Audrey and I are going to be participating in NaNoWriMo this year.
It’s going to be an interesting challenge, in that we’re using an alternate words-per-day system that front-loads most of the writing to the first 14 days, and tapers off until on the final day you write ONE word. I looked at my entry from last year tonight, and I got about 6k words in before tapering off and quitting. That’s more than the year before, which was more than the year before that, so I don’t feel overly discouraged right out the gate, for whatever that might be worth.
We’ve also discussed writing the same novel from two different points of view. Same basic setting, same premises, annnnd, GO! See what comes out the other side. A lot of schlock, I imagine. *smiles* She has an idea about a point in the future – talking about essentially Post Apoctalyptic Pony Express Riders in a Zombified Wasteland. It strikes me as interesting, and having possibilities. I dunno though, there’s a part of me that is drawn toward something Dieselpunk-y. Crimson Skies, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (or was it “Tomorrowland”? No, that’s Disney…). Leather and oil, Dirigibiles and jet fighters. Streamlined buses… Hmm. Tasty.
Or a comedy, drawn mostly from FML. *snorts*
In any case, like every year I attempt NaNo, I have no idea what I’m going to do, or how I’m ever going to finish. Hell, I’m under 250 words here, and I’m already running out of steam. Hopefully, we’ll be able to do some writing hangouts and the like, and that’ll help out rather a bit.