I'm doing it. Again. As usual (at least some of you know). Anyone else in for some novel writing insanity?

I'm currently debating that. On the one hand, I didn't manage to finish the latest revision on my first novel yet this year, and I was intending to do that before I started writing another...

... But on the other, if I have at least the first draft form of all three I'm planning right now done, then I can settle in and work on revising them all at once.

I'll probably do it.

Ahahahah... I can NEVER manage under deadlines like Nano...

I wish you the best of luck and I will be rooting for you!

Definitely! NaNo season is my favorite time of the year.

No time for an actual novel this year, but I'm hoping to make some progress on comic plotting, and turn the next big section of outline into a usable script. (I like to work through plot kinks with the William Manners method of brainstorming, which is as verbose as it is useful. Perfect for NaNoWriMo.)

Good luck to everyone else who's writing in November! Here's to 50K!

I... really shouldn't, and probably will. :P

I still haven't finished my LAST NaNo novel, from 2016 -- got about 70K in, stalled, realized earlier this year that the problem was I was trying to write two books at once, started over at the beginning of September. Between new words and stuff salvaged from the previous draft I have about 40K.

So on the one hand, I have very much not been meeting my goal of 750 words a day, and doubling that goal looks kinda, uh, INSANE. On the other... my goal for this book was 90K, so if I actually did 50K in November, I'd pretty much have a finished book at the end of it. A terrible, horrible, Frankenstein monster of a first draft, but... FINISHED.

So yeah, I'm probably gonna end up doing it with the assumption I'll loose, and that if it even causes a few days of NaNo level productivity it'll be a bonus. But I'm trying to get a few more loose ends tied up and a little more idea where that time is magically going to spring from before I commit fully.

Yeah, I had the same goal, but here's the thing. I haven't done jackshit for ages and if I DON'T do NaNoWriMo, I won't. It's basically that simple for me. I can force myself to write a novel this month because I always do and November has a certain magic to it now. Wouldn't it be better to at least write something this month? Would you actually edit your other novel this month? No? Then you might as well do NaNoWriMo and enjoy yourself.

I know you've already decided because you added me on the site.


Yes, but that's just because November is awesome in general. Goodbye, flaming ball of firey hot death, hello winter!

Whatever you do this month I'm sure it will be worth doing even if it is not a novel.


Writing anything is a win. Besides, did you notice how long your entire post was? That was probably like 300 words right there. No worries! You should just keep writing on that novel and try get it closer to or completely finished. Good luck to you.

Yeah, that was pretty much what I figured - I probably won't get around to the editing this month anyhow (especially since I haven't got all the feedback from people I've shown the draft to back yet - hopefully by next month or I'll need to prod 'em again), but I can get the next one written.

I'm also going to try to actually go to the local events this year. I say that every year, and then I usually sort of go "aahh, people, light, sound, no, hide in cave/home" and don't, but this year I really am going to commit to going to at least two of them and see how it goes.

Yes, you should definitely go to a real event at least once.

I saw Kat on the Nanowrimo forums and observed that you were at par! Bloody good job! I didn't want to call you out over there, but I know how much you do in real life so just the fact that you're keeping up is a damn fine thing.

How's everyone else doing?

I've been staying at par. This is the ONLY year I've ever written every day, though, and the exact amount needed to maintain it. Other years I've ended up with multiple day breaks and then a huge spurt here and then and an enormous spike at the end... freakin ridiculous. So I'm proud of myself for doing something I've never succeeded at before, which is pacing myself. It's a skill I definitely haven't mastered yet, which is what caused my inevitable creative hiatuses before this point. I'm hoping that maybe this time I can actually get the daily writing habit to stick.

I did give myself stakes (if I'm not at par by midnight I don't get a certain thing I like to do the next day and until I'm back at par) and set no other requirements for myself than that.