Writing a Novel

For several years now, I’ve been familiar with the National Novel Writing Month challenge but never participated. After finding fun and success in game jams, I wanted to join this year. Writing fiction is a new endeavor for me, but one of my goals this year.

What is NaNoWriMo

The National Novel Writing Month is a challenge to write a 50,000 word story in the month of November. The story can be on any subject or of any genre. The goal is to finish a story.

I’ve been familiar with the challenge since the end of my college career, and have been interested in participating for a couple years now. After participating in a few game jams, the concept seemed more and more appealing.

Game jams have helped provide me with short periods to focus and complete given projects. The limitations of the short timeframe and specific goal have been a good way to learn a lot and complete projects.

Goals and Focus

My big push for the last stretch of the year is to complete as much of my annual goals as I can. One of those goals is to write a story, something I’ve wanted to do since starting this blog. While I’ve mostly written from first hand experience and non-fiction, writing a fully fictional story sounds like a fun challenge to try.

Admittedly, it will be a tough challenge to try and overcome, but I think I have some minor goals in place to help. On a daily front, I’m looking at a time worked goal of 90 minutes of writing. Weekly is where I’m looking at a word count to hit. Using both an input and output goal I’m hoping will help to keep me on track.

With that said, my posts the next few weeks will likely be on the short side, but I hope they still have enough solid information on progress and takeaways. As of the first half of this week, I’ve been distracted with the stream of news regarding the US election. With the excitement winding down, I’m hoping to get back to the habit I want to set.