Nanowrimo

Sun Sep 25, 2005 8:45 pm

hiddenneggs wrote:
Divine wrote:And I don't really want my stories to go public.

Just to clarify (since you've said Nanowrimo isn't for you for other reasons, as well) -- while some participants do make some or all of their work public, that is not a requirement (or even a part) of Nanowrimo.

Yep

The word count is done by something automatic (you just have to email it to them, or something along those lines, and it counts it - you can even mess up the letters if you want to be cautious), it's never seen by anyone if you don't want it to be.

Sun Sep 25, 2005 8:50 pm

Sock wrote:
hiddenneggs wrote:
Divine wrote:And I don't really want my stories to go public.

Just to clarify (since you've said Nanowrimo isn't for you for other reasons, as well) -- while some participants do make some or all of their work public, that is not a requirement (or even a part) of Nanowrimo.

Yep The word count is done by something automatic (you just have to email it to them, or something along those lines, and it counts it - you can even mess up the letters if you want to be cautious), it's never seen by anyone if you don't want it to be.

NaNoWriMo.org wrote:Does NaNoWriMo own to the rights to novels written during November?
Nope. All words are yours and yours alone. Novels emailed in at the end of the month for word count verification are deleted, unread, after being verified.

Website · Mon Sep 26, 2005 6:20 am

I might have to try it this year. I've always wanted to write stuff, but I never get around to it, so all my ideas are still in my head.

So hopefully I'm not as busy in November as I have been lately. I know I've got a few things planned in November, but hopefully I won't be busy all day every day.

Tue Sep 27, 2005 3:35 pm

I'm gonna try it this year. The good thiong about it is I already had an idea in my head for a novel a few days ago, but I've forgotten it now. Ah well, it'll come to me.

Tue Sep 27, 2005 9:41 pm

Hehe, I actually took time to read the rules and I read that part, Paul. I guess I might join it, I mean... 50000 words isn't really that much, it's only about 1667 words every day... I think I can manage as long as I manage to come up with a decent plot

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EDIT: That's actually like 3 pages a day... meaning... 90 pages in total!! *faints* Better get ideas planned!

Wed Sep 28, 2005 6:37 am

Didn't it say something like it was around 175 pages? Meh, maybe I dreamed it.

Thu Sep 29, 2005 2:52 am

I didn't get very far last year. I was too busy and got distracted. :/

This year, I think I know what my subject matter will be. Now just to come up with a very brief outline, and I should be set. I don't foresee anything other than work getting in the way, but, then again, I often do my best writing at work.

Thu Sep 29, 2005 3:50 am

Inexistence wrote:Didn't it say something like it was around 175 pages? Meh, maybe I dreamed it.

Yeah, I think that's what it said.

Fri Sep 30, 2005 2:03 am

I'm all in, I did it last year but was unsucessful in my previous (read: pitiful) attempts Though a new year comes with fresh new ideas >D

Fri Sep 30, 2005 3:56 am

It'd be fun to try this year...
I haven't been writing so much and this might be something great to get me back into swing... *flies off swing*

Fri Sep 30, 2005 8:54 pm

Sock wrote:
Inexistence wrote:Didn't it say something like it was around 175 pages? Meh, maybe I dreamed it.

Yeah, I think that's what it said.

Where does it say that?

I just estimated because when I type a page, it's usually around 580-ish words.

I got an idea for my story, popped into my head before I was sleeping yesterday =).

Fri Sep 30, 2005 9:23 pm

Divine wrote:
Sock wrote:
Inexistence wrote:Didn't it say something like it was around 175 pages? Meh, maybe I dreamed it.

Yeah, I think that's what it said.

Where does it say that?

I just estimated because when I type a page, it's usually around 580-ish words.

I got an idea for my story, popped into my head before I was sleeping yesterday =).

NaNoWriMo.org wrote:National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.

Here

Fri Sep 30, 2005 9:26 pm

Paul wrote:
NaNoWriMo.org wrote:National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.

Here

*faints*

Only about 290-ish words per page though.

Fri Sep 30, 2005 9:30 pm

They probably are including paragraphs and very long words.

Fri Sep 30, 2005 9:31 pm

Divine wrote:
Paul wrote:
NaNoWriMo.org wrote:National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.

Here

*faints*

Only about 290-ish words per page though.

Yea. It's 286 w/p, which is quite reasonable. I think I may be able to do it, as long as I don't get any sleep that is :-p

IT STARTS TOMORROW!!! Only problem is it's midnight on the 2nd that it starts for me.