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Sound Off posts for January 1st, 2008
Welcome new people, and those who've been members for a while and have decided to participate. It's a new year, and it's time to get started!
I didn't get any questions on my post from yesterday, so I'm guessing everyone (other than me) already finished their words, right? ^_~ I see that someone's already taken me up on my offer to create a sound off post for themselves. Thank you![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
featheredwolf! Everyone should use that post to comment with their wordcount, and feel free to talk about issues you might be having or extra successes related to your noveling there as well.
You can also feel free to introduce yourself by making a post to the community. Generally, I try to discourage spamming the community with daily reports, since we have a place for that here, but everyone is welcome to introduce themselves, or ask for help, by making a post to the community at any time.
I guess I'll use this opportunity to do that for myself ^_^
I'mchichirinoda and I'm not the one who came up with this idea. I began participating in Novel in 90 on LJ when it was first created exactly one year ago. I recently had been going through a 5-year stint of writer's block, which had finally broken the October before, and I had successfully completed NaNoWriMo, but then was floundering without having a daily goal. I've been participating since then, including maintaining my daily goal between official rounds, and when I removed my presence from LJ I asked for and received permission to run the IJ version of Ni90 over here.
I firmly believe that the rules of Ni90 should remain flexible, and that if you want to bend them in order to make things work better for you, that is certainly permitted. If you need a smaller goal, then do it. The point is to get people writing. Personally, my goal is 900 words per day, because I find that that is a more appropriate goal for me due to the speed at which I write. When I only push myself to 750, I stop right before I'm warmed up, but if I push to 900, I'll generally write more than 1000. It's an interesting little quirk that's entirely personal, and if you participate in Ni90, I'm sure you'll find out things like that about yourself.
I will be using this round of Ni90 to work on completing a novel that I started in that fateful November 2005. This is actually the second draft of the novel, but I've reworked it so much in between drafts that almost all of it is being written from scratch. I do personally allow myself to include other fiction writing to count towards my Ni90 goal, so there may be days when I'm writing a fanfiction story instead. As I said, we're quite flexible here.
However, if you feel that including other kinds of writing would allow you to escape writing that novel you've always wanted to write, I would strongly encourage you to only include the novel words in your total. You will have to police yourself, and pay attention to your own personal writing quirks to figure out what works and what doesn't *grins* I'm not your mom, and I'm not in your head, either.
As I said before, if you have any questions, or any problems, please don't hesitate to ask. I've had a lot of experience with learning how to motivate myself to write, and I've been very successful at it. I'm sure there are others on the community who are experienced as well and can give suggestions.
And now I'll turn it over to you before this becomes too tl;dr XDDD Besides, I need to get my words done.
I didn't get any questions on my post from yesterday, so I'm guessing everyone (other than me) already finished their words, right? ^_~ I see that someone's already taken me up on my offer to create a sound off post for themselves. Thank you
featheredwolf! Everyone should use that post to comment with their wordcount, and feel free to talk about issues you might be having or extra successes related to your noveling there as well.You can also feel free to introduce yourself by making a post to the community. Generally, I try to discourage spamming the community with daily reports, since we have a place for that here, but everyone is welcome to introduce themselves, or ask for help, by making a post to the community at any time.
I guess I'll use this opportunity to do that for myself ^_^
I'm
chichirinoda and I'm not the one who came up with this idea. I began participating in Novel in 90 on LJ when it was first created exactly one year ago. I recently had been going through a 5-year stint of writer's block, which had finally broken the October before, and I had successfully completed NaNoWriMo, but then was floundering without having a daily goal. I've been participating since then, including maintaining my daily goal between official rounds, and when I removed my presence from LJ I asked for and received permission to run the IJ version of Ni90 over here.I firmly believe that the rules of Ni90 should remain flexible, and that if you want to bend them in order to make things work better for you, that is certainly permitted. If you need a smaller goal, then do it. The point is to get people writing. Personally, my goal is 900 words per day, because I find that that is a more appropriate goal for me due to the speed at which I write. When I only push myself to 750, I stop right before I'm warmed up, but if I push to 900, I'll generally write more than 1000. It's an interesting little quirk that's entirely personal, and if you participate in Ni90, I'm sure you'll find out things like that about yourself.
I will be using this round of Ni90 to work on completing a novel that I started in that fateful November 2005. This is actually the second draft of the novel, but I've reworked it so much in between drafts that almost all of it is being written from scratch. I do personally allow myself to include other fiction writing to count towards my Ni90 goal, so there may be days when I'm writing a fanfiction story instead. As I said, we're quite flexible here.
However, if you feel that including other kinds of writing would allow you to escape writing that novel you've always wanted to write, I would strongly encourage you to only include the novel words in your total. You will have to police yourself, and pay attention to your own personal writing quirks to figure out what works and what doesn't *grins* I'm not your mom, and I'm not in your head, either.
As I said before, if you have any questions, or any problems, please don't hesitate to ask. I've had a lot of experience with learning how to motivate myself to write, and I've been very successful at it. I'm sure there are others on the community who are experienced as well and can give suggestions.
And now I'll turn it over to you before this becomes too tl;dr XDDD Besides, I need to get my words done.