NaNoWriMo 2006

[HalWhitewyrm]

Okay, seems that there is no official NaNoWriMo 2006 thread so here we go. If you are participating, shout it out! Better yet, post a word count widget to your sig so we can all share in your victory or shame.

I'm in this year as well, obviously. You can find me as highmoon at www.nanowrimo.org

There is a support group for the geek community in the form of The Nanomonkeys, from a combined effort of two podcasts, the House of the Harping Monkey and I Should Be Writing. You can find the site and daily podcast at www.teampodcasts.net/nanomonkeys.

So, come on and join, and throw down. Let's get those words flowing!

 

[takyris]

*cough*

http://pats-quinade.livejournal.com/14531.html

Seriously, good luck! Hope it's going well so far.

 

[HalWhitewyrm]

*cough*
http://pats-quinade.livejournal.com/14531.html

Awesome.

 

[Roudi]

I manged to find the thread containing a sounding off of ENWorlders on the NaNoWriMo forums. There appear to be about a dozen involved.

This is my first year seriously attempting it, and I honestly have no idea what I'm writing! It's spectacular.

 

[MonkeyDragon]

I signed up last year, and it went absolutely nowhere. I had some trouble picking my story, and fell behind early. By a week into it I was spending more time angsting over how much I needed to catch up than trying to figure out what to write.

This year I have a lot of other projects to work on by the end of the year, so I'e decided to just focus on writing. I may not get a 50k novel done, but hopefully I'll write 50 thousand words on various things. I have two screenplays and my homebrew, and that's jus tthe start. I'll try again next year.

Good luck to everyone who's writing!

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

I hopped on the NaNoWriMo boards to offer some encouragement, but couldn't find the ENWorlder thread. Anyone got a link?

 

[takyris]

This year I have a lot of other projects to work on by the end of the year, so I'e decided to just focus on writing. I may not get a 50k novel done, but hopefully I'll write 50 thousand words on various things. I have two screenplays and my homebrew, and that's jus tthe start. I'll try again next year.

If I can offer completely unasked-for advice, I think that's an excellent way of doing it.

NaNoWriMo is a great way to start a novel. NaNoWriMo is a great way to complete an already-started novel. NaNoWriMo is a decent way to hack out a complete first draft if and only if you are so good at rewriting that you don't mind using that first draft as nothing more than a skeletal framework for your full novel, or if you can actually crank out 3000 words per day rather than 1700.

But if you write to 50k, you're writing a novella, and novellas do not traditionally sell. If you're writing for yourself as an exercise, and don't plan to send it out, cool beans. But I see a lot of enthusiastic people who end up with bad novellas and don't have the skill to rewrite them into good novels (which is not a slam on them -- it's a learned skill), and that's a bummer, especially given what NaNoWriMo ostensibly stands for -- motivating people to write.

So use it as a writing butt-kick. I think that's a great plan. Good luck!

 

[HalWhitewyrm]

I hopped on the NaNoWriMo boards to offer some encouragement, but couldn't find the ENWorlder thread. Anyone got a link?

http://www.nanowrimo.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?forum=171&topic_id=4824

 

[Ilium]

Just wanted to say "huzzah!" to everybody participating in this thing. You people are nutty (but in a good way). Good luck!

 

[yangnome]

I'm back in again this year. I got up above 10k shortly after midnight last night. i hope to keep up at least 5k per day on work days, and more on days off. I'd like to hit 50k ealier than the 10 day mark to beat what I did last year.