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Since I've had a lot of free time lately, I decided I was going to take up writing again. A friend of mine introduced me to this project called National Novel Writing Month, so I gave it a look. It's basically a site where it challenges you to write a 50,000 word book in roughly 30 days, using October to plan and outline your novel.

 

So far, I've got the first act of my own story planned out. I thought that some of you may like this idea since we have some writers here. If anyone is interested and wants to exchange ideas lemme know.

 

http://nanowrimo.org/dashboard

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I've tried doing this before, I hit 30k words two years ago, maybe I can try and break it this year. Maybe. Problem with me is I always lose my motivation half way through the challenge.

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I usually hit the end of the first chapter of a book. I actually took the time to outline and it has really paid off.

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So a good amount of the people that agreed to outline with me have disappeared. I haven't been able to get any responses from other people on the site, so would anyone be willing to help me outline/brainstorm?

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So since I've always had huge issues with actually finishing my projects, I decided to hold myself accountable via other people. I already shared this on Facebook, but like I said in the Shoutbox I wouldn't be where I am in writing without TGP. So, I wanna share it with you guys. You can follow the story as I write it, if you choose to do so.

 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kxWezj64wKFZgZvqJa11jVgv8MM3psb9DyqO4knSg4o/edit?usp=sharing

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Sweetness. Best of luck to you, OSU. I have something shitty in the works, but I have no idea how far I'll get or how well it'll go.

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As an aside, I love how the month devoted to novel writing has an abbreviated title.

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I started early because I was feeling it one night. I'm at 9,087 words so far.

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Uh yeah, I'm just keeping above pace right now, 2282 words atm.

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Very cool. Ive been working on several stories over the years but mostly in my head. Its been difficult to get past the conceptual phase. Maybe next year

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Very cool. Ive been working on several stories over the years but mostly in my head. Its been difficult to get past the conceptual phase. Maybe next year

 

I ran into the same issue countless times. I think I've announced that I was working on a book like four or five times on TGP alone. I decided to finally buck up and outline the fuck out of it. Outlining isn't for everyone, but it helped me.

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I'm a pantser. I find it's more important to just start writing than to say "yeah I'm gonna write" and then never do it.

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Excellent, OSU. I've finished three chapters, and just hit 12k (12045). Good to see we're both ahead of the pace so far.

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Update: I had a little bit of wobble after the election disaster, but I'm back on track with 25,000 words. Half way there.

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Just keeping to the pace. The Nano wall hit me hard in the third week, but I was able to keep writing ~1000 words or so to keep me on the level. I just cracked 45,000 today, which means I don't even need to hit 1000 each day from this point on to break the mark.

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Congrats, Razor. I hit a big snag and then lost a lot of motivation. Then finals/projects started rearing their heads. I'm gonna start up again after this semester is over.

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