NaNoWriMo - 10/04/06 08:10 PM
Okay guys, NanoWriMo is almost here. I thought maybe it would be nice to post up a thread here related to this and see if anyone here was going to be participating.
What is NaNoWriMo?
The short and simple is this: National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.
Valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over painstaking craft, NaNoWriMo is a novel-writing program for everyone who has thought fleetingly about writing a novel but has been scared away by the time and effort involved.
Because of the limited writing window, the ONLY thing that matters in NaNoWriMo is output. It's all about quantity, not quality. The kamikaze approach forces you to lower your expectations, take risks, and write on the fly.
You can write fanfiction for this endeavour... but you can't start your story until Nov 1.
I am myself going to attempt to write a Lois and Clark story. I have never been able to write any fanfiction other than drabbles. I'm actually quite pathetic at anything longer than this. Usually I end up over analyzing everything and then delete most of it leaving the story unfinished. But... since this challenge forces you to write as much as possible and just crank it out I am hoping that there might be something I can edit down at the end of the challenge that might somehow resemble a story. Even if it doesn't... I figure this could be a ton of fun just to try.
Once you sign up you can add friends and encourage each other so I though that it might be nice to see if anyone here wanted to jump in on the challenge and do just that? If you are interested sign up and post your name here for everyone to add you.
I'm signed up under jojo_da_crow ^_^
What is NaNoWriMo?
The short and simple is this: National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.
Valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over painstaking craft, NaNoWriMo is a novel-writing program for everyone who has thought fleetingly about writing a novel but has been scared away by the time and effort involved.
Because of the limited writing window, the ONLY thing that matters in NaNoWriMo is output. It's all about quantity, not quality. The kamikaze approach forces you to lower your expectations, take risks, and write on the fly.
You can write fanfiction for this endeavour... but you can't start your story until Nov 1.
I am myself going to attempt to write a Lois and Clark story. I have never been able to write any fanfiction other than drabbles. I'm actually quite pathetic at anything longer than this. Usually I end up over analyzing everything and then delete most of it leaving the story unfinished. But... since this challenge forces you to write as much as possible and just crank it out I am hoping that there might be something I can edit down at the end of the challenge that might somehow resemble a story. Even if it doesn't... I figure this could be a ton of fun just to try.
Once you sign up you can add friends and encourage each other so I though that it might be nice to see if anyone here wanted to jump in on the challenge and do just that? If you are interested sign up and post your name here for everyone to add you.
I'm signed up under jojo_da_crow ^_^