Comments on: NaNoWriMo

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By: Mr Dan

Mr Dan — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 21:30:21 +0000

After a little thought i’ve decided that i’m going to (try to) do this. The problem is i have the motivation of a snail. Like someone else says on Blackbored, i lose all willpower quickly. So i’ll no doubt start and never do it again, or sign up to do it and do nothing.

I’ve got an idea set out though. The “book” will basically be aabout a guy hitchhiking around the world and the adventures he gets upto on the way. This means i don’t really have to think about any long running narrative. I can just write one thing that happened to him, then in the next chapter write something totally different that happened to him in his travels. It also means i don’t have to write the book from start to end. I can write each piece in a country, and join up the stories in the right order at the end so he travels through the countries.

By: James Lyon

James Lyon — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 17:11:57 +0000

I got coerced into doing NaNoWriMo last year. I’ve still not decided if I’ll try again. It’s…a slog. Really awful when you get behind for a couple of days and have to write double in one night to catch up. Fantastic, however, when you get a burst of inspiration and riff like a excitable auctioneer until you’ve exceeded your target by several pages.

I’d advise you, though, not to look back on what you’ve written until the month is over. It’s not worth the worry of re-editing your mistakes until you’ve reached the proposed word count. That’s an achievement in itself.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 14:27:11 +0000

Yeah, I think more than hoping for a book out of it, I’d like to discover whether I’ll always be glad I made myself sit down and type something. I always was before, but then that’s because I only did it when I felt like it.

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 13:20:36 +0000

I hear that.

As far as I can see, the NaNoWriMo exercise is about a brute-force shock course in sitting down every day and getting the fuck on with it.

By: Graham

Graham — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 01:19:45 +0000

Good luck to you, though. I meant to add that. Look forward to reading the results.

By: Graham

Graham — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 01:15:53 +0000

I've been signed up at NaNoWriMo for a while now, but every year when November rolls around I say "No, I'm too busy this year; next year will be more convenient."

I've yet to be correct on this front.