NaNoWriMo 2023

[RangerWickett]

So what's everyone looking to write?

 

[DeviousQuail]

Specifically, no editing is meant to occur in the month of November. I mean, unless you finish early, I guess.

I've never approached writing in this way before. It's also been years since I did anything approaching the scale of 50k words. Weirdly, I have a very open November assuming nothing crazy pops up. I might just have to try this.

So what's everyone looking to write?

Is it too on the nose if I write a story about the first 5e campaign I ran?

 

[Reynard]

Just for giggles, here is my first NaNoWriMo attempt from many years ago: Daytripper. It is a modern weird fantasy thing. Hard to describe. I was never able to go back and turn it into anything I felt deserved publication, but the process of writing it in a month was really important when I finally did write a novel I was proud of.

 

[RangerWickett]

Is it too on the nose if I write a story about the first 5e campaign I ran?

I mean, the book I'm 80,000 words into from last year is heavily inspired from a Pathfinder game I ran with a party of all paladins, but transposed to a Bronze Age world I've designed myself, where certain people are able to dictate divine laws into stone or clay tablets (think the Ten Commandments, or Hammurabi's Code), which have magically binding force. The main characters are beneficiaries of some of those laws, pledged to different deities, and they try to root out a nefarious plot to subvert the literal Word of God.

 

[Reynard]

Is it too on the nose if I write a story about the first 5e campaign I ran?

It's literally never been a better time to write based on your D&D campaign. I am old enough to remember when the first and most adamant advice in all Writing Fantasy books was "Do not base your book on your D&D game." Oh, how times have changed.

 

[overgeeked]

I've heard of NaNoWriMo, but never really looked into it. 50,000 words in a month is wild. Is there an assumption that people don't do much in the way of editing until after the month is over?

It's 1667 words per day. Some people post more than that on here in a day. Depending on how fast you type, that's 2-3 hours.

 

[Reynard]

It's 1667 words per day. Some people post more than that on here in a day. Depending on how fast you type, that's 2-3 hours.

When I did mine it was about 2. I usually wrote for an hour early in the morning and then again after the house went to bed. I sacrificed sleep and gym time mostly.

 

[overgeeked]

When I did mine it was about 2. I usually wrote for an hour early in the morning and then again after the house went to bed. I sacrificed sleep and gym time mostly.

"Sacrificing" time on social media or in front of the TV, for most people, is usually enough.

 

[Reynard]

"Sacrificing" time on social media or in front of the TV, for most people, is usually enough.

Sure, but a lot harder for most people, I think. Those things are often a form of self medication.

 

[RangerWickett]

It's 1667 words per day. Some people post more than that on here in a day. Depending on how fast you type, that's 2-3 hours.

Man, if only I could write compelling drama as quickly as I hammer out political screeds on reddit.