It's so true, about the revision thing. It's cool how you had the courage too, to read over your first NaNo draft XD Best of luck for publication! (It's so exciting!) Do you think you might be going with a traditional publishing house or going with self publishing? And nah, my WriMo username is Robot Panda. Yours?ameliadefield wrote:My novel is actually from my first NaNoWriMo in 2010. I always like to encourage my siblings who compare my near final chapters to their starts by showing them the raw NaNo drafts. It is amazing how far you can come when you start revising. I've been rewriting and revising ever since and I think I might be ready to publish in 2015. Is your NaNoWriMo username the same as your name on here? Best of luck to you regardless of whether you do NaNoWriMo this year.
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I'm ameliadefield over there too. Are you the Robot Panda from Canada or California?
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Good luck everyone! (PS, I am GrannyP)
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PPS, I added both of you!!
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ALynnPowers, ah, a planner going as a pantser? I can relate.
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That's so awesome! Congrats! ^.^ALynnPowers wrote:I'm going Nano again this year. Fourth year in a row now. Unlike last year, I am super unorganized this time around! I kind of have no idea what I am going to write this time. I've actually already self published the book I wrote last year. I really had my act together back then. No such luck this time!
Good luck everyone! (PS, I am GrannyP)
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PPS, I added both of you!!
Also, ameliadefield, I added you. The cover looks amazing, by the way (Rise of the Shadow Lord, right?)
By the way, just wondering, what platform do you guys use to write your novels? (MS Word, Google Docs, etc.,)I used MS Word the second year I did NaNo (and first year I was successful ), but that was such a disaster. I found that organizing a 50K+ novel on Word was just too much to handle and I was so disorganized. Last year, I used MS Word again BUT I decided to divide my chapters up into seperarte folders (and then backed them up on Google Docs). That made things a little easier. I started writing other novels on Scrivener afterwards, so I think I'm going to use that this year since the system seems to be a lot more efficient and keeping track of things has become a lot less stressful haha
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I used Google Docs with everyday starting a new document so it is easy to calculate where I am at in my outline document. I haven't used Scrivener before. I might just check it out!
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BUT! My Nanowrimo name is thelionleah, if anyone would like a nano buddy, I am severely lacking in those.
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Thank you very much for the information! It sounds quite interesting.ameliadefield wrote:Rssllue, Always happy to introduce someone new to the event! NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month. It is an event put on by charity where they challenge you to write a 50, 000 word novel in one month. I can't post links because i'm new here, but you should be able to find it with a quick Google search.
ALynnPowers, ah, a planner going as a pantser? I can relate.
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I just wanted to add that my name on the NaNoWriMo website is J.M. Holland. I would love for anyone giving it a shot to find me on the forums or my profile and add me as a writing buddy. This is very much a group activity and I look forward to seeing you there.
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