National Novel Writing Month

[SonoLuminus]

Is anyone else participating in NaNoWriMo this year? For those who aren't familiar with it, it's a writing challenge in which participants pen a 50,000 word novel in 30 days during the month of November. The idea is to get yourself to be productive and put the editing aside until later. No one reads the script (unless you post it somewhere else, on your own) and the word count is verified by computer. Sign-ups, details, and a very helpful forum can be found here:

 

http://www.nanowrimo.org

 

Anyone who is participating, feel free to post your profile link/name so we can share our progress and excerpts, when the time comes. (I'm SonoLuminus over there as well.)

[Dio]

Is anyone else participating in NaNoWriMo this year? For those who aren't familiar with it, it's a writing challenge in which participants pen a 50,000 word novel in 30 days during the month of November. The idea is to get yourself to be productive and put the editing aside until later. No one reads the script (unless you post it somewhere else, on your own) and the word count is verified by computer. Sign-ups, details, and a very helpful forum can be found here:

 

http://www.nanowrimo.org

 

Anyone who is participating, feel free to post your profile link/name so we can share our progress and excerpts, when the time comes. (I'm SonoLuminus over there as well.)

 

 

My roomy did this last year. She's been trying to convince me to do it this year. I don't really get it though. It seems like forcing yourself to write 50,000 words of crap in a month (oh wait, I do that already...haha) is just enforcing bad habits and vapid plots. I guess its good motivation to just write though. Its more like a short story rather than a full novel

 

anyways, good luck anyone who does this!! hehe

[SonoLuminus]

My roomy did this last year. She's been trying to convince me to do it this year. I don't really get it though. It seems like forcing yourself to write 50,000 words of crap in a month (oh wait, I do that already...haha) is just enforcing bad habits and vapid plots. I guess its good motivation to just write though. Its more like a short story rather than a full novel

 

anyways, good luck anyone who does this!! hehe

 

It helps people who are paralyzed by the thought of writing anything less than perfect. Really, the 'crap' you write in NaNo often isn't any worse than any first draft. That's what the editing is for. I remember a quote from one of last year's participants: "It's easier to edit crap than air." I guess if you're already very disciplined and/or motivated and writing prolifically, then you don't need it, though.

 

And yes, 50k words is probably more accurately described as a novella, if you want to get picky.