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.

[Grits]

My rebellion is going well. I should finish the chapter draft by the end of the month. I doubt if I’ll get to 50,000 words before the end of the chapter, though.

I can definitely see why the rules demand a fresh story for the best chance of 50,000 word/complete story success. When I look back at what I’ve written this month it seems rushed and thin compared to what came before. And that’s perfectly OK, it’s meant to be a skeleton upon which to hang the re-write. But it would be easier if I didn’t have expectations for how it’s supposed to sound.

Next year I think I’ll do a Sonstra and Kjelling story. It should fit within the very short novel length I could grind out in a month, and I have no ideas about what happens other than they both survive to produce Jerric. I’m kind of looking forward to it already.

How’s your story going, haute?