Not Thinking Of Elephants

NaNoWriMo is approaching and perhaps against my better judgement I am deciding to give it another go. I hadn't intended to, but having begun the Night Store project I feel that setting out 50,000 words at the hurry up might enable me to get some meat for the novel proper. Night Store will be constrained as anything, but the NaNoWriMo will be brash and jazzy. The trouble is, I'm intent on keepting true to the NaNoWriMo ideal of not thinking about what I shall write before the first of November. Last year I was blessed in only finding out about it at the start of the month anyway; this year I am caught. It is testament to my laziness that I can do quite a substantial amount of work on ideas in my head without committing anything to paper - running through scenes, plotting and whatnot. The facility is troubling in that I find I can't not think about what I intend to do. I shall try and be strong.

As a further encouragement for the NaNoWriMo it will be my intention to use it to complete Pieces, or at the very least to replace Pieces with another semi-random ordered story. Too much of Hamilton's Brain is given over to the abandoned and half finished, so it will be nice to get to the end of November with the bulk of a text that I can then polish up into something shiny for the homepage.

I have bullied Daniel into joining me for the adventure, and intend taking the first (and probably the thirtieth) off for a big old typing jamboree. 2006 saw me attempting the actually quite excruciating 1,667 words a day approach. This year I shall go for the initial blitz, regroup, recalculate and attack method, which could be a lot more fun.

More later.