{"id":34905,"date":"2011-10-31T19:37:49","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T02:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/?p=34905"},"modified":"2011-10-31T19:37:49","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T02:37:49","slug":"nonowrimo-2011-kickoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2011\/nonowrimo-2011-kickoff\/","title":{"rendered":"NoNoWriMo 2011 Kickoff"},"content":{"rendered":"

NaNoWriMo = National Novel Writing Month<\/a>. The goal is to write a 50,000 word novel between Nov. 1 and Nov. 30. I tried it back in 2003 but only got to 12,000 words. That piece had was called Red Eye Reduction<\/i><\/a>. At that point in my life I had been unemployed and finally started getting job interviews (and eventually a job) so other things too priority.<\/p>\n

This year life isn’t quite as crazy (still working on getting over the post-breakup angst from when my boyfriend of four years and I broke up back in June) and I’m doing NaNoWriMo with a couple of coworkers. Doing this with someone else will be great for encouragement and keeping me on track. It’s like having buddies to go to the gym with.<\/p>\n

Last time I wrote my own software to track how I did and posted everything publicly on my blog. This time around I plan to keep things in Word docs because it’s easier. Also having everything on a blog makes it difficult to go back and re-write things from earlier, etc. etc.<\/p>\n

That doesn’t mean that technology won’t play a big part in my writing. I’m currently trying to figure out how I want to utilize stuff like Dropbox<\/a>, SkyDrive<\/a>, Evernote<\/a>, and old fashioned stuff like thumb drives (I have a Star Wars<\/i> one with Star Killer<\/a> on it!) and my old Moleskine<\/a> notebook from my friend Molly<\/a>. Somehow I’m sure it will all come together — I’ll try to post updates on what works best, etc.<\/p>\n

To get prepared over the weekend I bought a set of Star Wars<\/i> Legos at the store and built the Slave I (Boba Fett’s ship) Lego set<\/a>. I figured it would get some creative juices flowing (along with some frustration juices because I’m almost positive one of the pieces was missing). I also watched the movies Halloween<\/i> (the original) and Scream 2<\/i> and Scream 3<\/i>. Not sure how much those movies will influence me, but you never know.<\/p>\n

Tonight I plan to re-read some of the previous stuff I’ve written and go over notes I’ve written down in various philosophy\/theory books I’ve read. I know I always feel very inspired and creative when reading stuff by Slavoj \u017di\u017eek<\/a>, so I’ll surely be flipping through Looking Awry<\/i><\/a> and others.<\/p>\n

I also have a couple ideas for creativity\/inspiration exercises that I may be posting here. I’d love comments as it keeps me encouraged and gives me even new ideas to play off of.<\/p>\n

Wish me luck and here we go…!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NaNoWriMo = National Novel Writing Month. The goal is to write a 50,000 word novel between Nov. 1 and Nov. 30. I tried it back in 2003 but only got to 12,000 words. That piece had was called Red Eye Reduction. At that point in my life I had been unemployed and finally started getting … Continue reading NoNoWriMo 2011 Kickoff<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34905"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34911,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34905\/revisions\/34911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}