User: woodlandelf Date: 2008-11-30 21:00 Subject: NaNoWriMo = Evil...but I WON! Security: Public Tags: babble, nanowrimo

I stayed up all night last night.... I took a 5-hour nap after church.... I have 50,094 words!!! About 30 or so of those are from the chapter titles, but I still made it! It took Christmas song lyrics, a bit of breaking down the fourth wall, explaining in detail how to wrap a present, and a bunch of filler...but I MADE IT! *dies*

( Babble on my overall process and how I made it )

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( Babbling on my novel )

I have a text file of my novel, so if anyone should want to read it in its roughest form, let me know! I'll e-mail it to you, but just know you'll cringe. ^_^ Since WriteMonkey doesn't let me italicize one word, I have use the following: *italics* and _underline_. I should have used *italic/* and _underline/_ so that I could have at least used the search and replace later for HTML tags, but I thought of it too late.

Things I learned from NaNo? NaNo is evil, but when you've won it, it doesn't seem too evil. I can get a novel written (whether it's good or not is another thing). I don't need a writing buddy, which is good as I've been abandoned by cozzybob. ^_~ /teasing No matter how busy I may be, that is no excuse not to write; I can always make time. 1,000 words per day is the pace I should be at for a novel I'm not trying to write in a month. My word pace for November was 2,000 words/day so that I would finish on the 25th (you see how well it worked), and while I made it to NaNo, I think 1,000 words/day is the pace I need for my "real" novel.

While I don't need a writing buddy, I still think I want one, but we'll see. There are probably other lessons I learned, but I can't think of them. I've babbled way too much already, and you're either ignoring me or if you've made it this far, you're wanting me to shut up. ^^

How did the rest of you participating fare? Learn anything? Whether you've done/you're doing NaNo, how is your novel(s) coming along? You may hear more from me soon on how novel(s) is/are coming.

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User: ederyn Date: 2008-10-23 19:25 Subject: 9 Days til NaNo Security: Public Tags: nanowrimo

Doh! But there's plenty to do before then. For one thing, I just noticed there are some new thingies on the site this year, like an author bio and a short synopsis of your fic. They never had those before. Wooties!

So let's do that, eh? When people ask me what my novel's about, it's so hard to put into words in an instant so it always comes out as "Um...futuristic Nazi America...ecowarrior serial killer...death camps...time travel...doh!"   It's time to come up with a short but succinct, well-composed little description. Yesh.

Incidentally, if you signed up for NaNo then friend me and we'll buddy up. My page is here. You can check out my buddy page for other groovy writers you might want to add, too.

Some other things you might want to check out are How Not To Write and The Ultimate Writing Productivity Resource, especially the 9 Free Apps Every Writer Should Consider. Some of those look cool!

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User: ederyn Date: 2008-10-12 14:36 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public Tags: nanowrimo, writing tips

Oooh, NaNo's going to start up in just a few weeks, so we ought to begin planning for it now. Not that anyone has to join NaNoWriMo—no no no! But NaNo's an excellent motivator for the month of November, so we may as well take advantage of it, eh?

What's that? No ideas for a novel yet? Or maybe you have an idea for a plot but you're lacking some characters? Or perhaps you have characters, but no setting? Most of these came from writers_cafe or no_utopia, and they're excellent places to start:

( World Building )

( Character Building )

( How to Avoid Writing a Mary Sue )

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