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Re: Anybody doing NaNoWriMo?
lmao hs!
Seriously Interro, you could definitely make it believable enough. Hey we could be complete and total nerds and have a write-in or whatever they call those things!
71 workouts completed in 2012
lol true, I should get on that. I think there are a shitton of free trashy romance downloads for my nook.
BBE yesssss we should, that would be funny and nerdtastical.
I know enough about from my own research and the recent Johanna Lindsey 301 class I completed two summers ago if you need any help. lol
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I'm sure I'm late to the party but....
I did NaNo in 2009 and finished. I finished with 53,000 words and that novel is now 84,000 and will be released in January.
If anyone really wants to do it, I'm thinking of starting a group. I have several friends who try each year, some have finished, some not. I think it's easier to break it down into days. You need to write 1667 words each day to finish. When you hit a bump, change it up. The best part is you can change whatever you don't like.
Now you guys are getting me excited. I have three ideas right now, and I don't know which one to do. All of them have been in my head for years, so some of them might be a bit juvenile, lol.
This is a really cool idea.
Updated September 2012.
I like the idea of a group, BookMaven. Accountability is key for me.
Smock, that idea is really interesting, and somewhat intimidating!
NaNo is my annual reminder of how much I suck at fiction and why I stick to creative nonfiction. But I think it's time to just do it anyway and maybe see about getting better.
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When I did NaNo, I wrote a story based in my home town (thus, it's a semi-fiction horror novel) with an idea that had been swirling around in my head for years. It's based on actual events, yet it is a fictional story. I had no outline. I did no prepping. I didn't even have character's names down and kept changing them.
What worked for me in this case was that:
A: I had the freedom to do wtfe I wanted.
B: I could write directly without any predetermined notions of what I wanted to get out of it thereby allowing me to write even insignificant details and even vent a little and let the raw emotion come out, even if it needed editing later.
C: I got another book out of it from a side story that was happening in the NaNo version but I edited out and restarted in another book.
This year I would like to do a book of vignette-type stories, where all of the characters intertwine with each other somehow. Or maybe a retelling of my life story with fictional characters and events. Or...I could finish one of the 15 I've already started. But where's the fun in THAT?