Anyone Entering NaNoWriMo?

[Solar]

1700-2000 words a day seems good

Or I could go on a weekly goal, churn out 12500 words a week somehow

 

[Key]

i am SO gonna do this, i've been planning out a story for FOREVER.... and this is the perfect incentive to start it

 

[Ruran]

For how much I write per day I think I'm just going to wing it. I was never good with planning things out so I might just overly stress my self if I try and plan it.

 

[Zarin I Yehudahi]

Only 50,000? I GOT THIS! DDDD

 

[PaopuMemories]

Oooh, quite a challenge. My competitive nature is kicking in...
I feel kind of bad for the judges; they have to wade through a lot of...er, "quantity" writing to find a winner. So excited! I feel like it would be hard to plan for something like this, though you probably have to

 

[Zarin I Yehudahi]

Fuck man! I'm not going to start today or tomorrow but later on in the week. I'm going for something alt-history.

 

[Aria]

So how's the writing coming along for everyone? I'm almost at 7,500 words, hoping to make it to 10,000 by tonight!

 

[King Naruto]

Imma try. Got plenty of ideas but, i'm going to stick with a fantasy/adventure story. Go old school with this.

 

[Nyangoro]

Slow first week (been having to study for a calc 2 test on friday). I should go a lot faster afterwords.

 

[Aria]

Imma try. Got plenty of ideas but, i'm going to stick with a fantasy/adventure story. Go old school with this.

Yeah, I'm doing the same type of story.

The end of the quarter is slowing me down now , especially with all the essays we have to write. I think I only got like 200 words written so far today. But I have tomorrow off, so I think I'm going to do writing-binges.

 

[Solar]

I have 800-900 words done in between class time, mostly in religion and spares.

And this weekend looks to be busy but if I manage my time effectively, we'll see

 

[Zero Sora]

Things aren't going so spectacular for me. It's been a slow couple of days for me. Everytime I get into the flow of things and start writing like crazy, something stops me and ruins my pace. Not to mention I keep getting ideas for my other story, which I then get distracted by and start writing them.

 

[Aria]

Things aren't going so spectacular for me. It's been a slow couple of days for me. Everytime I get into the flow of things and start writing like crazy, something stops me and ruins my pace. Not to mention I keep getting ideas for my other story, which I then get distracted by and start writing them.

Have you ever tried write or die? It is a miracle creation sent down by the writing gods themselves.

I find it really helpful to do writing sprints. You get a few people together, set the write or die time for whatever you guys decide, and see who can write the most. It doesn't matter who does write the most, but it creates that competition to make you write faster.

http://writeordie.drwicked.com/

I got over 8,000 words tonight just by doing these with my friends and then a couple of my own by myself. I'm at 17K now, and I feel great even though it's 1 am

 

[Solar]

Well, unfortunately due to school and personal choices I'm going to drop out.

My English teacher asked me why in the world would I attempt to write a novel in a month and it got me thinking. Why? I understand the point is quantity over quality but that doesn't sit well with me. I already write a good deal, so why more? Mainly, I just want to improve my writing and NaNoWriMo isn't really allowing that. Perhaps next year then.

Good luck and congrats to everyone in so far, you have my admiration and respect

 

[Ruran]

Aw that's too bad you're droping out.D:
Oh well, I know how you feel. It feels like more stresse than there needs to be.
I haven't gotten very far. :I

 

[tangerine]

Well, unfortunately due to school and personal choices I'm going to drop out.

My English teacher asked me why in the world would I attempt to write a novel in a month and it got me thinking. Why? I understand the point is quantity over quality but that doesn't sit well with me. I already write a good deal, so why more? Mainly, I just want to improve my writing and NaNoWriMo isn't really allowing that. Perhaps next year then.

Good luck and congrats to everyone in so far, you have my admiration and respect

It is a waste of time if you actually value quantity over quality, which is why I spent the first several days planning out an actual good story that I would work hard on regardless of NaNoWriMo. If my story ends-up taking me longer than a month to write, then so be it. Think of the point of the competition as motivation to write more than anything else. You also shouldn't listen to your teacher. English teachers are cynical about writing because almost every one of them is a failed writer.

 

[Solar]

It is a waste of time if you actually value quantity over quality, which is why I spent the first several days planning out an actual good story that I would work hard on regardless of NaNoWriMo. You also shouldn't listen to your teacher. English teachers are cynical about writing because almost every one of them is a failed writer.

Perhaps you mistyped here because your statement doesn't make much sense to me otherwise.

I could've cared less, I still continued after she told me that. But really, I found that there wasn't really a point to it for me. "Writing for the sake of writing." isn't my thing, I write for different purposes. There are of course positive results, I know fully realise how much work is required to write a good novel by my own personal standards. With some good planning and hard work, I'll be done in a couple of years.

I'm not writing what I originally posted here, but something I'd like to call my own (this is going to sound really pretentious) Dune or Wheel of Time, or whatever you want to call it

 

[tangerine]

Perhaps you mistyped here because your statement doesn't make much sense to me otherwise.

I could've cared less, I still continued after she told me that. But really, I found that there wasn't really a point to it for me. "Writing for the sake of writing." isn't my thing, I write for different purposes. There are of course positive results, I know fully realise how much work is required to write a good novel by my own personal standards. With some good planning and hard work, I'll be done in a couple of years.

I'm not writing what I originally posted here, but something I'd like to call my own (this is going to sound really pretentious) Dune or Wheel of Time, or whatever you want to call it

I actually edited my post soon after posting it to be more clear, but it hardly didn't make sense the first time. It's not pretentious to want to write something great. If you don't have the will to write something great then it won't happen.

 

[Solar]

I actually edited my post soon after posting it to be more clear, but it hardly didn't make sense the first time. It's not pretentious to want to write something great. If you don't have the will to write something great then it won't happen.

I see. I'm still writing said novel, but I'm not going to get it done in a month. I plan to have the barebones done by this year

 

[King Naruto]

I'm dropping out myself. I can just write for no reason but, to just write. When i write novels, I like them to have a purpose. I have this great idea in my head but, I'm planning it out instead.