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Dominick 10-14-2010 03:35 PM

NaNoWriMo
 
I am thinking about doing National Novel Writers Month in November. I love writing and I write technical documents as part of my job. Pure fiction has been something I enjoy, and I have gone to short story workshops.

More info:
http://www.nanowrimo.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationa..._Writing_Month

Is anyone else considering this?

ElanoraBryght 10-14-2010 04:58 PM

I've "won" NaNo twice. Last year I was under a contract deadline requiring edits in November so I skipped it. This year - eh I'm still undecided. But the Scrivener Mac software people are releasing the Windows version at a special price to NaNo participants. That by itself has me considering it.

Scrivener is THE sexiest writing software I have seen.

mimixownzall 10-14-2010 07:15 PM

Dominick

Any way you can post some samples or the story you are planning to submit?

It could be a community effort!

Dominick 10-18-2010 01:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mimixownzall (Post 159273)
Dominick

Any way you can post some samples or the story you are planning to submit?

It could be a community effort!

Its got to be a personal effort, AFAIK.

I am mulling that, and I am mulling that my pacing should be per day. It seems that I need to do more than 2000 words/day (1600words/day+400 buffer) which is about double my non-fiction writing load a day. Its definitely hard to write that much fiction a day.

Alawen Everywhere 10-18-2010 03:10 PM

Thanks for posting this! I'm going to give this a shot. It's pretty exciting.

Shannacore 10-18-2010 03:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fourthmeal (Post 159177)
I wish I had the talent to write fiction like David Foster Wallace or Pynchon. I have a semi-decent story idea that I think either one of them could make into an incredibly funny novel.

His stuff is so damn good. Just recently finished Infinite Jest.

Mcbard 10-18-2010 03:56 PM

Signing up. :)

ElanoraBryght 10-27-2010 10:31 AM

Scrivener Public Beta!
http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivenerforwindows/


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