Yay! It's that time of year again, and after being first introduced to this in thre years ago and failing, and being too lazy the two subsequent years, I've decided that I'll try to make some time and screw around with this this year.

I fully expect to fail miserably, but if I can produce a few thousand coherent words I'll be happy enough!

Anyone else embarking on this?

PS For those of you unfamiliar to this, NaNoWriMo is the National Novel Writing Month, the November of every year where you challenge yourself on a masochistic quest to spew out 50,000 words, which constitutes a novel! Check it out!

www.nanowrimo.org/

selboN

United States2523 Posts

October 30 2009 02:51 GMT

I'll definitely be passing on this. College is keeping me busy enough. Wish you luck though!

LeperKahn

Romania1850 Posts

October 30 2009 03:04 GMT

lol Carnivorous Sheep
I am SO glad we don't have to do that in senior year like you guys did.

Carnivorous Sheep

Baa?21245 Posts

October 30 2009 03:09 GMT

Haha indeed xD

ramen247

United States1256 Posts

October 30 2009 03:30 GMT

hmmmmm, do those guys rate the novel? or do they just see that you have so and so words? wat are the prizes? i wanna do this.

Carnivorous Sheep

Baa?21245 Posts

October 30 2009 03:33 GMT

There's no prize, there's no one to tell you what's acceptable or not. It's just your own self-satisfaction at having written a full-fledged novel. If you fill up a word document with 50,000 "I"s, yes, that's a novel. But so what lol.

The point is that it probably won't be good, but just writing 50,000 words that are generally coherent is in and of itself an accomplishment. You do it for "fun."

ramen247

United States1256 Posts

October 30 2009 03:37 GMT

thought there would be some competition prize that would look great for college apps. if not then............ lol.

New Zealand6138 Posts

October 30 2009 03:37 GMT

I don't think I could motivate myself to write 50,000 words if I wasn't being either graded or paid.

defenestrate

United States579 Posts

October 30 2009 03:52 GMT

Tried it the last few years. Failed spectacularly. More free time this year, so going to try and fail again.

Musoeun

United States4324 Posts

October 30 2009 04:01 GMT

#10

HA! I keep meaning to do this, but always forget by the time November happens... maybe I'll actually try something this time since you reminded me, much <3. (Not that I'm actually a good writer.)

nttea

Sweden4353 Posts

October 30 2009 04:28 GMT

#11

this takes waaaaay too much effort.

Tensai176

Canada2061 Posts

October 30 2009 04:37 GMT

#12

Im in yo. Let's accomplish it this year!

BloodyC0bbler

Canada7876 Posts

October 30 2009 05:46 GMT

#13

Im so into it, will be my third attempt and first in a few years (did it in 2005 and raped its face thats right I FINISHED) then failed spectacularly in 2006, took two years off now im back. Hoping to win again.

Dark.Carnival

United States5095 Posts

October 30 2009 05:54 GMT

#14

i want to try this year but i'm in the middle of writing something else. not sure if i want to start writing for this and end up putting my first story on hold ;x

frozenkatkiller

United States168 Posts

October 30 2009 05:58 GMT

#15

Just do 50,000 words of Lorem Ipsum

d3_crescentia

United States4054 Posts

October 30 2009 06:07 GMT

#16

wait a goddamn second

I'm unemployed without a job or anything, and there's a novel that I've been meaning to write since forever - this could be the PERFECT opportunity to do it

gamecrazy

United States421 Posts

October 30 2009 06:32 GMT

#17

Pretty interesting, never heard about this. i kinda just started typing stuff up when i saw this.

Two paragraphs in, i realized i only got to 200 or so words. Now i appreciate how hard it is to write a novel, not just how good various novels are.

BloodyC0bbler

Canada7876 Posts

October 30 2009 06:37 GMT

#18

On October 30 2009 15:32 gamecrazy67 wrote:
Pretty interesting, never heard about this. i kinda just started typing stuff up when i saw this.

Two paragraphs in, i realized i only got to 200 or so words. Now i appreciate how hard it is to write a novel, not just how good various novels are.

the year I finished i so had 50k of absolute shit. Seriously horrible stuff

ghermination

United States2851 Posts

October 30 2009 08:38 GMT

#19

I wanted to try to do this once, but then i realized how hard it is to come up with something both vaguely original, entertaining, and not composed of utter shit. It's like you have to pick two "Original, Entertaining, Not Terrible"

Carnivorous Sheep

Baa?21245 Posts

October 30 2009 16:43 GMT

#20

If even. More like pick 1.5

Anyways, as is stated on their page, the point of this is not to create a bestseller. It's simply to finish it - they even state, there is a 99.9% chance that 99.9% of your writing will be bad. But that's OK. Just the simple process of putting pen to paper (finger to keyboard?) for such a long time should help you with writing/entertaining yourself/making yourself suffer.

I'd personally encourage you all to try it. You don't have to finish, but at least give it a whirl. I kinda regretted not having time to do this (or even to start attempting it) the last couple of years. I'm still busy this year, but I'll still try. Whee.