For reasons even I don't fully understand, today I signed myself up for Camp NaNoWriMo (July 2013)! I've been taking a break from writing since I finished my Open University course, A363 (Advanced Creative Writing - level 3 course), but figured this would be a good way to get back into it again. What can I say, I guess I'm a sucker for deadlines!
Plus, I'm used to working very long hours, and studying on top of all of that, so with a 10 week summer holiday stretching ahead, I felt the need to fill the time somehow. So far I'll be doing Camp NaNo, and probably an online TEFL course. And working, if someone will give me a job for the summer. And spending time with my family, of course. Yes, I suppose that will keep me just nicely busy!
I'm now in a flat spin about Camp NaNo though, what on earth do I write?! I've been toying with the idea of a fantasy novel since A215 (Creative Writing - the level 2 course), but whenever I try and write it, it's just a bit...well...rubbish. I could write about some of my wacky adventures from the last few years, so many people tell me I should, but I wouldn't know where to start. Plus, it's all well and good saying "write what you know", but that's actually really quite difficult! Or it is for me, anyway. If I don't do either of those things, then what?!
All I can say is - it's a good job I have a month to figure it out...
Come on Charlotte... you can DO this!!!!! Just write about things you know/do, but put your fictional hero/heroine into those situations! They don't even have to be in the order that they really happened...you can make things fit in the way you want! I KNOW you'll do fine!!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Nancy :) At the moment I'm probably going to do the fantasy story I came up with, simply because it's so unlike what I normally write. If I get to the end of the month and decide it's still rubbish, then it can go in the trash and never darken my door again! Hope you're all doing well :)
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