Final Word Count: 34,555
Written by Aaron on June 21st, 2009
I didn’t hit my goal, but I am more than happy with my first attempt. I penned 34,555 words in 30 days. That’s an average of 1,152 per day. Which ain’t too shabby.
Outline continues…
Written by Aaron on May 11th, 2009
The outline continues to take shape and I think I’m piecing together a fairly decent storyline. I’ve set a tentative start date, which I’m keeping to myself for the moment in case I need to change it. Once I post my start date on the blog, that will be set in stone.
Wow, I started it.
Written by Aaron Paulley on May 11th, 2009
When I posted last night that I was going to write a novel, I meant it. I didn’t know I’d start today, however. I’ve got 1/3 of my outline done and am going to be using a slightly modified Hero’s Journey story arc.
I told my wife of my desire to write a novel and we talked about how fast of a writer I am. When it comes to research papers and other university assignments, I can write really fast. I always have. One of my main reasons for doing the 30-day novel experiment is to see if I can write fiction that quickly, because in my mind it just seems like an entirely different beast altogether. Will I be able to string storylines and dialogue together with the same ease that I do facts and figures? Or will it be fairly easy, considering the amount of fiction that goes into some of my papers? (kidding!)
I guess we’ll see. My goal is a 50,000-word novel in 30 days or less. I haven’t set a start date yet, but it will be before the end of May so I will finish before Summer.
I’m going to write a novel.
Written by Aaron Paulley on May 10th, 2009
Yep, gonna do it. I’ll be posting my progress here, but my goal is to do one of those 30-day speedwriting plans to keep the creative juice flowing. I’m going to take a week or two to prepare and I’ll post here when I get started.
An update — finally.
Written by Aaron Paulley on May 10th, 2009
I am a horrible blogger. Really. I suck at blogging. I want to blog. I have ideas to blog about, but I always forget, or run out of time, or something comes up… excuses, excuses.
I would like to blog more and I’m going to try to blog more. Keeping a blog current is a great writing exercise, and since writing is something I enjoy I need to be practicing it on a daily basis. Another reason I want to keep this up-to-date is because I will soon be embarking on a write-a-novel-in-30-days projects, and I am going to use my blog as a means of updating my friends and family on my progress. They can use it to give me a good kick in the rear, too, if and when I fall behind.