Writer's block, an owner's guide: NaNoWriMo
I’ve not written here for a few days, and I don’t expect to for a few
more, unless I get around to typing up my notes on Teresa Amabile’s
theory of intrinsic motviation. Guess what I’m doing instead? I decided
to participate in National Novel Writing Month.
Desperate stalkers who need to hear from me every few days could lurk over to my other journal where I think I do feel a post coming on. link deleted; I’m no longer active on the other blog.
Published on November 6, 2004 at 11:36 am. Linking to this article? Thank you! The permanent address is http://www.todayiwrite.com/journal/nanowrimo.html
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Writer's block, an owner's guide: NaNoWriMo
As I mentioned months ago, National Novel Writing Month looks like… well, maybe not all that much fun, but an ordeal worth considering, like running the marathon. Look around it for yourself, but do it today.
I noticed these interesting facts which might interest most writers:
Most people who sign up for the event do not actually start their novels. Of those who started, most finished.
Yes, just writing one word gives you an odds-on chance of being a novelist a month later.
And this: a lot of the people who stop writing seem to do so when they reach a round number of words. Just as on the marathon it’s better (they tell me) not to allow yourself to rest as soon as you crest a hill, so it’s maybe not a great idea to set yourself arbitrary word-count targets unrelated to the story. I don’t know.
Still looking around, I found these clear instructions for storyboarding in a hurry by Holly Lisle. I’m going to give that a try. I don’t think I have time to write a novel this November. If only I had an unproductive desk job like the one I fought so hard to break out of! And yet… and yet… By the way, Today I Write is approaching 12,000 words after only about three months and without any particular effort on my part. And, it has definitely supported me in doing reading and other stuff that I might have delayed; and I’m positive it has supported me in getting a lot of my other writing done.
So - as I suspected - blogging turns out to be an aid to productivity in the real world.
Published on October 26, 2004 at 1:44 am. Linking to this article? Thank you! The permanent address is http://www.todayiwrite.com/journal/nanowrimo.html
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