: So apparently I'm

November 11, 2001

So apparently I'm part of a

movement with this book I'm writing. I had 6,808 words typed in when I did word count

last night. I've written another seven pages by hand since, so we can estimate about

8,700 words total.

In case you missed it somehow, this is all about

href="http://www.nanowrimo.com">NaNoWriMo (national novel writing month), a game and

a challenge to write a 50,000-plus word novel by the end of November

30th.

Originally, I was going to write about an obnoxious version of myself in a

warped version of my life. Instead, I'm telling the story of a fiddle playing man from

Kentucky who took a Greyhound west one day and ended up working at a ski resort in Iowa.

There's a love affair, there are suspicious deaths, there is lots of sex and drug use.

And almost everybody's name starts with the letter "J." The writing is crap and the plot

is poorly constructed, but I feel like this is one of the most interesting and inspired

things I've ever written.

Posted by Courtney_Sherwood at November 11, 2001 12:00 PM