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National Novel Writing Month

Since there are so many creative types here, I thought I'd pass along this site. I'm considering giving it a go this year...

From their about page:

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 painstaking 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.

Posted by Novak Vip-micro on Nov 01, 2007 in Blab | 5 comments

jmnovak on Nov 01, 2007

Five-plus pages a day? Yowch! That's a lot of writing... could be interesting if you could spare the couple hours per day. Writing being one of those things you can only get better at by doing, it makes sense as an approach to kickstart yourself, I guess...

Novak Vip-micro on Nov 01, 2007

Okay, so I hadn't done the page per day math in my head, but luckily the focus is on quantity, not quality. In all, I think it'll be an exercise in learning how to make time to write...that is, if I can learn to drop my overwhelming need for quality. Ha!

Hoshichan on Nov 01, 2007

This is the first year I haven't participated since 2002, and it's always a blast. (Too many work projects to conceivably do it, this year.) It's not as hard as you think, give it a shot! :)

Novak Vip-micro on Nov 02, 2007

@hoshichan - glad i'm not the only here who has heard of it. i am in fact going to try it. 381 words down, 49619 to go...

higherprofits on Nov 03, 2007

The hardest part of writing is getting so you can write X amount a day say. Then edit later on.

You will not always have gold, but you will have plenty of nuggets to work from if you write 10 pages a day.

Then you can take time off to go over what you have done and modify it to make it better.