Nano

[CharleyH]

Is kind of like writing a quick outline, but never a great novel

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Is kind of like writing a quick outline, but never a great novel

No, it's proving to yourself you can write a novel and giving yourself a body of work you can edit, revise and shape up into something great

 

[Liar]

Is kind of like writing a quick outline, but never a great novel

I can write a quick outline in a day. Nano is about fleshing it out.

 

[CharleyH]

No, it's proving to yourself you can write a novel and giving yourself a body of work you can edit, revise and shape up into something great

Ahh, you have a published novel out of it?

 

[chris 44]

It's practice. I read somewhere you have to write a million words before you start to get good at it.

That's TWENTY YEARS of Na No

 

[CharleyH]

I can write a quick outline in a day. Nano is about fleshing it out.

Exactly what I said. thank you.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Ahh, you have a published novel out of it?

As amtter of fact, I do. Web published, but that's published and a contest winner too. So Nanner nanner

 

[Quiet_Cool]

Is kind of like writing a quick outline, but never a great novel

Um... How many great novels have you written?

Q_C

 

[Liar]

Exactly what I said. thank you.

As so often, you leave me perplexed.

Charmed, but perplexed.

Or is it flabbergasted?

I need a dictionary. Of a Charleyism to Common speech Babelfish.

 

[Guest]

As so often, you leave me perplexed.

Charmed, but perplexed.

I'm definately perplexed but less than charmed.

 

[CharleyH]

No, it's proving to yourself you can write a novel and giving yourself a body of work you can edit, revise and shape up into something great

A person can flesh out a novel in a month, write 40,000 words of BS, but never write something worth while. If a person ever wrote something worth something from Nano, would it not be in print?

 

[Quiet_Cool]

A person can flesh out a novel in a month, write 40,000 words of BS, but never write something worth while. If a person ever wrote something worth something from Nano, would it not be in print?

If I recall correctly, someone did sell and publish a novel from NaNo, year before last.

Q_C

 

[CharleyH]

As so often, you leave me perplexed.

Charmed, but perplexed.

Or is it, flabbergasted?

I need a dictionary.

Different words, same thing. You INTOXICATE me. SHIT! am I drunk? Swooning.

 

[Liar]

A person can flesh out a novel in a month, write 40,000 words of BS, but never write something worth while. If a person ever wrote something worth something from Nano, would it not be in print?

Why would it be? By that standard, not much at all is worth anything. Sad philosphy.

Quaklity is not the purpose. practicing your productivity is.

 

[CharleyH]

If I recall correctly, someone did sell and publish a novel from NaNo, year before last.

Q_C

Intrigued. Who? Was it good?

 

[CharleyH]

Why would it be? By that standard, not much at all is worth anything. Sad philosphy.

Quaklity is not the purpose. practicing your productivity is.

Nano is as I had stated in my first post.

 

[CrimsonMaiden]

(please know I am playing devils advocate)

Why bother? I mean, seriously? Why play devil's advocate on this? What's the purpose? Most of us know that what we write during this month won't necessarily be a great novel, but it could be the spring board for one.


My 2003 NaNo novel was posted here... and it got some of the highest ratings of any of the stories I have written. So while it may not have been a "great novel" by your standards, it was popular with the readers.

 

[Alex756]

Anne Rice wrote interview in 3 weeks.

7 NaNo Novels have been published by big publishing houses, many more have been web published.

Many more than that are things the authors are proud of.

*shrug*

~Alex

 

[Colleen Thomas]

A person can flesh out a novel in a month, write 40,000 words of BS, but never write something worth while. If a person ever wrote something worth something from Nano, would it not be in print?

Depends really. Getting published isn't just about ability, it's about having the drive and personality to go through the rejections and selling yourself. I know someone who has four novels written any one of them miles above some of the crap that gets into print. They are stored in shoe boxes, in her closet and they will stay there. She just has no interest in fighting the fights neccessary to get published.

there is no way to know how many nano entries become the basis of published novels.

For my part, I don't have it in me to fight those battles, so I guess I'll never really know if my Nano projects are worthy of being published in print. I would guess not, but that too is one of my problems.

 

[yui]

As so often, you leave me perplexed.

Charmed, but perplexed.

Or is it flabbergasted?

I need a dictionary. Of a Charleyism to Common speech Babelfish.

Flabbergasted. *nods*

Or maybe it is perplexed.

I spend lots of time confused around Charlie.

We all need a Babbling Charley Dictionary.

Intrigued. Who? Was it good?

From the nano website:
"A growing number! Jon F. Merz was one of Team 2001's winners; his NaNo book The Destructor was published by Pinnacle Books in March 2003. Lani Diane Rich, sold her 2002 NaNo-penned manuscript, Time Off For Good Behaviorto Warner Books, and it came out to great reviews in October 2004, and won the Romance Writers of America RITA award for Best Debut Novel eight months later. Her 2003 NaNoWriMo novel was published by Warner Books as Maybe Baby in 2005.

"We had several sales of NaNoWriMo novels in 2004 and 2005. Sarah Gruen's soon-to-be released Flying Changes began as a NaNoWriMo novel. Rebecca Agiewich sold her 2003 NaNoWriMo book to Ballantine in 2004; it'll be hitting stores in May of 2006. Dave Wilson sold his 2004 NaNoWriMo Manuscript, The Mote in Andrea's Eye, to Five Star/Gale; it'll come out in June 2006. In fall of 2005, Gayle Brandeis sold her 2004 NaNoWriMo manuscript, Self Storage, to Ballantine in a two-book deal. Around the same time, Kimberly Llewellyn found a home for her 2004 NaNoWriMo manuscript, Cashmere Boulevard, at Berkley Books. It's due out in summer 2007. "

 

[CharleyH]

Why bother? I mean, seriously? Why play devil's advocate on this? What's the purpose? Most of us know that what we write during this month won't necessarily be a great novel, but it could be the spring board for one.


My 2003 NaNo novel was posted here... and it got some of the highest ratings of any of the stories I have written. So while it may not have been a "great novel" by your standards, it was popular with the readers.

I had hoped no one caught that. Why bother with Nano? If you could take your time and write something better? Why only try in Nano? Why not do it for the rest of your year?

 

[Liar]

Nano is as I had stated in my first post.

Um...no. Unless you mean something else with "a quick outline" than a quick outline.

 

[CharleyH]

Anne Rice wrote interview in 3 weeks.

7 NaNo Novels have been published by big publishing houses, many more have been web published.

~Alex

Any porn ones?

 

[Liar]

IWhy bother with Nano? If you could take your time and write something better? Why only try in Nano? Why not do it for the rest of your year?

Because I need to practice on prolific writing. I believe the quality of my writing or storytelling is good enough to write a good novel.(not saying great, that would be hubris, and not for me to judge) But my work diciplin and writing habits are not up to standards of a novelist. This is a way to bully myself into that.

 

[CharleyH]

Flabbergasted. *nods*

Or maybe it is perplexed.

I spend lots of time confused around Charlie.

We all need a Babbling Charley Dictionary.

LOL. I simply know I am more intelligent and talking down is not easy, believe me, but I am happy to develop a Charley dictionary for the dumb Wanna be the editor?

(ai ai ai ... challenge that common denomenator post!)