Maybe? I was just commenting in another thread how my muse overdosed on coke and drowned in a pool a few years ago--in so many words--so maybe something rigid and mechanical would be what the doctor ordered? Not that doctors know how to order anything beyond contractually obligated medication quotas sponsored by the highest bidder....
I'm considering it again this year, but again, I'm not sure I'm at a point where I'm ready to launch into high-speed writing on Season of the Witch. It's still in development. I suspect the reason is that I'm developing myself as a writer, so I'm entering new territory here. So for right now anyway, my answer to the thread question (Anyone Doing the NaNo this year?) is gonna be Nah, No, Nuh-uh.
I'd say best way to develop is to jump in the fire without thinking. Writing is all about the grindy, monotonous, repetitive, heavy lifting once you see the scope of the project. I've stacked 6 cords of wood before and that was a hell of a lot less exhausting then cranking 70K words.
Nope. I won't try to explain it in detail, but at this point the ideas are developing nicely, if slowly. I can't start writing it at high speed before the ideas are formed properly. Thank god I didn't approach it that way already, or I'd need to go back and re-write the whole thing—as it is I just need to re-work the beginning to change Rachel's character somewhat. At just about any time in the past it's exactly how I approached writing, and doubtless will be in the future, but right now I'm learning so much and trying to figure out how to incorporate it into the writing. It requires that I think my way through a few things that have always been problem areas for me. Once the ideas firm up though, Bam! It's off to the races.
Speaking of, I happen to have prescribing rights for trybein... ...as in trybeingamanaboutit and get back to writing, you guitar slapping restaurant cartel overlord Rhode Islandite. Stretching work capacity is a bitch but I think you can do it. ABC: Always. Be. Writing.
I probably will since it means for at least one month I will conscientiously write on the same project every day, and may even create a habit that will continue for another month of three.
Strictly speaking, no, since I'm not planning to write a novel anytime soon, but I do have a similar project in mind--I'm thinking about writing a stage musical. The recent Philly Fringe Festival has me feeling inspired, and now that I'm getting involved in the local musical theater community, I think I can actually bring something to life. I'm still deciding on my priorities, but I might just do NaPlayWriMo in parallel with y'all.
If I do work on Season of the Witch, even though it isn't intended to be a novel, it would still work, since Novella still begins with the requisite 'no'.
