So November is coming around rather soon...anyone thinking of participating in this crazy excuse for becoming a social recluse?
If you haven't heard of it before, NaNoWriMo involves writing a fifty thousand word novel in November. It's simple really, just type 1667 words per day for thirty days, and you'll have finished your first novel.
I've done it the past three years (completed past two) and recommend it to anyone who enjoys writing. It is a really good way to force yourself to write and greatly improve your writing skills.
Well, he could just be telling very simplistically about what he is going to write. He might be writing about this world being in a box, Pandora's box, a mystery gift in a box... Anything!
Well, he could just be telling very simplistically about what he is going to write. He might be writing about this world being in a box, Pandora's box, a mystery gift in a box... Anything!
EXACTLY! I was thinking of starting out with a box, then talk about what is inside that box and then just making a whole universe in there.
I might do it. I'm a little scared though.. I have half an idea for a plot and not sure how to make the idea exciting. And then I don't know if it's good or not or if I should throw the idea out and try again..
LOL! I already started outling w/o knowing about this! But I basically am going to do it on a cat that trys to figure out who killed his family, plenty of cats to investigate.
There is no reason to be worried. After all, this is, to most, just an exercise in patience and strength of will. You don't have to make it exciting, unless you want other people to read it at some point, and even then, you don't have to make it exciting now. Editing is for December, and rewriting, plotting and filling out can be done until April, when the Script month takes off. And for that matter, past then, if you are not going to participate.
Sadly I don't think I can do this since my teacher assigned a really big project that is due at the end of november and that will take all of my energy/time.
Well, oh well, time to bump this with two days left till start. Everyone ready? Notified family about this so they don't think you have died? Gotten any wallpapers/calenders to keep tracks of words, and a notebook to keep track of ideas, plots and your sanity? Stocked up on candy, coffee or whatever is going to keep you the stasis of writing for the next months? Not to mention get you through school, social life and what else might be in the way?
I hope I'll hit 50,000 words this year, last year, I only managed thirty thousand, and the result was one of the most atrocious things ever written, comparable to Amanda McKittrick Ross:
" Have you ever visited that portion of Erin's plot that offers its sympathetic soil for the minute survey and scrutinous examination of those in political power, whose decision has wisely been the means before now of converting the stern and prejudiced, and reaching the hand of slight aid to share its strength in augmenting its agricultural richness?"
(The sentence approximately means, "Have you ever been to the part of Ireland studied by the government with the aim of modernizing its agriculture?"
It's simple really, just type 1667 words per day for thirty days, and you'll have finished your first novel.
Write like hell, get to 50k
The challenge is to write 50k words during November.
I'm not sure if I'll be able to gather 50,000 words out of my novel... I might have to 'Moby ****' my way through and talk about the anatomy of whales. Not sure how that relates to my story, but hey, if it brings up the word count.
I hope I'll hit 50,000 words this year, last year, I only managed thirty thousand, and the result was one of the most atrocious things ever written, comparable to Amanda McKittrick Ross:
By the thirtieth the puppies had grown into elephants, but that was only managed with some hack-and-slash gene splicing and compromised morals. The geneticist, realizing the atrocity in the incarnations of his fanatical sense of pride, summarily immolated his creations in a hellfire of self-hate, leaving nothing but ash.
Everyone ready? Notified family about this so they don't think you have died? Gotten any wallpapers/calenders to keep tracks of words, and a notebook to keep track of ideas, plots and your sanity? Stocked up on candy, coffee or whatever is going to keep you the stasis of writing for the next months? Not to mention get you through school, social life and what else might be in the way?
My aim is to actually get a publishable manuscript (by which I mean with copious editing), without people realising that anything different is going in my life. That's the part I'm a bit worried about. In 2009 I was able to essentially not do anything else for the 10 days it took me to reach the total and stop there (because I had to study for exams after that). This time I'm working fulltime.
