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Category: NaNoWriMo (Page 1 of 2)
It is that time of the year again when you have to decide whether you are going to take part in the NaNoWriMo or not.
Every year for the last few years I have decided that I will. Unfortunately, I have not been able to achieve the goal of writing 50,000 words in a month every time. But, I have done that at least once, and that keeps me motivated to attempt NaNoWriMo every year, and I have decided that I am going to try it this year as well.
In fact, I have decided that I am not only going to try, but win the NaNoWriMo this year.
“At midnight on November 1, armed only with their wits, the vague outline of a story, and a ridiculous deadline, more than 250,000 people around the world will set out to become novelists.”
These are the opening lines from the official press release for NaNoWrimo 2011. For those who don’t know what NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) is, it should suffice to say that NaNowrimo is about writing a 50,000 words novella in the 30 days of November. Every year since 1999, an increasing number of people have attempted this task, and many have failed. Let’s have a look at the numbers:
We are halfway through November, which means we are halfway through NaNoWriMo. I hope most of you who are doing NaNoWriMo are going along really well, and come out as the winner at the end of the month.
At my end, things are not going along too well. The little graph below says it all :
I guess it is still not an impossible thing to do, but it definitely is going to be very tough to finish this from here on; Especially because, there are a few other things that absolutely need to be done in the next few days.
But, as they say, hope, one must…and that is what I am going to do for the next few days. Along with writing, of course.
It doesn’t seem like an year has passed, but it has. And to remind of that NaNoWriMo 2008 is here. I have been participating in the NaNoWriMo for the last two years. I was able to complete the 50,000 words limit in 2006, but in 2007 I failed to achieve that mile stone.
This year I am going to participate again.
I am not very sure if I am going to win or not, but I want to participate. The reason is that participating in NaNo helps me organise my thoughts into a coherent whole. As some of you might know, I am writing on a couple of blogs and an e-magazine. Writing blog posts and feature articles is good, but there is something about the idea of writing a complete novel that is very fascinating, and that attracts me to NaNo every year.
Till now, I have no clear idea about what I am going to write. But there are a few days for NaNo to begin, and I hope by that time I have come up with something concrete.
Are you doing NaNo this year?
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