NaNoWriMo ‘08 : 100,000 in 30 days… anyone else?

I failed my first year…did like 2,000 before I got bored with my plot.

I did 183,000 my second year… kind of to make up for failing the first year, but than never went back to edit it.

I reached 75,000 last year, but I never finished the story!

I get my no NaNo stories finished, so I there is no reason why I never finish my NaNo ones. Anyways…

This year… I’ll aim for 100,000 this year AND finishing the book too!

This year, I’m doing something totally out of character for me:

1) I’m determined to go with no plot, and no planning this year. My first 3 years I planned and plotted like crazy and than tossed it all aside to shoot from the hip instead, so this year, I’ve decided to not waste my time planning and see how good I do, just jumping in with: NO PLOT – NO PROBLEM! Like the NaNoWriMo slogan says. Will I make it without a plot? There’s only one way to find out, so I won’t know the answer until December 1st rolls around.

2) With no plot and no plan, means I’ll be also going with no setting, and no characters too! So, I’m going to do a first for me, and write fanfiction (InuYasha). I’ve been writing for 28 years and never once have I ever written fan fiction, so this’ll be a BIG change for me. The way I figure is, if I do fan fiction, I’ll have a set of characters to work with, and that way I’ll be able to start writing. However, given my habit of dropping characters and adding new ones on a whim, it is highly likely that by the end of week one, it will no longer be fan fiction, but be a regular fiction instead. At least that’s the theory I’m going on. No idea wither my resulting finished story will be fan fiction when it’s done or not. Well just have to wait and see what popped out of my head once November gets here.

So, there you have it. What my plan for NaNo ‘08 is.

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