Subject: Maybe I should finally start?
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Posted on: 2017-11-01 14:08:00 UTC
This sounds like a good kick-start opportunity. My ultimate, perfect, innovating urban fantasy of perfection ideas may finally take a solid form.
Who's taking part? And what are you planning to write (haha, I said 'plan'... ^_~)?
I'm giving it a miss this year; I try to stick to one year in two, so I don't end up burning myself out too often. I will be using NaNoEdMo in March to try and revise last year's NaNo.
For the hopefully-small number of people who don't know what I'm on about: NaNoWriMo is where you write a 50,000-word novel in November. That's it. 1,667 words per day (or, more likely, 250 words per day for a week and then 8000 in one massive binge to try and catch up...), with no editing or revision - there's no time for that! It's heaps of fun, and great for those 'I always wanted to write this story but never got round to it' types.
hS
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I'm doing it, although I'd prefer not to share details in public because to do so would be mixing anonymity modes.
I find that usually the hard part isn't generating the words, the part I find the most difficult part is actually paring them down after I'm through and remaining on course without going all over the place. NaNoWriMo usually gives me a good excuse to just toss that out the window and just go completely hog wild on everything. Usually the editing is where I have the most fun, but I've taken to viewing NaNoWriMo as the time where you find the pieces that you'll be writing, and editing the next month as a matter of when I get to actually put them together. A lot of parts naturally won't get used, but I view that as being perfectly fine, since just because some of my ideas won't get used this time around, it won't mean I won't get to use them in the future.
My first drafts will always be a little disjointed but that's to be expected. I'm looking forward to it.
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Rather than doing NaNo proper, I'm dedicating this month to sewing things. Gonna do a weighted blanket and first drafts for a costume for cons next year.
... 600,000 words a year? That means you're topping a million every two years!
Or did you mean that you don't hit the target each month...? ^_~
hS
Last time I attempted it was back in 2012/2013 I think. Going to be writing the latest revision of the story that originally created Apollo (who unfortunately doesn't have a major part in this one).
Storme
I've had an idea floating around since 2015 but I've never attempted a NaNo before.
I'm going to hate myself if I don't get it finished. >.>
I didn't mean to make it such a lovely number, it just happened like that.
I discovered that the narrator yelling at the characters is an excellent way to pad things out.
Let's see if I can make lots of progress this weekend.
Writing that much in that short a time is hard. You run out of ideas. Life gets in the way. Your story comes to a perfect ending at 43K. You forget to hit save and end up abandoning it for a week in a sulk. All sorts of things can happen.
And what you do then is file it away - and resolve to do better the next year. ^_^
hS
If I set a goal for myself and then don't meet it, I get mopey.
*sigh*
I'm already at 2k words, but there's no way I'll be able to keep this up for the whole month.
Back in '11, I nearly fused my synapses getting the entire 50K done in two weeks before a holiday, just to make sure I finished. On the flip side, my '14 NaNo started late, and has a week-long plateau in the middle where I couldn't face it any longer.
Just remember: 1667 words is only one word at a time...
hS
This sounds like a good kick-start opportunity. My ultimate, perfect, innovating urban fantasy of perfection ideas may finally take a solid form.
If you (plural) share your NaNo usernames on the Board, people can friend you; then you can provoke yourself into a fit of rage-writing when they have higher wordcounts than you! It's heaps of fun.
hS (Huinesoron on NaNoWriMo.org, here's my previous novels)
I'll be writing in Malay though. When you first learn a hard task, use the tools you wield the best.
Hoping to get to a write-in tonight, too (my first ever! Somehow I've never gotten to them before). Should be fun.
~Z