NaNo--day one.

[allana]

I appear to be writing some sort of male chicklit. My newfound genre needs a snappier name though....

PS. 1085 words. I can't remember the last time I wrote so many words in an evening.

ETA. Wikipedia suggests "lad lit" or "dick lit", neither of which seem to have caught on. And... drum-roll... 1719 words. At some point I'll find one of those word-counter thingies. Now I shall fall into bed.

Comments

[bella-cheval.livejournal.com]

What's male chicklit?

[glam-ang.livejournal.com]

Chicklit where the main character is a bloke rather than a woman? You can see the need for a snappy moniker, can't you? (Oooh, I've just exceeded my minimum word-count for the day! Go me!)

Wikipedia defines chicklit as, "Chick-lit features hip, stylish female protagonists, usually in their twenties or early thirties, in urban settings, and follows their love lives and struggles in business (often the publishing or advertising industries). The books usually feature an irreverent tone and frank sexual themes. The genre spawned Candace Bushnell's Sex and the City and its accompanying television series."

This novel attempt will be following Patrick, who's a bit of a luvvie but very sweet really, in the months following his completely untraumatic break-up and late-20s career crisis. (As opposed to a mid-life crisis.)

Mercifully, Patrick is very chatty and dives off at a tangent mid-conversation a lot. Which fills up a lot of words!! There will definitely be frank sexual themes :P

[bella-cheval.livejournal.com]

Oh, okay. Now I get it!

[screwthedaisies.livejournal.com]

Ah, but will there be Frank sexual themes?

(Good going, btw.)

[glam-ang.livejournal.com]

Ah, but will there be Frank sexual themes?

Does lots of explicit sex count? I don't think I can really call it a theme....

[screwthedaisies.livejournal.com]

It only counts if it's with Frank.

Otherwise it's "[some other guy's name] sexual themes".

[glam-ang.livejournal.com]

Alas, since my dad's name is Frank, I don't think I can bring myself to write Frank sexual themes.

I still prefer to think that I am a shining example of immaculate conception.