NaNoWriMo 2013

[Alssadar]

Greetings, my fellow Escapists. As the leaves of autumn sweep along the cold paths towards November, the question looms: Are you doing NaNoWriMo this year?
For those who have not yet heard of it, I'll explain: in celebration of National November Writing Month, people challenge themselves to finally write that 50,000+ word novel they've been procrastinating, It's a difficult task, but I've heard it's worth it. You sign up on their web site (nanowrimo.org) and then do input your word total, and find how much longer your journey is.
Nonetheless, Escapists: are you going to do it? What are you working on? Do you have an idea, or still need one? Need some critique or ironing out?

 

[Marter]

I'll probably wind up writing around 30,000-40,000 words, but then I do that most months (like, all of them). It obviously (if you know me, it's obvious) won't be for a novel, but writing is writing.

 

[Esotera]

I'd love to but I really don't have the time at the minute thanks to university workload. I have plenty of ideas but I guess they'll just have to wait for next year or whenever I have a bit of free time.

 

[Vegosiux]

I've actually been roped into it this year, so I might as well see if I can finish organizing my scattered snippets into something coherent finally.

 

[SonofaJohannes]

This year will be my first time participating. I still haven't decided what to write about, but I suppose it's about time I decide on one of my many, many ideas.

 

[Gargant]

NaNoWriMo is definitely worth it. I'll be doing it this year for the third time, and even if I don't do anything with the story in the end (Which I haven't so far) the sense of actually accomplishing something like that is a good feeling indeed.

As for ideas, i've got a vague idea that builds on the story I wrote last year (which was never finished but I hit the 50,000) I just want to adapt the ideas from that story and try writing it in a different way, with a different tone.

 

[SckizoBoy]

I write about 10000 words a week if I can, though I've scaled back in recent times because of work and studies. I'm failing at writing 1 chapter a week for the current mid-RepRome thing I'm doing... mainly because a non-fiction monograph is taking up all my effort... -.-

However, I can never really participate in NaNoWriMo because whenever I get a concept for a novella (50000 words is NOT a novel!!), I end up doing several weeks' worth of research on stuff within it (I tend to write historical stuff or historically inspired stuff...) which cuts what I can write (from scratch at least) in a month (without my outside-of-work distractions) to less than twenty thousand words...

*shrug*

Ah well, I've got enough shit to finish off writing-wise as it is without another project to go with it.

 

[Angelblaze]

Will definitely participate.

I already got an idea in my head inspired by the games 'Off', 'Warframe', 'Dungeon Defenders', and the Matrix and The Resident Evil franchises.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Nah.

I don't think writing 50,000+ words of a novel is that difficult, and I definitely don't think I'd be writing anything worthwhile. All my writings are hastily deleted because they're shit or hastily deleted because they're shit and I remember I'm not making any steps to have the drafts read. As much as I enjoy writing, it's not worth the time and effort for something I'm going to delete four months later.

 

[Vegosiux]

All my writings are hastily deleted because they're shit or hastily deleted because they're shit

Do not do that. Do not do that. Seriously, I used to do that, but it's a stupid thing to do. Write what you want, suck as hard as you want, but don't wipe it all; the editing phase comes later.

 

[thesilentman]

Wait, this is a thing? I can actually write something without procrastinating now? SIGN ME UP.

Thank god I have plenty of ideas. =D

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

All my writings are hastily deleted because they're shit or hastily deleted because they're shit

Do not do that. Do not do that. Seriously, I used to do that, but it's a stupid thing to do. Write what you want, suck as hard as you want, but don't wipe it all; the editing phase comes later.

I do edit, but I've lost interest in what I've made. Why would I continue to edit this ~150,000 exert of a viking space story I drafted up when I've moved onto structuring a story about sea monster operas.

There's no interest and pretty much all direction I've put into it has been dispersed. Just about everytime before I delete them, it is after I remember I never open those documents again after I drafted it. Why hold onto a half-story with the last access date of 17/1/2009?

It's like owning an old beat-up car in your backyard that you haven't put any maintenance into for five years. Might as well sell it to someone else if you're not doing anything with it, rather than leaving it to rust out.

 

[Trivea]

Yeah. I generally use NaNoWriMo to get all of the terribad ideas out of my head to make room for the actual good ideas. I always get horrible ideas jumping up and down distracting me until I write them out.

Then again, I might hit on something this year. Who knows. I usually just start writing and know I'll fix the plotholes later. Because there are always plotholes.

 

[Lord Garnaat]

Sounds like fun! I have a question though: can you submit a novel that you began before November 1st, so you as you add 50,000 words to it? Or does it have to be contained within the single month period?

 

[Someone Depressing]

I'm an imaginative person.

I come up with many ideas throughout my day, some of which aren't complete garbage. But when I'm actually tasked with writing something, I'll just sit there, staring at the paper...

So I probably won't be participating, but I'll be lurking it.

 

[OniYouji]

I've done it twice before, but I'm struggling to come up with something for a third year in a row. Most of my ideas would work better as scripts, so I'm not sure whether I should just convert one to a novel or just go ahead and write a script instead. Plus, I haven't decided on one idea yet, so it probably won't happen.

 

[IFS]

Definitely will, this will be my second year of participating, hopefully this time I won't end up writing 10,000 words on the last day just to finish in time. Still its loads of fun, really looking forward to it.

Sounds like fun! I have a question though: can you submit a novel that you began before November 1st, so you as you add 50,000 words to it? Or does it have to be contained within the single month period?

http://nanowrimo.org/

^Link to the website since the OP neglected to do so, they have all the general rules and such there. Its really a personal challenge though, you aren't submitting anything anywhere.

 

[staika]

Huh didn't know this was a thing. Sounds like fun since I had a story idea that I was thinking about writing but never got around to. So I guess I will participate.

As for my idea I was thinking about a pirate story of some kind. Still working out a plot though but I should be able to iron one out in the next few days once I put thought to it.

 

[Vegosiux]

All my writings are hastily deleted because they're shit or hastily deleted because they're shit

Do not do that. Do not do that. Seriously, I used to do that, but it's a stupid thing to do. Write what you want, suck as hard as you want, but don't wipe it all; the editing phase comes later.

I do edit, but I've lost interest in what I've made. Why would I continue to edit this ~150,000 exert of a viking space story I drafted up when I've moved onto structuring a story about sea monster operas.

There's no interest and pretty much all direction I've put into it has been dispersed. Just about everytime before I delete them, it is after I remember I never open those documents again after I drafted it. Why hold onto a half-story with the last access date of 17/1/2009?

It's like owning an old beat-up car in your backyard that you haven't put any maintenance into for five years. Might as well sell it to someone else if you're not doing anything with it, rather than leaving it to rust out.

I don't know, I've returned to some of mine after years - sometimes if only as references to ideas I already previously had and working them into a newer one. And well, you didn't build that car from scratch.

Bottom line is, a half-finished story on your hard drive won't do you much harm if it keeps existing.

 

[Detective Prince]

This is my second NaNo although I took part in both Camp NaNos this year as well which makes this story my third this year. In April, I wrote something I was serious about and managed to finish its first draft in just under two months. This November I'm writing something terrible to get it out of my head.