So for all you writers out there, you might be familiar with National Novel Writing Month, or Nanowrimo for short. If you're not, it's an opportunity to write a novel in a single month with thousands of other people who are going for the same goal.
While it's usually set in November, they do like to do one or two during the summer as well. The site is here:http://campnanowrimo.org/Camp Nanowrimo has one big difference from the main event, and that's the matchmaking portion, where you're assigned into "cabins" of people who are writing similar stories.I remember we had a few people participating last November, including myself and marbs, and since it's summer and a lot of stuff has died down, I'd like to see who's interested in participating this next month, and see if we can have a place to share ideas and frustrations with each other, and maybe even have some critique sessions.OR BETTER YET, TEAMSPEAK READINGS.Today is the 27th, and the event spans all of July, so there's not a whole lot of time left to come up with an idea. The goal is to meet 50,000 words, which is 1,667 words a day. It's a difficult challenge that not everyone can make, but it does feel good when you come out having finished something.And that's only the beginning!Post here with your Nanowrimo IDs too, so we can buddy up.
I sort of want to try this, but have a feeling I'd write too slow. Also novels are long and I've only ever finished fairly short short stories.
Plus I'm supposed to be coding this month. Hmm. edit: That short story event thing sounds fun though, I'd def go for that as long as it's before school starts again.Guys, remember to put each others' usernames in the "Cabin Settings" form so we can get one of those. I've no real idea what a cabin is, but it might be cool.
Also, prospective entrants: though Nanowrimo is usually about writing a 50k word novel, take note that in this event, you can set a custom word count goal. I've gone with 25k so I have some breathing space.fuck, maybe I should actually do this this time
http://www.campnanowrimo.org/campers/mistreach
I put down Touhou soundtracks for my noveling music and was pleased to see colseed did the same.Yes, it seems you and Taizen subconsciously influenced me into liking Touhou. Such that I was doomed as soon as I randomly clicked on that first Deaf to All but the Song remix.
just so you know i'm never forgiving either of you for that k goodalso i really hope i can edit these novel preferences later because if i'm stuck with a novel description of "Still outlining; get back to you on that, yeah?" it's gonna be a bad timeYeah, I found Touhou through the music as well. Actually it was through a TF2 video that used the U.N.Owen Was Her? track. I was addicted after that.
And yeah, you can edit novel prefs. They don't expect you to have a synopsis and excerpt before the event even begins.EDIT:July is too busy for me to enter this one, but a short story contest sounds enjoyable to me.
FINALLY I GET TO HOST AN EVENT
Made an account called Iasper, added everyone listed in here to my cabin.