Who will be doing Nanowrimo this year?

Topcho · Post by **Topcho** » 02 Oct 2015, 07:14

moderntimes wrote:A question -- what is the end use of the novels that are written? Are they published or made accessible as e-books, or what? Do they get reviewed and are their prizes (even if the prize is an imaginary gold medal)?

Thanks.

Well, it is mostly the imaginary gold medal

There's a badge you can display on your site/blog/progile to let the world know you are a proud survivor of the NaNoWriMo. This and the personal feeling of achievement.

The initiative is mostly to help authors sit and do the actual writing of their books. NaNoWriMo doesn't get actual access to the texts, only to the word count.

However there are some goodies for the authors completeing the NaNo. Like discounts on writing software, on correction services, designer services, and yeah, even the chance to publush your work. There are publisher who work with NaNo, but completeing the challenge doesn't mean your book will automatically be published. Anyway, there are good opportunities, especially if you write in English... which I don't so I'm just doing NaNo for the fun and to push myself

ALynnPowers · Post by **ALynnPowers** » 02 Oct 2015, 07:21

Topcho wrote:
moderntimes wrote:A question -- what is the end use of the novels that are written? Are they published or made accessible as e-books, or what? Do they get reviewed and are their prizes (even if the prize is an imaginary gold medal)?

Thanks.
Well, it is mostly the imaginary gold medal There's a badge you can display on your site/blog/progile to let the world know you are a proud survivor of the NaNoWriMo. This and the personal feeling of achievement.

The initiative is mostly to help authors sit and do the actual writing of their books. NaNoWriMo doesn't get actual access to the texts, only to the word count.

However there are some goodies for the authors completeing the NaNo. Like discounts on writing software, on correction services, designer services, and yeah, even the chance to publush your work. There are publisher who work with NaNo, but completeing the challenge doesn't mean your book will automatically be published. Anyway, there are good opportunities, especially if you write in English... which I don't so I'm just doing NaNo for the fun and to push myself

That's the only reason I do it. It's just a challenge. For fun.

B3cca 3ll3r · Post by **B3cca 3ll3r** » 16 Oct 2015, 00:43

Hi! I just signed up for my very first NaNoWriMo! I am really excited and I plan to spend quite a bit of time on research in the next few weeks so that I can just write my heart out starting in November. How is everybody feeling about their book? Any other first-timers who want a writing buddy?

Topcho · Post by **Topcho** » 16 Oct 2015, 10:49

Hi there NaNo buddies

By the way, you've probably have noticed, but last night was NaNoWriMo's Night od Writing Dangerously. Have anyone of you happen to participate? Some of my forum friends and I decided to hold an inspired by this event and put up an all-nighter this weekend and do some writing!

ALynnPowers · Post by **ALynnPowers** » 17 Oct 2015, 06:41

Topcho wrote:Hi there NaNo buddies
By the way, you've probably have noticed, but last night was NaNoWriMo's Night od Writing Dangerously. Have anyone of you happen to participate? Some of my forum friends and I decided to hold an inspired by this event and put up an all-nighter this weekend and do some writing!

Oh, I didn't do it! I tend to tune out everything Nano related until November, and then I just go crazy and I think of nothing except writing! I'm trying to get a bunch of stuff done now (I have a book being published on Oct 31! Ha! Down to the wire!) so that I am free to write nonstop next month.

Anyway, you can add me as a friend if you want. I'm GrannyP.

CornishViking · Post by **CornishViking** » 20 Oct 2015, 21:38

I keep meaning to do it. Then I never do. Mainly as I like to set my own goals I guess

TrishaAnn92 · Post by **TrishaAnn92** » 21 Oct 2015, 13:18

I just signed up for nanowrimo as a way to kind of motivate myself to achieve my goal/dream of writing a book whether it gets published or not!

ALynnPowers · Post by **ALynnPowers** » 22 Oct 2015, 09:48

TrishaAnn92 wrote:I just signed up for nanowrimo as a way to kind of motivate myself to achieve my goal/dream of writing a book whether it gets published or not!

Congrats! That's always how I find writing to be the most fun! The funnest? Oh darn. I should brush up on my superlatives.

TrishaAnn92 · Post by **TrishaAnn92** » 22 Oct 2015, 16:08

I can't wait! I've always had a dream of becoming an author and this may be the motivation to push for it!!

stoppoppingtheP · Post by **stoppoppingtheP** » 22 Oct 2015, 16:27

This sounds interesting..I've never heard of it before. The problem is that I NEVER finish writing what I start

TrishaAnn92 · Post by **TrishaAnn92** » 22 Oct 2015, 16:29

stoppoppingtheP wrote:This sounds interesting..I've never heard of it before. The problem is that I NEVER finish writing what I start

I have the same problem with starting but not finishing. I'm using this as a motivation because I have 2-4 stories that I would love to write.

B3cca 3ll3r · Post by **B3cca 3ll3r** » 22 Oct 2015, 22:43

Does anybody want to talk about their book ideas?

CCtheBrave · Post by **CCtheBrave** » 23 Oct 2015, 11:50

I'm definitely going to give it a go this year, it'll be my first year!

Topcho · Post by **Topcho** » 23 Oct 2015, 12:49

ALynn Powers (GrannyP) it seems I couldn't find you in the site :/ This is my profile there however, if someone wants us to be buddies - http://nanowrimo.org/participants/topcho

CCtheBrave good luck! I've signed up before, but this is the first year I plan to actually commit.

Ah, I'd usually be all about discussing our projects, but suddenly I am unsure of what mine will be. My initial plan was to work on my Nano Camp novel and add 50 000 more words to it. But last week I started another project - it was supposed to be just a short story for a forum writing challenge. But thing are getting out of hand, lol and I am now on page 23 of my document. So for now I will just let things go their way and decide on Nov 1st. I may end up as a Rebel again, working on more than one project.

By the way, do you know if the Nano Rebels, lol? You can check them on the forum. They are group of people who commit to write the 50 000 words, but in a slightly different way. Not a full novel, but a set of unrelated short stories, non-fiction works, or working on multiple projects.