OOo! *envision a bony hand curling fingers enticingly* Come PLAY with us, my pretty. It's only 1700 words a day. Come PLAY!
Heh.
Seriously, the weirdly fun thing about NaNoWriMo is that it IS social. You log onto the site and there are a boatload of forums to meet people in your area or around the planet who are doing the same insane thing you are, at the same time. Hell of a way to procrastinate from writing..er... make new friends. And area organizers schedule meet-in-the-flesh gatherings, some of which are write-ins, where you bring your laptop and write in the same location. Whoo. Solidarity in creative insanity.
Or you can avoid all that and type at home alone, staying off the forums and creating against that midnight Nov. 30 deadline. Whatever works. I've never read Chris' book, but he's a kick, so go forth and read.
Point is, NaNoWriMo makes it fun. I've written three books that way. I am not working 50 hour weeks at a job that's driving me nuts, but other participants are, so YMMV.
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Date: 2007-08-29 08:00 pm (UTC)*envision a bony hand curling fingers enticingly*
Come PLAY with us, my pretty. It's only 1700 words a day. Come PLAY!
Heh.
Seriously, the weirdly fun thing about NaNoWriMo is that it IS social. You log onto the site and there are a boatload of forums to meet people in your area or around the planet who are doing the same insane thing you are, at the same time. Hell of a way to procrastinate from writing..er... make new friends. And area organizers schedule meet-in-the-flesh gatherings, some of which are write-ins, where you bring your laptop and write in the same location. Whoo. Solidarity in creative insanity.
Or you can avoid all that and type at home alone, staying off the forums and creating against that midnight Nov. 30 deadline. Whatever works. I've never read Chris' book, but he's a kick, so go forth and read.
Point is, NaNoWriMo makes it fun. I've written three books that way. I am not working 50 hour weeks at a job that's driving me nuts, but other participants are, so YMMV.