Good Knight Confessions
I did it! 50,127 words of my new novel in the month of November. What a wonderful thing NaNoWriMo is. I now know something I didn’t at the start of the month: I am capable of writing 5,000 words in one 8-hour work day. And I love it. This has been the most satisfying experience I’ve had since retiring from the theater stage. Ah, what bliss to feel creative again. The novel will continue to grow through this month until the rough draft is finished. I figure it’s going to need about another 40,000 words before I write the last word of the last page. Then I’ll put it away for a month or two while I get back to work on the other novel that’s been in research/development mode for 2.5 years. I’m going to apply the same rough draft technique to it and then put that one away for a couple months while I work on the first edit of the NaNo novel, from now on known by it new title: Good Knight Confessions. So, yes, I have my work cut out for me, or rather a good map.
Writing prose is much different than writing a play or musical which I’ve done before. I found that in writing Good Knight… I wrote a lot of dialogue. There will be much editing of character motor mouth. But it was good for the word count! I’m continuing to work on the novel and build my daily writing habit which is one of the very best things about NaNoWriMo. So all you would-be-writers out there, mark off next November and get youself signed up on nanowrimo by October of 2009. I’ll be reminding you regularly come September. It was a truly memorable, satisfying, and fun event. Hope you’ll join me next year.
