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• cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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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      • rwhitisissle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        November is National Novel Writing month and December is National Edit the Terrible Novel You Just Wrote month.

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      • cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        For me, a good day is about 1000 words. I really run out of juice after that and just type bland shit. That’s about 3 months for a decent draft.

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  • toomanypancakes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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

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      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Of course. The trick is that you have to come up with which words to use in what order yourself.

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      • toomanypancakes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        I assume so, I don’t see why not

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Nobody said it had to be a good novel.

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  • ickplant@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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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      • TheActualDevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        And it’s not like this kind of attitude online has in any way made him self-conscious and led to us most likely never getting the conclusion to his series.

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Brandon Sanderson

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    • Patches@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Branderson

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    • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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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      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Nice. Yeah his prose is meh, but the world building, character writing, and volume are amazing. I’m in the middle of stormlight right now and loving it.

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  • Vaginal_blood_fart@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Branden Sanderson

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    • TheActualDevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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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      • Vaginal_blood_fart@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Dudes a machine

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  • akincisor@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Isaac Asimov. The guy was a fucking robot.

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    • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I bet it was Stephen King’s idea.

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• Default_Defect@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Fuck that.

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• wieson@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  In which nation?

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• pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  !nanowrimo@literature.cafe

  (Sadly not very active of a community yet)

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  • BellaDonna@mujico.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    API error trying to access that community

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    • pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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

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