The Novel in Two Days Thing
So, CrookedSixpence is kind of bare these days. The way I figure, there’s no better way to shake the new place up than with a stupid gimmick. And what stupider gimmick is there than writing a novel… in two days?
I’ve always wanted to write a novel. I was pretty impressed with myself for covering five index card-sized scraps of construction paper with writing when I was 8. I wrote about 30 notebook pages of sci-fi drivel when I was 14. I got through 1,000 words during last year’s NaNoWriMo. And that’s about as far as I’ve ever gotten. At least, when I had a “novel” in mind.
My problem is that I’m a perfectionist. I edit and re-edit and never get past those first few pages because they just refuse to be perfect. Now, if I have a working period of just two days, I can’t do much editing, can I? I pretty much just have to sit down and type every word that forms a sentence and hope that each sentence relates to its predecessor somehow.
So there’s my challenge.
Actually, my next challenge is to figure out when I’ll be doing this. I don’t have any spare time until April. But I’m doin’ it, folks! I don’t guarantee it’ll be good, but it’s gonna happen either way. Your job is to tell me how sad I’ll make the kittens and puppies of the world if I chicken out. And… go.
March 19th, 2007 at 9:35 pm
Sounds neat, I’m exactly the same way with writing.
March 19th, 2007 at 10:51 pm
Frustrating, idn’t it?
March 20th, 2007 at 9:18 am
Can’t wait!! And you better not chicken out or snow will not fall, puppies will not be born, and peeps will not exist this Easter.
let the puppies be born please!
March 20th, 2007 at 9:47 am
Yes, VERY frusturating. XP
March 20th, 2007 at 9:51 am
“Can’t wait!! And you better not chicken out or snow will not fall, puppies will not be born, and peeps will not exist this Easter.”
What? No peeps either?! Oh man. The pressure. The PRESSURE. lol
March 20th, 2007 at 2:29 pm
Shido is weeping right now. Asuka isn’t, but she has to cry sooner or later. sad. saaaaaad.
March 20th, 2007 at 5:54 pm
Just remember:
GB KICKS PUPPIES and if you do not do this, the abuse will continue.
PUPPIES FOR PEACE!
March 20th, 2007 at 7:08 pm
Chia: Shido weeps for all the mourners of the world, but Asuka weeps for no one. At least… on the outside. On the outside, Asuka laughs in the face of sorrow. It is on the inside that she sheds her heaviest tears. Okay, now go paint that on a scroll and sell it at Pier 1. STAT.
Crystal: DOGGIE BED-IN! END TERRIER TERROR!
March 21st, 2007 at 9:06 am
;O
WOWZA.
SIMPLY CANT WAIT!
Hmmm right puppies and kittens.
Well lets see
if you don’t write this, the kittens with go crazy and start chewing the puppies tails, and the puppies will get mad at them and start eating the kittens and in the end the kittens will make a bomb and blow up the whole world.
The planet rests in your hands Katy.
I hope you make the right choice
March 23rd, 2007 at 3:11 pm
Wow. Cool project. You sound a lot like me, being a writer and all
I need to write stories all the time XD
April 2nd, 2007 at 11:45 am
two days?! are you planning on getting some zzzzs? hehe. writing is tedious, that’s why short stories are all that i’m up for. takes me three months. good riddance. anyway, good luck.
August 30th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
I hope you realize the devil doesn’t need your approval. (That’s what makes him so diabolical.)
September 7th, 2007 at 9:31 pm
cat urine smell…
The best way to remove cat urine odors and stains……
May 9th, 2008 at 9:24 am
Hello love, good luck on your novel project and whatnot…
and…OH!
You need to work on skary.net.
Please.
That would be quite loverly.
October 3rd, 2008 at 10:02 pm
Oh Yes! Please do some more skary work! I’m just dying for more black and white and red all over.
loverly?
Yes. Quite right. That would be loverly.
November 12th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
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