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[xoverau]

SO HEY.

Is it bad form to join something like NaNo knowing damn well you would never, ever, in any way sanctioned by God or man, be able to approach the 50,000-word goal unless you wrote eighty-five pages of gibberish in a non-English alphabet to fool the counters or duplicated a single sentence ten thousand times? Or is the futile effort the

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[qafhappy]

I joined last year... didn't even break 1000 words.

I think it's the trying that counts. And if you make it? Great! And if not? There's always next year...

[xoverau]

For me to really do this, someone would have to take away my internets.

Aheheh

[buddleia]

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Re: Aheheh

[xoverau]

I interpret this to mean, "You are a crazy bint, are you kidding me with this fifty thousand word thing?"

[beckyo]

Do it. I have serious doubts about myself, but I'm going to try try try. :)

[xoverau]

My brain has circled the wagons around all potential plots, hoping that will discourage me. Where normally I come up with six new novels a day, I have been blissfully free of ideas for WEEKS.

[wrenlet]

The effort is TOTALLY the point. Back when I did Reaper Boy, there was a chick on my flist who was doing it for the third straight year and declared how she always finished in, like, a week, and all I could think was "Has it occurred to you this is meant for people who AREN'T outrageously prolific?"

I mean, absolutely anybody can join up and do their thing or not, but the whole purpose is to be an extra motivator for those of us who have trouble, not as another seal of approval on folks who can hit word counts in their sleep.

[wrenlet]

Pee Ess: I did 60 straight days in wakethemuse, WOOHOO!! Now if I can get this shit edited into something postable, that'd be awesome.

[wrenlet]

Or you could do it as a series and, um, call it avant garde?

That was me. GAH.

[xoverau]

*hates LJ*

[kikiduck]

It's all about the futile efforts! 50,000 words is not as hard as it sounds, actually. 50,000 words with a coherent plot and ending are another matter entirely, but no one's really keeping track.

[xoverau]

Uh...well, it's like six pages a day, which (given that I can't produce a DRABBLE a day currently) is a joke and a half. Is ;kasjfk;sk? a word? Or I could write SSSSSSSSSSS and say that the whole thing is an amusing satire in Parseltongue.

[kikiduck]

But drabbles are HARD. At least with NaNo, you get to figure out stupid ways to add more words. like characters saying "very, very" every single time instead of just "very."

You could always set a personal goal for yourself, like 10,000 or whatever you think you'll realistically be able to write in November, and then if you pass that you can feel really good even if you don't make the 50,000. I mean, the first two years I did NaNo, I don't think I broke 5,000 words for the entire month. It was a disaster.

[xoverau]

If I just had the right idea, I could come close, I think. I've done it in the past. But my brain (in an effort to protect me from failure) has shut down its idea-producing plant. Urgh.