General NaNo Chatter

[Twillie]

What is NaNoWriMo? It stands for National Novel Writing Month, dedicating November to finishing that novel draft you've been wanting to write. You might also use it for making progress on other creative wip's or projects.

The official goal is to write 50,000 words in just one month, but nothing says you can't make your own parameters and/or choose something beyond a novel to work on!

Under the NaNo board, you can make your own thread describing your project and tracking progress, and here is where you can stop by and make conversation, talk about your NaNo experience. etc. Talk about the latest challenges with your writing! Ask about others' strategies! Cheer each other on! Have fun!

[June Scarlet]

As I see it, I have two main projects I'm working on right now. I need to get Crime Show Book over the finish line. And I would like to get going on my guinea pig book. Need to figure out which to make a thread for, or to make one for both. Or maybe I could make two threads, one for each??

[Twillie]

Honestly, nothing stopping you from making two separate threads if that would be best for your organization!

I am not gonna commit myself to a full project like the event would usually call for. Instead, I might just use a thread to track progress on script writing for my next comic arc as I want to get started on that by beginning of next year. The more I get done this month, the more time I have for editing and getting started come New Year's.

[Zylaa]

I've started yet another attempt at a magic school story. I've been trying to write one for years, but maybe this time's the charm? I started last week, thanks to the 4theWords site. With everything going on with NaNo the organization, 4theWords decided to expand from just a month into a 44-day "writefest." So I'm nearly 14,000 words in.

[Twillie]

Zylaa Dang, you've already got a great start! Best of luck with your magic school story, that's such a fun genre to read and I'm sure to write for as well. Have you used the same premise/characters in the past, or do you have multiple story ideas for the genre that you've worked on?

I've also never heard of 4theWords before, but that's fun that they make a game out of writing. Glad that there are good alternatives out there to help encourage novel writing; with its controversies going on, I wasn't so sure about linking the official NaNo site this time and ultimately decided to leave it out of my original post.

June Scarlet I love the thorough list of tasks! That's the kind of list that makes my brain happy haha, more items giving more opportunity to cross things off and feel productive, or to give me multiple options on what to focus on at a time. Not sure I'll be able to break my script writing this month into such a list, but sometimes leaving things open can also be helpful for me xD

Birdy Ooh, I'm always hype about Neo stories! And fanfic of other games you like sounds like a fun potential route to go as well! Any certain ideas for the games you'd want to write?

[June Scarlet]

Yeah, it's a lot of little fiddly tasks that need to be done, so in this case, it was helpful to write down everything I could think of. I usually like to leave my lists a bit more vague, I guess because that requires less writing.

And I've already put in two posts in my thread today, three if you count the first post. That might just be how weekends go, get a lot more done. At least this weekend because I don't have many plans.

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Ah, this is nice, like we're all in a neighborhood, and meeting at the local coffeeshop for chatting.

[Stephanie (swordlilly)]

*drinks tea and nibbles biscuits* Best wishes to all of us! If we can trudge through the drudgery of Neopets gameplay, we can definitely do this. xD

[Moni]

honestly i have no projects and no plan. watch this space.

[Sporty]

While I've definitely upped my productivity this year, I've also got multiple projects cooking at the moment and even if my novel was the only one I'm not quite at the point where I can do 40k words in a month XD I think I'm gonna make a thread to set down some rough goals and track all of my projects this month. I look forward to seeing how everyone's projects go!

[Twillie]

Definitely fair haha! A novel is such a big ask anyway, so no worries on how you choose to use the month's time! I look forward as well to seeing what you may have in store for the month~

I haven't made much progress myself this weekend, I probably won't have much time until later this week happens. I also remembered that I should plan out one more comic for the Christmas issue, so I may at least internally brainstorm for that in the meantime.

[Moni]

ok project decided: garbage fanfic. it's about a potato who gradually becomes not a not-potato, but a less repulsive potato. a baked potato. maybe with some cheese.

[June Scarlet]

Moni Are you saying it's a bad fanfic, or a fanfic about trash? Because I could see a potato being thrown in the trash on the way through its baked potato arc.

[Moni]

June Scarlet a bad fanfic about some guy

[June Scarlet]

Haven't made much progress on Crime Show Book recently, but I did on my Guinea Pig picture book. I should probably make a separate thread about it, but I'm feeling lazy about it at the moment.

Had my critique group really like the piece last week, with very minor suggestions to make. They said the story created a lot of visuals, even though it was not illustrated. It's pretty short, even for a picture book, at 248 words. Still, this weekend, I edited it more. I did it on paper, so I haven't typed it up and checked the new word count yet, but I think it's even less words now.

I've been slowly making my way through the book "Writing Picture Books." It's very helpful, I just always seem to take forever to make it through a book on craft. I read a chapter, and then stop to think about it, or even put it into practice.