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Post by Joy Pixley on Apr 23, 2016 21:38:12 GMT -6
Is anyone else here doing Camp NaNoWriMo this month? This is my first time. (This past November was my first NaNo.) I set my goal at 20,000 words, thinking I could finish the last ten chapters of my novel in that amount of words.
Well, the good news is that I just crossed 20K this month, hooray!
The bad news is that I'm still not done with all the chapters, boo.
I'm going to keep slogging on. I've been going back to revise some of my earlier chapters, which, yes, is important. But BOY, it would feel good to have all the necessary chapters there and in at least rough draft stage.
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Post by The Voice on Apr 24, 2016 6:18:22 GMT -6
Yay! Hooray for 20k words... lol!
I've not yet participated but I may do one later on. I'm concentrating on organizing and prepping a number of short stories for contests and publication. I also have at least a half dozen screenplays that I need to complete and that's really where I want to spend my time and energy in the latter half of this year.
I'm curious about how this experience was for you? Did you adapt to the rigors of all that writing easily or was it more difficult than you expected?
~V
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Post by Joy Pixley on Apr 25, 2016 8:11:36 GMT -6
Somehow I found it easier to do the 50,000 words in November NaNo than the 20,000 words this month. I think because in November I just pushed everything else in my life that I could aside, and totally focused. This month I couldn't do that work-wise, but also I didn't end up doing it as well leisure-wise either. I definitely spent more time on Facebook and evenings in front of the TV this month, for instance. (And I also had some social events that took whole weekends, but those were worth it.)
Besides, I'm not much into rigors. I think of myself as a surge writer. I write in big surges, a whole day or two in the zone. Last Saturday, for instance, I wrote over 6K (three chapters) by 3pm. So in theory, if I could do that one Saturday or Sunday each week, well, that would add up pretty fast. And yet I wasn't doing it until Camp NaNo gave me that boost.
By the way, you can do a series of short stories for NaNo -- it doesn't have to be a novel, despite the title. And Camp NaNo is even more flexible; you can set your goal for revising instead of first drafting.
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Post by Yinglan on Apr 25, 2016 11:42:06 GMT -6
I have participated in the past but I found it hard to commit to so much writing with school and work.
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Post by The Voice on Apr 25, 2016 15:57:44 GMT -6
By the way, you can do a series of short stories for NaNo -- it doesn't have to be a novel, despite the title. And Camp NaNo is even more flexible; you can set your goal for revising instead of first drafting. That's good to know. Short stories are more within my comfort range right now (although no one ever did anything great by being comfortable) and I'm really not sure I'm ready for a full novel, since I'm trying to complete one of my screenplays first. I'm glad you told me that. I'll definitely look into it. ~V |
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Post by Joy Pixley on May 2, 2016 7:52:53 GMT -6
Yes, I can relate to not being ready to write a novel. I've been writing this one for a year and I'm still not ready. I wasn't even comfortable using "that other N word" until just before NaNo last November. It was still a "very long story."
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