kahn265 Posted October 18, 2011 Report Share Posted October 18, 2011 November is National Novel Writing Month! 50,000 in 30 days! Might be good for the new challenge. Anyone thinking of doing this? Quote Link to comment
Mama T Posted October 18, 2011 Report Share Posted October 18, 2011 YES! this will be my first year - still throwing around ideas in my head. Have you done this before/know what you're going to write? I know there are a handful of people who have mentioned doing this in the forums, so this would be a great thread to keep people motivated. Quote ...we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter. - Tom Robbins Current Challenge: Life, man. Link to comment
IndigoBanshee Posted October 18, 2011 Report Share Posted October 18, 2011 This will be my second year. I finished my novel last year and had a great time at all the write-ins, and I'm looking forward to this year's Nano. I chose what to write beforehand, but I always have stories stuck in my head that I need to get out of it. Quote Link to comment
kahn265 Posted October 18, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2011 YES! this will be my first year - still throwing around ideas in my head. Have you done this before/know what you're going to write? I know there are a handful of people who have mentioned doing this in the forums, so this would be a great thread to keep people motivated.No, I've not done it yet. I'm strongly considering doing this one. I have an idea I've been kicking around. I need to outline the story. I will also need to get over myself because I know my first few forays into heavy writing will suck. I need to practice to get better. I may just make this a fanfic (no, not THAT kind of fanfic) novel instead of using my idea. Then I'm doing it for fun, and who cares if its good. Quote Link to comment
Anivair Posted October 19, 2011 Report Share Posted October 19, 2011 I've done it for the last five years and have never finished. It's a bad time of year for me to write. That said, I'll be doing it again this year (under Anviair, shockingly). Quote Level 3 Human Ranger STR: 9 DEX: 5.25 STA: 14.5 CON: 5.5 WIS: 16 CHA: 5.5 My Current Challenge Link to comment
pinupgeek Posted October 19, 2011 Report Share Posted October 19, 2011 This will be my 5th year. I'm outlining my story because I always finish my novels but then never do anything with them. An online writing group I'm in did a Nano warm-up where we wrote 167 words a day instead of 1667 words a day--it helped me get used to how long it takes to get all those words in! Quote Human RangerMy Current Challenge Link to comment
Oogiem Posted October 19, 2011 Report Share Posted October 19, 2011 I've done Nano now every year since 2006. I finally won one last year. With a barely 50K word piece of crap that turned into a halfway decent 25K word short story in the editing in December. Not sure if I will do it again, I've been collecting all sorts of ideas but I haven't spent any time plotting, or doing character research or anything. Then again. I've often not started until halfway through November.... One thing, over the last year, every time my husband and I talked about some cool idea he'd ask me if I'd considered that for a nano novel. :-) Which is why I have so many cool ideas... Quote Oogie McGuire Black Sheep Shepherdess STR 4.25 | DEX 4.5 | STA 3.75 | CON 3 | WIS 4.75 | CHA 1 Link to comment
Oogiem Posted October 19, 2011 Report Share Posted October 19, 2011 I may just make this a fanfic Sound fine to me, my novel I won with last year was a mashup fan fic of several SF authors/worlds with a bit of a twist. BTW I'm oogiem over there too. Quote Oogie McGuire Black Sheep Shepherdess STR 4.25 | DEX 4.5 | STA 3.75 | CON 3 | WIS 4.75 | CHA 1 Link to comment
bananandrea Posted October 20, 2011 Report Share Posted October 20, 2011 I did it last year for the first time and FAILED epically. BUT! I plan on doing it this year. Going to a sort of fictionized autobiography if that makes any sense. Taking stuff that really happened to me and is based on my life but making it a fiction novel... Quote Make today your someday~~~"It's a lifestyle - train like there's no finish line~~~"I hated every minute of training, but I said, don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life a champion." - Muhammad Ali, Boxer~~~"There is nothing we cannot live down, rise above, and overcome." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox Link to comment
