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sights unseen:
This will be my first year. *fingers crossed*

Anyone here have any experience they'd like to share? Kelley Armstrong is planning on participating and encouraging others to do so.


Here's the link:

http://www.nanowrimo.org/

The gist of it is that whatever you write doesn't have to be good. It can be 100% crap. The rule is you must write 50,000 words in the month of November. Many of the Shomi participates are using this wip as a way to jumpstart their first draft.

meg_evonne:
wow, 50,000 words in a month is a strong goal.  Best wishes to you! 

It may seem sort of corny--but from what i've heard the push for so many words means you can't make it perfect the first time.  Great way to jump over that particular obstacle.  Go for it!

Kiriath:
I plan to do, and it'll be the first year. Hell yes.

First I have another novel to finish, and the start of Nano is acting as my deadline for it. :D

the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
50,000 words in a month is I suppose a reasonable goal if you can set aside the time, and if what matters to you is demonstrating that you can write 50,000 words - it would be very much on the short side for a published genre SF/Fantasy novel.  And knowing that you are able to write at length and finish things is definitely worth having.

I don't do NaNo myself, I just plug on with the same few thousand words every Friday night that I do all year.  Which seems to work for me in getting things finished.

November's a depressing month to be thinking of doing it in, though.

Kiriath:
"Showing yourself that you can write a novel" was, I think, the original goal of Nano. I want to prove that I can finish more than a few projects. ;)

What's so depressing about November? For me, a Minnesotan, winter work wonders for writing things.

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