National Novel Writing Month or NaNoWriMo 2013 starts in just over 24 hours. Every time I think about it I get a little panicky inside. I have neither an outline nor even a name for my main character (I have a problem with that, I wrote a novel last year and have yet to name the main character). All I have is a title and like many other pansters, precious little else. I only decided a short while ago to even do Nano this year. My computer can’t find my Scrivener (I‘ve decided to try it), I don’t have Word and I never got that Dragon software either. In other words, I’m starting in exactly the same place I did last year.
That’s right, I am a Nanopantser. I admit I was surprised to find that out. I wanted to be organized like so many I’ve read about, plotting chapters and making character maps and making my word count every day and then some. I began a week before and did the synopsis and then tried to think of some characters. Nothing. I sat down on November 1st to start and soon that first sentence came to me. Quickly pieces of the female main character began to reveal themselves and off I went – or should I say off she went. It didn’t take long to realize that my writing was like a block party – I never know who is going to show up until they walk through the door.
