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rurounigirl20

NaNoWriMo

Oct 24, 2009 15:08

www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/543098

The first time I heard about NaNoWriMo I immediately passed it off--thinking, there's no way I can write that many words in just one month! The most I have ever written was about 75 pages, but that was for a Fanfiction. I attempted to write a historical fantasy novel once, and probably rewrote it 3 times--but ( Read more... )

james clemens, writing, wit'ch fire, nanowrimo

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rurounigirl20 October 25 2009, 01:20:59 UTC

Thanks!! I'm probably going to keep WF at my side while I write it, just to keep a continuous flow of inspiration as I write. Thanks for wishing me luck! =)

lazy_iris October 25 2009, 15:02:29 UTC

That sounds like a REALLY awesome novel! I'm so glad you're doing it for NaNo--because that means you have to start writing it soon! :) I hope you update a lot about your progress so we lj people can hear about it :)

Advice for a newbie writer? Well, I'm not that old-hat myself, but I would just say: don't worry if you first draft isn't perfect (that's what revising is for :P), and above all else don't ever give up.

I'm actually doing nano, too. We should be buddies!

rurounigirl20 October 25 2009, 19:04:57 UTC

Thanks for the advice! Lol, where were you a couple years ago when I started writing my first novel? It was ridiculous how many times I rewrote it because I felt like it wasn't worthy enough or something. Bad mistake, and lesson learned!

Let's totally be buddies on Nano! What's your username? And I'll for sure write about me writing about my novel on livejournal! lol!

lazy_iris October 25 2009, 20:56:26 UTC

My username is a_shostak :)

Haha, it sounds like we were in the same place a couple years ago--I was writing a bunch of really AWFUL novels and short stories :P

theinkymuse October 28 2009, 01:34:36 UTC

I LOVE this idea--it sounds so good! NaNo seems to be inspiring a lot of great ideas this year. :3

And truth be told, I still count myself as a newbie writer: I've been writing fanfic for five, maybe six years now, but original fiction for only about...6 months. So we're totally in the same boat. :p

rurounigirl20 October 29 2009, 00:21:58 UTC

Haha awesome. Then I'm sure we'll learn a lot from each other! Are you going to do Nano? If so, let's be buddies!

theinkymuse October 30 2009, 22:28:52 UTC

Unfortunately no, as I totally do not have the dedication to pound out 50k in a month. :p