I don't know if any of y'all participate in NaNoWriMo, but I've proudly failed three years in a row, and I'm looking for a fourth.

Anyone else a nano-er? Looking forward to this November? Dreading it? Trying for the first time? Finally going sane and deciding to skip it?

Same here. Quit after 5000 words last year. *sigh*

I would, except my Spanish grade is currently on failing atm...*sigh*

Wait, I started a NaNoWriMo topic here somewhere...

Hmmm...I am credited for good writing (so says everyone I know) so I think I might try.
5000 words isn't a lot...compared to what my friend did...some word document about 50 pages. But then again, the story was rubbish.

I think I made it to 2,000 last year.

Ah, bah, humbug. Everything written during NaNoWriMo is rubbish. That was comes of writing fast instead of trying to write well.

But it's fun anyway, even if it starts to make you feel a little like these guys:

If people do that, then there is no point of entering. Unless people actually win when they do that...

Nero wrote: If people do that, then there is no point of entering. Unless people actually win when they do that...

You mean write badly?

It's not about quality, its about quantity. As Ray Bradbury says, "quantity produces quality."

That's not to say that everything you write will be good, or that if you put down a lot of words it will *poof* become art, but rather... You have to practice writing, endlessly, painstakingly, relentlessly, in order to develop your craft, no matter how good or bad you are when you begin.

NaNoWriMo functions very much on that principle- you can make it good later, or never (if you choose), but the important thing, the main thing, is to start getting words on the page. It's the hardest part. Editing, deleting, throwing stories out- you can't do any of those if you don't have the rough drafts to start with.

Mmm, there's not much of anything too win, come to that. It's a bit like "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" insofar as its "The show where everything is made up and the points don’t matter."

:lol: I have no patience for things like that.

I wrote like three chapters of a pretty decent JJ fic on paper on the bus, and then couldn't be bothered to finish it/ type it all up.

*Shurg*

I write poems for the school magazine. The english actually takes the credit most of the time. <_<

You can not put a time limit on creativity. Quantity produces more quantity.

Post wrote: You can not put a time limit on creativity. Quantity produces more quantity.

But quality without quantity becomes stagnant. And there's nothing to say you have to stop writing after the end of NaNo- but most writers are excellent procrastinators. It's just a way to... start the word flow.

I guess it just depends on your own personal style. Some people freeze up with a sttict productivity requirement/ deadline combination- some people won't ever write without that same thing.

Place a deadline on yourself. The story becomes a plotline. The characters become puppets.

But, meh. I do specialize in One shots.