NaNoWriMo 2019

[Neo Emolga]

To anyone trying it, best of luck and have fun! You can do the thing!

I've tried it twice and I flunked both times quite early. I think my problem is the speed and deadline approach causes me to write myself into a creativity hole where suddenly I feel "darn it, this wasn't a good idea and I don't know how to keep going." But rewinding the plot to a previous point and deleting material causes me to lose enormous (possibly days worth) of word count and that can be fatal for this kind of thing when you then have to try and make that up.

BUT (and a BIG BUT), both these attempts were done without a visual outline in writing and I went in both times without a real plan and only mental preparation, just winging it and hoping for the best. It sounds like the kind of thing that may have been the fatal flaw in my approach. So it begs the question that if I did a nice amount of prep work throughout September and October, devised a fully functional plot in advance, and prepared baseline material in terms of characters, themes, and such before the first words were typed, could I do it then?

MAYBE...

But that's really all I can say. I wouldn't know unless I try it and right now, I'm not sure about it.