I used to attempt NaNoWriMo. For several years in a row I made an attempt to write 50,000 words, and failed every time. I think my worst year was when I wrote one sentence of seven words.

Several years ago - I'm not exactly sure how long ago it was - I gave up trying. One reason was my string of failures. Another reason was NaNo becoming "too ( Read more... )

I just deleted my NaNoWriMo.org account. I have participated in National Novel Writing Month for over ten years. Each year I donate at least a few dollars (usually twenty, and as high as fifty) to support the event, because it's fun and because it seems selfish to take part for free. In more than ten years of participating, I have never once ( Read more... )

Oh, it's November! I guess that means NaNoWriMo has started, huh?

After a lengthy string of failures, I do not plan to participate this year.

One of the many impediments to my NaNoWriMo effort is my awareness of how badly I write. The single aspect of my bad writing that bothers me the most, I think, is my tendency to repeat words and phrases. This tendency occurs even in short LJ posts and comments I make. When I read through paragraphs I've written, even those as short as two or three ( Read more... )