Today is the first day of National Novel Writing Month. It has been going on for a few years now, but I have never participated, because I usually do not release it has started until a couple of weeks into November. Also, November is always the most work intensive in relation to school work for me.
Regardless of all the logical reasons that I should not even bother to try, I did get a vague idea for a story a couple weeks ago. So, I am going to valiantly attempted to ham-fist it out before December 1st.
Considering that I need to write 50,000 words in fifty days. I have never written something that long. I have three class projects to work on. I have to read over a hundred pages in a book in a week. And, the fact I only have 1257 words so far. I would save my chances of successfully completing this task stand statistically insignificant over 0%.
Wish me luck.
Good luck.
I’m 335 words in. And it’s been 18 hours since I started *sighs*
Although…Dark Room is helping me to stop procrastinating a little
:-*
KEEP IT UP JJAFULLER
You need to challenge yourself. Clearly you should at least try and post a .pdf of what you get if you are unable to complete your task :-[
:-* b :-* r :-* b :-*
Wes, you might be the worst person ever to live in your ghetto hovel.
does the story involve highland librertarian wood elves? boobies?
I am without question one of the coolest people ever to live on this planet.
Maybe posting the first few sentences to the web or giving us a brief “synopsis” of the story would be a good idea?
who are you
The story is speculative science fiction. So, no libertarian wood elves.
does this speculative future involve some form of statism?
Not really. There are fascist elements and groups under martial law, but it does not really focus on any kind of totalitarian governments, per se.
Cool! I’m doing my first NaNo this year too. I’m on day 2 (on Guam, we’re almost a day ahead), and I’ve hit 2,100 words. Woohoo! It’s totally doable, if we just commit. It will be totally crap, but I’ve decided that December will be National Novel Re-writing Month for me.
Good luck, man, and feel free to contact me if you need an empathetic ear.
Oh, and btw, I downloaded Dark Room for the first time on the morning of November 1st, to keep me from distractions so I could do NaNo. It’s perfect. The NaNo site needs to give your program a big plug.
“Doing NaNo on Dark Room and lots of coffee!”
Yeah Dark Room seems like a total “NaNo” type application. If it was posted on their site along with WriteRoom downloads would go though the roof…
poor jjafuller.com :-[
Fulljeff’s political wood-elf erotic fiction makes me want to read it with my pants off and with a ballot in my hand.
They won’t let me vote anymore after the last time.
Well, even if you won’t get to the finish line, you should know you’ve made at least one NaNoWriMer happy with this amazing Dark Room programs. I’ve been searching for something like this for years. Thanks.
J.
I concur with the above – DarkRoom is great for NaNo. I found DarkRoom a couple of months ago and have held on to it for NaNo for that competitive ‘edge’.
Don’t get discouraged though – I’ve participated in NaNo for … well, this is my fourth year. I’ve finished once and come close a couple other times. Get involved with writers in your area and attend writing sessions – it helps to be around other people suffering from your same delusions.
I seem to always change my story in the second week; this year I’m trying something different in that I’m spending time outlining the book so that I know where the story is going instead of just writing whatever comes to mind. A road map helps me, but everyone is different.
Only one comment on DarkRoom – I’d love a single keyboard shortcut that displayed all of the available keyboard shortcuts; I’m constantly going back to the project page to look them up. Just a thought though.
cheers! – chris
Hey, wait a minute. Wait three years. Did I fall into a time warp? I did nanowrimo in 2008 but it was actually about 100 pages of arguments why the girl who went away had made a big mistake and should come back. It makes for such embarrassing drivel that I would never let her see it, let alone anyone else, including even to look it over myself. On the other hand it so clarified my thoughts that I easily convinced her to do so. My motives got confused doing this during November like that, but the emotional energy behind it helped me pump out words at warp speed. I could have easily done twice that in two weeks, at the rate I was going.