Another Favorite writing book: No Plot? No Problem!
By Chris Baty
This weeks book is all about Motivation and Discipline.
Chris Baty is the founder of the NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Moth writing competition. Basically, this book is all about overcoming writier’s block, fear of failure, and thinking you stink and getting your first novel finished faster than you ever thought you could.
Granted, even Chris admits that the 50,000 word goal isn’t really a novel, and that by putting aside plotting, style and characterization in favor of silliness and cliche doesn’t mean your novel is going to be any good. But the emotional boost that comes from rising to the challenge, and succeeding could lead to, oh, I dunno, a second draft?
As opposed to the previous entry,
, which acknowledges that most people find it difficult to set aside the time to plan and draft, and offers a guiding hand, Baty instead treats novel writing as a lark. In his view, there’s no pressure, since you’re writing primarily for yourself only. I do feel that some writers will misinterpret Baty’s view and asume that , whew, we’ve done all the hard work now let’s publish!
But for the mature aspring writer who wants a real kick-in-the-pants, balls-to-the-wall approach to finally, FINALLY, getting your first novel written, this makes a nice start.
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