NaNoWriMo

its taken me 5 months to write 50,000 so i think i'm a bit slow for this, and looking back it all needs a total rewrite. good luck to those who take part, i like the idea behind it, just keep writing. I am trying to take that approach in my novel - get to the end then worry about editing. Maybe next year. Juliet

I was reminded about this from an email I recieved from Lisa Hinsley last year... signed up for it, but now thinking it seems a bit of a monumental (or just "mental"?) task, considering a few other things I've got planned in the coming couple of months... Ahh what the hell, I might just go for it, see what happens...! ~PEPS~ You can’t finish a man till he’s finished his Texan Bar

I would love to do it again, especially as I have an idea for a novel that would suit it, but I really don't have the free time this year. It was a lot a fun and very liberating to write with the aim of maximum word count above any other factor (you take more risks, you just follow nearly every idea you think of). Also the social side of it was good (in London) and I might sign up expecting to fail just to go for the pub nights, although be prepared to meet more than your fair share of teenagers, live roleplayers, and unwashed sci-fi nerds. My one piece of advice would be to write something with the potential for a lot of dialogue.

I am toying with the idea. It will probably be quite rubbish as I dont believe I have the technical skill to deliver a novella but then who knows until they have tried? Sorry for the typos here but I am using a dysfunctional Polish keyboard jude

I should do that this year. I tried it in 2002 I think but totally gave up after about 230 words :P

Yup, I did it last year, and like Maddan, I found it very liberating. You have to go with the flow, no thinking allowed. It did, however, take a lot from me. I was exhausted afterwards. So, this year, I am not going to embark on the project. I finished My Demon, and wrote another this year, and I need a break! I would recommend trying it out, at least once.

Had a go last year, but gave up after 30,000 words. I couldn't help, in the end, being minded of what Norman Mailer said about Jack Kerouac's 'spontaneous prose' (even though I think Mailer's a tosser and Kerouac a far more interesting writer) - "That ain't writing, it's typing." Well.... I'm not really sure. Bukowski wrote 'Post Office' in 18 days, which turned in originally at 120,000 words (almost 7,000 a day) and that wasn't too bad. So who knows?

I did it 2-3 years ago. I've still got tech friends who talk about it all the time. I love it, swear by it. It's one of the best things I've ever seen in my life. You really should do it, at least once. It's terrific. Of course, unless you go in for Novel Editing Month, as well, you'll need to throw away everything you've written. But, why not? My webpage is at: http://www.bookscape.co.uk

Ooh Christ. I could actually do it this year. Fingers crossed it'll be the first time in *FOUR BLOODY YEARS* that I won't be working on Joshu effing Replied.

I'm gonna do it whether or not I finish my current novel, whose ending us currently bothering and stifling me. I have a sweet idea for it and want to get something else off the ground prosewise. ~ I'll Show You Tyrants * Fuselit * The Prowl Log * Woe's Woe

Oh, good. I'm glad there will be a few of us. I have no idea where I'm going to find the time, but seeing as I already accept the end result will be crap, I'm sure I can knock something out. Hard work, though, I imagine.

i did it last year as well, didn't plan anything in october, just launched into it on day 1, it consumes the whole month, people have excel charts to monitor progress and that, might do it this year, will probably decide late october

I'm all signed up (as Enzo, unsurprisingly) so look me up if/when you sign up. I'm really excited about it.

Just thought I'd punt this thread to the top to remind people that today is the day, go, start writing, it's not too late to start till December, etc. I'm off to calculate my word count after 23 minutes. keep your grubby mits off my website http://www.too-many-monkeys.com

I'm off to a fairly solid start: almost 1,600 words last night. I won't be posting it up on here, because I'd feel bad putting the other eds through it... Very quick writing isn't my way, and the quality is really low. If anyone is interested, though, I will be posting it here: http://somesolitude.wordpress.com/ What I write will be posted day by day, easily viewable through the 'pages' panel on the right hand side. I tell you what, the content of what I'm doing is clearly poor, but it is *really* liberating to just write without a care for anything. Great stuff.

Hmm... going to be really busy with sommat else for the next few days, but I may then still give it a go... Tiz a great idea, anyway! ~PEPS~ Here's a link to a blog wot I have started... http://pepsoid.wordpress.com/

The site doesn't tell people when you've added them as writing buddie. That's a bit lame. I'm starting as soon as I've finished tidying up. ~ I'll Show You Tyrants * Fuselit * The Prowl Log * Woe's Woe

i'm doing it again, last year november just saw me being obsessed with word count, deja vu up to 1200 words now, last year i had 20,000 in the first week, i'm competing against myself, i saved the excel spreadsheet from last year i am a geek