Saturday, 31 July 2010

NaNoWriMo pledge

Sharpen your pencils.

Sharpen your pencils.

Every year, a group of enthusiastic writers pull together and support each other, pushing themselves to knock out an actual novel during National Novel Writing Month. Generally, most writers have the most trouble with just getting their butts into their seats and knocking out that first draft. So NaNoWriMo (which doesn’t really restrict itself to one particular nation) pushes you and your friends to write a complete 50k-word novel during the 30-day month.

I will do this in 2009. I will write a fifty-thousand word science fiction novel as part of NaNoWriMo. This might mean less frequent blogging here, but I can pay that price to finally look people in the eye and say, “yes, I actually have written a novel.”

Will you?

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  1. Worldbuilding in EVE Online
  2. Fiction blogfest from EVE Monkey

  • Good luck! You can do it! :)
  • fine...fine....I'll do it! :D

    Been putting it off every year for...a while now...guess I'll finally get the balls and just do it
  • Don't forget the greatest ending to any story EVER:

    "Rocks fall, and everyone dies"

    Or use it for a beginning and see how your story goes.
  • That's the spirit, Crimsoneer. What's 50K more words? So what if they're all 'fuck fuck fuck fuck I'm stuck fuck fuck fuck I have no idea what to write here fuck fuck fuck something explodes! yeah, that's it! everybody loves explosions!'?

    Uhm. Maybe I should stop trying to be helpful.

    Signed up as nineme, if anybody wants to throw rocks at me.
  • God damn it, and now you've gone and tempted me...I've got more than enough crap to write without adding a novel to it!
    But hey, 50k really isn't that much... It's doable.
  • Good luck! What an awesome goal...
  • I noticed that there's an EVE subforum on the Nano site (under the MMORPG) section. Wacky.
  • I'm still pondering whether to write an EVE novel or not. (Probably not.)
  • Damn. I should be doing this again. I actually have a project that I'm supposed to be working on that doesn't involve EVE or anything. Hrm.
  • We can do it bro!
  • Alright. Damn you. I guess I have to do it now. See you at the finish line. Maybe this year will be better than my last 3 attempts.
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