I’m not participating this year - in fact the one and only time I tried, something really life-shaking happened in the middle and I never finished. But that’s another story. My daughter did nanowrimo as a high school project and came through it with a 60k word teen romance novel. I was just curious how everybody’s doing at this point.

  • Gabe BellMEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I did take part, and managed to do what I usually manage to do. Rather than pacing myself and writing a little every day, I got a little carried away and finished my story on Day 10.

    But the other part of it is I have no life. Generally any time I’m not working I spend at home, either gaming, or pootling about on the computer. So writing a story in 10 days seems… relatively easy :)

    I’m going to leave the community open (sorry – couldn’t remember if it was a thread, sub, space or what for a moment – far too many message boards!!), although I think it will get very little use before October next year, but you never know – people might want to write advanced plots or do games and such.

    • Lovable SidekickOPEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Cool, that’s fast progress. I remember 2000 words/day being my goal, which at my pace was about 2.5 hrs. I was halfway through a comedy D&D saga about a party of screwups when my daughter was diagnosed with a brain tumor - she got cured but it took a year, still living with the after-effects. Every October I toy with starting again but there’s always something - this year it’s getting a greenhouse built for my wife before winter hits. I also have a ton of hobbies. I think keeping the channel open would be good, probably not much activity through the year but at least retain a presence.

  • Lovable SidekickOPEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Just stumbled back in here - no activity, but that’s to be expected for an annual event. I really plan to do NaNoWriMo this year, probably another attempt at a D&D related story based on the current campaign I’m running. Seems like enough has happened to get at least 50k words out of, and there is an overarching world plot the players are nearing the end of. So yeah. I hope the community picks up around then.