NaNoWriMo

[osprey_archer]

Anyone else doing NaNoWriMo? I waffled about it all of yesterday, but I woke up this morning and decided to heck with it, I might as well do it. Naturally this puts me behind, but I should be able to catch up. I already hit 2000 words this morning and I'm hoping to get to 4000 by this evening. Of course the beginning is always the easiest.

It's a Fourth of July romance, which is not really a thing, but I couldn't resist the flags snapping the breeze, the flag-patterned cakes (blueberries and raspberries and Cool Whip), or the possibility of red-white-and-blue Jell-O shots. The heroine is painting a picnic table with red and white stripes (her grandma is big into this holiday decorating thing, okay) when her childhood crush shows up and startles her so much that she smacks her head against the underside of the table and gets a streak of white paint right across her forehead.

Comments

[evelyn-b.livejournal.com]

I'm using it to force myself to finish the first draft of my Yuletide fic! I just hit 2000 words this morning, so you are well ahead of me.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Is it going to be a super-long Yuletide story? Or is it just a spur to get a draft done early, rather than finishing the first draft on December 19th or so?

[evelyn-b.livejournal.com]

At this point, I'm not sure! It could go long or short, but I'm not far enough along with it to tell. But long or short, I want to have something I can call a first draft by Nov 15. I'm hoping being in touch with the local NaNo people is going to help with accountability.

This year's assignment is tricky in a way that previous ones have not been, and contains some temptations I'm not sure I'm equal to the demands of yielding to, so it's extra important that I leave enough time to edit/rework/whatever else.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

If you ever want to talk about your assignment in more detail, feel free to email me. If I don't know the fandom I may not be able to be very helpful about the trickiness, but I can always do that NaNo buddy "Rah rah! You can write it!" thing.

[evelyn-b.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :D I will keep that in mind!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

This sounds excellent--go go go!

I know I can't make the NaNo word counts, but I'd like to try to use it to make myself write each day, at least.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

You go too! I figure that getting any writing done every day, even just a little bit, is better than getting none done at all. Even just a hundred words a day adds up to a novel eventually!

[your-insomnia.livejournal.com]

I failed all my previous NaNoWriMos but at least it gave me 20-30k of rambling words that could be re-worked into a novel at some point...Maybe...

This year I'm trying to be less ambitious and simply finish a short story/novella I started working on recently.

Good luck with yours though! :)

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

I've never managed to finish a NaNo novel either. But maybe this will be the year I get lucky! Can't hurt to try.