Congratulations on finishing. It sounds like you are pleased with what you've done, which is great. I love typewriters for the very same reasons you mentioned in #2. As for getting into the story and becoming immersed, that is quite an adventure. I have yet to participate in NaNo but I did manage to write one novel a little while back. After finally getting into the story I almost forgot that I was writing fiction because it became so real to me. It's pretty fun, huh?
The New York Trilogy is great. As a side note, Paul Auster is one of the few novelists for whom I've read nearly everything he's written. I want to read everything else by him. (To date Don DeLillo is the only novelist for whom I've read everything he's published.)
I also got the "characters doing things I didn't expect" feeling from the three times I participated in Nanowrimo. It is unusually fulfilling to finish a draft of something, I agree.
Personally I think that Nano gets a little silly, though, when people do it year after year and never revise the drafts they have. That's one of the reasons I stopped.
I first heard of NaNo back in collegel. Some friends I met through AOL who had gotten into Live Journal were talking about this new movement where you write everyday for a month and create your own novel. A group of them were doing it and we all loved writing. I did not participate for whatever reasons and now over a decade later, I cant imagine dedicating the time to such an endeavor. I wondered if the magic that you described would happen and im glad to read here that it did for you. Maybe one day for me.
Congratulations on finishing. It sounds like you are pleased with what you've done, which is great. I love typewriters for the very same reasons you mentioned in #2. As for getting into the story and becoming immersed, that is quite an adventure. I have yet to participate in NaNo but I did manage to write one novel a little while back. After finally getting into the story I almost forgot that I was writing fiction because it became so real to me. It's pretty fun, huh?
ReplyDeleteThe New York Trilogy is great. As a side note, Paul Auster is one of the few novelists for whom I've read nearly everything he's written. I want to read everything else by him. (To date Don DeLillo is the only novelist for whom I've read everything he's published.)
I also got the "characters doing things I didn't expect" feeling from the three times I participated in Nanowrimo. It is unusually fulfilling to finish a draft of something, I agree.
ReplyDeletePersonally I think that Nano gets a little silly, though, when people do it year after year and never revise the drafts they have. That's one of the reasons I stopped.
I first heard of NaNo back in collegel. Some friends I met through AOL who had gotten into Live Journal were talking about this new movement where you write everyday for a month and create your own novel. A group of them were doing it and we all loved writing. I did not participate for whatever reasons and now over a decade later, I cant imagine dedicating the time to such an endeavor. I wondered if the magic that you described would happen and im glad to read here that it did for you. Maybe one day for me.
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