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Not Entirely Coincidental


Today I started a new book and in the front it read, "This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental." Anyone else read this in the beginning of a book and think, LIES! I want to start my book with, "This is a work or fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is not entirely coincidental because the author doesn't live in a cave without Internet, T.V. and has a life." 

 With that being said,  I would have to actually write a book in order for this to be in the front.  I am almost positive a publishing company would not allow my version for legal reasons.  What this all really leads to is writing.  I am looking into doing Camp NaNoWriMo in April.  I am not sure if I want to pick up where I left off in November when I started my NaNoWriMo novel or if I should take the idea behind my story and do my research now then start the story over in April.  Regardless of what I decide to do, I need to start now.  

 I have always just written by the seat of my pants and wrote whatever came to mind that day.  As I write more often I find it a distraction to write this way.  I think that because I tend to be a perfectionist I want the details to be right so I start to research and then I never really write much.  The glass half full is that at least I learned something new or different.  The glass half empty is that I will never finish a novel writing this way.  

 For me the NaNoWriMo 30 day challenge keeps me motivated to write.  I'm sure there is some psychological reason but I do better with deadlines imposed by others.  I clearly don't have a publishing company to do this for me.  I don't seem to have the self motivation to give myself daily goals and keep them.  For me NaNoWriMo seems to do what I can not do for myself which is create deadlines and stick to them. I love the charts and progress I can see on their website and the cheerleading group behind the organization keeps me going.  

 I feel like a new notebook is in my near future.  New project, new notebook!  

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