Comments on: Nanowrimo http://tinachaulk.com/2006/10/27/nanowrimo/ The cyber home of Tina Chaulk Thu, 05 Apr 2012 20:59:28 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: This Much is True » Blog Archive » NaNoWriMo and Letting the Muse Take Over http://tinachaulk.com/2006/10/27/nanowrimo/comment-page-1/#comment-2200 This Much is True » Blog Archive » NaNoWriMo and Letting the Muse Take Over Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:06:49 +0000 http://pyye46.wordpress.com/2006/10/27/nanowrimo/#comment-2200 [...] has been posed by some writer friends, as it has been every year since I’ve known them: am I doing NaNoWriMo? National Novel Writing Month is where you write a novel of at least 50,00 words in November). And, [...] [...] has been posed by some writer friends, as it has been every year since I’ve known them: am I doing NaNoWriMo? National Novel Writing Month is where you write a novel of at least 50,00 words in November). And, [...]

]]> By: TrudyJ http://tinachaulk.com/2006/10/27/nanowrimo/comment-page-1/#comment-138 TrudyJ Sat, 28 Oct 2006 09:36:00 +0000 http://pyye46.wordpress.com/2006/10/27/nanowrimo/#comment-138 Shannon, when I read the Afterword of Dying Days my first thought was, Shannon should really do NaNo ... you obviously have exactly the right writing mindset for it. Too bad about that thesis thing ... I can see how that gets in the way of your real life. Shannon, when I read the Afterword of Dying Days my first thought was, Shannon should really do NaNo … you obviously have exactly the right writing mindset for it. Too bad about that thesis thing … I can see how that gets in the way of your real life.

]]> By: Shannon Patrick Sullivan http://tinachaulk.com/2006/10/27/nanowrimo/comment-page-1/#comment-137 Shannon Patrick Sullivan Sat, 28 Oct 2006 03:26:00 +0000 http://pyye46.wordpress.com/2006/10/27/nanowrimo/#comment-137 Heck, I wrote <b>The Dying Days</b> in just slightly more than a month, and it clocks in at around 93,000 words... and at least some readers out there like it!<br/><br/>I'm quite sure that a lot of what gets written during NaNoWriMo is junk, but a lot of what gets written over periods of months or even years is junk, too. If even just a tiny percentage of the NaNoWriMo output is worthwhile -- or even convinces people that they have what it takes to write a novel, so that they later produce something worthwhile -- then it's a fine endeavour.<br/><br/>I'd love to take part myself, but I think my supervisor would insist that the only thing I write 50,000 words of in the next month be my thesis... Heck, I wrote The Dying Days in just slightly more than a month, and it clocks in at around 93,000 words… and at least some readers out there like it!

I’m quite sure that a lot of what gets written during NaNoWriMo is junk, but a lot of what gets written over periods of months or even years is junk, too. If even just a tiny percentage of the NaNoWriMo output is worthwhile — or even convinces people that they have what it takes to write a novel, so that they later produce something worthwhile — then it’s a fine endeavour.

I’d love to take part myself, but I think my supervisor would insist that the only thing I write 50,000 words of in the next month be my thesis…

]]> By: TrudyJ http://tinachaulk.com/2006/10/27/nanowrimo/comment-page-1/#comment-136 TrudyJ Fri, 27 Oct 2006 22:07:00 +0000 http://pyye46.wordpress.com/2006/10/27/nanowrimo/#comment-136 Yeah, that Alma Hromic article raised quite a bit of discussion during last year's NaNo. It's an elitist attitude towards writing that I just cannot wrap my head around. How does someone else writing 50,000 words in a month hurt anyone else's writing? Does it drive down the value of words?<br/><br/>I wish you were doing NaNo ... partly because almost all the other people doing it locally are about 18 and if I go to a meet, I will feel like everyone's mom or English teacher. Which, since I am both a mom and an English teacher, is not the end of the world...but still. Yeah, that Alma Hromic article raised quite a bit of discussion during last year’s NaNo. It’s an elitist attitude towards writing that I just cannot wrap my head around. How does someone else writing 50,000 words in a month hurt anyone else’s writing? Does it drive down the value of words?

I wish you were doing NaNo … partly because almost all the other people doing it locally are about 18 and if I go to a meet, I will feel like everyone’s mom or English teacher. Which, since I am both a mom and an English teacher, is not the end of the world…but still.

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