Title says it all really. Thought if there's anyone else signed up we could support and encourgae each other.
I've signed up for the first time this year, got a regional meet up tomorrow for launch day. I've not written fiction since college, or anything longer than a quick letter since I graduated 10 years ago.
I've got a load of background notes, character profiles and a good idea where I'm going, just hope it doesn't all fizzle out by the 8th!
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What on earth are you on about?
thankfully I am on a mobile device so you have been spared the sarcasm of lmgtfy
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=nanowrimo
I this idea!
But I can't help feeling it could be a bit disastrous for my other work - the amount of time I spend on here is bad enough already!
Just got back in from my area launch meeting. Buzzing with ideas about how to keep going, and met some slightly mad people. Can't decide now whether to stay up till midnight and start or wait till tomorrow morning.
Sarah, are you active on the NaNo forums? I'm Kwilter42 over there if you want to buddy me.
Can I use this if I credit you for it?
I've not used them yet, but I'm stbookworm
Once upon a time there woz lyk a small nitid monkey.
The end.
Gosh, Anon, I didn't realise you were a published author as well as a running expert. Can I PM you for advice? Where can I buy your books from?
How many people say "oh I'll write a novel someday". This is a kick in the right direction. If it offends your sensibilities, call it a first draft, and then spend the rest of your life editing it.
As for me, I've not written a word of fiction since A levels in 1986, I'm loving every minute of NaNo. So far, I've killed one person, given another a miserable death of phthisis, sent a couple to the workhouse. My word count is a smidge over 10K.
I've killed lots of people so far
It's fun, this writing lark
Ian rankin recently talked about writing a novel in 40-50 days. Other writers also get the words down in that time. Some take many years. There is no rule book.
"The process of writing a novel isn't about speed, it's about getting the structure and content entirely right first of all, taking it in slow, planned stages with the entire story thought out in advance"
Anon, that´s a pile of horseshite, you simply dont know what you are talking about.
You're making a lot of assumptions Anon. When did I say I'd not planned my writing? Who said the deaths and entries to workhouse were unplanned and inauthentic? I'm writing about the lives of people in my family history, lives which I've spent nearly 10 years researching.
As I asked earlier, and you've chosen to ignore, where can I buy your published novels? Whose creative writiing classes have you taken? Quoting Hemingway doesn't make you a literary critic you know.
McKee's Story is more about the process of screenwriting - a very different discipline than novel writing
That is not what happened anon.
You attempted to define the novel in terms of your narrow view of what the process should be. I´m guessing OCD.
I applaud Kwilter and anyone who puts themselves out there. Well done.
You have some view that constructing a novel is like painting by numbers according to some plan of which you approve. Hey, anon, guess what, you dont know what you are talking about. Go home, sit down, and find something else to get bent out of shape about.
Some confused thinking there Anon.
First of all you tell us it's a waste of our time to do something we enjoy in our free time, then you say we can write any way we want. You don't need lessons, yet haven't attempted to write anything. Other people's methods "are entirely up to them" and you "couldn't care less" yet have been the only person to post in such a negative way on this thread.
NaNoWriMo bills itself as 30 days to write 50,000 words, no-one except you seemed to think this was without any previous planning or idea where it will end.
And you've still not answered my question about where we can read your published works.
I'm currently pushing 15K and we've just had twins. I already know they'll both be dead within 2 years, as will their younger brother who will be buried on the same day his next sister is christened. Their youngest brother, still not conceived for another 12 years, will live to be nearly 80 and witness the start of WWI. That enough planning for you?
dear anon,
you do not have any right to speak on behalf of "leading novelists". You do not know know what you are talking about.