NaNoWriMo: National Novel Writing Month
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NaNoWriMo: National Novel Writing Month
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#2The podcast 'Writing Excuses' is also doing a series to help people complete a novel in a month: https://writingexcuses.com/
See the Oct 29, Nov 5, and Nov 12th episodes so far.
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#3Nanowrimo was started in 1999! It's a great project and there's no better time than now to start your book.
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#4My wife participates in it every year (for many years); in october she gets the outline done, then in november she writes the book, in december she has editors go over it and she publishes during the next year. The productivity of just saying 'this month is fully for writing' and sticking to a minimum word count really has been a very productive mechanism.
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#5Haven't written a novel before. I had an idea a few months back and had been taking notes here and there (fantasy genre). I decided to participate, setting myself a 500 words/day goal. Just crossed 12k words and now I'm hoping to end up around 30k at the end of November. If that pans out, I'll push to finish the first draft in December.
My main goal is to have fun and I did feel great a few times, especially when I thought of something clever or spotted a mistake that'd not work with what I had written a few chapters back.
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#6I've finally managed to complete it in 2021 and 2022. This year is much harder because writing prose causes a lot of hard topics to get brought up from my subconscious into my everyday, but I'm still aiming for 50k this year and not giving up.
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#7I'm glad that NaNoWriMo continues to work for people, but I think it's important to note that it doesn't work for everyone - and it's ok if it doesn't work for you.
I attempted it twice in consecutive years about a decade and a half ago, and not only failed to complete anything, but was also driven into a worse depression because of it. I had to avoid people talking about it in November for years afterwards or I'd start to relapse, too.
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#8I've just completed my first #NaNoWriMo.
I decided to do it as a series of short sci-fi stories. You can read them at https://shkspr.mobi/blog/TalesOfTheAlgorithm
It was fascinating to me how much like programming it was. So much planning, lots of time trying to figure out what isn't working, and a bunch of spelling bugs!
Well worth attempting this if you have the time to exercise your creative muscles.
Anyway, if you have any feedback on my weird stories, I'd love to hear it.
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#9My wife participates in it every year (for many years); in october she gets the outline done, then in november she writes the book, in december she has editors go over it and she publishes during the next year. The productivity of just saying 'this month is fully for writing' and sticking to a minimum word count really has been a very productive mechanism.
That is a good story, good for your wife.
I belong to a local self-published authors group in my small town. We are going to cover NaNoWriMo this weekend.
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#10Do they have a policy on AI, I feel like they are not prepared for the coming flood.