Hey, it's early for this!

Yup, it's only September one, and NaNoWriMo 2008 is all of two months away. But it's not too early for me to think about the challenge to come.

I learned a lot from the last NaNoWriMo.

1. Egos are made to be punctured. I had everything planned out for the last one, and ended up hashing together absurdly long chapter titles with 'a dream within a dream' dialog (combined with an overgenerous dollop of hallucinogenic fantasy), to make the requisite end of novel and 50,000 words.
2. Long character names and listing of meals is too a legitimate way to add words to the novel.
3. Your kids are at least as devious as you are in creating puff-novels that are detested from the moment created through the last !$#(!@ word. And never to be looked at again.
4. Well, there were a few good nuggets in there...
5. ...but not useful for this year's NaNoWriMo.
6. NaNoBruMo is a place of mind, not location. I say that because it'll have to be somewhere other than the last several years, owing to the sale/foreclosure of the current residence (don't ask me how this year has gone!)
   

Resolutions for 2008:

• I'll get a location for NaNoBruMo pegged down by the first week in November, even if I have to kill a family to take over their house. (Well, that was a little over the top. See novel from last year.)
• While I sketched out the novel last year, this year I have to actually like the novel idea, not just see it's word count potential.
• Blogging doesn't add to word count, but it's important. I realized I'd only done three blog entries all of last year. No good. This year, it's many. I promise. I swear. (I swear I won't edit this on November 30th!)
• Advertisement! I'll push this on friends' blogs, on twitter, and everywhere else I can.

I guess that's all for an opening salvo. My current idea is to take the TV arc of my Induction, Infection and Insurrection novels and turn each episode into a treatment, then have the treatments strung together as a narrative with a narrator moving the viewers/readers from one episode to another. Should be fun.

More on this in my next post, which should be within the next couple of weeks. Gotta rev up for the writing. I want to be able to hit the magical 100,000 word bullseye this year.