NaNoWriMo

mkilly · Post by **mkilly** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 11:54 am

Sign up for National Novel Writing Month until Halloween. Then you have all of November to write a 50,000+ word novel. I think I might.

Anybody have experience doing this, or writing a novel otherwise?

Eric Y. · Post by **Eric Y.** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 11:58 am

perhaps it would be more useful to post a link explaining about national novel writing month before just sending people to the sign-up page

sounds like an intriguing concept if i wasn't going to be really busy with starting a new job and all...

[edit: i've signed up anyhow. what the hell, right?]

however in answer to the last part of your question, i believe recently jute gyte mentioned starting to write a novel.....

c hack · Post by **c hack** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 12:20 pm

I'm thinking about it too. But I should really be working on an album.

reve · Post by **reve** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 6:03 pm

FUnny you should mention that.. when cleaning out my message box yesterday, I remembered that on halloween of last year, I signed up for nanowrimo! And worked on my novel on novemeber firsst! ... and then _totally_ forgot about it until just now.

I knocked out 7000 words, huzzah.

jute gyte · Post by **jute gyte** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 3:32 pm

i tried the principle of nanowrimo (50,000 words in a month) this summer and got 26,758 words out of it. most of it is pretty awful, sadly.

EDIT: this is what tviyh is referring to, i believe.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:27 pm

I did a NaNoWriMo a couple years ago. You can find it on my website. I'm not linking to it directly. That's how bad it is.

Denyer · Post by **Denyer** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:43 pm

I don't know if I'm not too lazy to do this, but I'll give it a go.

JonPorobil · Post by **JonPorobil** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 8:16 pm

That's a hell of a lot of words to not revise.

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 7:02 am

I would be 1000% into doing this if it weren't for the fact that I just finally got to start my science fiction serial last month and I have no desire to switch gears. (Though I'm probably going to write that many words this month anyway)

Sober · Post by **Sober** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 7:15 am

I've been wanting to write a book for a long time. I originally planned on majoring in literature/journalism. I'd want to devote a lot longer than a month to it, though. I'd go for a year I think.

Post by jb » Mon Oct 18, 2004 10:08 am

The Sober Irishman wrote:I've been wanting to write a book for a long time. I originally planned on majoring in literature/journalism. I'd want to devote a lot longer than a month to it, though. I'd go for a year I think.

pussy.

jimtyrrell · Post by **jimtyrrell** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 10:17 am

I'm giving this serious consideration.

jute gyte · Post by **jute gyte** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 10:20 am

okay. i'm doing it.

JonPorobil · Post by **JonPorobil** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 9:04 pm

I respect Sober a good deal more now. 8)

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 9:09 pm

I don't. If it doesn't give you carpal tunnel and a severe case of burnout, it's not really worth doing, now, is it?

(BTW, my entry was 50,100-ish words, and took all of two weeks. Also a lot of people seriously wanted me to take it to a short-run press and put it into hardcover form. I had no idea cerebral erotica was so big. Or maybe it isn't and that's why they wanted it in hardcover.)

bz£ · Post by **bz£** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 11:03 pm

where and when do they post the titles?

Eric Y. · Post by **Eric Y.** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 11:06 pm

you pick your own title.
start writing about anything you want on november 1
and finish the book by the end of the month.

starfinger · Post by **starfinger** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 7:37 am

how many pages is 50k words?

-craig

mkilly · Post by **mkilly** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 12:19 pm

starfinger wrote:how many pages is 50k words?

-craig

double-spaced, the rule of thumb is 250 words to the page, which would give 200 pages. single-spaced would naturally be half that.

jute gyte · Post by **jute gyte** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 1:00 pm

fluffy wrote:I don't. If it doesn't give you carpal tunnel and a severe case of burnout, it's not really worth doing, now, is it?

(BTW, my entry was 50,100-ish words, and took all of two weeks. Also a lot of people seriously wanted me to take it to a short-run press and put it into hardcover form. I had no idea cerebral erotica was so big. Or maybe it isn't and that's why they wanted it in hardcover.)

where can i read this? (also, bravo on the word count and the speed in which you acheived it).

mkilly · Post by **mkilly** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 2:04 pm

jute gyte wrote:where can i read this? (also, bravo on the word count and the speed in which you acheived it).

here

starfinger · Post by **starfinger** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 5:07 pm

i'm thinking about signing up for this. it's a longshot, since I haven't written much of anything. heck, I can barely finish *reading* a book.

but I've been thinking about giving it a shot, so maybe I just will.

-craig

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