Anybody doing NaNoWriMo this year? Or do y’all kind of feel like you’ve outgrown it? I’m not, but because I know I won’t pull it off this year, plus BA 8 doesn’t have 50K more words in it. I did it twice successfully; I figure that’s good enough.
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I think NaNoWriMo is great for getting into a daily writing practice and if you’re young you can enjoy the socialising. If you’re already writing daily, I don’t see the point. I won’t be bothering this year, I don’t get anything out of it and I’m churning out more creative pieces on multi-platforms daily, than I’ve ever done before. 🙂
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I tried once. But it wasn’t the college try, more like the required gym class in high school try. Don’t know if I will try again this year. Probably not.
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For the last few years, I’ve said “I’ll do NaNo!” And every time something pops up that simply cannot be ignored. This will be the second year that the husband will be on his traveling job gig, so mom’s immediate availability and accessibility is sort of required.
On the other hand, last year I said I wouldn’t do it and ended up doing it and finishing (not sure how it happened, but it did). This year I’ve reserved November to write and illustrate a short for my kids.
It will NOT be 50k. They’re getting pictures. with it, so that’ll be good enough, dammit. I don’t think that counts as a NaNo project so much as a guilty-mom-trying-to get-her-son-to-like-reading project.
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I’ll be doing my second one this year. I’ve never really thought about the prospect of ‘outgrowing’ it, for me it seems like a good way to get started on a project that you’ve been thinking about for a while but haven’t committed to for whatever reason.
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Fourth year coming up. The idea of outgrowing it surprises me. Why would I want to outgrow a good reason to write a metric ton of words? I’ve since adapted it to my purposes by setting goals well in excess of the 50k bar (This year: 120k).
And call me a young whippersnapper, but the community aspect of it is what gets me so interested. Nowadays I don’t need the community to write, but I can feed my self-starting capability into helping others who aren’t so sure. That, and word wars are the best excuse for me to stop thinking so dang hard about what I’m writing (read: attempting to edit) and just write.
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I’m not doing it — I always feel like such a disappointment when I don’t successfully complete anything. I figure I can do it whenever I want, unofficially, without feeling like a disappointment, so I’ll just do that instead.
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I’m not doing it. I did sign up for it a couple of years ago because a friend had asked me to, but I discovered that having extra pressure to write makes me write LESS. My brain shuts down; the words disappear. (I wrote fewer than 600 words when I attempted NaNo. I typically write blog posts that are longer than that…)
Also, the last thing I need is to be in the middle of something like NaNaWriMo when my clone finishes the novel he’s currently working on. Editing that MUST take priority over anything else.
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I’ll do it, but whether I’ll bother to actually count the words I add to my ever-increasing array of projects remains to be seen. I’m mainly using it as a launching pad for a series of stories I’ve been thinking about all year. I like the kick-in-the-pants aspect of the thing, and the encouragement, and the sense of community even if I don’t do any actual interacting. Plus I skipped last year due to school stuff, and I missed it. Here were all these writers writing, and I wasn’t. 😦
I might write 50k words with or without Nano, and I might not write that many either way, but I enjoy playing the game.
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I’ll do it again one day, just like one day I’ll re-live Wacken and booze fuelled overseas shenanigans. It’s just not going to fit around a 1.3 FTE and a small child. Not without me getting fired anyway. Haha!
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The word outgrown seems to be an ill fit description. I always dabble in Nanowrimo. I love the community. I love the spirit. For me it isn’t about the 50k. Plenty of writers make up their own goals. It makes writing a lot more fun for me.
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Truly, I have not heard of NaNoWriMo. And I don’t really have a word limit for this novel of mine. I should actually consider a limit, though…
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You should definitely check it out, if you’ve never done it before: http://www.nanowrimo.org
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