NaNoWriMo!
In my ongoing quest to mess with myself, I've decided to participate in National Novel Writing Month. I haven't worked in prose for years, unless we count treatments, which I mostly don't. The purpose of a treatment is to get the story down in a plain and unadorned form, in such a way that it permits only one possible reading (and even that doesn't always work). Decently-written prose, on the other hand, does something else. It allows for more sprawling, more wordplay, totally different kinds of subtlety... it'll be a nice change after the enforced discipline of movie and comic book scripts.
Of course, by the very nature of the project, there's a whole different kind of enforced discipline. 50,000 words in 30 days is... well, plain crazy, frankly. But then, I've never been afraid of crazy. Just spiders with knives that steal my thoughts when I'm sleeping.
My novel is an adaptation of an idea I've been kicking around for a while, called "The Impresarios". At one point, I was thinking about it as a stage play, but there were issues with staging and performance rights (the story, by its very nature, contains snippets of existing popular works) that I never found good solutions to. The flexibility of prose means that I can go from one scene to another whenever and however I want, and rights only become an issue for me if I take it into my head to self-publish.
Basically, I feel like my existing writing pattern could use a thorough shaking-up, and I want to see what happens. Worst case scenario, I don't finish. Best case, I've got a first draft of what might be a decent novel. Either way, it'll be a nice change.
Of course, by the very nature of the project, there's a whole different kind of enforced discipline. 50,000 words in 30 days is... well, plain crazy, frankly. But then, I've never been afraid of crazy. Just spiders with knives that steal my thoughts when I'm sleeping.
My novel is an adaptation of an idea I've been kicking around for a while, called "The Impresarios". At one point, I was thinking about it as a stage play, but there were issues with staging and performance rights (the story, by its very nature, contains snippets of existing popular works) that I never found good solutions to. The flexibility of prose means that I can go from one scene to another whenever and however I want, and rights only become an issue for me if I take it into my head to self-publish.
Basically, I feel like my existing writing pattern could use a thorough shaking-up, and I want to see what happens. Worst case scenario, I don't finish. Best case, I've got a first draft of what might be a decent novel. Either way, it'll be a nice change.
