Hey kids, guess what\u2026only one more week before NaNoWriMo \u201909 begins!<\/p>\n
Now I\u2019m not exactly the most\u2026level person when it comes to NaNoWriMo. In fact, I unsympathetically joined the ranks of the rebels long ago when I first started participating in NaNoWriMo in 2007. The rules stipulate something about starting a story from scratch or some nonsense. Hogwash. I do Works in Progress and I happily proclaim so!<\/p>\n
You see, this is my life: writing is pretty much the only medium I\u2019ve clung to throughout my years, even when I was barely bigger than a toddler. I\u2019m always working on something, not just in November. For me NaNoWriMo is about the personal challenge of forcing yourself to exude 50,000 words in the span of 30 days. And if I do it (which I have every year) then I validate. Some people who also work on WiP don\u2019t like to validate, but whatever. I wrote 50k words in the span of 30 days, give me my damn certificate! I don\u2019t see how I\u2019m too much different than from those who start from \u201cscratch\u201d, when that means they spent all of October creating the most detailed outline on earth that can simply be strung together with connecting words, and voila, writer has 15k already the first day. Bwahaha.<\/p>\n
But all charades aside, I am mostly prepared for this year\u2019s NaNo, school time permitting. I\u2019ve compiled what I have so far of Rebirth (what I\u2019ve worked on during NaNo the past two years) into one document, and it currently stands at 304 pages and 183,446 words. That\u2019s like\u2026almost 4 NaNos right there. Hoping beyond hope that this will be the last NaNo for Rebirth since I would quite like to finish it this year.<\/p>\n
So, now to pass it onto you, dear reader\u2026what are you plans for this year\u2019s NaNoWriMo, if you are doing anything at all? Are you a rebel or straight edge? Go ahead, surprise me, you\u2019re not going to get any criticism from this corner of the internet. =)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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