NaNoWriMo

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A community for National Novel Writing Month.

(https://nanowrimo.org/)

Fancy having a go at writing a novel in a month? Or just enjoy pointless literary endeavours?

Well this is a place for you.

Start on the 1st of November, and let it rip.

Rules :-

Be nice to each other, and try to keep it safe for work. And if you can't keep it safe for work, tag it as such :)

Also, if the community could be kept a politics free zone, that would be nice.

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GabrielBell12fi

Almost to the finish line, how are people doing? (self.nanowrimo)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by LovableSidekick to c/nanowrimo

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I'm not participating this year - in fact the one and only time I tried, something really life-shaking happened in the middle and I never finished. But that's another story. My daughter did nanowrimo as a high school project and came through it with a 60k word teen romance novel. I was just curious how everybody's doing at this point.

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[–] GabrielBell12fi 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I did take part, and managed to do what I usually manage to do. Rather than pacing myself and writing a little every day, I got a little carried away and finished my story on Day 10.

But the other part of it is I have no life. Generally any time I'm not working I spend at home, either gaming, or pootling about on the computer. So writing a story in 10 days seems........ relatively easy :)

I'm going to leave the community open (sorry -- couldn't remember if it was a thread, sub, space or what for a moment -- far too many message boards!!), although I think it will get very little use before October next year, but you never know -- people might want to write advanced plots or do games and such.

[–] LovableSidekick 1 points 1 month ago

Cool, that's fast progress. I remember 2000 words/day being my goal, which at my pace was about 2.5 hrs. I was halfway through a comedy D&D saga about a party of screwups when my daughter was diagnosed with a brain tumor - she got cured but it took a year, still living with the after-effects. Every October I toy with starting again but there's always something - this year it's getting a greenhouse built for my wife before winter hits. I also have a ton of hobbies. I think keeping the channel open would be good, probably not much activity through the year but at least retain a presence.