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It's November, but life has been so chaotic that I'd forgotten the writerly implications of that fact until someone from my local writers' group emailed the rest of us on Nov. 1 to tell us she's planning to try NaNoWriMo for the first time this year. Oh, right, it's NaNo time!
Last year I didn't do NaNo, but did do something I considered "NaNoWriMo-ish", by setting specific and still-somewhat-challenging-even-if-not-actually-50k writing goals for the month. Which had the happy result that ultimately I wrote a bit over half a NaNo (28,190 words), did Write Every Day, and completed an in-retrospect-rather-staggering number of fics.
This year, life is even less conducive to a full NaNo than last year was, but I was thinking I could still make some small goals. So I'm planning to do Write Every Day (that's where you commit to writing something every single day – it can be literally a single sentence, but it has to be something, and over time it really does add up) and also I was thinking I could make my word count goal for the month a very manageable 10,000. (Though, being me, I will almost certainly aim to exceed that.)
Even better, I suggested this idea (smaller-but-still-a-challenge goals) to my writing group, for those who didn't feel up to doing NaNoWriMo proper, and one of them wrote back saying that she likes the idea and is committing to writing every day this month. Hurray, it's spreading! :D
Last year I didn't do NaNo, but did do something I considered "NaNoWriMo-ish", by setting specific and still-somewhat-challenging-even-if-not-actually-50k writing goals for the month. Which had the happy result that ultimately I wrote a bit over half a NaNo (28,190 words), did Write Every Day, and completed an in-retrospect-rather-staggering number of fics.
This year, life is even less conducive to a full NaNo than last year was, but I was thinking I could still make some small goals. So I'm planning to do Write Every Day (that's where you commit to writing something every single day – it can be literally a single sentence, but it has to be something, and over time it really does add up) and also I was thinking I could make my word count goal for the month a very manageable 10,000. (Though, being me, I will almost certainly aim to exceed that.)
Even better, I suggested this idea (smaller-but-still-a-challenge goals) to my writing group, for those who didn't feel up to doing NaNoWriMo proper, and one of them wrote back saying that she likes the idea and is committing to writing every day this month. Hurray, it's spreading! :D
