NaNoWriMo?

[got_quiet]

I'm curious if anyone in my uh, circle (mutuals? what's the Dreamwidth term here?) does or is planning on doing NaNoWriMo? It's coming up!

Way back when I wrote more than 50 decent words a year I won it I think 3 times? But I think that was actually over 10 years ago now? Every year i think, maybe I'll give it a shot and then I do not really give it that much of a shot.

But I'm curious about other people's projects, if they have plans or are just planning to write by the seat of their pants, or if they follow the rules relatively strictly or use the month more flexibly to finish projects or do non-novel writing etc? The last few years I've tried to use the month to work on my worldbuilding but that has gone as well as every other recent project of mine lol.

Comments

[rionaleonhart]

I won NaNo back in 2004 (in the sense of hitting 50,000 words; I didn't end up with a complete novel), but it wiped me out creatively for months, so, although I had fun, I haven't done it since. Instead, I try to write at least a hundred words of fiction every day of November, on any project. I don't really have any fic inspiration at the moment, with November coming up fast, so I'm going to have to think of some things to write!

[got_quiet]

I think the most important thing is to just get a little boost to write anything, and a 100 words a day is pretty good!