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Mighty Nikkisaurus
09-30-2010, 08:24 PM
November is National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo for short. Essentially, starting at midnight on November 1st you begin work writing a novel with the goal of completing it (at least 50,000 words) by midnight on the 30th.

Pretty much any and every question you could think of about this can be found at the NaNoWriMo official website: http://www.nanowrimo.org/ The forums there can be pretty helpful, too.

I successfully completed the challenge last year and am going to tackle it again this year, this time with a more ambitious word count goal. With a month to go I figured I'd get this thread started for any of fellow PCers who were planning on or now want to participate. While you can't start writing the novel until November 1st you can do as much pre-writing, planning, outlining, etc leading up!
DCSL
09-30-2010, 08:53 PM
I'll go for it again. Maybe I can make it a personal month of re-writing the one month novel I wrote a while back, because that shit was heinous and I feel ashamed of what I did to a good concept in the name of speed.
Mighty Nikkisaurus
09-30-2010, 09:21 PM
I was severely under prepared last year and that slowed me down a LOT.. I ended up spending a ton of time researching crap that I should have had already looked up/organized before. SO, this year I'm doing a bunch of clinics for language, culture, character and plot building. I have an idea for a 'world' but the plot so far is only really loose so this year I'm forced to do a ton of planning (not a bad thing).
NocturnalRob
09-30-2010, 09:44 PM
You could write a book about poop. I hear everyone does it.
4a6c1
09-30-2010, 10:39 PM
Even better would be a book about pee. Everyone does that more.
diethx
10-01-2010, 12:11 AM
You could write about a poop that took a pee. :/
krissta
10-01-2010, 07:46 AM
Wow, that's quite an awesome idea. I haven't written anything since I graduated. (Says the creative writing major.)

I found that once I started editing/proofreading, I didn't have time to write. It's actually sad. Last week, I took a look at some of the short stories I wrote, and I didn't even remember writing them.
pabstblueribbon
10-01-2010, 07:58 AM
?
http://www.concoxions.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/mork.jpg
4a6c1
10-01-2010, 05:26 PM
I'm so jealous of creative people. Please keep us updated!
Mighty Nikkisaurus
10-01-2010, 05:40 PM
Anyone who'd like the language, character, culture, and plot building clinics I'm using, just let me know/send me a PM with your email and I'll email the PDFs. They are pretty long, just as forewarning- each are designed to take at minimum 5 hours to run through.
StrayRogue
10-01-2010, 05:59 PM
How many of these novels actually get published?
Mighty Nikkisaurus
10-01-2010, 06:02 PM
How many of these novels actually get published?

The site is down to reset for 2010 but once it's back up they have a list of authors who got their nanowrimo's (after extensive editing) published. I dunno how many exactly, though. I think only a small percentage of people even do this with the intent to try to get it to the publishing stage.
Paradii
10-01-2010, 07:24 PM
Sounds interesting, but I need to take baby steps into it. This year I am going to try to post a comment on a forum that's more than a 30 word pithy comment insinuating that someone is a douchenozzle.


We'll see how that goes.
NocturnalRob
10-01-2010, 07:44 PM
Sounds interesting, but I need to take baby steps into it. This year I am going to try to post a comment on a forum that's more than a 30 word pithy comment insinuating that someone is a douchenozzle.


We'll see how that goes.
I find that brevity is key.

Douchenozzle.
Paradii
10-01-2010, 07:51 PM
I find that brevity is key.

Douchenozzle.

Man, I got served.
NocturnalRob
10-01-2010, 08:02 PM
Man, I got served.

http://www.explosm.net/db/files/Comics/Rob/yougotserved.png
Cephalopod
10-01-2010, 10:47 PM
How many of these novels actually get published?

Pulling this number out of my ass, but probably 0.00001% aim to get published and 0.00000000001% actually do.
ElvenFury
10-01-2010, 10:51 PM
Cool concept, horrible acronym.
Mighty Nikkisaurus
10-04-2010, 11:43 AM
Cool concept, horrible acronym.

The best is when there are long debates on their official forums on "HOW TO PRONOUNCE IT CORRECTLY!!11"
Mighty Nikkisaurus
10-31-2010, 12:16 PM
Bumping.

This starts at midnight tonight!

If anyone wants to add me as a writing buddy or just stalk my progress, my user name is MissNikki.