I’m pleased to say that I’ve
managed to keep up my daily stints of ten-minute object writes. I haven’t
missed a word offered by the website Object Writing since I joined, even
though some words gave me no immediate inspiration, power adapter and ladder
being two of those. However, I managed to come up with something in the end,
and have included both in a small selection of writing below.
As we come up to November I
am seriously thinking about taking part in this year’s NaNoWriMo which describes itself as ‘a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing’,
and ‘an annual (November) novel writing project that brings together
professional and amateur writers from all over the world with a goal of writing
a 50,000 word novel by 11:59:59, November 30’.
The NaNoWriMo organisers stress
that the writing is more about output than quality, as the approach forces you
to ‘lower your expectations, take risks, and write on the fly’. I think that
might be good for me, as I have a tendency to let go of the flow as I become
engrossed in researching some minor detail or editing a section endlessly only
to end up chopping it out. Forcing myself to write intensely, leaving research
to a later date, getting on with the story and just creating could be a good
thing. I have no fear of writing complete rubbish. I’m pretty much used to
that!
I’m also looking forward to
meeting up with local writers and sharing ‘laughably awful yet lengthy prose’
over a glass of something. Though being new to it all, I will have to gird my
loins and brave the getting out and meeting people part. I’m hoping that the
fact that I keep misreading the face book page ‘Cambridge Wrimos’ as ‘Cambridge
Winos’ could foretell good times to come. Watch this space!
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