Comments on: NaNoWriMo Once Mo’

By: byzcbci

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By: Destrey

Destrey — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 03:14:00 +0000

If ifrnomation were soccer, this would be a goooooal!

By: Emily

Emily — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:03:32 +0000

I joined NaNoWriMo in its second year and for fun I did reach the goal word count [which escapes me now]. But in my area, most writers in the group were college freshmen who wanted to do daring things like haveing a ‘lock-down’ writing night where everyone showed up in jammies allowing males and females to STAY IN THE SAME ROOM ALL NIGHT DRESSED IN THEIR GOWNS AND PJs !!

As a member of the grandparent generation I did not find the idea so attractive so I stayed home and wrote my book.

Curmudgeonly pressing onward through the fog!!

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:41:13 +0000

I went to a write in. I was involved in a write off, or something like that. I wrote 75 well thought words. My competors wrote hundreds of words. Then people would not show them to anyone, because it is not be read. My experience was a turn off. I had writers block for a week following. I’m glad to know that others feel maybe they should be more cautious in the creation process.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:24:53 +0000

Nanowrimo doesn´t work for me. I need a slower pace to fit my writing in with my fulltime teaching job and my other interests, and if I just write for quantity, not really thinking the story through and letting it sink in, I´ll end up with something that doesn´t make sense and that has loads of mistakes.
Also, I like to finish the first draft of my current project before I start anything new, as you´re supposed to do during Nanowrimo.

Writing lots of words is not that hard. Writing a good novel is, and can take years.

Yes, a National Novel Reading Month would be excellent. Then I could finally finish David Copperfield

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:11:48 +0000

I was once contracted to write a 60,000 word paranormal romance in one month for a special book package deal. It was brutal. My eyes were twitching by the third week. We worked round the clock on edits. And while it’s nice to know I could do it, I’ll never do that again.

“Now we just need National Novel Reading Month!”

That’s actually an excellent idea.

By: Lance Parkin

Lance Parkin — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:28:06 +0000

It always sounds so curmudgeonly to criticise NaNoWriMo, and there’s no right or wrong way to write things, so if it works for people, it works. But I’m not sure what ‘works’ means in this context.

I understand – believe me – that, as the old saying goes, the hardest part of writing is not getting words on a page, it’s keeping your arse in the chair. Having an excuse or a licence to make time to write is important.

The thing that took me a long time to realise when I was looking for an agent is that agents are not looking for ‘writers’, they’re not even looking for ‘good writing’. They’re looking for specific, complete pieces of work they can imagine touting around to at least several specific editors they know.

If you want to be published (and far from everyone does), spend a month aiming to complete the first chapter of a book. ‘Complete’ meaning writing, rewriting, getting feedback from friends, revising, looking at it again, and ending up with a chapter that reads like it’s done, that’s set up a fantastic book which has got the reader quite some way into the world of that novel and will hook them into wanting to read more. Or write a complete 10,000 word short story, with some awareness of potential markets for it.

By: Stephen L. Duncan

Stephen L. Duncan — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 23:35:50 +0000

I’m giving it a go for my first time. Though, I’m already behind at 25k. Like others, I’m contending with an inner editor as well and a lot of writing time is taken by research on what life might have been like for a twelve-year-old paperboy during the London Blitz. I doubt I’ll ‘win,’ but I’ve got some momentum going, putting in about 2500 words a day.

My goal is a first draft by the new year.

And then the real work starts. 😉

By: Livia Blackburne

Livia Blackburne — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:59:12 +0000

I’ve tried the Nano approach, but I’ve found that the time to revise such hastily written stuff nullifies the time saved by writing quickly. The formerly anonomous blogger THE INTERN once suggested a National Novel Revising Month. Sounds like a good idea for December