Camp NaNoWriMo

I’ve been thinking for a while that I was at my most productive in this whole writing thing back in November for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and that it’d be really nice to get some of that high intensity output back. Thankfully I’m not the only one that feels that way. There are many initiatives throughout the year to do a novel in a month, since not everyone wants to do it in November, or like me, they want to do it more than just once a year. 

So this year I’m going to give Camp NaNoWriMo a try. It is pretty much what it sounds like; NaNoWriMo in the summer, a mental summer camp where you escape into your writing. Sounds pretty good to me. Just as a side note, NaNoWriMo isn’t the only group doing the novel-in-30-days thing in June; see also JuNoWriMo.com.

This won’t change anything for my writing; I’ll still hold myself to everything I’m currently doing. (Even WIP500, which I haven’t updated here in a month, but I do still have all my blog posts I can use to update my word count as soon as I have time to do it.) The one change I’ll have to institute is a division between editing work and writing work. I’ll have a Camp NaNoWriMo project and I’ll be continuing to edit things on the side. Those editing things will count towards WIP500 but not towards CNaNoWriMo.

Anyone else feeling crazy enough to jump into this? Or is summer too busy a time for you? What about this coming November? Any NaNoWriMo 2012 people reading this? Let me know in the comments.

An Improbable Journey

Yesterday concluded The Fast and the Dead, my first take on zombies. It was a lot of fun, I enjoyed writing it, and I think I’m going to enjoy editing it, but now it’s time for something different. I’m pulling the pieces of my next story together.

I have a concept, a character in mind, and a setting. Tomorrow begins the actual writing. So far I’m thinking of something along the lines of Robert Lynn Asprin’s Myth series, only science fiction. Not quite like the Phule’s Company stuff he also did though. The first thing that popped into my head was Space Quest. I’ve always been a huge fan of the old Sierra/Lucasarts adventure games, and Space Quest was such a favorite that I forgave it for not having been able to run some of the later games due to bugs.

I should dust some of those off and replay them…

Writing Life Interview

Earlier this week I was contacted by Emma Larkins about doing an interview for her Writing Life, 15 Minutes at a Time blog. It sounded like a lot of fun, and a rare opportunity since I just began this crazy project, so I accepted. 

You can check out the interview here: Interview with Gord McLeod on Community Fridays