Comments on: NaNoWriMo begins today http://blog.bravewriter.com/2009/11/02/nanowrimo-begins-today/ Thoughts from my jungle to yours Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:45:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Daniel Johnson, Jr. http://blog.bravewriter.com/2009/11/02/nanowrimo-begins-today/comment-page-1/#comment-64058 Daniel Johnson, Jr. Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:24:12 +0000 http://blog.bravewriter.com/?p=1386#comment-64058 I once signed up to participate in NaNoWriMo some years ago. I'd learned that it could be done by using a blog. I still have that blog, but I've shelved the project for another day. There are similar communities that do similar projects during November. One that I'm participating in (yeah, like I need another project, huh?) is called National Podcast Post Month (NaPodPoMo): http://napodpomo.ning.com I'm releasing daily video updates where I practice answering job interview questions. If you'd like to check it out, the website is http://getthatjobonline.com Thank you, Kristen (comment above mine), for the encouragement to keep on going. It's tiresome, and I'll be glad when I'm done, and, as I've heard said: the journey is the destination. I once signed up to participate in NaNoWriMo some years ago. I’d learned that it could be done by using a blog. I still have that blog, but I’ve shelved the project for another day.

There are similar communities that do similar projects during November. One that I’m participating in (yeah, like I need another project, huh?) is called National Podcast Post Month (NaPodPoMo): http://napodpomo.ning.com

I’m releasing daily video updates where I practice answering job interview questions. If you’d like to check it out, the website is http://getthatjobonline.com

Thank you, Kristen (comment above mine), for the encouragement to keep on going. It’s tiresome, and I’ll be glad when I’m done, and, as I’ve heard said: the journey is the destination.

]]> By: Kristen http://blog.bravewriter.com/2009/11/02/nanowrimo-begins-today/comment-page-1/#comment-63639 Kristen Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:13:44 +0000 http://blog.bravewriter.com/?p=1386#comment-63639 NaNoWriMo is so cool! It was Julie's blog post way back that got me started in the first place ... going into my 5th year now, and my 2nd grader is on his 3rd year. We both have a blast. Don't let the mid-month slump get you down ... press on and victory will be yours! (Even if it's a lot of rambling ... you never know what gems it might turn up upon rereading.) NaNoWriMo is so cool! It was Julie’s blog post way back that got me started in the first place … going into my 5th year now, and my 2nd grader is on his 3rd year. We both have a blast.

Don’t let the mid-month slump get you down … press on and victory will be yours! (Even if it’s a lot of rambling … you never know what gems it might turn up upon rereading.)

]]> By: Susanne Barrett http://blog.bravewriter.com/2009/11/02/nanowrimo-begins-today/comment-page-1/#comment-63609 Susanne Barrett Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:48:48 +0000 http://blog.bravewriter.com/?p=1386#comment-63609 I'm planning to finish the novel I started in NaNoWriMo last year. I wrote my 50,000 words but didn't finish my story. So this time I hope to complete the story. And I have never considered myself a fiction writer. Ever. I write academic-y, well-researched articles and essays and a little poetry now and then. Not novels. Never a novel. Until NaNoWriMo. Last year I started on November 4 and finished on the 28th, so it can be done starting late. I did 30 minutes of planning and note-taking and then jumped into it, freewriting all the way. Rereading it as I have been all day in preparation to start writing, it's in better shape than I thought it was. I'm getting really excited about getting back to writing. That feeling of "winning" -- of hitting that 50,000 word goal within 30 days -- is one of the best feelings I've ever had. And definitely the best writing feeling I've experienced. It's too cool. I can't encourage you enough to do it or persuade your kids to do it. One of my co-op writing students is tackling it this year, too, so it's wonderful to have friends along the way. Do it. Have fun. Just do it. I’m planning to finish the novel I started in NaNoWriMo last year. I wrote my 50,000 words but didn’t finish my story. So this time I hope to complete the story. And I have never considered myself a fiction writer. Ever. I write academic-y, well-researched articles and essays and a little poetry now and then. Not novels. Never a novel.

Until NaNoWriMo. Last year I started on November 4 and finished on the 28th, so it can be done starting late. I did 30 minutes of planning and note-taking and then jumped into it, freewriting all the way. Rereading it as I have been all day in preparation to start writing, it’s in better shape than I thought it was. I’m getting really excited about getting back to writing.

That feeling of “winning” — of hitting that 50,000 word goal within 30 days — is one of the best feelings I’ve ever had. And definitely the best writing feeling I’ve experienced.

It’s too cool. I can’t encourage you enough to do it or persuade your kids to do it. One of my co-op writing students is tackling it this year, too, so it’s wonderful to have friends along the way.

Do it. Have fun. Just do it.

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