Are you participating in the NaNoWriMo?

I don't edit normally, so clearly, I have graduated!

Actually, if I ever do finish, it will be the first time I've ever edited anything.

I thought it was less about editing, and more about writing period.

edited 10th Oct '11 4:21:37 PM by MrAHR

Read my stories!

My goal is to sit down and write a chapter in an afternoon, then edit that, then do the next one, and so forth. Since I only have 11, it's not that difficult. They're just very long, individually...

Either way, I don't plan on getting bogged down by trying to edit it all in one big chunk, as I usually do...

I am now known as Flyboy.

It so happens that I need to complete a lot of writing before 2011 ends, and so I'm doing Na No Wri Mo just because the timing's convenient. It's an arbitrary goal, sure, but a concrete, and therefor useful one.

I'll do the fan fic contest if I can find the time.

I am everywhere USAF. Just... sometimes not terribly active.

I have the problem of pounding out 5k, then going "this is haaaaaard", and then falling back on schoolwork as an excuse. "But I already have to write a twenty page paaaaperrrrr." Never mind that I write all my papers in one all-nighter with brief bouts of editing the next day or two, no, that excuse would keep me avoiding for at least two weeks.

i. hear. a. sound.

I'm gonna try. I've got most of my novel's plot thought out, just a few really big questions that need to be ironed out before I can actually sit down and start writing.

I'd try for the Fan Fic contest, but I've had a bad track record with fan fiction.

No one believes me when I say angels can turn their panties into guns.

You could always be a judge.

-signs up for fanfic contest gleefully-

I have a lot of fandoms to play around with too. I have to decide which fandom and then go from there! It's brainstorming time, again! <3

Even when your hope is gone, move along, move along just to make it through

@AHR: it's about getting rid of everything that's Not Writing. A lot of would-be authors find all kinds of ways to Not Write; it's very liberating to ban yourself from all of them and free yourself to just write. Give yourself permission to be crap. Give yourself permission to change your mind about something without going back and getting bogged down fixing what you wrote previously.

Because something magical happens when you do that — it might take a bunch of crap writing to get there, but there will be a bunch of good stuff in there too, good stuff you'd never have written if you spent all your time deleting the same first paragraph or first chapter over and over again and rewriting it and hating it again and quitting.

A brighter future for a darker age.

Give this man a golf clap. That's exactly what Na No Wri Mo is about: Bettering yourself by actually writing.

"Proto-Indo-European makes the damnedest words related. It's great. It's the Kevin Bacon of etymology." ~Madrugada

I tend to think the same way. Years past, I looked at Na No Wri Mo as a method to actually write a novel.

Man, that was a mistake (for me, at least).

I may do it again this year, just to get myself in the habit of writing that much in that short of a time span, and just to let my mind get lost in itself and my ideas. It'd be a nice change of pace.

I'd probably spend December doing the 750words.com thing, and writing at least 750 words a day to cool down from an intense month, while I sift through it all to find what's useful.

God, with programs like Ommwriter, Na No Wri Mo should be a breeze.

I'd like to try it out this year. I've had this idea going for a long time, so now I'm finally going to have the motivation to do that shit and get it done.

I am so participating! ...Hopefully I'll have my own computer back by then. If not I'll have to keep using the notepad function on my Itouch to write like I have been.

Storywise I'm hoping to finish my last one (from 2009. Ugh), work on the one from 2010 (more ugh), and maybe other stuff too. ...So no it's not technically 50k words of a single novel and the same thing but it's 50k words period? Technical details.

: I actually think it works decently well as a method for writing an actual novel (or long fanfic). It lets you focus on just doing the first draft, and teaches you to separate writing from editing.

"Proto-Indo-European makes the damnedest words related. It's great. It's the Kevin Bacon of etymology." ~Madrugada

I am trying to write something in November. And yes, I'd probably find it easier to focus on the writing competition with Na No Wri Mo out of the way.

Though I have some issues with forcing yourself to write 1,666 words a day. Maybe it works better for other people, but I normally find myself waffling to fulfil the word-count, rather than going ahead and advancing the plot.

It does not matter who I am. What matters is, who will you become? - motto of Omsk Bird

Yeah, it's easy to write filler. That's why I'm trying to create a checklist of scenes I need to complete in Nov, that way I'll be hacking away at those instead of sitting down, doing a thousand mile stare through the screen as panic slowly mounts in my brain, and just typing out whatever brain vomit because that's easier than trying to figure out what should happen next.

Which is why I like to try to write 30 short stories, all about 1600-2000 words in length.

If anything, once edited, it'll fatten up the ol' portfolio.

Eh, I could start writing some stuff from now until Nov 11th. Nov 11th Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim comes out and that's more or less gonna monopolize my free time.

During last year's Nanowrimo I got up to 8000 words until my mind just went blank and I had no idea what to write next. I ended up either cutting or heavily altering most of what I wrote, but still, I'm not sure I would have even written the first chapter if not for Nanowrimo. My usual writing methods are so chaotic and Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny! that Nanowrimo is really the only way for me to get everything in order and reach some tangible milestones.

I plan to participate by aiming to add 50k words to my current story. Starting new projects midway through an old one is a bad habit of mine.

The Revolution Will Not Be Tropeable

Technically breaking the rules, but also what I plan to do.

Yes I am as you can see in my signature. I am also going to somehow do the entire thing by hand.*

I'd like to remind people that Na No Wri Mo is not about writing a novel in a month, it is writing the first draft of a novel in a month.

I've been reading No Plot No Problem and I feel ready to go into the trenches.*

edited 13th Oct '11 11:19:17 AM by EldritchBlueRose

Has ADD, plays World of Tanks, thinks up crazy ideas like children making spaceships for Hitler. Occasionally writes them down.

There was this one article I found on the blogosphere that tore apart some of the aspects of Na No Wri Mo. Should I uncover it for you guys?

Yes.

Here. 18 is where it really starts.

EDIT: And then there's this one.

Really, I'm not sure now if I want to do Na No Wri Mo. I'm afraid of writer's burnout.

I'll see how I am at the end of October.

edited 13th Oct '11 3:12:34 PM by chihuahua0

OH MY GOD ELDRITCH BLUE ROSE IS ALIVE.

-glomp-

I'll enter just for the hell of it, but don't expect me to finish :P

The last battle's curtains will open on stage!