Help with Nanowrimo? ?
Hey fellow writers! Although I’m only a ****?nager, I’m trying to do Nanowrimo this year (National Novel Writing Month). Do you have any ***?ps for a young girl trying it out her first year? Is it ****?d to plan? To tell your friends about it? To keep writing even if the story is getting really dumb instead of starting over? Thank you!
Nanowrimo is supposed to be a contest: You’re just supposed to get out 50,000 words on paper in a story that at least makes ***?mi-sense. It’s supposed to be ***?n, a let-loose-and-write-like-heck sort of month.
- ***?ith R
Tags: Fellow Writers, Hey, National Novel Writing Month, Teenager, Young Girl
July 3rd, 2009 at 9:28 pm
Yes, too many to write here.
Yes, it is a ****?d plan.
Not sure what you mean by ” To tell your friends about it?” (As in my friends or ***? in a your friends and what do you ****?t to be told?)
If you don’t believe in your story, how do you expect others to believe in the story? If an author believes his/her story is dumb, why even write it? Treat your audience ***? yourself to some extent because most authors write what they like to read and if you are wishing to ***?rner a following of readers; which any author requires in order to be ****?cessful whether it is for ***?n or profit, otherwise why write and share?
July 5th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
I think it’s ****?d to have at least a vague idea of what you’re going to do if you ****?t to reach the 50,000 word mark - if you’re doing it ***? you go along, you’re less likely to be able to just keep writing.
I would only start over if you feel really unhappy with what you’ve got and are not enjoying writing it at all. If it’s just that you’re not sure anyone would ****?t to read it ****? you’re happy to continue writing, then I’d do so. Alter bits a little if you ****?t, ****? remember that they are not expecting a masterpiece. You are not going to be able to write a polished novel in a month, and you don’t have to let anybody read it if you don’t ****?t to - the word count is automated. In this case, they’re judging purely on quantity, not quality. You can always go back and ***?dy it all up if you think you have the bare *****?s of something ****?d at the end.
If you’re really stuck for what to do, why don’t you try writing a long ***?nfiction for a ***?ndom you really love, so that you already have the characters and their backgrounds? Or you could try rewriting a ****?k you were disappointed with the way you ****?ted it to go, or a parody of a ****?k you’ve read? I’m not entirely certain of what I’m doing yet ****? I think I might do one of these. There aren’t any restrictions on what you write - it’s basically just that you should feel you’re writing a novel and above all enjoy yourself.
I hope I helped a little. ****?d luck with it!