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matrixrefugeeI signed up for the NaNoWriMo contest on Saturday night. I don't know if I'm being really clever and daring, or if I'm just digging myself into a hole, but since I heard about this last year (Last December, to be precise, right after it closed...), I thought I'd give it a try this year.
From nanowrimo.org:
"What is NaNoWriMo?"
"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.
"Valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over talent and craft, NaNoWriMo is a novel-writing program for everyone who has thought fleetingly about writing a novel but has been scared away by the time and effort involved.
"Because of the limited writing window, the ONLY thing that matters in NaNoWriMo is output. It's all about quantity, not quality. The kamikaze approach forces you to lower your expectations, take risks, and write on the fly.
"Make no mistake: You will be writing a lot of crap. And that's a good thing. By forcing yourself to write so intensely, you are giving yourself permission to make mistakes. To forgo the endless tweaking and editing and just create. To build without tearing down.
"As you spend November writing, you can draw comfort from the fact that, all around the world, other National Novel Writing Month participants are going through the same joys and sorrows of producing the Great Frantic Novel. Wrimos meet throughout the month to offer encouragement, commiseration, and -- when the thing is done -- the kind of raucous celebrations that tend to frighten animals and small children."
I'll be posting chapters/snippets of said novel here on my LJ for your consideration, so in the next few days, if you see a bunch of entries with the subject line "Meroveque: Chapter [X]", those are parts of The Novel.
Wish me luck. I'm already a day behind: I calculated that if someone were to complete this successfully, they'd have to write about 1,700 words a day....
From nanowrimo.org:
"What is NaNoWriMo?"
"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.
"Valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over talent and craft, NaNoWriMo is a novel-writing program for everyone who has thought fleetingly about writing a novel but has been scared away by the time and effort involved.
"Because of the limited writing window, the ONLY thing that matters in NaNoWriMo is output. It's all about quantity, not quality. The kamikaze approach forces you to lower your expectations, take risks, and write on the fly.
"Make no mistake: You will be writing a lot of crap. And that's a good thing. By forcing yourself to write so intensely, you are giving yourself permission to make mistakes. To forgo the endless tweaking and editing and just create. To build without tearing down.
"As you spend November writing, you can draw comfort from the fact that, all around the world, other National Novel Writing Month participants are going through the same joys and sorrows of producing the Great Frantic Novel. Wrimos meet throughout the month to offer encouragement, commiseration, and -- when the thing is done -- the kind of raucous celebrations that tend to frighten animals and small children."
I'll be posting chapters/snippets of said novel here on my LJ for your consideration, so in the next few days, if you see a bunch of entries with the subject line "Meroveque: Chapter [X]", those are parts of The Novel.
Wish me luck. I'm already a day behind: I calculated that if someone were to complete this successfully, they'd have to write about 1,700 words a day....
