Comments on: Why I (probably) won’t NaNo

By: Terresa Wellborn

Terresa Wellborn — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:14:37 +0000

I loved reading your thoughts on this. I’ve blog hopped all over these past few days (a huge past time of mine) and personally, I’ve been fence sitting on NaNo. I thought I might give it a go this year. But. I have 4 young children. And a husband who all need me. And I like to socialize online. And bake chocolate. And live. I’m just not sure I can squeeze all that into November and still celebrate Thanksgiving and still love writing in the end.

So, probably not me either this year. If I had no kids and no job, I’d probably participate, though.

By: Chantele

Chantele — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:01:45 +0000

Instead of starting a new novel, I’m going to finish one of the projects I’m currently working on. I would get too stressed out if I started something brand new right now. Maybe I’ll do it next year when the pregnancy hormones aren’t making me crazy!:)

By: Carol J. Garvin

Carol J. Garvin — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 05:58:22 +0000

Yes, I’ve signed up again. It will be my third year. Each time I drag my heels to the brink of November 1st, dreading the commitment and the time away from my other works in progress but knowing that once I get started it will be an exhilarating run. I do it as an extreme writing exercise, to free write my way out of the creative stagnation that’s been building up as I revise, edit and rewrite other pieces. When I’m exhausted to the point of blah, NaNo rejuvenates me.

By: Cathy Bryant

Cathy Bryant — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:10:30 +0000

I’ll definitely do NaNo. I have trouble turning off my internal editor. NaNo is the perfect way to force me to keep writing. I’m currently doing all my pre-writing, including characterizations and plotting.

By: Jordan

Jordan — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:33:29 +0000

@Livia—thanks for the heads up! I’ll be sure to check it out.

@Annette—*pats your hand* Just rest, darling. Just rest.

@Andrew—Hm. And in a 50k word novel, that’s 20% of the way through. STILL adhering to Story Structure .

@CKHB—Then why all those rules in the first place?

@Don—Yeah. I’m actually in that situation—just submitted, and the only other MS I could work on are sequels to that, and I kind of don’t want to put too much work into them if that first one gets rejected. But man, I’m just tired. I need the sleep this year.