So I thought today would be a good day to talk a little about writing style. Now that term is going to mean something different to readers and writers, or at least have more contexts to a writer. In this case though I mean the method in which the author goes about writing the novel. I like writing in a physical notebook then typing everything up. I write in purple ink. This was not a conscious decision, it was just that I have several colors of pens and pencils available but I noticed at some point several years ago that, even while everything else didn't seem to have any particular color, my story and novel writing were almost always done in purple.
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| Some NaNo swag, a postcard (new bookmark!) and stickers from this and a previous year |
One thing I started doing during the 2013 NaNo, that I know bothers about anyone I write with in real life meetings is that I gave up on paragraphs. My writing notebook is a solid chunk of purple cursive with the occasional strike through, scribble out, or kanji. Oddly enough there are multiple kanji that have made it into my shorthand. 水 日 母 父 木 気 and the syllabic と have all made it into common usage in my English writings, along with some English equally useful things such as @ and #.
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| A solid chunk of purple cursive with no paragraphs |
As a parting word: Today in the land of NaNo...
A priest found a drowned man in the flotsam of a shipwreck on the beach. When removing the man for burial he saw that there was a child also caught up in the wreckage. The child was weak, but still breathing.
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