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Strideo
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NaNoWriMo
That's National Novel Writing Month.
The idea is to write a 50,000 word novel in the month of November. I first heard of it because a young girl on message board was asking for some help with some hypothetical situations for a novel she was writing for her english class and another person replied that he thought it was cool that their teacher had them participating in NaNoWriMo. Of course I was curious and I googled NaNoWriMo.
At first I just thought this was something for students but it isn't. The idea is to get anyone and everyone to write (or to attempt to write) a first draft of a short novel. It's actually a challenge or a contest of sorts and if you sign up and acheive the goal of 50,000 words by November 30th they will send you a certificate. It's somewhat informal being that the true goal is to get a lot of people on a blitzkrieg writing storm all for their personal enrichment. How weird, and kind of cool too if you ask me.
The founder says that even if you end up writing a bad novel that the expirience will be very rewarding and most deffinately will help you grow as a writer and who knows maybe it can be rewriten and refined into something good. Hmmm. Nothing ventured nothing gained. I wonder if I should try this crazy idea sometime.
http://www.nanowrimo.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NaNoWriMo
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sameolme
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Please, please don't let the cave crumble this time.
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sameolme
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It beats me, I don't really have anything to write, I just wanted to know if it would let me, Peace.
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Yes, Strideo, you should give it a whirl. Several of us are hard at work on our NaNoWriMos!
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u24
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I can write 2500 well thought out words in three days at a push - that's from research to final product (research typically involved reading between 6 and 10 chapters from various books)
So working non-stop, I'd only be able to manage 25,000 words - and I'd be absolutely trashed by the end of it.
Of course, this is fiction we're talking about so we can probably remove the research stage, but that's still a mammoth task.
good luck!
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pete
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i tried it once. then essays hit. then i had no hope.
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nom
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sounds like nanaimo
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nom
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well no not really though.
what am i doing blathering?
i already said: goodnight_blather.
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jane
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note to self: approximately 6 pages/day of writing
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dafremen
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I've been working on a novel for 3 weeks now. I have about 5000 words. Ugh. I hate long term goals.
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past
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there's an academic version, acrwrimo, that piggybacks on the novel. i set my goals low, and beat them in the first week, and then wrote a hell of a lot more instead of reading. it's a life.
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e_o_i
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I was trying to write a surrealist novel this month, and I got around forty pages done. I don't consider that a failure. It's probably not something marketable ("marketable" - ugh, what a word, but right now I'm hoping for more revenue-generating activity than mere part-time tutoring, so it's something I think about) but it's something I plan to continue until I've gotten it more or less done.
I was rereading Nadja by André Breton to get into the spirit of surrealism. My little project, needless to say, is nothing like it. It's more comedic and fantastical (see for instance dark_market_analysis, though that makes even less sense).
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e_o_i
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past - sounds good! Whether it's towards your project or something to be published on its own, it'll help you at least indirectly. Do you mind me asking what general field you're in? I was thinking from your blather name that it was history, but I could be wrong.
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what's it to you?
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