National Novel Writing Month: Some Helpful Hints
Many of you are probably familiar with National Novel Writing Month, what insiders refer to as NaNoWriMo. It’s a very clever scheme to motivate novelists, and it takes place every November.
The central idea is to get writers to “sign up” to write an entire 50,000 word novel within the 30 days of November. Organizers point to some tools and motivational devices to help writers toward their goal. Some writers use the stripped down word processor yWriter, which was written by a NaNoWriMo participant and which I recently reviewed in brief. Writers can also seek out “buddies,” whose main task is to encourage, prod and maybe even kick the writer into action.
Details of Nano Wrimo are now available at its website.
What prompts this post is discovery of some helpful hints provided by a couple of past participants. If you are thinking about participating, by all means take a look at the D-Y-I Planner blog for some ideas about how to get the most out of the Nano Wrimo experience.
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Pry the delete key off the keyboard.
I’m a third year. And while I like Nano, doing Nano, and the people I’ve met in my local chapter, I don’t like the inside jokes and Nano “lingo.”
If I have to hear the expressions “inner muse,” “plot bunny” or “ninja” one more time, I swear, I’m not responsible for what happens.
No wonder the online community hate us almost as much as they hate Second Lifers.
Andy,
I hear ya about the lingo. I have a personal crusade against jargon, and try to use as little as possible… sometimes just to tick off the people who use it
Honestly, I still don’t know what a ninja or plot bunny is. I’m a solo participant, never got into the whole caffeine infused group writing.