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Yeah, the Nano organization is just one train crash after another the last few years. If you have any ideas for how to set up the challenge here I would love to hear it!
We used to do a bare-bones sort of thing where we’d set up a subform for the event, and then the people participating each created their own thread, where they could report their progress and others could comment and offer support. I don’t recall ever having anything like a spreadsheet within the forum to track word counts, but there may have been something after I quit hanging out here.
I haven’t been on here in ages–I came over when I heard the news about Holly and happened to see this post. I’m surprised my login even still works.
I deleted my NaNoWriMo account and don’t plan to go back. It’s been year after year of questionable (and worse) behavior. But the surge of writing energy from pushing for a challenging goal in the company of many other writers has always been a big part of my writing life. A November challenge here would be great!
–bonnie
I’m in for this one–want to finish the novel I wrote for NaNoWriMo a couple of years ago. I figure probably around 25K, but I’d like more. I’m BonnieRS over there (Hi Bonnie824
)Did anybody ever create an FM cabin? I can do it if nobody else has.
It sounds like you learned how to do part of it in your head instead of writing it down.
The lovely shiny new idea still has lots of potential, but it’s still too unformed to let me generate many words. I got about 3-4,000 words of brainstorming and ideas, much of it in graphics and diagrams. I’m thinking maybe for NaNoWriMo in November, if I decide to do it this year.
I can very easily kill a story by putting too much effort into an outline.
For me, it’s a kind of cycle–I get to know my characters by what they do, and then what they do influences who they are and what they do next. So if I try to go in and pin the events to the board too soon, I no longer have room to know them as people and instead find myself pushing cardboard around in service of arbitrary events.
I’m late, partly from my own carelessness and partly from outside factors. I’m going for a level 3 for the rest of the time, but I’m not going to try to make up the days I missed.
(I will continue informally after the end, though, and on into April. I have such a lovely shiny new idea
)I used to have lots of things going on at the same time, but I’m finding that as my brain ages, I have less ability to move around and I tend to focus on one thing at a time.
That doesn’t mean I don’t have several projects under way, just that I’ve been working on only one at a time.
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Oh, I almost forgot about this challenge!
The NaNoNovel came it at longer than 50K, so although I met the word count, I didn’t quite get it finished. I want to get it done by the end of the month. I think it’s probably about 20K words.
Truthfully, if I don’t know all that stuff cold, without thinking about it, then I don’t know my characters well enough to write the story.
