Nanowrimo, Day One
Posted on Tuesday, November 1st, 2011Welcome to Nanowrimo! Yes, that’s right, The month of crazy writing has begun again. For those of you who don’t know (and where have you been, if you haven’t) Nanowrimo stands for National Novel Writing Month. The challenge issued worldwide by Nanowrimo is that we should attempt to write a novel in the month of November. To help define the challenge a novel is defined by the site as 50,000 words of fiction. Now, if you’ve been to my site more than once you know that I suggest everyone should be doing Nanowrimo, trying it at least once. Even if you decide that Nanowrimo is not for you, you’ll know that you tried.
Now, the rules of Nanowrimo clearly state that you are supposed to start off with a new novel, completely fresh. However, for years there has been a place set aside for Nano-Rebels. These rebels are continuing with stories that they’ve already started, continuing to write from the year before, writing 50,000 in short stories or any other number of things that don’t quite fit. How does this matter for the moment?
Well, it matters because for this year, I am a Nano Rebel. I’ve mentioned that I was asked for partials and I have a new novel to write. I am both writing my new novel and I am working on rewrites for my vampire novel. I have also taken in an additional challenge of writing for my blog every day this month. Don’t expect a long post every day but I will try to keep you updated to my progress through the month.
If you’re interested my friend Danni, also known as Epic Robot Danni, is also taking on the challenge of Nanowrimo and has also taken on the challenge of writing every day for her blog. Check her blog out if you want to procrastinate for a few extra minutes while you take on this challenge.
As a final check in, I’ll let you know that on Day One of Nano, as of 10:26pm local time, I’ve not only met my daily goal of 1667 words(the daily amount you would need to write to finish 50k in a month), but I have actually written 3159 words. I’m hoping to reach 3334 words for the day after I post this. I’ll let you know if I manage to hit that goal tomorrow. As always, you are very welcome to add me as a Buddy on the Nanowrimo forums, where I go by the name Feytouched.
In the meantime are you taking part in Nanowrimo this year? Tell me about what you’re writing below in the comments.
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