NaNoWriMo 2013!, It's that time of year again! Options

[Colonel Mustard]

The time is upon us! The challenge of writing 50,000 words in one month, of penning 1600 words every day, has come! Loin your girds, prepare your preferred writing implement, sacrifice a goat to the Mighty Grash'Haggurack, cry havoc and let slip the dogs of writing!



Drama aside, is anybody giving NaNo a try this year? Having now loined my girds, prepared my preferred writing implement and sacrificed a goat to the Might Grash'Haggurack, I will be taking part in a kind of tangential way; I'm using it to spur me into finishing a current novel project that I've been working on for a while.

Does anyone else have any NaNo plans/ambitions? Any works they're working on at all? If so, I'm making this the thread for exchanging ideas, giving encouragement and swapping goat sacrifice tips. Because we all know that if we don't then the Mighty Grash'Haggurack will be otherwise displeased and shall rise to consume the world in madness and hellfire.

[haute ecole rider]

A word sprint is a timed event.

Simply put, you type (or write, if that's your thing) without interruption, distraction, or editing for a brief period of time. We did two 20-min word sprints at the write-in. It really forces you to put your inner editor into gimp bondage gear and dump him/her in a far-away corner.

You can try this yourself at home - all you need is a timer of some sort that will alert you to when time is up.

[Colonel Mustard]

It really forces you to put your inner editor into gimp bondage gear and dump him/her in a far-away corner.

Eh, I don't know if that's a good idea for me. The last time I tried to put my inner editor into gimp bondage gear he just got hard and things became very awkward

In all seriousness, that word sprint idea does sound like a good idea, and I'm impressed that you managed to get 1400 words done in just 40 minutes. I might have to see if I can get my uni's creative writing society to do some of those as well.

And Rohirrim! Go! Write! Write like you've never written before!



Actually, in retrospect, write like you have written before, else it'll be illegible.

[haute ecole rider]

The last time I tried to put my inner editor into gimp bondage gear he just got hard and things became very awkward