It's that time again, folks! National Novel Writing Month is November, and it's time to begin thinking about your projects! Now, don't start them until the start time, but it's okay to outline what you wanna do or such.
Now, I have a cunning plan... We should make it a point to make Team TopShelf! We each choose a topic that includes TG content and we enter into some of the Word Wars and do our level best to show a good face for the "home team" as it were. We spread publicity, and maybe we get more readers here from the mainstream (and perhaps even some financial wherewithal from it!).
Anyone up to the challenge? 50,000 words in 30 days -- that's only 1,166 and two-thirds words per day.
That's less than a chapter of Easy As Falling Off A Bike, folks!
I could probably even arrange for us to have a forum on the NaNoWriMo site...
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Sounds cool, Edeyn :)
The October contest wraps up November 2, so everybody just get your entries to that in early and you'll be all warmed up for writing a novel. I'm going to try it this year.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Easy As Falling Off A Novel
It may be less than I scribble most days, but it has to be coherent scribble - which lets me out!
Angharad
Angharad
Nuh-uh!
Editing for NaNoWriMo is strictly forbidden! The point is to get folks writing, so you crank out as much as possible, and worry about editing sometime later (after November).
My National Novel
I'll take a crack at it.
You might have posted the url, Edeyn: http://www.nanowrimo.org/
I didn't see what you meant by "Word Wars", though. Is that where they say "twilight" and we say "crepuscular"?
Anyone who's writing a National Novel can post it here, I suppose, and then send it in for verification.
Word War
Challenge another group to out-write each other. You average the totals of each group and see which is out-performing. It's a great way to have a goal and a bit of competition.
Well, just scratchin' my head here...
Unless I am wrong, and that is entirely possible, 50,000 words is about 550Kb, and that is about 121 pages. I have been trying to figure out what to do with that little gal that got dumped in my friend's driveway; you know, Hala Maksoud.
I have been so busy trying to resolve my Electrical issues, that I have not had a chance to write any. September 30Th, I will have either succeeded or it will be an ugly defeat for me.
Maybe this will provide a little incentive for me to actually write for once. Of course, is 121 pages actually a book? Sounds more like a pamphlet to me, or not.
Gwendolyn
That's actually about right
and also actually not a lot!
It sounds like a lot, but go to the nearest book and mark off 60 pages -- due to pages in a book being double-sided -- it's not an overly large project.
For example, I wrote 358,001 words last year, and I stopped with 6 days to go (I'm shooting for even more this year -- a cool half million). That's 14916.71 words per day.
5,444,340
Check your 'rithmetic, Edeyn :-)
14916 x 365 = 5,444,340
Can you lend me $10 ?
Hugs,
Joanne
However
14,916.7 x 24 (30 days in the month and I finished 6 days early, as I said) = 358,000.8 (which rounds to 358,001).
And no.
Moreover...
If you take into account the Earth's rotation, the number varies slightly, depending on one's distance from the equator.