Silence Posted October 22, 2011 Report Share Posted October 22, 2011 I did last year and SUCEEDED! It was awesome and really helped build my confidence. I'm still debating this years. I have a ton of ideas but none are really writing easily right now. Plus, I have a ton of school stuff to do. But Nano is SO FUN! I may just have to attempt it anyway. Quote Nothing is true, everything is permitted. Link to comment
wanderluck Posted October 22, 2011 Report Share Posted October 22, 2011 I haven't decided. I have several stories that have been on hiatus for almost a year, including an original that really wants to be made into a novel but my worldbuilding skills mostly suck. I guess that could be my second life goal in this upcoming challenge. I haven't participated in a Nano since high school! Quote Remember: it doesn't matter how slow you're going - you're still lapping everybody on the couch. it takes more than a hat to be a cowboy. Link to comment
IndigoBanshee Posted October 22, 2011 Report Share Posted October 22, 2011 Since I'm a mentor, I'm going to be writing some tip emails to my mentorees, and I'll post them up here, too. Quote Link to comment
theanne Posted October 25, 2011 Report Share Posted October 25, 2011 I think I'm going to be doing this along with some other NFers - there has been some chatting on Google+ and we'll be starting a Circle!Circle me in yours if you're going to do one and let me know who you are so I can Circle you back appropriately https://plus.google.com/100405422915061795765/PS First timer and only found out about this yesterday! Quote Anxious, but ambitious! Current challenge: Undermining the Conspiracy Find me on Twitter or maybe Instagram Link to comment
pinupgeek Posted October 25, 2011 Report Share Posted October 25, 2011 Ooh, Nano Google+ circle. I've added a few people from my region but it'd be great to add some NF people--good luck, theanne on your first one! I've circled you. Quote Human RangerMy Current Challenge Link to comment
SigridEllis Posted October 30, 2011 Report Share Posted October 30, 2011 I decided, um, last night, to do Nano this year. God help the weak and the wicked. Quote Link to comment
kaelder Posted November 3, 2011 Report Share Posted November 3, 2011 Absolutely. I will be doing nano this year. I always end up procrastinating to the point that I never actually finish anything. Quote Link to comment
Oogiem Posted November 7, 2011 Report Share Posted November 7, 2011 Still waffling, just got back from a massive scrapbook weekend. Managed to do over 100 pages (each page is a 12 in x 12 in page, totally done including journaling) but didn't do anything on my nano novel.... Quote Oogie McGuire Black Sheep Shepherdess STR 4.25 | DEX 4.5 | STA 3.75 | CON 3 | WIS 4.75 | CHA 1 Link to comment
Alethea Posted November 7, 2011 Report Share Posted November 7, 2011 Always thought Nano was cool, but never had an idea worth writing about. October 31, I had a "heh, that'd be cool" idea, managed to scrape together something that might resemble an outline at a distance, signed up for nano, and now I am wrecking myself daily. SO far this week I have: 4 times gotten less than 5 hours of sleep in a night 3 times forgotten to eat a meal Daily neglected my work to play with outlining 3 times decided I was a genius 5 times decided I was a talentless hack 2 times decided to quit written 10,460 words. How is everyone else holding up? Quote "Let another say. 'Perhaps the worst will not happen.' You yourself must say. 'Well, what if it does happen? Let us see who wins!' ". - Seneca, 63 AD "There is no better way to fight weakness than with strength." - Henry Rollins Link to comment
Oogiem Posted November 12, 2011 Report Share Posted November 12, 2011 I'm plugging away on my Nano Novel.But I thought you folks would appreciate this scene at the brewery tasting room tonight:https://www.facebook.com/revbrewCraig Childs and Paolo Bacigalupi writing on their current novels. Quote Oogie McGuire Black Sheep Shepherdess STR 4.25 | DEX 4.5 | STA 3.75 | CON 3 | WIS 4.75 | CHA 1 Link to comment
Oogiem Posted November 26, 2011 Report Share Posted November 26, 2011 I think I'm going to officially give up on Nano for this year. I'm making good progress, but I'm trying to do the novel for real, not just a whip it out for NaNo so it's going very slowly but I'm happy with the writing. So although I doubt if I'll make Nano at all I still am having fun and who knows, in a few more years I may get it done and published. Quote Oogie McGuire Black Sheep Shepherdess STR 4.25 | DEX 4.5 | STA 3.75 | CON 3 | WIS 4.75 | CHA 1 Link to comment
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