Is anybody on the MoFo participating in NaNoWriMo this year?
For those who don't know, the goal is to write a 50,000-word novel in just one month, the month of November. Quite difficult, but also quite doable. I myself am a two-time successful participant and I intend to do it all over again, this year.
Anyway, it starts in just under a week, so if anyone's interested, head to http://www.nanowrimo.org and check it out.
EDIT 29 NOV:
And with a day to spare.
I dunno, I still think "November" is catchier.
Catchier, perhaps, but misleading. November is NOT, as its name suggests, the ninth month of the year. Nor is Spetember the seventh, October the eighth, December the tenth. But I digress.
It got retconned!
Writing a 50 000 word novel in one month? LOLno. IMO, there's no point in doing so. The work may not turn out as well as if you'd taken your time to write it out and edit it, really. That's the case for me, anyway. My current novel took me a year to even reach its current stage. >_>;
Ah, well. Good luck, comrade. 
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Writing a 50 000 word novel in one month? LOLno. IMO, there's no point in doing so. The work may not turn out as well as if you'd taken your time to write it out and edit it, really. That's the case for me, anyway.
But not for most people. Of course the draft you get is going to be pretty bad. As Stephen King said, "The first draft of anything is [crap]." So, the idea behind NaNoWriMo is that you spend a month working and you get a heavily flawed but workable draft. Otherwise, most people would just procrastinate and almost never get anywhere with their novel at all. They could spend months, years, decades, and their first draft would STILL be flawed in almost all cases.
The difficult deadline is what inspires us to work and makes us put aside our inner critic. It's like building something out of wood: build first and worry about polishing later.
Hmm. Indeed. I know that the first draft is more or less always TEH CRAPz. Ah, well. Procrastination is an evil thing, it is.
May you succeed now and always in your endeavours, comrade.
I'm going to struggle writing an 8000 word Dissertation in 7 months let alone, 50000 in one month! The idea intrigues me, but i just don't have the time.
Tempted.... no. VERY tempted to sign up. I'm striving for better grades this quarter so I dunno if I'll be able to do this. And I've been a terrible author lately... heck, I've only gotten about 6 official pages done of my ongoing Heroines tale (after writing about 40 pages of crap on a stick), and that took just over 3 years.
...but you know what? It also sounds like it could be a freaking buttload of fun. 😀 And there's no real consequence if you don't finish it in time, right?
**signs up**
~Shadowed Spirit Sage
It is indeed a ton of fun.
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And there's no real consequence if you don't finish it in time, right?
Well, actually, you run the risk of becoming the laughing stock of your friends and family, who thought you were crazy when you first signed up. However, if you do well, the complete opposite will happen.
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Catchier, perhaps, but misleading. November is NOT, as its name suggests, the ninth month of the year. Nor is Spetember the seventh, October the eighth, December the tenth. But I digress.
Blame it on Caeser Augustus. He added July and August.
