Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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Not me, but my wife is going for her second year. Last year she finished over the minimum length and with time to spare. She's been typing furiously in the past few evenings, refusing to allow me to see any of her work until it's finished and proofed and polished a hundred times over.
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Formerly turtle2472 Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Upstate South Carolina
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I've wondered what those initials meant. Thanks for posting this. Maybe someday I'll try it out. I've never been much of a writer though. Maybe my wife....
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Good luck to your significant other half though. btw It's called 'National', but also has many many languages on the web site.. Is it open to any country, or a US only thing? 'Remember, measure life by the moments that take your breath away, not by how many breaths you take' Extreme Sports Cafe | ESC's blog | scratt's blog | @thescratt |
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Formerly Roboman, still
awesome Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Portland, OR
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It's open to any country - in fact, there should be local "chapters" in many countries. It's called NaNoWriMo because when it started ten years ago, it was only a few people. It's grown since then but they never changed the name.
I'm doing it this year. I'm not trying to have a complete work by the end of this month, just the first 50,000 words of a larger work (to be finished by the end of this year, hopefully). and i guess i've known it all along / the truth is, you have to be soft to be strong |
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Near Indianapolis
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Where are you right now, Robo? I'm just under 7k. I was sick on Tuesday and had a shitty day yesterday that really knocked me off track. I'm hoping to be over 15k by the end of the weekend.
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Join Date: May 2004
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This is something I'd love to do some day. My story blocking and pre-writing skills are horrible though, but I love writing. A couple days ago I ripped out a 3k word short story on the fly, in a couple hours. When it hits you, it hits you, you know?
But If I could actually have the patience and foresight to block out a real novel length story beforehand, this is something I'd love to do. |
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Unfortunately, I have a paper for a graduate class due at the very beginning of next month, and thus I cannot do a whole NaNoWriMo. However, two of my good friends are doing it, so I've set myself a "mini-NaNo" challenge. I want to submit a story to the Writers of the Future contest and the next deadline is the end of December, so I'm going to aim for a 15,000 word short story this month in addition to the paper.
Since I can't do the full novel writing this month, and I know I'm not alone in having too many RL requirements, a few friends and I are contemplating setting up HoliWriMo, using the winter break range (say the 26th of December to the 26th of January, which corresponds roughly to our winter breaks if not precisely) as a timeline. But, since we won't have school, we might up the word count to 75,000. Because we're crazy. "A blind, deaf, comatose, lobotomy patient could feel my anger!" - Darth Baras twitter ; amateur photographer ; fanfiction writer ; roleplayer and worldbuilder |
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Formerly Roboman, still
awesome Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Portland, OR
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I normally shoot for 60,000 words in November, just to get the novel a bit closer to a "real" novel length (50,000 words is arguably a novella). That also makes it an even 2,000 words a day, which is nice. This year I'm probably not going to be able to get back to my writing in earnest until I finish moving out, which should be around the 15th (I hope). So I think I'm going to do a 45-day "finish my 'real' novel" challenge, just for myself. and i guess i've known it all along / the truth is, you have to be soft to be strong |
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Near Indianapolis
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FYI for everybody doing this (just me and Robo?): You have to try Write or Die. Major motivational tool. I just cranked out 400 words in 9 minutes. I'm shooting for 1,500 in the next 90.
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