NaNoWriMo is Upon Us

[JediSoth]

Is anyone else participating in NaNoWriMo this month? I'm writing a superhero story entitled "The neXt Generation." You can find me at the NaNoWriMo website under the same name I use here: JediSoth

 

[Fast Learner]

I am, and am writing a... well, fantasy, I guess, but not sword & sorcery, about humpback whales, from the whale perspective. With... sort of magic. Anyway, fantasy.

Same name there as here, but without a space. No real info there, though, so little point in checking.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I was going to do a biography of my father, but not this year. Stuff came up.

 

[WhatGravitas]

I wanted to... but... mid-semester exams came up, for the start of the month - not a good start. And it didn't leave enough headspace to think of something. A shame, though, especially after I encouraged a friend to enter.

I think I'm going to work on d20 stuff instead.

Cheers, LT.

 

[talien]

Yep. I'm currently at World Fantasy Con, so I'm off to a bit of a rocky start, but I wrote nearly 5,000 words today while I sat, pathetic and lonely, waiting for someone to talk to me.

At least I was productive!

I'm on NaNoWriMo as Talien, as usual. It's going to be challenging to get the novel completed in time this year given that my newborn son is having his baptism over Thanksgiving weekend. But I'll give it my best shot!

 

[trancejeremy]

Isn't it kind of hard to write a novel in a month? I know some people can (I think Earl Stanley Gardner wrote 2 a month, and the Shadow Guy did I think 3), but I've been writing a novel since early Sept, and only now am reaching 90,000 words (which is novel length, I think).

I know you can get on a roll for a while, and write a lot quickly. But there are also slow periods. Not so much writer's block, but when you are too busy or too tired to write effectively.

 

[Michael Silverbane]

Isn't it kind of hard to write a novel in a month? I know some people can (I think Earl Stanley Gardner wrote 2 a month, and the Shadow Guy did I think 3), but I've been writing a novel since early Sept, and only now am reaching 90,000 words (which is novel length, I think).

I know you can get on a roll for a while, and write a lot quickly. But there are also slow periods. Not so much writer's block, but when you are too busy or too tired to write effectively.

That's kind of the point of National Novel Writing Month... Things get in the way, and it's hard to write. It's something that can always be pushed to the wayside while other things take precedence... National Novel Writing Month is all about setting aside the time, carving out chunks of your schedule to fit in novel writing because its something that you want to do.

Novel length is around 50,000 words...

My wife is doing the National Novel Writing Month thing, as she also has in past years. It makes her insane, and I generally try to stay away from her during that (this) time...

Later
silver

 

[redmagerush]

Isn't it kind of hard to write a novel in a month? I know some people can (I think Earl Stanley Gardner wrote 2 a month, and the Shadow Guy did I think 3), but I've been writing a novel since early Sept, and only now am reaching 90,000 words (which is novel length, I think).

I know you can get on a roll for a while, and write a lot quickly. But there are also slow periods. Not so much writer's block, but when you are too busy or too tired to write effectively.

Your NaNoWriMo isn't expected to be quality. Mostly it is something to force you to write those 50,000 words you commited to.

 

[takyris]

What is your reason for doing NaNoWriMo? Are you expecting to write something of publishable quality (after rewrites), or is something you're writing to inspire you to write more in the future?

 

[redmagerush]

What is your reason for doing NaNoWriMo? Are you expecting to write something of publishable quality (after rewrites), or is something you're writing to inspire you to write more in the future?

Mostly the second. I've been saying "some day I'll write a novel for years now." If nothing else after this I can say I have written one. And hopefully after getting one knocked out, writing more later won't be as hard to get started.