I did NaNoWriMo last year and it was SO MUCH FUN! However, I've not touched the full novel draft since then. So this month? I've decided to do ReWriNoMo! I mean to get a solid second or even third draft done before year's end. Tally-ho! Wish me luck, Mr. Gibbs!
If you don't hear from her, you could try googling "Laura" plus the zip code on the postmark; also, googling the serial numbers on the bills might give you a currency-tracking website which could narrow the search...
I always say "no" because I don't need that level of stress in my life. I have enough stress, thank you, coming from other directions! So I just commit to what's worked for me for the last three years - to write something every day, first thing in the morning. It doesn't matter how much or how little. If I can manage that, stories will get written, and I don't have to guilt-trip myself for failing to finish them within a month!
I think it's a good incentive for folks. Even those of us who decide not to do it probably think more about writing as a result of seeing all the posts about NaNoWriMo, wo that's a plus, I'd say :)
Yep, I start nano every year. I like it for the practice in sustained, longer story writing, because, in part, longer stories intimidate me, and I've been spending way too much time being satisfied writing flash fiction.
Did a ton of preparation this year and it's paying off. I've never generated so many first draft words so quickly - my normal writing style is pretty recursive; write for a little while, edit, write a bit more, edit, see a conclusion, call it done (works really well for short pieces!)
I've been sitting on my internal editor...it's making notes, though. I know I've skimped on the solidity that I normally bring in, and it's thinner than I like on scene setting, and I'll probably add a lot more, well, transitional and character development later. But I find it's great practice for pushing the plot line forward. And I need that a lot. Plus I have the need to get over some mental blocks about plotting long stories.
But I wouldn't want to do this more than once a year!
I've always seen NaNo as a way to jumpstart a novel, or to spur a writing routine into motion. I'm always in the middle of something come November, and I don't need spurring to get into a writing routine (let's hope that never changes!) so, no NaNo for me.
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However, I've not touched the full novel draft since then.
So this month? I've decided to do ReWriNoMo!
I mean to get a solid second or even third draft done before year's end. Tally-ho! Wish me luck, Mr. Gibbs!
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Good luck and good ink!
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you could try googling "Laura" plus the zip code on the postmark;
also, googling the serial numbers on the bills
might give you a currency-tracking website
which could narrow the search...
You'd almost think I wrote cop stories.
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Did a ton of preparation this year and it's paying off. I've never generated so many first draft words so quickly - my normal writing style is pretty recursive; write for a little while, edit, write a bit more, edit, see a conclusion, call it done (works really well for short pieces!)
I've been sitting on my internal editor...it's making notes, though. I know I've skimped on the solidity that I normally bring in, and it's thinner than I like on scene setting, and I'll probably add a lot more, well, transitional and character development later. But I find it's great practice for pushing the plot line forward. And I need that a lot. Plus I have the need to get over some mental blocks about plotting long stories.
But I wouldn't want to do this more than once a year!
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I imagine it's a good incentive for September/October time as well as November.
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Sorry to lose you at Apex!
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and her lost copy of Fur-Face...
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