It's NaNo Time!

[guruburu]

Next month is National Novel Writing Month! Now is the best time to start planning your stories, especially if you know you're going to have to do research for particular characters and cultures-You don't want to sacrifice precious hours looking up traditional Ohlone cuisine when you could be writing about your rebellious, Rez teen transplanted to

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[stevie_carroll]

I'm sticking with picowrimo, but support from other sources would be most welcome.

[evelynwordsmyth]

[guruburu]

If you don't do it, I'm kicking you out of this group.

I'm kidding (sort of…), but seriously, you should take WriMo as an opportunity to work on the story. 50,000 words in 30 days means you're going for quantity, not quality. The best thing about that is if the whole thing turns out crappy, you can blame it on the time and not any shortcoming of your writing :P

Your story sounds really cool, and I'd love to offer help if you do decide to bring it here. Do as much research as you can before plunging in. I'm not a 14th century Malian mystic, so I know I can't be "authentic", but I'm going to do my utmost best, and try to get different eyes to vet it for me.

[evelynwordsmyth]

[guruburu]

I've seen fake cuts used for LJ WriMo posts before, so that should work.