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Post by Shinko on Oct 22, 2018 16:36:23 GMT -5
Welcome one, welcome all, to the NTWF National Novel Writing Month board for 2018! Just ten days left until the month of frenetic writing abandon! For those who may not know, the National Novel Writing Month (henceforth referred to as NaNoWriMo or just NaNo) is an international annual writing challenge for the month of November. It challenges the participants to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days, although you can definitely still participate with other similar writing-related goals. Some people will set a custom goal well above or well below 50k, some will write poems or short stories instead of novels, some will use it as an incentive to get x hours of editing done on an already written project. The only real, hard “rule” is that everyone comes together and encourages each other to be as writerishly productive as possible! The challenge has a website that you can find here. You can sign up for an account, keep track of your current wordcount, and download fun widgets to put on your forum profile. We also have a thread over in Games and Interactive for Word Wars! This lets you go head-to-head with fellow forumers for a set period of time to try and write more words than the other person. It’s fun, and a good way to force yourself to focus on just WRITING when otherwise it’s easy to get distracted by research or youtube. This thread will be for general chatting purposes. You can also create your own thread within the sub-board to discuss and keep track of your own personal writing project. Happy NaNoWriMo, everybody!
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Post by Thorn on Oct 22, 2018 17:25:21 GMT -5
SCREM it begins!!!
I need to decide between resolving to finish my not-serious Werewolf project, or redrafting my intended-for-eventual-publication space fantasy novella...hmmm.
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Post by Jove on Oct 22, 2018 17:39:39 GMT -5
Sometimes you get into it and you realize, this story doesn't really need a secretly aliens subplot twist, it's been done, I think demons are interesting enough on their own yanno? And then you're like back to worldbuilding! And it's a love story you're writing. Anyway.
Back at it again for number nine (we don't talk about number five) for some hopefully fun and wild times. I got a whole new story in my head and I got writing buddies but I'm always looking for more to chat with and throw inspiration around at each other when times get tough.
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Post by Shinko on Oct 22, 2018 17:45:37 GMT -5
=D Buddies to chat with and throw inspiration around is what NaNo is best for!
I’ll be… not doing a novel, specifically, this year. There’s a lot of smaller short-stories I’d like to finally force myself to work on, so I’m going to put my priority on those! If I have time/inspiration, though I might continue working on the novel I started last year, the Hero City Prequel That Just Keeps Getting Longer, Oh God.
Still going to shoot for an overall word goal of 50k, the 50k just won’t necessarily all come from the same story. (Unless one of those short stories balloons wildly out of control, which knowing me isn’t an impossibility.)
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Post by Thorn on Oct 22, 2018 17:59:35 GMT -5
Yeah I'm doing what I did last year- aiming to write a little each day in the spirit of the month, without committing to a crazy ridiculous word count (especially since I'll also be running three d&d sessions for three different groups, a Sunless Skies one-shot, and doing a roleplay heavy d&d session as a player, during the same month! And I need time and thoughtspace to prep for those.) Novella being a (short) novella, I could easily redraft it. But Werewolf only has about four chapters to go, so at the moment I think I'll start with that, then move back to novella and continue the latter into December.
I had a pact with my best friend- that we would each have a workable draft of our main projects by the time I returned to NZ- and he's long ago given up on that so some of the incentive is gone but OH WELL.
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Post by Twillie on Oct 22, 2018 18:40:00 GMT -5
I'm not gonna make any promises this year until I make a plan for myself beforehand. If I were to have a productive month, I'd be choosing between comic script writing or building my art portfolio (the latter not really writing-related, but it'd at least get a big project some good progress), but just saying I'll do a thing that I'm not getting graded on hasn't worked out too well in the past (I mean just look at my one inktober contribution x3).
So! I shall see if I will seriously participate, depending on if I complete a mini project to prepare. If I make at least some kind of outline of objectives and daily goals, as well as a schedule of everything I have going on in November, all before the 1st, then I feel like that'll get me on a track to stay accountable and productive.
But again, no hard commitment from me because I don't have a good track record with these kinds of events, but just sort of thinking out loud for now as I'd like to get more accountable with some of these things during the highly distracting time of school x3
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Post by Tiger on Oct 22, 2018 20:10:51 GMT -5
*cries and slaps the first half of Current Novel onto the table* Maybe another 50k on this will finish it off @.@
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Post by Ian Wolf-Park on Oct 22, 2018 22:35:43 GMT -5
Wow, it's that time of year again? I have a couple of projects in mind, but I also have some backlog that I want to take care of. Hmm, decisions, decisions
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Post by Gelquie on Oct 24, 2018 21:32:55 GMT -5
After thinking about it, I might pseudo-participate this year.
Not a novel. Certainly not 50k. But there's this story thing that's like, a decade old, that I need to write, that I always keep putting off writing. But enough people know about them, and I kinda wanna resolve those plots.
I'm not the happiest with all the decisions I've made for it. But I kinda just wanna write it to let that have its time and closure. Especially since it keeps coming back to mind. It deserves a chance.
So assuming November doesn't swamp me with other commitments, I'm gonna try and write it. At least to start on it. Maybe other people writing and being able to post little snippets in the snippets thread (that I remember other years having?) might help me get motivated.
So there's probably like. A very tiny handful of people who will know who I'm referring to when I say this, but take it as a hint to the story I'm referring to: Reina
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Post by June Scarlet on Oct 25, 2018 19:43:24 GMT -5
NaNoWriMo is not my sort of thing. I doubt I could write a 50k in a year, let alone a month. However, Twillie is working on her comics this year, and that happens to be something I want to get back into as well. Maybe NaNoWriMo is the right inspiration for this. Because I'd like to participate even if my word count totals aren't that impressive. So Twillie, I think I'll steal your idea and work on comics as well, if that's okay.
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Post by Twillie on Oct 25, 2018 19:52:17 GMT -5
June Scarlet Ooh yeah, perhaps the collective motivation and progress of NaNo could help indeed! I know I'll try my level best to keep up with my goals, as well as update about them, so hopefully that as well could help out one comic'er from another :3 What kind of comics were you thinking about? =0 Neo and Ink, or something else?
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Post by June Scarlet on Oct 25, 2018 19:55:01 GMT -5
Twillie First priority is Ink: Inversion, but I might also work on Dinner with the Scarlets to warm up or act as a break. And then I still want to work on Crime Show at some point, which is a comic parody of crime shows that I had some ideas for a year and a half ago by now.
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Post by Twillie on Oct 25, 2018 19:59:42 GMT -5
June Scarlet Ooh, nice! More Ink action is always fun \o/ And ah yeah, I remember you talking about Crime Show before! Good luck with all that =D
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Post by Shinko on Oct 31, 2018 21:09:01 GMT -5
Soooooooon.
Or for those of you in timezones that are in the future, noooooow, ha ha.
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Post by Shinko on Nov 5, 2018 9:19:48 GMT -5
From today's NaNo pep talk. Read the whole thing if you've got time. I feel this in my soul.
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