12 hours until I have to decide if I dare do nanowrimo

[jack]

12 hours until I have to decide if I dare do nanowrimo. My head is filling with worldbuilding ideas, but no plot. Are fictional encyclopedias a thing yet?

More seriously, I'm less rushed off my feet than most years, but I'm busy with lots of stuff, I'm not sure I can devote enough time this month to writing a whole novel. But I do want to devote more time to blitzing on a hobby for a little bit, especially ones where I have something to show for it afterwards.

Who ended up doing yuletide this year?

Is anyone trying NaNoWriMo?

(Usual disclaimer: Every year when people talk about nanowrimo someone gets really defensive and says "everyone who does NaNoWriMo thinks a 50k word unedited novel is a path to instant published success". I don't know anyone who thinks that, if you want to debunk that idea, please go find someone who believes it and don't try to persuade me :))

Comments

[azurelunatic]

To short-circuit that conversation with the sorts of people who are likely to have that conversation, my description has turned into "write a 50k first draft during the month of November".

And if you find you don't have the time, you'll be out some time, and with more words of a draft than perhaps you'd have if you hadn't started.

[jack]

I've not heard it this year. The thing is, when I hear it, it's obviously from people who have that rant EVERY year, when all their friends do NaNoWriMo, and they're upset that their friends haven't seen the light yet. It's not someone who's just being told about it, when I would understand.

*shrug* Maybe the problem has gone away, maybe it was a couple of people whose friends WERE annoying about NaNo, but I only heard the rants.

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

I've always heard it as 'how dare you have the dedication to carve out the time for something you think is important, and how dare you think that something I think is silly is important?'