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Quote: JohnnyD @ December 1 2010, 12:04 PM GMT

I seem to have written an experimental novel. Random scenes from three story threads play with time, anachronisms abound, ... etc.

I suspect tidying it up will reveal a load of turge.

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That's not the point. At leasst you've got a basisto work on.

Why does it take this to get us to write?

Quote: zooo @ December 1 2010, 11:51 AM GMT

I finished, just. At about 11pm.
Only done about 20% of the work though! Will take months to edit this pile of old poo.

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But you did an extra week!!!!

And now you know why!
Would only have had 40,000 if I'd done a month, like you plebs.

I know this isn't in the spirit of the competition (and probably why I'm not a big fan) but next time, why don't you just start where you left off?
This time next year you'll have a novel, rather than another half-novel.

You're right, it's really hard to get motivated, so when you do (via NaNoWriMo)it seems a shame to waste it.

But that's just me.

I agree. I've done it properly by all the rules etc, two or three times - but now I'll cheat a little bit to fit around what I want to do. Whatever works best for you!

It's all really to motivate you to get material written.

I finished it the first year - then missed the last three although this is the best since.

Quote: Chappers @ December 2 2010, 9:49 PM GMT

It's all really to motivate you to get material written.

I finished it the first year - then missed the last three although this is the best since.

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Do you then work it up afterwards - seems such a waste of material otherwise.
I wrote one novel - took me the best part of nine months!
Can't sell the bastard though - my agent keeps telling me to re-edit but it's such a bloody thankless task.

Quote: Lazzard @ December 3 2010, 10:53 AM GMT

Do you then work it up afterwards - seems such a waste of material otherwise.

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Of course!

Well, writery types do. People who just do it for fun might not.

Decisions!

I don't know whether to carry on with the Nano I just wrote or switch back to what I was working on before.

Send me a copy of it, zooo.

Bugger. I missed this!

Could have just plonked my novel on there too... mwahahaha!

Coming round to this time of year.

Quote: Lazzard @ December 2 2010, 10:24 AM BST

I know this isn't in the spirit of the competition (and probably why I'm not a big fan) but next time, why don't you just start where you left off?
This time next year you'll have a novel, rather than another half-novel.

You're right, it's really hard to get motivated, so when you do (via NaNoWriMo)it seems a shame to waste it.

But that's just me.

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You gonna do this then? Carry on I mean to 100,000 words.

Quote: Chappers @ October 9 2011, 9:00 PM BST

Coming round to this time of year.

You gonna do this then? Carry on I mean to 100,000 words.

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What me?
God, no.
I've written my novel and I'm not writing another one 'till someone pays me for the first.
A bit too much like hard work, frankly.

I started something last year then realised the idea didn't have legs, heh.

I've got a different idea this year, definitely using NaNoWriMo as a tool to getting the first 50,000 words (or the backbone of the story done). Plus getting in touch with others who do it is kind of fun (my region has had its own facebook group these last couple of years, as well as the sub forum on the NaNo site).

Just a couple of days to go. I've got the basis in my head and unlike zooo I won't start until 1st November.

I've just been wondering how the hell you knew I'd already started?

But then I read back, and realised I did it last year too...