[Macworld]

Post your comments for Write a novel in 30 days here

[Jason Snell]

We've also set up a dedicated thread for Macworld NaNoWriMo.

[wkurfman]

I think the challenge is a great idea. Writing a novel in one month does seems a little crazy to me.
It took me thirteen months to write my first book and it was 80,000+ words. Writing 50,000 words in a month seems overwhelming and it wouldn't be a very long novel.
Still, I'm going to take up the challenge. I have 29,000 words on my second novel now, if I can do another 50,000 by the end of November I will be close to novel length.
The other thing I look at is if I can come even close this will be a great month.
William R Kurfman
Lost In Antiquity
http://www.eloquentb...nAntiquity.html

[Jason Snell]

It's true, doing 50,000 in a month doesn't mean you'll finish! I wrote my novel over two NaNoWriMos. And in between. And after. The final word count was 160,000. But there were two huge 50,000-word chunks in there from November 2006 and 2006, without which...

[kazwell]

Hi, just wanted to let you know that LiveJournal has some specific communities set up to support NaNoWriMos. Also, LJ will donate $1 to NaNoWriMo's Young Writers Program for every LiveJournal user who finishes.
More info here: http://community.liv...om/lj_nanowrimo
and here: http://community.liv...nowrimo/profile

[ebonfyre]

Did some research on the software you mentioned in this article and after searching a bit more decided on a smaller name app called "Jer's Novel Writer". I chose it because it has wonderful margin note implementation and because the supplemental information about characters and settings and such is viewed in a small pane next to your writing rather than taking over the whole page. I find this organization much more conducive to keeping distraction minimal and the writing always at the core of what you are doing.

[wkurfman]

That's awesome Jason.


Did you hit 50,000 words both times?


Assumeing I hit 30,000 words by the end of the week that would put me at 80,000 words by the end of Nov.


If I can do that it would be huge. I wouldn't be done with the 2nd book, but I would be alot closer. I would like to finish it by Feb so I could begin the long painful editing process.





William R Kurfman


Lost In Antiquity

[Jason Snell]

Yes, I "won" both times -- by hitting 50,000 words in the month of November. (Words written before 11/1 don't count!)

[Jason Snell]

ebonfyre said:

Did some research on the software you mentioned in this article and after searching a bit more decided on a smaller name app called "Jer's Novel Writer".

Jer's Novel Writer is really nice. We haven't reviewed it, so far as I can tell, but I've been in touch with Jer and NaNoWriMo is the thing that got him started with his app!

Most good writing tools let you get the stuff out of the way and focus on your writing. Which is a good thing. I use Scrivener's full-screen mode a lot for that very reason. And of course that's WriteRoom's raison d'etre.

[kluca]

Is anyone else having trouble uploading their novel to the nanowrimo site???? The box where I'm supposed to paste it is grey. I have an Intel iMac running Tiger OS. The nano site is extremely slow to load (some pages never load), and now I can't update my word count, so it looks like zero. Help!

[wkurfman]

Yeah, I'm not sure how to do that either.