NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month discussion Options

[blockhead]

We've been starting to discuss NaNoWriMo on the coffee shop thread and it seems that it might be a good idea to give it its own thread. Wow, I haven't started a thread here in ages ... since the start of my Bloodmoon fanfic.

Essentially, from November 1st to Nov 30th one writes a novel of 50,000 words. This is about 1667 words per day (consider that November is only 30 days, not 31). Emphasis is on creation, not on editing. One must disable ones "inner editor" for a month.

Rather then me blather on longer (and perhaps get it wrong) here is the site: http://www.nanowrimo.org/ and here is the FAQ section: http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/basics

So I'm signed up on that site as lokken. Good luck everyone.

(I spent 16+ bucks for the "No Plot No Problem" book (yikes) , so I have to finish this now!)

For myself, I hope that this gives me the needed kick in the behind to write an original story.

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minque: Continuing an existing story or doing a sequal is not really how it is supposed to work ... but if it results in Serene getting finished ... well ...

Oh: two quotes from my cookie file that may be of help:

• Your current safe boundries were once unknown frontiers. -unknown
• Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. --E.L. Doctorow

So last night, after midnight, I switched on and got started: just started winging it. It was hard to not go back and tweak/edit/fix. Character is male (for me, this is a change -- so used to writing Rashelle). His name has not been decided on yet but as he has not talked to anyone yet, it's not been needed. It's weird to write something not in the Morrowind Universe. I've got 2000 words. This is good, but I had to throw in an Ancient Ruin™ cliche to move it along. Feh. I had hoped to not have to do that for a bit longer.

I've got more Rashelle stuff in the works, just not going to work on this until after nano

Now I'm off to figure out this upload thing over at the nano site.