Why You Should Consider Sharing Your Novel As You Go
Chris Baty founded NaNoWriMo in order to extend a simple invitation to people around the world: to write the novel inside of them. When he was invited to co-write a story and share it as a work-in-progress, he stepped up, just like you stepped up to our November challenge. Today, he explains why you should consider sharing your novel-in-progress, too:
Last month, I got an email from author Tom Kealey. Tom teaches a NaNoWriMo class for undergrads at Stanford, and he wanted to know if I’d be interested in collaborating on a short story about a happy teen going through life with an arrow sticking out of his head.
These are the emails that every book nerd dreams of getting. An award-winning short story author wants me to help him write something involving dangerous projectiles and atypical head wounds?
Finally!
This sounds almost exactly like what me and my Livejournal friends already do w/ our fanfics. Sure, the “deadlines” aren’t as strict (more self-imposed than anything else), but the idea of getting feedback as you go is something I’m totally familiar with, and it helps me a lot, especially when it comes to motivation.
