Are you in?
If you’re not, why not? Don’t you want to join the insanity that is NaNoWriMo?
For the uninitiated, NaNoWriMo is the opportunity to join in with tens of thousands of other people who, in the month of November, will gruel over a hot laptop attempting to write 50,000 words of a novel. Not necessary a good novel or even a publishable novel. Not necessarily even a coherent novel, but a novel nonetheless!
I’m in, as long as Fahim doesn’t beat me senseless at the thought. I don’t know what I’ll be writing – still have to figure that out.
If you’re in and are starting to panic at the thought, I’ve set up some challenges to help you develop your idea, or, if you have no ideas, to help you get some ideas. Start here.
Good luck and may the muse be with you!
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I actually took a shot at it last year. It at least got me in gear to produce something tangible. Can’t say I hit 50K, but didn’t do too bad.
It may be quid that you can use the chance with NaNoWriMo to free write and develop some new ideas. They don’t about the content, you’ll have all winter to figure out what wrote on all those sleepless nights!
Man, I’ve signed up for nanowrimo every year, and I just don’t have the discipline for it.
Good luck to you though, and I look forward to reading about your progress!
asorum, do it! You know you wanna!
My problem tends to be too many ideas to know what to do with. *sigh*
Casey, c’mon, join in the fun. You can do it!
Talia, you can find the statistics for past years and even more information here:
http://www.nanowrimo.org/modules/xoopsfaq/index.php?cat_id=1#17
2005: 59,000 participants and 9,769 winners, which works out to about 16.5%. But no, you just had to ask about how many of them have a life…
I did it a few years back, and I managed to pull it off, but I wasn’t all that impressed with my results. I’m kind of a slow writer, and I think I like it that way.
Why I can’t:
6 year old
2 year old
PTA President
Plus I’m in the middle of a novel that it up to 10500 words right now and I’d like to continue the flow on that one. I am hoping to write 20k a month for the rest of the year.
I did Nanowrimo for two years running and managed to finish. I just become a lunatic on weekends though when it is difficult to get in my word count. I love the community though!
I did it last year too and will try again this year. See you there Laurie!
I don’t write novels, but a good quick in the butt to attempt a decent word count sounds a good plan.
How many people actually achieve the 50K??? and have a life, hmmmm