The site (nanowrimo.org) has been reset for the year, the forums wiped clean just to be dirtied by our rambling minds again. It's a fresh start! I'll win this year, I swear!
For those of you who don't know, NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month, and takes place every November not just nationally but internationally. It's a challenge to write 50,000 words in a month (which is short, as far as novels go). No, there's no prize if you win. But you get stickers!
It's an exercise in just getting words on the page. Quantity, rather than quality, is what matters. Save your red pen and editing for December! Or January, when you're not quite so sick of what you just wrote. Being a perfectionist about writing and also awfully lazy, I've never managed to win, though one year I came close and it was only due to an evil conspiracy hatched by my computer and flash drive that I lost (a previous copy of my novel, backed up on the flash drive, was copied over all other existing files at four in the morning, erasing around fifteen thousand words and brutally murdering my motivation).
I'm going to win this year, though. Really I am. Surely it will be easy to write 50,000 words about impossibly adorable genetically engineered pocket sized dragons eating faces, wreaking havoc, and causing moral quandaries, all with a side of questionably motivated genocide and corruption.
Right? Right.
I'm still nervous.
Yeah, I can understand your pain. Being a perfectionist is really awful to win a NaNo. :-(
ReplyDeleteBut computer problem? Oh, man. Hope you win this time, so it will all be equal. :-(
Hey good luck with NaNo this year, i'm sure everything will work out fine for you and your PC and flashdrive will behave themselves this year and not ruin things for you again. :-)
ReplyDeleteYOu can do it! I want to read about adorable dragons eating faces!
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