Ok, it looks like we're onto a winner here ... NoNoWriMo starts today!
NotNovelWritingMonth ... (or possibly NoNovelWritingMonth or NoNovemberWritingMonth or ... well, you know) :-)
You must take the pledge:
By joining NoNoWriMo I commit to writing zero words towards a novel or other long fiction piece.
... how am I doing so far?
Feel free to insert this image in your journal to display your progress so far ...
( the URL is http://pics.livejournal.com/the_magician/pic/0001gd44 )
Anyone that succeeds in not writing A SINGLE WORD towards a novel or similar work during the entire month of November will earn themselves a NoCertificate, or, as I said earlier, a NoNoWriMoNoCertificate, which you can display in a place of honour to remind yourself how much willpower you've saved this month!
You can reply to this posting to indicate you'd like to join, I'll make this post public so that even non-friends can take part in this community project :-)
Registration forms, icons, word counters, books on how to forget your plot ideas, how to frustrate your inner muse or how to prove there is no novel inside you (thanks MEG!) may become available, if I can be bothered or if someone else wants to do them ... there probably won't be a website, but at the end of the month, if you submit your zero word entry, then a NoCertificate will be made available. If you've written even a one sentence plot outline *for a novel* then, er, we'll think of some suitable punishment! And you'll get a "I failed at NoNoWriMo" certificate or something....
... if you find yourself getting creative then we'll set up selfdefeating help groups where you can pick apart at each other's ideas, use ridicule and sarcasm to "critique" other people's writing, point out how derivative and banal other people's ideas are, and buy each other enough drinks to stop you being able to write a coherant sentence (and no writing Ulysses in that state, ok?)!
You must take the pledge:
By joining NoNoWriMo I commit to writing zero words towards a novel or other long fiction piece.
... how am I doing so far?
Feel free to insert this image in your journal to display your progress so far ...
( the URL is http://pics.livejournal.com/the_magician/pic/0001gd44 )
Anyone that succeeds in not writing A SINGLE WORD towards a novel or similar work during the entire month of November will earn themselves a NoCertificate, or, as I said earlier, a NoNoWriMoNoCertificate, which you can display in a place of honour to remind yourself how much willpower you've saved this month!
You can reply to this posting to indicate you'd like to join, I'll make this post public so that even non-friends can take part in this community project :-)
Registration forms, icons, word counters, books on how to forget your plot ideas, how to frustrate your inner muse or how to prove there is no novel inside you (thanks MEG!) may become available, if I can be bothered or if someone else wants to do them ... there probably won't be a website, but at the end of the month, if you submit your zero word entry, then a NoCertificate will be made available. If you've written even a one sentence plot outline *for a novel* then, er, we'll think of some suitable punishment! And you'll get a "I failed at NoNoWriMo" certificate or something....
... if you find yourself getting creative then we'll set up selfdefeating help groups where you can pick apart at each other's ideas, use ridicule and sarcasm to "critique" other people's writing, point out how derivative and banal other people's ideas are, and buy each other enough drinks to stop you being able to write a coherant sentence (and no writing Ulysses in that state, ok?)!