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    NaNoWriMo, Are you participating?

    Sunday, November 16, 2008, 05:25 PM EST [General]
    Posted By: Salley Ashley

    As some of you may already know, November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). Every year--for the past 10 years--writers from around the world participate in a writing marathon to write 50,000 words from November 1 - November 30. The idea is to write constantly and not edit anything until you're finished. A concept that is much easier in theory.

    This is the first year that I am personally participating in NaNoWriMo. Admittingly I knew nothing about it until this year. The reason I'm mentioning it now is to see if any of you are participating and if you are how far you've come?

    I may create a NaNoWriMo forum at some point also, but there would be little point in doing so if I'm the only person in the group participating. So, who's wracking their brain to pump out 50,000 words this month?

     

    For those who do not know about NaNoWriMo, find out more about it at NaNoWriMo.org

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    I found out about NaNoWriMo from someone else's blog on this site, actually. I think there is agroup of NaNoWriMos here. Check it out.

    I joined, but decided not to try officially. I'm working for myself, not driving myself crazy, and it is working. But the pressure of seeing my word count isn't there. Personally, I count pages. It's so much more satisfying.

    Diane
    November 16, 2008
    09:32 PM EST

    I'm not doing it this year, because I'm concentrating on a nonfiction project right now. I'm hoping for next year.



    Hope you're having fun and making lots of progress!

    Becky Levine
    November 16, 2008
    10:04 PM EST

    Why November? Why not any thirty day period, since there's nothing that indicates the finished product is being submitted? Actually, it is an idea worth trying. I calculate that at 250 words to a page, that would be 200 pages, 6.66 pages a day. If I could pull that off, I'd finish the first draft of the second half of my novel by Christmas. The first half has taken almost ten years.

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    November 17, 2008
    10:35 AM EST

    This is my first year with NaNo as well and I love it. I've been working on my second novel for who knows how long because I basically thought I lacked the discipline to write every day. Now, I find that yes, I can do it. Writing without editing is the toughest part, but I'm getting over that more and more each day. We can't limit ourselves to only write when we are inspired and only when we can write a picture perfect copy. If that was the case, there would be nothing written down on the whole planet. I'm sure of that. I'm suspense2009 out there and I'm over the 30,000 word mark. What's your name on NaNo? I'd like to check out your page. Please feel free to check mine out. This is the best thing that could have happened to me. I feel like now I really can actually finish a story in under six months or whatever. Write from the heart, the gut, whatever, just write and edit later. It really does work!

    none
    November 17, 2008
    12:15 PM EST

    I had actually heard about this a few years ago, three I believe, but never actually participated. This year I think situations are to the point where I could fully devote my time to doing it.
    In other words, I'm with you Salley.

    MV the WC
    September 20, 2009
    04:34 PM EST

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