Day Forty Six: Nanowrimo Warm Up

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. --Ernest Hemingway

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life--Eudora Welty
 

Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel--WH Auden

 

There is all kinds of advice floating around about how to prepare for Nanowrimo. I'm going with the "Minimally or not at all crowd." That said, I want to get an idea of what writing a novel in one month will feel/look like in terms of time, content, etc, and perhaps generate some ideas in the process.

Exercise: Pretend it's the first day of November and you are starting your novel. Write eight pages.

That's it! No rules. Just see what you come up with.