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writethisfanficDay 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.)
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.)
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Date: Sunday, July 3rd, 2011 19:58 (UTC)I've at least started NaNo for the past five years: made it the first year with a horrible, self-indulgent therapy fanfic (in which I projected all of my issues onto my poor main character and let him deal with it). Never, never shall it see the light of day, but writing it was pretty cathartic! The next three years didn't go so well -- I was in grad school, and November was the height of term paper season -- but I succeeded last November! Well, in spirit, anyway. Instead of one 50k thing, I wrote a bunch of short stories, one of which is an AU fic that I'm very, very slowly working on cleaning up enough to post. I'll be trying again this year, I think, for I have characters! (No plot yet, of course, I'm okay with that. ^^)
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Date: Monday, July 4th, 2011 05:26 (UTC)Congrats on finally winning! :D I've seen a few people now writing collections of short stories for NaNo instead of one piece. 2011 will be my sixth NaNo, and apart from 2008, I've won every year. But I've ended up writing two novels in the process. The first was written for NaNo 2006-2007 (with some work in the middle), and it was a dystopian fanfic AU that took me til 2009 to finish writing, posting and editing. It ended up being about 130k all up. The second is still a WIP, written for NaNo 2009-2010, and it's a Georgian/Regency steampunk AU fanfic that's at about 110k atm? Not sure when it'll get done, though. Maybe this year, except I have an idea for a gangster AU fic instead. So IDK.