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nicksgal:

--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on June 30, 2021, 07:07:10 PM ---Here is our group again, in case anyone else would like to join us and set a goal for Camp Nano.  It starts tomorrow!  https://nanowrimo.org/writing-groups/the-absolutely-chaotic-backstreet-project
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Yes, join us! (I'm like the children of the corn, lol.)


--- Quote from: mare on June 30, 2021, 07:42:07 PM ---I’m sorry if you’ve already done this, but can you explain this nano writing thing? Does it have to be fanfic? I don’t really understand what that’s all about.

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Would love to do so! So NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month. They're a non-profit with two main goals: get people writing, but especially get young people writing. So the money they fundraise both goes toward keeping the lights on and supporting their young writers program. Their big event is the aforementioned National Novel Writing Month in November. The idea is that you start a new novel from scratch on November 1st and try to write 50,000 words during the month. (They're less stringent now than they used to be, so an intense level of pre-planning, working on an existing project, and writing fanfic are all now fine when they wouldn't have been before.) The site runs year round, but they run Camp NaNo in April and July. They used to put you in cabins with similar people to start writing groups, but now writing groups run all year long so you can find whatever groups to be part of. For the actual NaNo event, 50,000 word novel is really the plan. But for the Camp events you can write anything: poetry, non-fiction, screenplays, whatever (they're starting a memoir coaching track for this next one). And, unlike the Official NaNoWriMo, you can set your own word count, so it doesn't have to be 50,000.

It's fun, you get little badges and charts on your progress. Plus, you can find out just how many words you write in a minute, lol.

I'll pop back in later to respond to everything else, but saw this and figured I could give it a quick answer. Let me know if it doesn't make sense -- I am two fun glasses of wine deep because the bestie and I were both having kind of a bum day. But I did still finish editing and posting my update before Wednesday ended even though AC and AO3 think it's Thursday, so I'm still on top of things! Maybe...  :-*


Edited to add: Julie beat me to it, lol.

RokofAges75:
Update:  I did not make 50,000 words, but I was within 5,000 words of it and did finish Chapter 23 with about ten minutes to spare before midnight LOL.  Also, my average writing speed came up to 5 words per minute! Haha.  I'm aiming for 25,000 words in July, but hoping I can surpass that and come closer to 30,000.

Edit: I had a Nano troubleshootin g question here earlier, but I figured it out, so never mind.  I clicked a link in my email to register for Camp Nano the other day, and it prompted me to make a new project.  Then I realized I didn't really want it to be listed as a separate project since I'm still working on the same story, but I couldn't figure how how to set a new goal for my old MBK project and tie it to July Camp Nano because that wasn't coming up as an option.  I finally figured out that if I deleted the new project so I no longer had one associated with July Camp Nano, it would come up as an option for a new goal on the old project.  So what's what I did.  Now I'm ready! LOL

RokofAges75:

--- Quote from: nicksgal on July 01, 2021, 12:16:15 AM ---Yes, join us! (I'm like the children of the corn, lol.)

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Come and write with us... forever... and ever... and ever.

mare:
Thanks for all the info ladies. Seems a little overwhelming for me this time around, but maybe next time I’ll be ready to write something.

Rose:
Soooo I've been looking at my notes for current stories. I probably won't commit to writing on them until I get moved in three weeks and my life settles a little. But I'm looking and I feel like that's a start.

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