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

[dragonfly]

I've done NaNo twice. I made the 50k goal both times, but neither novel is really finished. In fact, in the rewrite of the second one I took out all but 17k words. ::eyeroll::

The first one might count as Bible fanfiction, but the second one was truly original.

I do recommend NaNo, but I also recommend having a good outline ready before you start. Otherwise you risk writing yourself down a dead-end path you'll just have to delete later, as I did.