NaNoWriMo – na option for BB.com?
This year, I taking part on the NaNoWriMo: National Novel Writing Month (http://www.nanowrimo.org/ ). This is a curious literary marathon where you have to write a 50.000 word novel in one month (starting November 1st and closing November the 31st). This is not about writing good work, which is basically impossible. It is about accomplishing something and teaching yourself you can do it. In this case, creative writing.
Having never written big time fiction, this was a real challenge for me. My background is academic, I wrote two thesis and a bunch of articles. My experience in fiction is a very small number of short stories. So the natural road was to make my plot somewhat auto-biographical. That resulted in something interesting. I just noticed there is very little fiction where the main characters are athletes. If they are, they are stereotyped, not real life people like us.
I have no idea what is going to become of my writing. But I did a search on writing contests around and there is about everything: prizes for writing on women, on minorities, on mixed racial communities, on gays, you name it. But there is no initiative stimulating fictional/creative writing on sports or athletes.
That is a good one for Bodybuilding.com to grasp – MHO.
November 6, 2007 at 9:50 am
Wow, that sounds intense and a lot of fun. Good luck with the challenge.
November 6, 2007 at 12:51 pm
LOL, I’ve actually personally done NaNoWriMo before, 3 years ago - it was a group book, however, there were 4-5 of us actively and alternately writing chapters in a collaborative novel.
It was fun, but exhausting. It’s a great idea, but we’d be late getting started this year. Plus, it’s like pulling teeth to keep people updating their blogs frequently, let alone getting them to write 1,612 words per day, LOL.
November 8, 2007 at 2:44 am
As soon as I am done, I’ll post an exerpt and an abstract here. As I said this is the first big fictional work I have ever engaged in - it has a LOT of auto-biographical and other-biographical material. The main characters are…. TWO POWERLIFTERS! A woman with an academic background and bipolar disorder (what a coincidence!) and a record-breaking PL who gets involved with her challenges to control some "mental ability" that appeared during the a near-death experience. Than the "bad guys" are the pharmaceutical companies and a mysterious perhaps-military research group and the good guys a buddhist network (and then its sheer tripping)….