#NaNoWriMo
October 20, 2010NaNoWriMo : “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.”
As a writer, I totally love the idea of having 30 days to write a novel that long! You could say that is impossible, but it’s not. What I like most about this all November contest is that it doesn’t matter what you’re writing and how, only how much. It’s a very good exercise: you’ll stop revising and revising and thinking that what you’re writing is a piece of crap that no one sane in this world will publish you. Instead you’ll know that is crap and bye bye to writer’s block and all those problems.
So why wouldn’t I get on board and write it and after the competition I can revise it as long as I want and get a good novel out of that? NaNoWriMo gives you space to just write!
Plus that any challenge is good for every writer and this one is pretty difficult one since you have to write so many things.
“What: Writing one 50,000-word novel from scratch in a month’s time.
Who: You! We can’t do this unless we have some other people trying it as well. Let’s write laughably awful yet lengthy prose together.
Why: The reasons are endless! To actively participate in one of our era’s most enchanting art forms! To write without having to obsess over quality. To be able to make obscure references to passages from our novels at parties. To be able to mock real novelists who dawdle on and on, taking far longer than 30 days to produce their work.
When: You can sign up anytime to add your name to the roster and browse the forums. Writing begins November 1. To be added to the official list of winners, you must reach the 50,000-word mark by November 30 at midnight. Once your novel has been verified by our web-based team of robotic word counters, the partying begins.
Still confused? Just visit the How NaNoWriMo Works page!”
http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/whatisnano
ps: I’m in, anyone else? (click here for my my nanowrimo page)
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I wish I had a month just to write… but I don’t. Maybe I’ll do it next time, I am sure there will be other approaches like this one.
Anyway… good luck a lots of ideas.
I’m loving NaNo. I’m a little ahead of schedule which feels good!
People keep saying to me that it’s a rubbish exercise because you won’t be writing anything that’s good.
Firstly, it doesn’t really matter because as long as your getting something down it’s a great achievement, editing can fix whatever is wrong. All novels probably started as a shitty 50,000 words.
But what I’m writing isn’t shit, in fact this is the best I’ve written in a long, long time.