NaNoWriMo

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I first heard of NaNoWriMo while viewing a tutorial by the highly-gifted author and teacher, Ella Deverell. It seemed like such a mouthful of nonsense to me, but as it has so often done before, my curiousity led me to type it into Google. That's when I learned that NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month.

It's November. It's November now, of course, but National Novel Writing Month takes place in November. It's when writers attempt to write an entire novel, of at least 50,000 words, in just thirty days. Madness.

Being mad myself, of course, I had to sign up for it. It's day three today and I've hit 8,000 words already.

My novel started out with the title Tara Benson, but while planning various elements of it during October (that's permitted under the challenge rules, I checked) I renamed it Tara Benson and the Cloud Collective. Shortly after I started actually writing it, the day before yesterday, it occurred to me that this new title feels more suited to a story for older children or young adults; I'm thinking of the Harry Potter and the... but I'm sure there have been many other series that follow the same naming protocol.

So now the title is simply The Cloud Collective. I'm not going to go into too much detail here, partly because 'spoilers', and partly because the time I spend writing about the novel is time that I'm not spending actually writing the novel.

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