November is NaNoWriMo time

Posted On October 30, 2008 | Filed Under Writing

And what the hell is NaNoWriMo? It means National Novel Writing Month. It’s the time of the year that you sit down for a month and pound out a 50,000 word novel. It can be more then 50,000 words, but you only win if you meet the word count goal. What do you win? Nothing but the satisfaction of writing that novel.

Whether you are a daily writer, or one that thinks you have a story in you, it’s time for you to get it out and on paper. Or computer. Or parchment. Or what ever you write on.

I have participated in NaNoWriMo for the past 5 years, but have yet to win. I put the blame on not really planning anything. I just dove in and started writing. And quickly running out of steam. But not this year. I actually have a plan.

I’ll be handwriting mine this year, as I have done in years past. I can’t write on the computer screen, as there are too many distractions (internet, email, forums, etc), so I find it easier to write with my fountain pen on paper.

I’ll be blogging my daily process, as well as updating my daily word count on the left bar. I may post snippets, but I doubt it.

So, let’s all have fun and start writing on Saturday.

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2 Responses to “November is NaNoWriMo time”

Carl McPherson on November 10th, 2008 12:57 pm

Mark;

I joined NaNoWriMo today. I have 14,673 words thus far and am back in the groove writing.

Is your user name: mpoffenb ?

I was going to add you as a writting buddy but didn’t know what your name was.

Mine there is: McHub532
Carl McPherson on November 12th, 2008 7:30 pm

Rounding the corner on 22,362 words and running full speed through the middle of chapter eight. Woot! Woot!

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