Who will be doing Nanowrimo this year?
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Re: Who will be doing Nanowrimo this year?
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Last year was so disappointing. I hope to make up for it this year. Fingers crossed.
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Last year I pantsed it, and did horrible! This year I plan on getting to that 50k word count!
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I could totally see myself carving out some extra time to write after the kids get to bed.
This actually sounds like what I need right now... I think I am talking....or typing rather my way into NaNoWriMo as the moments pass.
Okay...I'm in!
This was like some sort of self therapy session. Lol. Thanks guys for posting the question.
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Depends... If you're the kind who works best under pressure and loves deadlines, then you may like it. You'll have to write 50,000 words in a month's time. I had too much on my plate last year and I could only manage 5K words A friend of mine, however, managed to finish her novel last November. It worked well for her. It really depends on the type of writer you are. Here's how Nanowrimo works - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_ ... ting_Month.hsimone wrote:For those who have done NanaWrimo, do you find it beneficial with writing a story? I was considering doing it before, but now, I'm not sure.
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From what I find, even if you don't get very far into your novel, you've thought about it and maybe you've written a few hundred/thousand more words than you would have otherwise. So long as it doesn't slip into dead space afterwards and is never seen again, you can build from that: either slowly over time, or during the next nice chunk you find time to be writing in. Even if you're the type who edits thorougly as they write (and that's a big reason people can't make it anywhere near 50k), it's still given you something to continue working on. And it's also a good opportunity to flesh out world and story development while ignoring/loosening up on the finer details of your writing. So I think it's worth it no matter how many words is under your name at the end of it.
For writing tools, I either use MS word, one-note or googledoc (the latter because the middle one crashed during nano last year and I'm grumpy at it still). The upside of one-note is no word count staring like it tends to in word. I used it to sync to my tablet at uni so I could work during slow lectures and late lecturers as well. The down side is...no word count, so I had no idea where I was when trying to keep chapter lengths reasonably similar. With word, my main problem is all my study stuff - notes, assignments etc - is also done through word, so I wind up with too many word docs open and then there's transferring through email/USB to work on it in various places too. Hence googledocs, where all I have to do is log onto my email and I can access it anywhere. Downside to that is it requires internet connection so shaky wireless is going to disrupt writing flow. I have another friend who writes on googledocs too, and another couple who write on plain notebooks (pen and paper ). There are free journals and things on the internet as well, and then the fancier stuff like ywriter that allows for more rigorous organisation.
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