Five (LAME) Reasons Not to do NaNo
October 31, 2008
1) I could never write that many words in one month! Golly-jee-whillikers, that’s 1667 words a day!
Answer: Don’t be weird. Join the Young Writer’s Program — you can set your own word count goal. You’ll find a link to the YWP on the NaNoWriMo.org home page.
2) I’m way too busy. I have a job, a life, a wife and four children. They need me, and besides, NaNo is just a waste of time.
Answer: Stop it. You’re making dumb excuses. You know you have time to burn. You had time to eat dinner last night, didn’t you? Huh? Well, skip it in November!
3) I don’t have a plot, and I can’t think of one right now.
Answer: I’ll give you a plot idea right off the top of my head. Your MC is driving down Main Street minding his own business, when suddenly he gets a mysterious phone call from a man with a husky voice. He threatens to blow up the local Big Scoop within the next ten minutes unless you surrender the mysterious stauette of Johnny Depp you discovered last year while digging for buried treasure in the jungles of Africa.
4) I can only write at certain times.
Answer: Yah, that’s what I thought last year. Actually, I found that inspiration is created, not given. Go out and find it with a baseball bat.
5) I won’t win.
Answer: Terrible to be you. If that’s the best you can come up with, you’re probably not cut out to write anyway. Go back to your day job. Millions on welfare are depending on you, anyway.
-Trevor
Welcome to Our NaNoLand!
October 31, 2008
First of all, I’d like to introduce our authors.
Trevor. Age: 17. Novel: Possessed.
Miranda. Age: 15. Novel: Inhabitation.
Kayla. Age: 17. Novel: Riddock.
Angie. Age: 13. Novel: Ocean.
NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) is an online challenge for those crazy people who think they can write 50,000 words in one month. Starting tomorrow, this challenge begins. We’re in. All of us.
NaNoWriMo began ten years ago. We’re celebrating those ten years of literary abandon this year. It started out with twenty people. Now, there’s more than 100,000. Biggest turn out of them all. (Wonder what’s going to happen next year?)
We’ll be posting throughout the month of November, and probably December, too, as the adrenaline from NaNo wears off.
If you want to join, visit nanowrimo.org. NaNoWriMo wants YOU.
Looking forward to a month of literary abandon!
Miranda
