{"id":8276,"date":"2015-12-05T09:25:01","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T07:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/debesyla.lt\/?p=8276"},"modified":"2021-10-06T02:03:22","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T23:03:22","slug":"romanas-per-menesi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debesyla.lt\/en\/novel-per-month-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How did I write a novel in a month? NaNoWriMo challenge that will also be held this November<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

It all started two years ago when I decided that just living a nice life was too wasteful and started a year of impossible challenges.<\/p>\n

It was a year with 12 different challenges. And the last one was in November 2014 NaNoWriMo writing challenge<\/a>. 50,000 words in one month. Or one small novel.<\/p>\n

To make it more impressive, let me use a trader's trick and divide this number by days and hours: <\/p>\n

If you're not lazy, that's 1,667 words per day, or 1.7 words per minute, with eight hours of sleep.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

...I see. Quite a lot.<\/p>\n

Why did I decide to try my hand at writing a novel in such a short time?<\/h2>\n

The idea for this challenge, like other impossible challenges, came at the very last moment. Yes, it was such a spontaneous year.<\/p>\n

After finding out on the penultimate day of September that my October test will be get to know 100 people in the Czech Republic<\/a>, I immediately knew what I would do in November. <\/p>\n

Since October is the month of communication... I can end this year with a quieter, more familiar and, for the sake of my writing career, more purposeful activity. For example, I can write my first book.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Because that's who I am - a bit of a shut-in, who likes the quiet of the house and, when I'm lucky, adores the tapping of the keyboard. So why not?<\/p>\n

In fact, I immediately planned an extra activity for November. Since I'm going to write like this, why not try to alienate all the people who would like to communicate with me?<\/p>\n

So, I took advantage Mustachioed November<\/a> 1<\/a> occasion and I started growing a mustache. The same ones that have become my trademark.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/span><\/p>\n

It could be photoshop. However, it may not be, and I certainly was at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC. Ask the historians.<\/p>\n

So how did I manage to write a novel?<\/h2>\n

I will tell you soon what came out of my challenge. But first, I'll retrace my journey so you know how it all went.<\/p>\n

Before the challenge...<\/h3>\n

Since I came up with the goal at the beginning of October, a month before the start of the writing process, I started to slowly prepare for the challenge. It wasn't something very new -I tried earlier in the year<\/a>…<\/p>\n

...I started writing every day<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

No romance, no - the rules forbid it. However: letters to the girl I was in love with<\/a>, thoughts for myself, some secret articles for friends and similar experiments. I didn't show those texts to almost anyone.<\/p>\n

This little preparation for the challenge only required me to write at least 50, 100, 200, 400, or 600 words each day, increasing each time if I managed to write my goal for four days in a row. 2<\/a><\/p>\n

And yes, even the highest threshold in the last week of October, 600 words, is less than the 1,667 words I had to write during the actual November. But it was a practice to get used to writing to prepare for the actual creation of the novel.<\/p>\n

One week before November...<\/h3>\n

About a week ago, I started what follows the rules of NaNoWriMo 3<\/a> I could have spent the whole month of October. I started thinking...<\/p>\n

...And what, under the thunderstorms, do I want to write at all?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It's a good question when you're going to put together a 50,000 word story and you don't have thirteen years to do it.<\/p>\n

My inner dialogue was:<\/p>\n