NaNoWriMo 2017

[SPoots]

Anyone here going to give NaNoWriMo a try this year?

I'm thinking of trying to do a satyrical take on Dante's Inferno I've been meaning to do for years.

 

[ratsy]

Hey, SPoots. I've been setting goals for around 25k per month the last two months, and for October I've given myself a goal of 35k to finish the current Novel. I've done the 50k on NaNo twice now, and I do plan on trying for it this year again to get the other novel completed. So... I'm in!

 

[SPoots]

I've only done it once. The novel is still sitting after two edits, but I'm hoping to get some more practice in planning and plotting for this one. (Last one had a plot hole you could drive a bus through).

 

[Mouse]

I wanted to, as I did quite well last year (and the resulting novel was picked up for publication), but I'm behind in finishing my WiP (wanted it finished so I could do the NaNo) and have a lot going on at the mo. I might do though.

Nath - are we doing our FB group again?

 

[Ragandar]

I'll be trying for it again. I horribly failed last year, so I have some honour to reclaim!

 

[ratsy]

Nath - are we doing our FB group again?

May as well!

I also keep track of my word count these days on www.mywriteclub.com though it is a little finicky. I do like the positive aspect of seeing projects percentage complete raise up every time I add more words.

 

[Mouse]

Coolio, I'll try to join in.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Nope. Never ever. Although I will be writing away...

 

[allmywires]

I tried to do it last year (failed) - I did promise myself as a new year's resolution I'd actually finish a novel this year, though what with re-writes and all i'm probably 100k short of that goal (fun!!!). I'd like to give it another shot though.

 

[Mouse]

I tried to do it last year (failed) - I did promise myself as a new year's resolution I'd actually finish a novel this year, though what with re-writes and all i'm probably 100k short of that goal (fun!!!). I'd like to give it another shot though.

Dooooo it!

 

[allmywires]

Dooooo it!

Let's hope 2017 me has more staying power than 2016 me

 

[Phyrebrat]

I wanted to, as I did quite well last year (and the resulting novel was picked up for publication), but I'm behind in finishing my WiP (wanted it finished so I could do the NaNo) and have a lot going on at the mo. I might do though.

Nath - are we doing our FB group again?

I'm in a similar boat, M. I would join in but seeing as my WIP is already 110 and I'm trying for a completed 1st draft by 2019, I don't think I could manage both projects and keep me ol' sanity.

However, I really think NANO is a great concept; it offers support to writers, measurable objectives and a sense of achievement and camaraderie that is often lacking in the lonely existence of writing solo so I always keep abreast of what my writerly friends are doing, and how they're getting on.

pH

 

[Mouse]

Yeah it really helped me last year. I'm usually such a slow writer but the chat in the FB group and the checking in with others did me some good.

 

[Phyrebrat]

Yeah I lurked in that one

pH

 

[ratsy]

Yeah I lurked in that one

pH

I saw your shadow a few times...

Should we start a new group there or just keep the same one? I dont want to annoy the people who were in it, and not taking part.

Phyre, what better way to get your book up to 160,000K words?

 

[R.T James]

Last time I tried I was doing well, but then real life hit me hard and then i fell behind got emotional distraught and it ruined writing for me as I had a near emotional breakdown considering where I was in my life and what was happening...

Not sure I want to put myself through that again.

I already have 47k in a story I started in mid September. So I feel quite pleased about the results.

Honestly I wish somebody would just make a word tracker.. Probably is one out there where you can use it to challenge yourself as a writer. A writing equivalent of a pedometer?

I don't know even the community there didn't like me. I tend to go against the flow or rather Um PC views and understanding psychology doesn't help with proving people wrong.

THAT CAN NEVER HAPPEN!

*quick google search shows five famous cases of it happening*

Umm? Reality says otherwise.

I enjoy the concept and the tools Wrimo has to offer, but starting a NEW story after everything else. I already did that. Heck I was debating on saving this story for that, but I had to to write it.

I honestly wish you could have that full thing ALL the time or at least with pre-existing stories. Some outside motivation does help at times. Honestly why I keep on posting a word count update on that What are you doing thread. Helps silence that inner voice telling me I am worthless and

 

[sknox]

>Honestly I wish somebody would just make a word tracker.

Scrivener has one.

 

[Luiglin]

I'm stuck at my current WiP. I know the end but this middle bit is doing my head in.

I have got another story already plotted out that could used for NaNoWriMo but damn that could be tough.

 

[Mouse]

Should we start a new group there or just keep the same one? I dont want to annoy the people who were in it, and not taking part.

Use the same one I reckon. The ones who aren't taking part can always unfollow the group (or leave!). Anybody else who's on FB who wants in'll have to ask you!

 

[Luiglin]

Use the same one I reckon. The ones who aren't taking part can always unfollow the group (or leave!). Anybody else who's on FB who wants in'll have to ask you!

Room for one more?