We only have two days left!! For those of you who don't know...
November is National Novel Writing Month! (AKA NaNoWriMo) What is this? you ask. Its writing a novel in one month. No I'm not kidding. I know it sounds insane. Let me explain.
First, this requires little or no previous outlining. You simply write. Whatever you want to write about is fine. You just go! No serious editing. No detailed outline needed. Just writing for writing's sake, letting the plot take you where it may. Let me just say... its two days away and I hardly know what I will be writing about...but that's the fun of it! You simply go to the website (posted below) and pick a username (its all free). You simply type up part of your novel each day on your word processor and upload it to the NaNoWriMo site and they track your progress for you. And its private. People aren't reading your novel. Its for you. At the end you get a little certificate saying you completed it. And the satisfaction of knowing you did something truly creative!
Here's the site: www.nanowrimo.com
Now I know its not going to be super easy. I hear that week three is like hell (sorry). But I'm hoping I can push through and create something fairly crappy but super creative! If you are brave enough to try it or want to see if I am actually following through with this my username is AngelaKay. You can add me as a buddy or just see how much of my novel I completed. I better get my creative juices flowing...
Thursday, October 30, 2008
NaNoWriMo- huh?
Posted by Gary and Angela at 8:58 PM
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Thanks for sharing... I so want to try this out...
I heard about this my first year at BYU but have never done it. I've always wanted to though but it seems I can never justify taking a month off from my life to write a crappy book :P sounds way fun though.
Wow, that is neat. I think I would only be able to write a paragraph a day though, and even that would require serious neglect of my motherly responsibilities! But good luck.
Wow! That is awesome! I didn't know you were into writing. Are you going to publish? I want a copy!
Actually I have never written anything before. Gary's brother told me he was doing it and I have my nights free (since Gary's in class). So I decided to do it! I don't know about publishing I think my book is going to be pretty badly written at first since I can't do a lot of editing yet. But if its not too horrifying at the end I'll send you a copy.
help me ang!!! i must be really stupid b/c i can't seem to figure out how to add buddies!!! it says to just add them by going to their user profile page but i can't for the life of me figure out how to do that...help me so we can be buddies!!! my user name by the way is goodrichnurse...and i haven't written a single word yet b/c i'm out sick right now with a bad bad cold!
Angela and Gary,
I love you so much. I can see you someday.
Love,
Susie
P.S. Alison talking here: This sounds like so much fun! You are so creative. Have fun! If I had more time, I'd do it, too. I've always wanted to write a book of some kind. A month sounds pretty ambitious! Good luck! :)
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