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Tangent5280@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  New Novel November

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  • cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I would like to know who in the fuck thinks they can write a novel in only a month.

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    • Patches@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • Sheltac@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • toomanypancakes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        1700 words shouldn’t take that long. Are you allowed to write on the computer?

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    • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nobody said it had to be a good novel.

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    • ickplant@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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!

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Brandon Sanderson

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      • Patches@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Branderson

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      • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • Vaginal_blood_fart@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Branden Sanderson

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      • TheActualDevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • akincisor@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Isaac Asimov. The guy was a fucking robot.

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      • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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!

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      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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    • MaxVoltage@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      as someone who had to do this stuff as a haze in college its doable but its hell without amphetamines

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    • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I bet it was Stephen King’s idea.

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  • Default_Defect@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Fuck that.

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  • wieson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    In which nation?

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  • pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    !nanowrimo@literature.cafe

    (Sadly not very active of a community yet)

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    • BellaDonna@mujico.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      API error trying to access that community

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      • pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        If your instance hasn’t “seen” it yet, you might need to find it in the search tool for it to show up.

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    • wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That acronym sounds familiar, but I haven’t heard it in years. Totally forgot it existed.

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• funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  its called NaNoWriMo

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  • wieson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nah, not writing month

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    • luthis@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m so dam good at that challenge.

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