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And this is what it’s for:

In November of 2007 (during which I was participating in NaNoWriMo), I thought of the novel idea of documenting the process this year. You know how they say that there are no original ideas left? Yeah, well at one of the write-ins I attended, I learned that some other Edmowrimos had thought of it, too. Only their idea was quite a bit more sound. Four people sharing a two bedroom apartment, each with a part time job so as to combine their wages for food/rent/internet/laundry yet still have time to write as much as they can. Add a few video cameras recording them however much they decide to have them on, and they edit it all down into an epic saga of four maniacs trying to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days.

So yes, it’s going to have been done by the time I have the money to do it. So I decided (and we’ll see how long this lasts) that I’m going to attempt to keep a daily record of my struggle against work and a social life, not to mention the occasional imagination fart, towards a feature length script (100 pages; for Script Frenzy!) in April, and a 50,000 word novel in November. For those keeping track, that’s about 3 and a half pages a day in April and 1,667 words a day in November. Of course, the point of these two competitions isn’t as much about writing a great, cohesive story as it is about teaching yourself how to write without concern as to whether it’s good or not, and to leave editing for when you’ve got a complete story.

So… yeah. That’s (hopefully) what this blog will be about. In the mean time, though, it may just be random shit. I apologize in advance if there’s some emo interspersed between relevant posts. Hopefully I won’t add too much to the irrelevant bullshit flooding the blogosphere already (I can guarantee that I probably will). We’ll see how it goes.