Anyone else participating in the “write a novel in 30 days” challenge?? I am.
I’ve already written the great American novel.
It’s called “Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie.”
Wow. You wrote Calvin’s favorite book!!!??
Stevo
i wrote a book in November of last year without realizing it was a nationwide event until afterwards.
BUMP
I finished tonight. I am so fucking psyched that I’m done!! I’ve never managed to do anything this artistic and crazy in only a month…hell, I’ve never written a novel at all before, let alone in 30 days.
Now the long process of editing…
so wait…did you win? because it appears you did. if so, congrats! good for you! and what’s your novel about?
It’s kind of based on my life, but with many, many liberties and other things added in. The basic premise is, there’s a senior in college writing a novel while going to classes and dealing with everyday life, and in the novel he’s writing, the premise is that a dude had kept a pet rat as his accountant and in charge of guarding a box of money under his bed, and one day that rat runs away with it. Then it turns out that he’s writing a novel about the kid who’s writing a novel about him. This is all interspersed with different things that the main character’s friends have written, along with a mid-book interview with the author and some of the characters, and other strange touches.
greg, which author did you get to send you emails?
You should develop a nasty heroin habit.
I heard that is good for…stuff. Writing being one of them, I guess.
^always worked for me.
good going gweggwy
That’s awesome, Greg! I haven’t worked up the courage to take the NaNoWritMo challenge yet.
Y’all should be impressed with our little Gregger!
we’all are, i’m sure.
i’m also writing a novel. it’s pretty groundbreaking too. here’s a sneek peek at the first paragraph:
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short paragraphs, but the emotion is there.
That’s amazing…!!
I forget who the authors were that sent out emails to all the participants this year. I know one of them was Tom Robbins.
that’s why i was asking. i was hoping you had Robbins. i read some of the e-mails he sent out and they’re great. certainly inspirational.
^^^ That really reminds me of Joyce…it is pretty much just as incomprehendable.
Robbins is far from incomprehensible…there’s just a hell of a lot going on within every sentence.
i’m in the middle of Skinny Legs in All right now, actually. i’ve read Jitterbug Perfume, Still Life, and Another Roadside, all of which i absolutely loved. easily my favorite author.
Joyce only dreams of holding a candle to my literary genius. but i will always crush that dream, and with a smile.
sigh…pearls before swine i suppose. 