Saturday, November 5, 2011

NaNoWriMo Challenge

So, I decided that I wanted to do NaNoWriMo this year. Originally, I was going to just use my third story, but since I had already started that and I'm still not exactly sure where that's going, I wasn't sure if that would work. But I got onto the NaNoWriMo website and found that someone was doing this cool idea of plot swapping. They had made up a plot with some characters for each other to write about. I was really intrigued by this idea, but since I had no plot to give away, I couldn't really swap a plot with someone, so I adopted one instead. This really nice person just gave me this plot. I just started writing it yesterday, so I'm kind of behind, but I'm really excited about it. At first, I was kind of hesitant, because I felt like I was stealing someone else's ideas, but she told me, "When you get it published, just mention me in your acknowledgements." That from someone who doesn't even know me.

But now I'm really excited about it. I think you guys should give it a try. There's a forum at NaNoWriMo.org that's called Adopt-A-Plot. I'm sure someone would be willing to give you one, or even like two of you could make up a plot for each other. It's kind of fun, even if you don't finish NaNoWriMo, like the whole 50,000 words. I think you should try writing someone else's idea.