I've failed NANOWRIMO: not because it's over, but because I can't fight off the urge to edit my book. It's either edit the book or stop writing, and I don't want to do the latter. Either way, I've failed NANOWRIMO. However, I'll be okay with that if this becomes a book that I'll be proud enough of to try and get published, just like the Christmas story I'm trying to get published now.
Though if I try to get this failed NANOWRIMO project published someday, I can't keep calling my Christmas story my Christmas story because they both take place around Christmastime. So from now on, I'll refer to the first one by its current working title and I'll refer to the other one as the Nutcracker story. The working title for the first one is The Christmas Spirit.
The interesting thing about all of the stories that I've tried to write is that I started with a theme that I wanted and a plot flowered from that theme. I know that this isn't the case with many other authors, and it's not the case with all of my ideas, but the books that I actually like all have a theme in mind. The theme I start with isn't necessarily the only theme I have when the book is ready to be sent out to literary agents, but it's the starting point.
Anyway, just because I've given up on NANOWRIMO doesn't mean the rest of you have to, and I have plenty of NANOWRIMO music to keep you guys going.
One last thing: my college lets me take a theater class to fill a science requirement. How awesome is that?
If you like Tally's music, go to Youtube and search live2tivo. Search ALL CAPS for the techno-music one. The guy is bandgeek8408.
Great blog post and a good reminder that quality is better than word count. Thanks for the music links!
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