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

[lexicalcrow]

Good luck with the editing. Rewriting is always tough, but sometimes necessary to get where you want to be. I just throw them into deleted scenes files in case I want to use them later on for something. An AU of an AU or something.

NaNo isn't for everyone, I'll grant you that. And you do need to stick with it. Doing some planning or research beforehand does help though, because then you're not just going in blind. It did take me four years to finish my first NaNo fic, which I started in 2006. I am weirdly persistent at times.

I don't have any time/inclination to do Camp NaNo this time round, but maybe when I have less to do. I've got a pile of fiddly projects to get done before uni starts in August, so no time for big single projects atm. It sounds like a good idea though. The NaNo forums are always a good resource.