The NaNoWriMo Thread

[Bangel]

I won it last year, and that was hard enough with a fairly homework free schedule.
Now I'm in six or seven clubs and just tonight shuffled through 2-3 hours of schoolwork.
I might try, but success is doubtful.

[Jacob]

I won it last year, and that was hard enough with a fairly homework free schedule.
Now I'm in six or seven clubs and just tonight shuffled through 2-3 hours of schoolwork.
I might try, but success is doubtful.

I congradulate you on your win, especially with so much going on in your life. wow. I need to pick up the pace or learn how to deal with things like you.

[Bangel]

I won it last year, and that was hard enough with a fairly homework free schedule.
Now I'm in six or seven clubs and just tonight shuffled through 2-3 hours of schoolwork.
I might try, but success is doubtful.

I congradulate you on your win, especially with so much going on in your life. wow. I need to pick up the pace or learn how to deal with things like you.

Haha, I think you misread. When I won, I pretty much had no life.

[Missy!]

Ooh. I believe I'm going to do NaNoWriMo this year. I'm trying to think of plot ideas and such. I'm thinking maybe something about a teen and her ambitions to like.. get what she wants in life, or something like that. Not sure, though.

My username there is Missy_

[Pudding]

Won't someone think of the novellists?

Incorporate the proof as a vital plot element, problem solved.

That...actually works. Yes! And all the mermaids speak Latin!

[Anoohilator]

How does one "win" Nanowrimo?

[DM was on fire!]

How does one "win" Nanowrimo?

You write a total of fifty thousand (or more) words by the end of November.

[Wind]

How does one "win" Nanowrimo?

You write a total of fifty thousand (or more) words by the end of November.

...and the best part is that they don't really have to make sense.

[CWisgood]

Just wondering... do you guys actually write out the story on a notebook, or do you type it in a document?

[DM was on fire!]

I wrote a lot of my script for Script Frenzy! in a notebook, and then I transferred it to a Wordpad document.

[DiscordantNote]

I completely type mine. If I tried to write it by hand, I'd probably get carpal tunnel.

[Cyanna]

Just wondering... do you guys actually write out the story on a notebook, or do you type it in a document?

I type.

One thing to consider: On Nov. 25th, the site opens up a word count validation mechanism so you can make your 50K win even more "official" (optional of course...a win is a win regardless). But you need a text file to do so. It's all automated. Once the computer counts the words the document is thrown away. No one ever reads a word of it.

[Jacob]

I won it last year, and that was hard enough with a fairly homework free schedule.
Now I'm in six or seven clubs and just tonight shuffled through 2-3 hours of schoolwork.
I might try, but success is doubtful.

I congradulate you on your win, especially with so much going on in your life. wow. I need to pick up the pace or learn how to deal with things like you.

Haha, I think you misread. When I won, I pretty much had no life.

But you won. That's all the matters. You at least managed to live after the fact.

Another trick to speed up your process of coming up with the 50K words: don't bother with the spelling or grammer errors should they occur. just keep writing, and you can manage the editing later.

[bobsmith1698]

I've joined up again.

This should be fun!

This will be my fourth year, I think.

[Pudding]

Just wondering... do you guys actually write out the story on a notebook, or do you type it in a document?

I've never handwritten anything for NaNoWriMo before, but I'll probably have to this year. I'm going on a rafting trip at the beginning of the month, and I don't want my wordcount to be zero for that whole weekend. I'll probably wind up transferring it to my computer at the point during week 2 when I hate my novel and don't want to really write anything.