its called NaNoWriMo
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Tangent5280@lemmy.world 7 months ago
whats with the book writing thing? First I’m hearing about it.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
wieson@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Nah, not writing month
luthis@lemmy.nz 7 months ago
I’m so dam good at that challenge.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 months ago
New Novel November
cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I would like to know who in the fuck thinks they can write a novel in only a month.
Patches@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
If college taught me anything, it’s that I can write thousands of words per night. Typically fastest in the wee hours of the morning.
None of these words are good, mind you, but they are in fact words.
Sheltac@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Oh yeah. Some of my worst work is on those mega-inspired days where I sit for 10h and crank out 10000 words.
To this day I don’t know why I do that if I end up throwing most of it away.
Maybe it’s good to get bad plot out of the system.
toomanypancakes@lemmy.world 7 months ago
If you can make time for 1,700 words a day starting on the 1st then by the end of the month you’ve exceeded 50k
Making time and having energy for 1,700 words a day on top of daily life activities and working a job is the trick.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 7 months ago
1700 words shouldn’t take that long. Are you allowed to write on the computer?
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 months ago
Nobody said it had to be a good novel.
ickplant@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’ve done it. You’re not supposed to come up with a finished product in 30 days (although some people do). Mine was a first draft of roughly 55k words.
jballs@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I’m reading a short book by Patrick Rothfuss (The Narrow Road Between Desires). This dude is such a notoriously slow writer that it drives me crazy. He had the audacity to do an author’s introduction where he said this was an existing story of his, but he added 15k words to it. I’m like… what is that, a couple weeks? Write faster, you bastard!
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Brandon Sanderson
Patches@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
jballs@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Just finished his 4 secret project books. Also just finished the first Mistborn trilogy with my son and started in on the Wax and Wayne series with him (I’ve already read them). I freaking love me some Brandon Sanderson.
Vaginal_blood_fart@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Branden Sanderson
TheActualDevil@lemmy.world 7 months ago
He also does a friendly competition thing with his fans in his subreddit every year in November. He posts how many words he writes in a week and encourages others to post their word-count to see if anyone can keep up with his output.
akincisor@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Isaac Asimov. The guy was a fucking robot.
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Yeah, well, when you develop characters as much as he did, it’s manageable, I guess.
He did some good world building, though - don’t get me wrong, I feasted on the Hari/robot series several times over!
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Then there was L. Ron Hubbard. Nobody spewed words like L Ron. Nobody wrote pulp like L Ron. Motherfucker could churn out a book in a day
MaxVoltage@lemmy.world 7 months ago
as someone who had to do this stuff as a haze in college its doable but its hell without amphetamines
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I bet it was Stephen King’s idea.
Default_Defect@midwest.social 7 months ago
Fuck that.
wieson@lemmy.world 7 months ago
In which nation?
pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
!nanowrimo@literature.cafe
(Sadly not very active of a community yet)
BellaDonna@mujico.org 7 months ago
API error trying to access that community
pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
If your instance hasn’t “seen” it yet, you might need to find it in the search tool for it to show up.
wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
That acronym sounds familiar, but I haven’t heard it in years. Totally forgot it existed.