Yeah, this'll be a pretty biggish one, which all of my faithful readers ( - looks tenderly at crickets - ) will be happy about after I didn't post for seven bajillion years!
Well. For once in my life, I had a valid-ish excuse (it is not valid according to anyone on Earth except fellow WriMoers, but because shut up that's why.) I have been doing NaNoWriMo for the past month.. and I..
- takes deep breath -
FINISHED!!!
CUE THE PARRRRRRRTAY guys!!!!
For those of you who don't know what this means, please get out of a hole and discover Nerd Culture. Or, um, climb into a hole I guess. Yeah, I don't even know. ANYWAY!
NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month and it is the best, the most fun, exhilarating, crazy time of your life, I promise you. It is also the worst. But it's wonderful.
Sadly, it is over now so I guess I should've told all ya crickets about it in October, but oh the heck well. For more info, go on www.nanowrimo.org, but the general gist of it is that it's writing 50k words worth of a novel in a month. Thirty days to be exact, the month of November to be, um, super exact. (Super exaction is good.) Your novel doesn't have to be perfect. It's not supposed to be perfect. Heck, it's not supposed to be good. You're not supposed to backspace, for the love of pete. It's not even going to be that coherent in pieces, but it is literally the best thing you will ever do.
EVER.
Anyhow, I finished - 50k and a little in a month, and I even managed to string a coherent story together! And, not to toot my own horn, but the people who have read it said it was kinda good. So yeah, great boost for the ole self esteem there.
Need more convincing to join this year? FEAST YOUR EYES ON THIS LIST!!
1) It's fun. Yeah, that's number one because that's all it is. The parties and write-ins at your local library is just the beginning - the forums are the middle, I guess, because the forums are really, really awesome. You will meet such lovely people there. The one a.m writing wars are wonderful - imagine writing in a frenzy, letting everything except the words in your story melt around you, and not caring because everything is just so wonderful, at one a.m! Just imagine it!
2) You meet neat people. I mean at the real-life events; you meet really fabulous people at your write-ins and Kick-Off parties and Thank-Goodness-It's-Over parties! My TGIO is tomorrow, by the way - so excitedly.
3) You learn the meaning of making every minute count. In NaNo, a good day is coming home and procastinating for seven hours, then maybe squeezing in a half hour of writing. In the last few days of NaNo, a mediocre day is coming home, writing, racing through your homework, writing, doing that weird thing humans do sometimes called 'eating', and writing until you mysteriously find yourself without consciousness ('sleep' I hear it is called.) You don't understand how this a pro until you do it. This makes NaNo sound like some scary, awesome exclusive club! YET ANOTHER REASON TO JOIN. YOU WILL BE AWESOME.
4) You will be awesome. In other words, bragging rights. Tell everyone and their Aunt Mildred you're writing a novel, spatoof something out, and boom, instant credibility. Thus introducing the comeback "Oh, yeah?! I don't see you dashing off novels, do you?!"
5) HUGGEEE boost of self esteem. I have never felt anything like I have the night of November 30th, when I had finished my novel. It was better than falling asleep to the rain, better than waking up on a snow day, better than reading a Harry Potter book. Well, maybe not, but it was ridiculously close. And then when someone likes your novel you try not to show it and be suave but, well I'm me. So yeah, maybe it's just me, but it's just.. lovely.
And there ya have it! Why NaNoWriMo will change your life around.
ANnNNNNND END INFOMERCIAL!
Next up is another NaNo post, a sort of blogging through it with an overview thing. I would combine it, but it's pretty late and I have a bazillion Harry Potter fanfictions to update. So go out there and start planning your novel, because next November is pretty soon!
Well. For once in my life, I had a valid-ish excuse (it is not valid according to anyone on Earth except fellow WriMoers, but because shut up that's why.) I have been doing NaNoWriMo for the past month.. and I..
- takes deep breath -
FINISHED!!!
CUE THE PARRRRRRRTAY guys!!!!
For those of you who don't know what this means, please get out of a hole and discover Nerd Culture. Or, um, climb into a hole I guess. Yeah, I don't even know. ANYWAY!
NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month and it is the best, the most fun, exhilarating, crazy time of your life, I promise you. It is also the worst. But it's wonderful.
Sadly, it is over now so I guess I should've told all ya crickets about it in October, but oh the heck well. For more info, go on www.nanowrimo.org, but the general gist of it is that it's writing 50k words worth of a novel in a month. Thirty days to be exact, the month of November to be, um, super exact. (Super exaction is good.) Your novel doesn't have to be perfect. It's not supposed to be perfect. Heck, it's not supposed to be good. You're not supposed to backspace, for the love of pete. It's not even going to be that coherent in pieces, but it is literally the best thing you will ever do.
EVER.
Anyhow, I finished - 50k and a little in a month, and I even managed to string a coherent story together! And, not to toot my own horn, but the people who have read it said it was kinda good. So yeah, great boost for the ole self esteem there.
Need more convincing to join this year? FEAST YOUR EYES ON THIS LIST!!
1) It's fun. Yeah, that's number one because that's all it is. The parties and write-ins at your local library is just the beginning - the forums are the middle, I guess, because the forums are really, really awesome. You will meet such lovely people there. The one a.m writing wars are wonderful - imagine writing in a frenzy, letting everything except the words in your story melt around you, and not caring because everything is just so wonderful, at one a.m! Just imagine it!
2) You meet neat people. I mean at the real-life events; you meet really fabulous people at your write-ins and Kick-Off parties and Thank-Goodness-It's-Over parties! My TGIO is tomorrow, by the way - so excitedly.
3) You learn the meaning of making every minute count. In NaNo, a good day is coming home and procastinating for seven hours, then maybe squeezing in a half hour of writing. In the last few days of NaNo, a mediocre day is coming home, writing, racing through your homework, writing, doing that weird thing humans do sometimes called 'eating', and writing until you mysteriously find yourself without consciousness ('sleep' I hear it is called.) You don't understand how this a pro until you do it. This makes NaNo sound like some scary, awesome exclusive club! YET ANOTHER REASON TO JOIN. YOU WILL BE AWESOME.
4) You will be awesome. In other words, bragging rights. Tell everyone and their Aunt Mildred you're writing a novel, spatoof something out, and boom, instant credibility. Thus introducing the comeback "Oh, yeah?! I don't see you dashing off novels, do you?!"
5) HUGGEEE boost of self esteem. I have never felt anything like I have the night of November 30th, when I had finished my novel. It was better than falling asleep to the rain, better than waking up on a snow day, better than reading a Harry Potter book. Well, maybe not, but it was ridiculously close. And then when someone likes your novel you try not to show it and be suave but, well I'm me. So yeah, maybe it's just me, but it's just.. lovely.
And there ya have it! Why NaNoWriMo will change your life around.
ANnNNNNND END INFOMERCIAL!
Next up is another NaNo post, a sort of blogging through it with an overview thing. I would combine it, but it's pretty late and I have a bazillion Harry Potter fanfictions to update. So go out there and start planning your novel, because next November is pretty soon!
