NaNoWriMo: National Novel Writing Month
Golden Key
Shipmate
The month has started, and we don't seem to have a thread yet. Probably too much Stuff going on.
Info is at NaNoWriMo.org.
Basically, a whole bunch of people try to write 50k words in a month. It's free. If you make it to 50 k, you "win" and get a certificate. If you don't make it, that's absolutely ok! A fun project, but everyone has their own stuff going on. Some people rearrange their whole lives to focus on this project for a month. Others squeeze it in wherever they can.
There's a great community of people on the site forums. Encouraging each other; trading ideas; referring to information sources; playing games; and having off-topic fun.
So it's there, if you want to do Nano. There's a "What is NaNoWriMo?" link at the top of the homepage, and you'll find there what you need to know to get started.
Many Shipmates have participated in past years. Long ago, I made it to 50k, two or three years. I plan to just take it easy this year. I mostly just want some creativity as a distraction from Life, The Universe, And Everything. I just want to have fun. If I do 5 pages, great. 100 pages? Even better, but not required for me to have a good time.
Anyone else participating?
Info is at NaNoWriMo.org.
Basically, a whole bunch of people try to write 50k words in a month. It's free. If you make it to 50 k, you "win" and get a certificate. If you don't make it, that's absolutely ok! A fun project, but everyone has their own stuff going on. Some people rearrange their whole lives to focus on this project for a month. Others squeeze it in wherever they can.
There's a great community of people on the site forums. Encouraging each other; trading ideas; referring to information sources; playing games; and having off-topic fun.
So it's there, if you want to do Nano. There's a "What is NaNoWriMo?" link at the top of the homepage, and you'll find there what you need to know to get started.
Many Shipmates have participated in past years. Long ago, I made it to 50k, two or three years. I plan to just take it easy this year. I mostly just want some creativity as a distraction from Life, The Universe, And Everything. I just want to have fun. If I do 5 pages, great. 100 pages? Even better, but not required for me to have a good time.
Anyone else participating?
Comments
Maybe do some flash fiction? Very, very short. Sometimes, 1-2 paragraphs.
Also Nano does some things at other times of year. I think one is Camp Nanowrimo. Check the site.
Cool!
I succeeded in that, which is a massive win for me! Especially good as I haven’t written for years and discovered that I really do still like it.
(I also discovered that I really really wish I could work from home to pursue various creative projects rather than trundling between schools)
Some day I'm going to do this. Some day...
The response of the kids in the Gorbals was to roll up and converge on the graveyard en masse at the end of the day to kill it! There were over 200 kids there, from toddlers to teenagers, some with weapons, some with crosses, all roving through the Southern Necropolis and hunting the vampire.
It made the newspapers, internationally apparently, and questions were asked in Parliament about it. People blamed it on American comics (although how kids in the Gorbals would have found a shop selling those, or been able to afford them is... well, it’s not likely). The Distribution of Obscene Publications to Children Act of the following year flowed out of it.
I’m using it as my springboard and postulating that the vampire might have come back later...
...As I live in London I really do need to wait until I can travel up to Glasgow and go and look at some places & do some planning and research before I get any further though.
Still proud of writing every day in November though.
It would make a great webtoon.