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Post by sprite on Oct 21, 2018 12:11:45 GMT -5
For all the chat on the way to 50K. (probably not me) More info here: official website
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Post by lillielangtry on Oct 22, 2018 1:33:45 GMT -5
I'm so stupid... I completely overlooked the fact that "No" stands for novel!! I thought it was any type of writing. Still, I don't know why but I Kind of feel like having a go. Possibly because I was looking through my doctoral Thesis yesterday as I was giving some advice to a friend who's applying for a PhD and it made me feel a bit nostalgic, not for academia as such but for researching and writing.
So I may do some Kind of writing Project in November. We'll see!
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Post by shilgia on Oct 22, 2018 8:55:40 GMT -5
I signed up as well. Nanowrimo calls people who write things other than novels "rebels" and gives them their own branch on their forum. I'm not sure why they care what you write. In any event, I won't be working on a novel either. It will be nonfiction.
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Post by Liiisa on Oct 22, 2018 17:46:12 GMT -5
I've signed up for a 4-week writing workshop that I'm hoping will kick my butt into actually writing something (since it's kind of awkward to go to a workshop and have nothing to present), so maybe I should at least pretend to be doing it too?
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Post by lillielangtry on Oct 23, 2018 0:58:39 GMT -5
It occurred to me that I thought "No" stood for November, which is not completely beyond the bounds of possibility as it does take place in November, right?
ANYWAY I don't think I'm going to sign up at all. I'm just going to do my own Thing and tell you guys about it - or not, depending on how it goes!
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Post by tucano on Oct 23, 2018 1:40:36 GMT -5
Writing 50k in a month alongside a full-time job seems a lot to me. Good luck to anyone doing it though!
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Post by Liiisa on Oct 23, 2018 5:01:14 GMT -5
Yeah to be honest my version of Nanowrimo is "writing something too long to fit in a single tweet."
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Post by scrubb on Nov 12, 2018 15:38:07 GMT -5
Well, I am in no way participating in NaNoWriMo, but I decided to try to finish a first draft of a childrens book I started writing forever-ago. Already about 7 years ago I planned to give up on it because it was completely stalled for a long time, but I didn't have the heart to delete it all.
So I pulled it out for the first time in a good 4 years and have made a very small bit of progress. It was already nearly 9000 words when I started back at it and I'm only at just over 10,000 now but I made some changes to the earlier bits so I'm a bit happier with them now. They mean that changes are also required in the last part that I was already written, so will have to spend time re-working that instead of writing new stuff, but I think I have a more coherent story line now. And the re-worked stuff should be fairly quick and should lead into the new bits easily.
My main problem has been that I have the general concept clear, and I have the dramatic climax clear, but I don't have a lot of the path from the intro to the climax clear. A general idea of stuff that could happen, but nothing that feels inspired. But I hope that if I just force myself to start writing SOMETHING in the middle, some good ideas will come out of it.
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Post by sprite on Nov 13, 2018 11:59:18 GMT -5
Throw everything in to the story, then take out what sucks. (This approach works when I cook.)
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Post by sophie on Nov 13, 2018 15:34:30 GMT -5
Seriously, get a kid (target audience age) to talk about with you. They can be very creative and give you ideas which may not have presented themselves to you. A young relative can be worth their weigh in golden ideas.
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Post by scrubb on Nov 13, 2018 22:33:41 GMT -5
sprite, I am sure that is the way to go. I have to figure out how to make myself not rewrite constantly and just barf out everything to fix later.
sophie, that is an excellent idea. My 10 year old nephew really likes this genre and is probably an ideal person to discuss it with. Thank you!
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Post by tzarine on Dec 2, 2018 15:14:50 GMT -5
good luck, everyone!
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Post by Liiisa on Dec 2, 2018 15:51:11 GMT -5
Woooo I did it, I wrote a 1700-word essay!
Not a novel, and I required a writing workshop deadline to do it, but I FINISHED something.
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NaNoWriMo
Dec 2, 2018 22:44:23 GMT -5
via mobile
Post by shilgia on Dec 2, 2018 22:44:23 GMT -5
So cool, Liiisa! Are you able to say what it’s about?
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Post by Liiisa on Dec 3, 2018 5:50:11 GMT -5
So cool, Liiisa! Are you able to say what it’s about? Thanks! Oh sure. It's about damselflies, sort of. Tonight's the workshop so we'll see how that goes... if everyone doesn't completely destroy it, I'll polish it up and put it on the long-neglected blog.
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Post by shilgia on Dec 3, 2018 8:50:25 GMT -5
Very nice! If you do put it up, I'll look forward to reading it! (But totally understand if you'd rather not put it up. I'd be so afraid.)
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Post by sprite on Dec 3, 2018 13:22:35 GMT -5
is there a place where a person could put up a book idea? like, a concept or basic plot line, or a particular set of characters?
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Post by Liiisa on Dec 3, 2018 22:09:43 GMT -5
Very nice! If you do put it up, I'll look forward to reading it! (But totally understand if you'd rather not put it up. I'd be so afraid.) People liked it! The teacher said it was beautiful! But she also said it would be extra great if I expanded it, changed these bits, etc. So give me a short while... I'm loath to post it til it's truly done.
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Post by sprite on Dec 4, 2018 10:22:25 GMT -5
if you wait till it's perfect, you'll never post...
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Post by Liiisa on Dec 4, 2018 18:43:24 GMT -5
if you wait till it's perfect, you'll never post... Ugh, so true....
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Post by tzarine on Dec 5, 2018 0:54:43 GMT -5
liisa
looking forward to reading you
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