Oct 21 2008
NaNoWriMo for Suckers (And I’m One of Them)
Well, it’s almost that time, again. Dear Great Gussy, what am I thinking? I’m seriously considering signing up for National Novel Writing Month in November. That means I’ll be writing 50,000 words in 30 days. That’s 1,667 words each day.
So, I ask you: Why, oh why, couldn’t they have chosen a month with 31 days?
I signed up and completed NaNo in 2006–and it was brutal. Writing 1,667 words a day was a sheet cake for the likes of Walter Gibson (The Shadow) and Lester Dent (Doc Savage), but it’s like being beaten with a typewriter for mere mortals. Oh, the pain! The pain!
The Wiki page is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NaNoWriMo It gives you some background.
The official website is here: http://www.nanowrimo.org/
Somebody talk me out of this!!!!
P.S. They don’t sell official ceramic mugs, anymore. Just travel mugs. Drat. I wanted a mug mug.
Sorry to say I can’t talk you out of it. During November, I’m going to be doing NaNoWriMo, a seperate writing project, two blogs and still revising my project from last year.
Masochist? Could be….
I’m going to be a fellow maochist. Don’t know if I’ll complete - especially with a workload of about 4000 words a day without the fiction, but I’ll sure be trying! What genre are you doing?
I’m going to be writing some romance for the small press. I also will probably be either moving or starting a new job in November, so this will be interesting.
If I remember correctly from 2006, completing NaNoWriMo was like being beaten with a typewriter. And I’m still signing up. Sigh.
Moving AND Nano? Are you nuts?
Yes. I am.