Nano Blogging Day #1: How To Start A Novel (or Running Around Like Your Ass Is On Fire)

[megwrites]

Being stuck between several ideas, I outlined the heck out of them last night and then went to bed, hoping that either my subconscious would have the right answer come to me in a dream or that I would wake up miraculously know which idea to choose.

Yeah, don't ever rely on your subconscious to be useful or timely in giving you information. My subconscious is pretty much the bastard lovechild of Cookie Monster and Animal. It wants nothing but sweets and goes around wrecking up the place while growling incoherently.

This morning I got up, a bit bleary and with a bit of a sugar-hangover and decided to screw it all. Screw the idea being good or publishable or even not trite. Everyone's ideas are trite if you boil them down to basic elements and strip away all the context and execution.

And if everything is equal, I'm gonna start working on the idea that I know the first line for. That's something, right?

So. Chapter one, page one, line one.

Comments

[readingthedark.livejournal.com]

My subconscious is pretty much the bastard lovechild of Cookie Monster and Animal.

I've woken up in a bit too literal of a mindset and I just imagined Cookie Monster and Animal trying to impregnate each other. It wasn't an unpleasant image, I'm just lucky my coffee stayed in my mouth.

Sometimes, when no one's looking, I try to pretend that every idea I have is publishable if I play with it enough and that the key issue is time versus quality. That way, I just have to figure out which ideas I currently have are closest to worth working on instead of the, "Oh noes. Everything in my brains is cloggy," that I'm sometimes prone to. This I admit, is kind of like thinking that anyone and everyone will go to the prom with me if I spend enough time convincing them, but sometimes that's better than citting in my room singing Violent Femmes for a ear straight. Other times? Yay, Gordon.

[scififanatic.livejournal.com]

Yeah, don't ever rely on your subconscious to be useful or timely in giving you information. My subconscious is pretty much the bastard lovechild of Cookie Monster and Animal. It wants nothing but sweets and goes around wrecking up the place while growling incoherently. LMAO! :o)

Seriously, what you write will not be trite if you write from your heart; even if someone has written a story with the same themes, the metaphors and everything will be unique to you. There's no one else like you. It'll be great! Don't worry about making it perfect or making it new. Make it YOU!

I'm going to be cheering you on all the way! :o) We're in this together!