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Dame Ioreth
Tol Eressea
Jul 1 2014, 1:41am
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Anyone participating in Camp NaNo?
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It starts tomorrow. Camp NaNoWriMo
I'm going to try even though I'll be at my uncle's cottage the last week of the month with no internet access which means I have to finish before we leave. I'm going to try to (finally) finish the story I started a few years ago. I wrote myself into a corner and couldn't figure a way out. This time, I'm going to take John Greens advice, give myself permission to suck and boldly walk over that wet paint and start back where things made sense. Hopefully I can finish this story because I think it has some potential to be something more.
http://files.content.campnanowrimo.org/camp/files/2014/02/2014-Participant-Square-Button.png
Where there's life there's hope, and need of vittles.
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
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SirDennisC
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Jul 1 2014, 2:11am
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I like your writing style on this forum
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I'm sure you have a very readable novel in you... best wishes in your endeavour.
(And thanks for the link. I had no idea NaNoWiMo had expanded.)
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Angharad73
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Jul 1 2014, 4:58am
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Although I'll be doing editing more than writing. I have a half-finished story from the April session that needs a major overhaul before I can even think of finishing it.
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Dame Ioreth
Tol Eressea
Jul 1 2014, 2:25pm
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Thank you for the compliment!
Camp NaNo used to be ScriptFrenzy in April and Camp NaNo in July. Now they run 2 Camps and the main NaNoWriMo in November. You can set your own word count for the camps and write just about anything. Some folks still do scripts or revising. Take a look and give it a try!
Where there's life there's hope, and need of vittles.
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
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Dame Ioreth
Tol Eressea
Jul 1 2014, 2:45pm
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I'm in the same boat. I looked back at the novels I posted for the last 4 camps (this year and last year) and it's the same story. I really want to finish it so this time I've decided to start in a different place. I'm also going to add a few chapters back near the beginning so that things make more sense at the end. I'll be finishing and then starting at the beginning to edit. I'm not sure how to do the word count once I start editing though.
Here is the Vlog Brothers installment where John Green talks about writing NaNoWriMo and how books are made in revision. That novel he started that year ended up becoming The Fault in Our Stars. I love this guy.
Where there's life there's hope, and need of vittles.
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
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Angharad73
Rohan
Jul 1 2014, 5:56pm
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For editing can be done by the hour, I read somewhere on the NaNo forum. They put 1000 words per hour editing, which seems high to me. I'm going with 500 words per hour since I'm not that fast. And then I add whatever I manage to write in addition to what I have. At the end I create a lorem ipsum text for validation.
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Aunt Dora Baggins
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Jul 1 2014, 7:56pm
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It was in November, which was really gruelling for me. I remember getting up at 4AM to write before leaving for work at 7, and then getting home at 6 and having supper and writing until bedtime. I gave up TORn and facebook and the newspaper and any reading for fun for that month.
I'll never do it again, (at least not until I retire), but I did get a nice book out of it.
Anyway, summer sounds like a much better time for it. One piece of advice: plot the whole thing ahead of time. That's within the rules. If you have a detailed outline, you won't get stuck on a plot detail. I don't usually write that way, but it did make it possible to finish under those grueling circumstances.
Good luck!
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Dame Ioreth
Tol Eressea
Jul 1 2014, 8:10pm
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Yes, very true about outlining at least for me
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I've finished my last 2 November NaNos. I didn't make it the first year. I had no idea what I was doing and just sat down to write every day. I got so bogged down I quit. April and July are usually busier for me with all the end-of-year stuff and then travel and camp or maybe I'm just out of gas by then but I've never finished in Camp. This year I will. IcandothisIcandothisIcandothis
I have 2 novels in various states of deshabille from the other years. One is in the hands of a friend who is also a publisher and will give me a good solid critique. The other is languishing on the sofa, still tired from all exertion of being written. I've got an idea for my next November NaNo. I like to start those fresh as I've had better luck writing in that month. Hopefully I'll be able to finish at least one of them and send it out into the world.
Where there's life there's hope, and need of vittles.
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
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