NaNoWriMo Signup
The hunt season is open… I mean, signups are going to resume as of today, Saturday (yes, it is now “today” for me!) on their website. From the announcement there, they’re actually going to be open around 3 pm PST, which means I’ll already be in bed, but I can live with that and wait until my Sunday to create an account.My resolutions regarding this are as follows:— Not writing anything before November (which is part of the rules, so I’m not deciding anything weird here).— Not deliberately working on an outline, subplots and others. I’ll write down whatever idea comes to mind, and they’ll very likely come by themselves in frequent enough waves for me to find myself with an outline by the end of the month, but I’m not going to worry my head over it. I want to start as fresh as possible, just to see if I can do it in a crazy way or not. The thing I’ll however do is to prepare my “magnae cartae”—a.k.a. two lists of what I like and dislike as a reader, so that I know mor eclearly what to focus on and what to avoid.— Sticking to it. By November, I’ll very likely need a break from my two-continents world anyway, and this will be the perfect opportunity to take one. I’ll spend the month on that, then I’ll get back to my “big” novel.— Deciding on a title before the real action starts. No kidding, I’m not exactly good at finding inspirational titles, and I need to seriously work on this flaw of mine.— Music. Lots of music. Music, only music, but music. I’m slowly gathering what I’ll need for next month’s “inspirational playlist”, and I’m quite happy with it so far. It’ll be a joy to write with this in the background.— Coffee and more coffee. If I don’t sleep for a month, it’s alright, I can catch up during the other 11.This said, anyone who’s willing to join in the madness is welcome. We’ll drink to each other’s success in front of our monitors, while pushing the words out of our minds. I hope this exercise in writing differently is going to be wild and fun.
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Chris Howard
Thanks for sharing some of your upfront tasks. I’m going to enter this year, my first one, and I was wondering how other writers prepare.
Yzabel
I’m not even sure if my preparations are exactly appropriate. In any case, given that it’s not meant to be a professional task in any sorts (even if it can turn that way later on, once the novel is written), I don’t want to worry my head over every tiny detail, so I guess the list is already as full and sufficient as could be for such an exercise 🙂
Cavan
I’ve always wanted to participate in NaNoWriMo, but with school and work I just don’t have time to fit it in to my schedule. Maybe they should have a NaNoWriMo for students in August. 🙂
Yzabel
If I remember well, November was chosen because it’s cold and dark, and people usually aren’t in holidays nor starting school. Something like this. The worst month of the year, without Christmas and other big feast days coming (well, alright, the US folks have Thanksgiving). I suppose one could still make their own NaNoWriMo in their little corner, but it’s less funny!
melly
Yzabel, thanks for reminding me. Perhaps this year I’ll participate.I went to there site, but there’s no registration yet. What’s going on?
Yzabel
I think registration is to start later on. The site said 3 pm PST, and I’m pretty confident that this means later than the hour it is now in France, so I suppose we’ll still need to wait a few hours to be able to sign up.