October is at an end and November is right in my face, remembering me that it is time for another crazy 30 days to write a new novel.
Writing is a very important moment for me for it is a mean of extracting a story and put it in a form that will be understandable by others. It will be out of my own private garden and pushed into a mean that can be seen by others. Of course, I need to publish the story for the world to read it but it would be at a single click of sending it to the world. It would be possible to pass a whole story to thousands of people.
It's actually a very great commitment to myself because I agree to express that story. For me, it is as important as sending an email to a client, writing a technical document for a developer, create a presentation on prezi or writing a post-it on the team's board.
So now I will write, what at least 100K words again? This is a lot of email and about 20 000 post-it! That's crazy! How can I bare to to render such a story, even if it is only in a word document? It cannot just stay there and wait for ever? Imagine if I had 20 000 post-it on my desk and just say to people: "Nah, I won't put them on the board. It was just a crazy idea I had for a month."
I could not bare the looks of people, the mental issue I would have to live with such a number of post-it on my desk, not to mention the people responsible to clean the office and my boss asking me why I used 20 000 post-it. I would have to store them away and force myself not to look at them and kick them back in place each time I would trip on a sticky pile of them.
So why would I agree to keep a 100K words novel in a folder somewhere in "My Documents"? I has to have a purpose. I has to be used. If I decided to write it, it means it had a value and than value could be to acheive a personal goal of just writing them but it can't be only that for me. When I write, I do it because other have value in what I write too. Why would I write an email to explain something to a client if it had no value? They would just ditch it away, or worst, tell me they don't want to have these kind of email any more.
am I writing novels for people?
Well, yes!
Of course I first write them for me. It gives me a great sens of accomplishment and also helps me to understand my own version of a story. I don't have all the novel in my head at all times. I have flashes, scenes, characters, general events and other bits of information but the whole novel is still a mystery. Even the ones that are already written! I can't remember all the details and it would not surprise me if I was to modify a whole part of it in the process.
So, writing is for me an expression of my imagination, feelings and knowledge that I cannot just leave there for a future discovery by someone or just lose everything due to a hard drive crash. I am kind of committing myself to publish here. I still don't know when or how but I will. It is a goal, no, a purpose I have when I write.
And now, back to that crazy month of November where we will create a novel for the world. And the best part is that it will be a fun adventure based on friendship, caffeine, sugar, lack of sleep, back pain, courage and laughing.
Hope to see you soon!
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