2016 NaNoWriMo Thread

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Any participants this year? I usually write short stories, didn't succeed in 2015, and am trying again.

I attempt it every year, but studying usually gets in the way of the full 50,000 words. I do like the short stories and drafts I've managed while participating though, I'll be trying it again this year .

I'm in the middle of two projects myself. I was thinking of finishing thirteen episodes of a screenplay I was working on, though. It's not a novel, but I figure since I'm already working on other things, that might be an accomplishment for me to work on.

I'm doing NaNo this year. I hope I can do it. I tried last year or 2014? I forget. I know I didn't make much progress. I get stuck easily and just give up, especially since I have low self esteem a lot.

Keep trying anyway. Even if you think your stuff stinks, just get it out. I don't think one should play to the gallery when creating art of any form. I have had plenty of self esteem issues to deal with and as a result I used to write for the gallery and I was nothing but miserable doing it because when someone didn't like something I wrote, it made me think that I needed to write something different to please the masses. At a certain point, I just said to myself: "No...that person isn't why I started writing and they shouldn't control how I keep it going."

Now, I just write for my own entertainment. I publish sometimes and sometimes I don't, but I still write. Just write because you want to or because you have something to get off your chest or just because you feel like it. But write.

Good luck to everyone! I agree the point is just to get your draft. A draft isn't supposed to be great.

I'm sitting here after losing the first few days of work wondering what to do. I don't want to rewrite it all, but I have no idea how I'm going to think up a new idea in time.

I'm also doing NaNoWriMo, mostly because I need to get the words out for my comic. It's unfortunately been pretty awful so far because I can't decide whether the writing should be in first or third person. In general, I think it should be in third person, but at the same time, I want to explore what the characters are thinking, and third person just doesn't cut it for me. Yet, first is also restrictive because I have four main character, all of whom have important thoughts.

Eh, So far I think I'm at 3,600 or so words.