{"id":1732,"date":"2009-10-11T11:35:47","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T17:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/?p=1732"},"modified":"2009-10-12T12:44:26","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T18:44:26","slug":"my-plans-for-nanowrimo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/my-plans-for-nanowrimo\/","title":{"rendered":"My plans for NaNoWriMo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that, like displaying Christmas decorations on prominent end-caps in grocery stores, people start talking about NaNoWriMo earlier and earlier every year.  Not quite sure what&#8217;s up with that; wherefore art the joy of going in with no prep (no decision, in fact, about participation until the 11th hour)?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, all that chitter chatter got me thinking about it a little earlier than I might otherwise. (Read: before October 30th.)  So, here&#8217;s what I&#8217;m planning:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m doing it. Obviously. Duh.<\/li>\n<li>I believe I&#8217;m going to be working from an <em><strong>outline<\/strong><\/em>.\n<ul>\n<li>Kinda.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m actually going to take the twitter-posts for <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/finnras\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Chapter 1&#8221; of Adrift<\/a>, and write that as a full-blown story with, like, dialogue and stuff.<\/li>\n<li>Interspersed with the action from Adrift, there will be a Princess Fairy Tale, I think.<\/li>\n<li>This will let me flesh out a lot of stuff, and write some things that are going on my head with the story that I simply don&#8217;t have space to write out in once-a-day Twitter posts.<\/li>\n<li>I avoids me wasting several hours every day figuring out what I should be writing that day.<\/li>\n<li>If I write all of 500 words for each of the twitter posts that comprise Adrift Chapter One, that&#8217;s about 100k words.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m probably going to write it in <a href=\"http:\/\/writemonkey.com\/\">WriteMonkey<\/a>, because WriteMonkey is awesome.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ll be backing it up using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getdropbox.com\/\">Dropbox<\/a>, so I can work on it pretty much anywhere.\u00a0 Might do weekly exports from WriteMonkey into OpenOffice as well, which is differently awesome.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>I don&#8217;t know how\/when\/where I&#8217;ll be sharing this out for people to partake in during the month.\n<ul>\n<li>ONE idea I have it to read the daily output aloud and post said reading as a podcasty thing here on the blog.\u00a0 I&#8217;d like thoughts on that.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>That&#8217;s about it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1733\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1733\" style=\"width: 253px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/jetpack.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1733\" title=\"jetpack\" src=\"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/jetpack-253x300.png\" alt=\"I might add jetpacks.\" width=\"253\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/jetpack-253x300.png 253w, http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/jetpack.png 446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1733\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I might add jetpacks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a little excited by the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p>Which is probably why I&#8217;m talking about it early.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that, like displaying Christmas decorations on prominent end-caps in grocery stores, people start talking about NaNoWriMo earlier and earlier every year. Not quite sure what&#8217;s up with that; wherefore art the joy of going in with no prep (no decision, in fact, about participation until the 11th hour)? Anyway, all that chitter chatter &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/my-plans-for-nanowrimo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My plans for NaNoWriMo&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8,42],"tags":[37,636,30],"class_list":["post-1732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing","category-resources","category-writing","tag-adrift","tag-nanowrimo","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1732"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1737,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions\/1737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}