1st day of NaNoWriMo Camp!

I feel that the timing of my blogpost with the start of NaNo Camp is fortuitous. For those of you who do not know NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month (Link: http://www.nanowrimo.org/) where crazy writers decide that in the month of November to write a 50,000 word novel all in one go. Imagine this as a literary marathon. This is entirely about goal setting and while there are bragging rights involved as rewards (and some neat badges) there are no penalties for non-completion...in fact don't even think about it in terms of complete and incomplete! The whole idea is that writers should sit down, write, and challenge themselves to produce.

Now what is Camp NaNoWriMo? Well...it's essentially the same thing but during the summer! (and possibly other months as well? Link: http://www.campnanowrimo.org/sign_in) Although it's still in beta phase, prospective campers can get together with others and produce the same crazy schedule by choice. 50,000 words over the month of July and I'm diving right in. This is actually my first official involvement with anything WriMo so I'm very excited to be involved with the community. I've done a bit of writing in the past but nothing I've done has been on this scale in this time frame. This will be my first real attempt at writing a novel as all my experience up till now has been with short stories. I don't intend on documenting everything that comes along, but I think every Sunday along with the main post I'll put a tiny blurb at the top for highlights of the weeks writing.

The title of the story I'm working on is titled, "Tangled in Steel." Here's the synopsis I posted up on my camper profile page (there is also an excerpt from my first bit of writing there as well):

"A young girl's father on one of the backwater moons of Saturn has a failing merchant business. In order to save the business from a greedy and tyrannical strong-man he must risk all on a trading venture through pirate infested space. But alas! There's a rogue warship stalking the orbits here, rumor has it it's Martian but no one knows for sure. All (insert Daughter's name here) knows is that her father is missing and she must save him (and that she must avoid marrying said strong-man)."


Well I guess failing Merchant business is a bit exaggerated, it's more like struggling. The story includes love, sadness, action, suspense, comedy, and probably other things I haven't thought of yet! When I started yesterday I felt a little like I was in over my head...How am I going to make this story fill 50,000 words? Well that's part of the fun!