NaNo: Oh, FFS

[mylittleredgirl]

NaNo is open!

I have a secret plan this time, and that plan is to not tell anyone about my exciting novel until I write it so that I will have to write it REALLY FAST!

I picked a title, though, and before I stuck that into the NaNo Novel Starter Screen I googled it, like you do, and apparently Aldous Huxley already wrote my novel. APPARENTLY I WAS NOT SECRET ENOUGH.

That book sounds pretty wack from the description, too. Why didn't I think of propaganda parrots? Probably because I didn't think of my utopic colony novel WHILE ON MESCALINE.

Thoughts:

1. I totally want to read that novel. I probably shouldn't yet because I've plagiarized it enough already with my mind.
2. Propaganda Parrot needs to be a band name like ASAP.
3. I'm going to need a new title.

I'm mylittleredgirl, of course. See you in November!

(Until then: sparktober! There's a picspam post up now! Gogogo!)

Comments

[anr]

HEE! This post fills me with glee. :)

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

:-D <3 <3 <3

I should just pick a title off a random word generator and then spend 50,000 words justifying how the title relates to anything.

[rosewildeirish.livejournal.com]

YAY. Go you!

I...think this year I won't attempt NaNo. I keep not doing it. So. This year I won't sign up. Maybe more will get written that way? IDEK.

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

Sounds good! :) I think it will be good for me because it will force me to write crap. I struggle a lot with first drafts, and with writing in general when I'm not inspired, but I want to learn to work with that.

[keenween.livejournal.com]

Mary's doing it, I'll have her look you up when she gets signed up!

And that Huxley novel is maybe crazier than you think it is... I think I borrowed it from the Hall library when I read it, maybe even while we lived in the PHoC!

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

Oh wow! That would make total sense if you told me about it while we were at the PHoC because basically everything from that year feels like a fever dream!

And YAY! Mary!!! :) I am mylittleredgirl, of course. (edit: I totally said that in the original post. Oops.)

[miera-c.livejournal.com]

Is it cheating if you use NaNo to continue the novel you started last year and haven't finished?

Not that it will stop me.

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

Yes. We're Supposed To start something new at word 1 and work to word 50,000. When I was going to continue my Mars novel, my plan was to arbitrarily break the story into separate books and pretend I was writing the sequel.

I think their rationale was sort of legit - if we've already put a bunch of work into something, we're more attached to it and will get frustrated with speedwriting crap. However, I say you should do what you want and just feel extra subversive.

[miera-c.livejournal.com]

*pbbt* I'm a rebel and I do what I want.

*drops mic*

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

I love you. <3

[georgierae.livejournal.com]

Wheeeeee!

I'm ACTUALLY looking forward to it this year! Which means I won't be coerced into starting it a week late by you :D