oggbashan
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NaNoWriMo starts on November 1st
http://nanowrimo.org/
You can use the month of November to challenge yourself to write 50,000 words. Despite the title of the site, 50,000 words is NOT a novel. It could be the start of a novel, an outline of a novel, or just a random collection of thoughts that might be inspirations for later novels.
OR - it can be one or more stories to be posted on Literotica, for the Winter Holidays Contest, or next year's Valentine's Day Contest or...
The challenge is for yourself. No one but you knows whether you wrote 50,000 original words or not. The only person you would be cheating is yourself if you put 50,000 copied and pasted words through NaNoWriMo's word counter.
This thread is to encourage you to take up the NaNoWriMo challenge and to support you and other Literotica authors who do NaNoWriMo.
From past experience you should set yourself a target of 2,000 words a day. 1,666 words would do IF nothing interferes with your writing. 2,000 words allows for inconvenient interruptions such as a family crisis. Once you fall behind your daily total it can get harder and harder to recover.
There are groups and local activities connected to NaNoWriMo but beware! Those activities can be enjoyable but distract you from your main object - to write 50,000 words by the end of November.
You don't have to edit, correct or polish the words - just get those words into your wordprocessor. You can sort them out in December.
Write whatever you like but WRITE.
I hope what is written in November will eventually appear as stories on Literotica but if they actually appear as money-earning stories? That's great too.
I will not be taking part because I know I can type 50,000 words in a month. In 2003 I decided to make the NaNoWriMo challenge more interesting for me. I set myself the target of writing all 50,000 words as a linked series of chapters and to have edited them and have them posted as stories on Literotica (even allowing for the delay in the posting process) by the end of November. The result was the twelve chapters of Flawed Red Silk. That story stands exactly as I left it before the end of November 2003.
If you haven't tried NaNoWriMo you could find it easy, or difficult. But what you might prove to yourself is that you CAN write even when you don't feel like it. Remember. The only person who will know that you have succeeded is yourself. If you do - you will remember that for years. If you don't? You can learn from the experience and try again next year.
Good luck! And start working out how and what you will be writing on November 1st to 30th.
http://nanowrimo.org/
You can use the month of November to challenge yourself to write 50,000 words. Despite the title of the site, 50,000 words is NOT a novel. It could be the start of a novel, an outline of a novel, or just a random collection of thoughts that might be inspirations for later novels.
OR - it can be one or more stories to be posted on Literotica, for the Winter Holidays Contest, or next year's Valentine's Day Contest or...
The challenge is for yourself. No one but you knows whether you wrote 50,000 original words or not. The only person you would be cheating is yourself if you put 50,000 copied and pasted words through NaNoWriMo's word counter.
This thread is to encourage you to take up the NaNoWriMo challenge and to support you and other Literotica authors who do NaNoWriMo.
From past experience you should set yourself a target of 2,000 words a day. 1,666 words would do IF nothing interferes with your writing. 2,000 words allows for inconvenient interruptions such as a family crisis. Once you fall behind your daily total it can get harder and harder to recover.
There are groups and local activities connected to NaNoWriMo but beware! Those activities can be enjoyable but distract you from your main object - to write 50,000 words by the end of November.
You don't have to edit, correct or polish the words - just get those words into your wordprocessor. You can sort them out in December.
Write whatever you like but WRITE.
I hope what is written in November will eventually appear as stories on Literotica but if they actually appear as money-earning stories? That's great too.
I will not be taking part because I know I can type 50,000 words in a month. In 2003 I decided to make the NaNoWriMo challenge more interesting for me. I set myself the target of writing all 50,000 words as a linked series of chapters and to have edited them and have them posted as stories on Literotica (even allowing for the delay in the posting process) by the end of November. The result was the twelve chapters of Flawed Red Silk. That story stands exactly as I left it before the end of November 2003.
If you haven't tried NaNoWriMo you could find it easy, or difficult. But what you might prove to yourself is that you CAN write even when you don't feel like it. Remember. The only person who will know that you have succeeded is yourself. If you do - you will remember that for years. If you don't? You can learn from the experience and try again next year.
Good luck! And start working out how and what you will be writing on November 1st to 30th.
