I want to take an
opportunity to say something that goes with both my love of robots and my love
of writing.
Last November I
participated in National Novel Writing Month. The last two years I’ve thought
about it but never started. Since 2015 was the year I got fully into a writing
career, I celebrated my decision by allowing myself to be a part of the
NaNoWriMo event.
Can you guess why
I’d be sharing this piece of information here?
I am not really a
person that likes to brag about my accomplishments. I don’t like getting much
attention, but I still like to share some things such as what I thought about
this or that. But this experience about NaNoWriMo was very special to me.
Particularly because of the subject matter I was dealing with during the writing
process. I am proud of myself for having an outline (if not following it for
the last third of the time), for being consistent with my daily word count, and
not giving up.
When I was approaching 40,000 words as soon as I was, I increased my word count goal to 80,000.
I wrote 80,300+ words toward the first draft of the project.
Now, back to why I
am sharing that I participated in NaNoWriMo.
If you guessed I
wrote the first draft of a novel, you are right so far. (Easy guess!)
If you guessed that
my novel has to do with robots, you are also right. (I guess I gave that bit
away earlier.)
If you guessed that
the robots are humanoid robots, you are even righter (ah ha hah, I know there
isn‘t such a word, but I felt giddy that moment, so humor me J)!
During the
NaNoWriMo draft I focused on some character development and scenes. I hardly
did anything for setting and descriptions, except that it takes place in the
future where having a humanoid robot house companion is affordable for a lot of
people.
I want to say more
about it, but I prohibit myself from sharing any more concrete details until a
draft is ready for beta readers. That may not be until the end of summer or fall 2016. I’ll see.
NOTE: This post is rather late in being released. But I still wanted to share it.
