July WIP Challenge: Day 3 Check In

[lexicalcrow]

Day three is over, at least where I am. Were the muses kind to you today?

What did you do today?:
- Write
- Edit
- Send to beta
- Post
- Plan/daydream/research/write scenes in your head
- Procrastinate
- Something else I will describe in comments.
Today's question: Since Camp NaNoWriMo's just launched, I'm curious whether any of you have done NaNoWriMo before, or have signed up for Camp NaNo? If you've done it before, did you write fanfic? Did it ever end up posted somewhere? Or is it still sitting on your hard drive, never to see the light of day? If you haven't done NaNo, would you ever consider trying it, or is 50k words in a month too daunting, even for fanfic?

(For those unfamiliar with National Novel Writing Month - NaNoWriMo - it's a writing challenge that runs in November and the goal is to write a 50k word novel in a month. Camp NaNo just launched this year and plans to run July and August. They also have Script Frenzy in April for script writing.)

Comments

[raletha]

I signed up for NaNoWriMo twice. The first time, I hit the 50K word goal, but 50K was not my whole story. The incomplete drafty mess has been lurking untouched pretty much ever since. I wrote very much seat of my pants with only a vague premise to go on. It was AU fanfic.

The second time, I was trying to convert a story idea I had been developing as fanfic to original fic and stalled pretty early on. I didn't finish that year. Too much self-inflicted performance pressure, I think.