Nanowrimo July 2013

Posted by Castypher on June 27, 2013, 3:59 p.m.

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.

Comments

Seleney 11 years, 6 months ago

I'd like to say that since the camp tells me Howdy when I log in, it must be in Texas. As a result, you should all visit me afterwards :P

F1ak3r 11 years, 6 months ago

Camp assigned. We got Seleney, myself, Mega, colseed, Iasper and three others. Juurian and Kilin were left out for who knows why. I don't think the cabin system is very well put together.

In the end, it's not terribly important at all, but a 64Cabin would've been nice and appealed to my OCD.

Seleney 11 years, 6 months ago

cant we retry?

F1ak3r 11 years, 6 months ago

Yeah, if we all opt out it should reroll. We just need to all opt out or it'll get messy.

Seleney 11 years, 6 months ago

ok I say we do it. But we need some confirmation that we are all in on this.

F1ak3r 11 years, 6 months ago

Okay, I opted out, now you all have to, IT'S TOO LATE TO TURN BACK!

Make your cabin application look like this, except with my name (F1ak3r) in place of your own:

Castypher 11 years, 6 months ago

Settings re-saved. My bad on that last round. I guess I didn't finish my cabin settings.

colseed 11 years, 6 months ago

Opted out, checked names, and resubmitted.

I feel vaguely sorry for whoever fills that non-64digiter slot, but oh well. SIXTYFOURPRIDE GO.

Seleney 11 years, 6 months ago

I am re-set as well. GO 64!

Astryl 11 years, 6 months ago

Alright, saved the settings again.