plotting
You may not know this unless you are a lover of writing, but November 1st marks the start of National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, a month which is celebrated by writers around the world by speed-drafting a fifty-thousand word book through a span of just thirty days.
Each November for nearly twenty-five years thousands, then tens of thousands, and now hundreds of thousands of would-be authors settle into their keyboard with nothing more than an idea and a collective sense of motivation as they begin to tell their stories.
I’ve been plotting myself, with the intention of starting my own novel today, November 1, 2023. I have completed the NaNoWriMo challenge four times in the past, and if I manage to pen another fifty thousand word novel again this year it will be my fifth.
I have been sketching out ideas. I have been shuffling together threads of a plan. I have been creating characters and imagining places and inventing villainous schemes to weave into sinister motivations by which to drive a story.
All that is to lead in and say I have simultaneously been plotting out a different scheme: to write and reflect on the process right here on this little blog.