Nanowrimo 2015

So...anyone braving this for 2015? I have no idea what my college workload is going to be like in November but I'm probably going to at least have another stab at writing something this year. Possibly some short horror stories.

I got to around 8,500 ish words last time around so that's going to be my target to beat. If I can at least get past that then I'll call it a win!

Website
http://nanowrimo.org/

I'm still on there from last year as pyxistyx.
http://nanowrimo.org/participants/py...

I am considering it. I actually succeeded a few years ago and am tempted to try to succeed again. I had more free time thrn, though, which is my concern for this year.

No.

I won't.

Not happening.

...

I'll think about it.

I'm in.

Every year I think a out doing this.

And every year I end up not participating.

I'll think about it, though.

Yeah, I'm in again. I'm PaleoGamer there.

http://nanowrimo.org/participants/pa...

Every year I'm in!
My nanowrimo name is Taharka, if you want to friend me up.

I'll be there!

I'm Falkuse on there (and everywhere else)

New house + Baby on the way = no time for anything at all ever.

/me sigh

happy sigh, but sigh none the less

Not sure if I'll participate. But maybe I'll do another sprint of short stories.

Dominic Knight wrote:

Not sure if I'll participate. But maybe I'll do another sprint of short stories.

This is my plan this year - I figure that way even if (when, inevitably) I run out of time , I might still get something finished

For some reason Novembers I tend to have my writing irons in fires that aren't prose based, but I'll be writing the heck out of something - that's for damn sure. So I'm in!

I write so much fanfiction already that I never feel a need for this. But whatever gives people that extra push to write more and express ideas seems like a net positive for everyone!

That and it takes me about 3-4 months to write 50k words. Carving out the time in one month seems like a punishing writing schedule. Hats off to those of you that can make it work.

I won for the first time last year and then promptly haven't written anything sense. Going to try and jumpstart my writing again this year so I'm in.

Sigh... dammit. I've never really done writing as a whole. I mean, writing these things is not really 'writing' to me. I guess I communicate decently, but I don't know that I could be as coherent in a longer-form sense.

Guess we'll find out!

(pyxistyx - added you)

I'm still trying to do a graphic novel/web series. I've dug out last years work and it's solid stuff but a tad disorganised. Amazing how it's very easy to see what needs cutting and rearranging when you've had a long break from a script. I'm going to be onto laying out 'pages' and drawing them up soon.

George Saunders has a great piece up about his mentor, about writing, and it is lovely and worth reading as November 1st looms.

Still debating on this. Have a great idea for a fantasy novel but not much of an outline. I won Nano as a pantser before but found myself wandering off on crazy tangents that never panned out.

I'm also wondering how you Nano vets balance gaming during the month. The first year I tried Skyrim came out and that was all she wrote. I'd like to play Fallout at launch but am consigning myself to giving up gaming for a month.

I tend to play in short spurts anyway, so I think writing something will help me in my excursions between playing something and pacing in circles trying to figure out when I want to play something again.

I totally missed this thread! I'm 'in' this year, although I suspect I'll join you around the 8500 word mark. Baby and dog and job and thanksgiving are definitely putting my ambitions in check, but we'll see.

I'm picking a super easy theme to write about: An episodic buddy cop format featuring my baby and dog as the main characters.

jdzappa wrote:

Still debating on this. Have a great idea for a fantasy novel but not much of an outline. I won Nano as a pantser before but found myself wandering off on crazy tangents that never panned out.

I'm also wondering how you Nano vets balance gaming during the month. The first year I tried Skyrim came out and that was all she wrote. I'd like to play Fallout at launch but am consigning myself to giving up gaming for a month.

Yeah, I don't have a lot of expendable time anymore that I can use for gaming OR writing. And I don't plan to give up any of the gaming time, so this is mostly just a 'how I feel at the moment' kind of month.

Previously I entered the month with a huge amount of enthusiasm and so I wrote a lot more, but purely because I wanted to.

Ok - the "book" has been added for this year. As mentioned above, I'm going to go for a bunch of short horror stories because that's probably all I'll have time for anyway (if I'm lucky), with my ultimate goal of getting at LEAST past last years, 8,500 words. I'd consider 10,000 a victory but if I can make it beyond that, all the better.

It begins! (No I'm not writing yet, but in another, less responsible world I would be.)

WAIT! BETTER IDEA!

Going to tie this in with the character development class stuff I've been doing....

Signed up on a whim. I have no plan.

Good luck to you all! Enjoy that extra hour!

I am giving it a shot. Its my first time. I dont expect to get much done!

So how did the first day go my fellow future Pulitzer winning and/or bestselling authors with a new show coming out on HBO next month?

The good news for me is that I attended a writing class led by fantasy author Terry Brooks. The bad news is I just started writing today so have a bit to catch up.

Ahem, first day?

*looks at calendar*

Oh crap

Looks at word count...

Um... 214?

Hey, it's a start!

er...hmmm...

in my defence - I've been struck down with a bad cold so I don't feel like doing much of anything at the moment