OK, I'm giving it a try.I saw this writing program mentioned over on Don't Print This awhile back, but I didn't really give it much thought or check out what it was all about until the Brooklyn Hillbilly sent me an e-mail last night.
It was this line on their website that made me decide to sign up for the write a novel in a month challenge:
Make no mistake: You will be writing a lot of crap. And that's a good thing.The object, they stress, is quantity, not quality -- and because of the way I've been feeling lately, that's exactly the low-pressure strategy I need.
I also know that it would be helpful for me to feel like I accomplished something. Fifty-thousand words (about 175 pages) in 30 days is definitely a lofty goal, especially in a month with numerous holidays, travel days, and after hours work assignments, but if I could somehow pull it off, it might be a morale boost that would get me through the holidays ;).
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Go you!
And as far as I'm concerned, if you can write every single day, that makes you a winner, regardless of your word count.
It's the butt in chair writing that's the hardest part, IMO.
So fiction, non-fiction or some of both?
Completely fiction, except for some scenery and landscapes.
And I'm not going to worry about structure, which is something I have never been good at, whether it's a short story or research paper. So whatever I end up with will be more of a lump of text rather than a structured story.
Cool! Any hints as to what it's about?
And structure may come more easily as you write--and if you decide to go back and revise.
(Me, I revise just about *everything* I write, from stories to e-mail to blog comments.
It's FUN to have OCD!)
Regardless keep us updated!
I too am attempting NaNoWriMo this year, and am supposed to be writing right now. However, having serious trouble internalizing the quantity not quality concept I'm experiences a wee bit of writer's block and am instead reading blogs :)
Good luck, Lulubunny! I was doing pretty good up till today, and now I'm bored...probably not a good sign that I'm bored with my own story.
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