A visitor who penned a message on my guestbook asked:
How would you describe your experience with NaNoWriMo from the previous years?
I would say, fun and challenging--in different ways each year, of course. As I've told other Nanowrimo participants in a meet-up yesterday, I try to do something different each year to make it a challenge. If I wrote the same kind of thing every year, there would be no effort involved. Thus:
2001: First year. Writing by the seat of my pants. Enough said, really.
2002: Planning out a mystery. Where to put the red herrings and clues? How to write it all out and not make it look like a scatterbrained mess?
2003: Some actual world building involved.
2004: Changed my mind on ideas nearly at the last minute. Tried to deliberately make some things humorous.
2005: Steampunk. Researching Victorian stuff and doing some world building.
2006: Not steampunk, but on top of the historical research and world building, I also had to plan out a murder mystery.
This year, on top of some historical research, I'm going to try to write this thing in first person. We'll see how it goes.
