need to come out.

The basic premise is we are going to see two sides of a love story.  Told from the point of view of the two main characters.  I think I know what’s going to happen.   But then again, I don’t know anymore.  It has all become conjecture at this point.

30 days, 30 posts.   While I love the idea of NaNoWriMo, not sure I love the actual MONTH they chose.  Don’t they realize that Thanksgiving is this month? My own birthday? And I have to write on weekends too?  Plus maintain my relationship, my friendships, my outside life?  And a full time work?

I was looking around my house, and realized that my computer is attached to my T.V. and I really don’t have a desk to work and to think.   I wrote a post last night, and while I was able to make it, it didn’t cover the whole ideas I wanted to reach.   Heck, it was the smallest post to-date.   I’ll have to do some changes very quickly.

The challenges I’m facing, are not any worse than what most of my fellow NaNoWriMo writers will be facing.  So, is not like I’m at disadvantage, and this is not a competition (that I know of).   And I’m not hiding from mortal enemies.   But it will be interesting.

On the week before I started this blog, I was talking to a friend, and asking me what am I going to write about?  And it took me a few days to figure out what exactly I wanted to write, because my first inclination was to NOT write my book in the blog.   There’s just so many plot holes that would need fixing, so many re-writes it would need to pass by, and it would show all the naivete I think about what it takes about writing a book.

There’s research behind every book, there’s timelines, there’s character development, minor characters, settings.   I don’t know any of this shit! I’ve never taken a literature class.  I’m just a fool with a keyboard.

That’s what I wanted my blog to be about, trying to come up with this “world” where my characters would be living.   Setting the boundaries if you allow me to say, of what this characters can/can’t do.   I know they live in this world, 21st century.   So there wouldn’t be random acts of sword play.  Or magicians.   Is not a supernatural story.   So, the first incarnation of this blog, before I ever wrote down, would had been to:

Day 1 of Blogging: Talk about the main character, his past, his goals, his life, catching him up to date, when the book starts.  Giving him a background that I would be able to draw from.

Day 2:  Talk about 2nd main character, same as first day but of second person.

Day 3: Talk about the town they live, NYC, Boston, Rome?

Day 4: Minor characters

Day 5: etc., etc.

But now that I’m so close to embark on my odyssey.   I have now change my mind, and write, write everything that comes down the pipeline.   Tell you their story the way I see it, and see if I can tell it they way they want me to.  And if I can do justice to their lives.    It will be ugly, and it will be inconsistent.   Don’t really want to put you off of your reading, but I want to set the expectations to a level of understanding.

With that all being said, I’ll do my best, and I’ll give it as big shot as I want, and I know that at the end of November, I will be closer to the end, than as we stand here today, and for that I’m grateful of this opportunity.

BRING IT ON!!!!!!

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Shit, I just realized that for me to keep up with the goal of 50,000sh words, my posts will need to be at least DOUBLE the length of this one.  Still….

BRING IT ON!!!!!!