National Novel Writing Month
Welcome to the NaNoWriMo page on erosdiscordia!
NaNoWriMo is a free contest that takes place every November, in which participants have 30 days (from November 1st to 30th) to write 50,000 words of fiction. There’s no prize for “winning”. In fact, it’s based on honor-system wordcount validation. But none of the 170,000 annual participants seem to mind, as the process—the parties, the forums, the write-ins, and the glorious sight of your finished novel, printed out and sitting on the desk in front of you—is what keeps people like me coming back year after year.
I’ve taken part in the madness that is NaNo for four years. It’s hard to measure how much it’s helped my writing—I’ve become more daring, more straightforward, and more organized every year.
Towards October every year, I begin to focus on NaNoWriMo on this blog, ending with the (hopefully!) traditional gloat post on December first. Here’s a breakdown of my blogging experience with NaNo (complete with yearly writing space photo):
2010 Posts:
December 1: “Purple Bar, my lovelies!”
November 30: “Countdown: NaNo deadlines”
November 28: “Final Sprinting”
November 24: “Glowstick Night”
November 20: “Write-Ins, the Fair, & Karaoke”
November 11: “NaNoWriMo 2010: a quick win!”
November 9: “Keep Writing!”
November 5: “Playlist ’10!”
November 2: “First day of National Novel Writing Month 2010”
November 1: “Where I started working.”
October 31: “NaNoWriMo Eve: I love my plot!”
October 25: “Scrivener 2.0″
October 23: “The Fingerless Gloves Debate”
October 7: “NaNoWriMo 2010: Forum Signature Banner”
October 2: “My Fourth Year of National Novel Writing Month”
2009 Posts:
December 1: “Purple Bar, die Dritte!”
November 30, p.m.: “And Then It Gets E.p.i.c.”
November 30, a.m.: “Half Past Meltdown”
November 29: “National Novel Writing Month: the Growing Insanity”
November 28: “Hunter and Pecker”
November 16: “NaNoWriMo Magic Writing Playlist 2009″
November 15: “National Novel Writing Month 2009: where I wrote my novel”
November 1: “Of First Words and Bruises”
October 23: “Bridge Of Lions: NaNo Forum Signature”
October 8: “National Novel Writing Month 2009″
2008 Posts:
November 30: “Purple Bar, Deuce”
November 29: “Write Or Die”
November 26: “The NaNoWriMo Playlist, 2008″
November 19: “NaNo 2008: an excerpt…”
November 14: “National Novel Writing Month 2008: my workspace”
November 12: “National Novel Writing Month 2008″
2006 Posts:
November 30: “Purple Bar, Bitches”
November 28: “National Novel Writing Month: What I Learned”
November 22: “33,133 And Counting…”
November 19: “NaNoWriMo: What works and what doesn’t”
November 17: “NaNoWriMo 2006 cover art”
November 15: “My NaNoWriMo Writing Playlist”
November 4: “2006 NaNoWriMo work desk”
November 1: “And we’re off!”
October 16: “Word Bender”
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