Who is going to brave NaNoWriMo this year? It happens the month of November each year.

o The >NaNoWriMo< website.

o Funny >youtube< stuff.

thanks for the links

My basic writing plan this year will be 2,000 words each morning. I start at 8am sharp, but only have ~90 minutes before life begins for the day. Plus, 30 minutes of planning each evening for the next day.

I am doing this, and looking forward to it.

I am seriously considering it.

I just have to find some discipline...

I am seriously considering it.

I just have to find some discipline...

taig wrote:

I am seriously considering it.

I just have to find some discipline...

i need time :s
that the issue with me... life begins at 7 and ends at 7 :P with some other time for myself so its a complicated matter.

Who is going to brave NaNoWriMo this year?...

Or maybe write porn. Either way the bar is pretty low.

Does anyone know the rules? Is it ok to start early?

Does anyone know the rules? Is it ok to start early?

Montalve wrote:

taig wrote:

I am seriously considering it.

I just have to find some discipline...

i need time :s
that the issue with me... life begins at 7 and ends at 7 :P with some other time for myself so its a complicated matter.

Yeah, I can see how that would be a problem. You'd basically be doing "life" stuff, then writing the rest of your waking hours.

besides :S i wouldn'tbe writing for the PF Chronicler for a moth, nor editing non nothing else :S

Thank you for sharing this. Indeed, this may be the kick-in-the-arse I needed. I've done something similar in the past. Cranked out three to six pages each day, every day for a month. The results were… questionable, but at least I had a ‘complete’ novel in front of me. It’ll be tough slogging though, but it’ll be worth it in the end.

Holy crap!

The real prize in NaNoWriMo is the manuscript itself, and the exhilarating feeling of setting an ambitious creative goal and nailing it. And the $1,000,000.

Just kidding about the $1,000,000!

I'm also involved this year. Can't wait.

I'm going to do it too, but my goal will be to write 50k words here on Paizo in 30 days. Be prepared for an unending stream of veiled insults, condescending a~%%*#%ry, hollow threats, and general incomprehensible nonsense from yours truly.

In other words, just like my normal posts, but at a much higher volume.

I'm going to do it too, but my goal will be to write 50k words here on Paizo in 30 days.

In other words, just like my normal posts, but at a much higher volume.

Sebastian wrote:

In other words, just like my normal posts, but at a much higher volume.

You mean even louder?

Day 1: 674 words; Total: 674 words

:: ~1 hour. This is hard. When I started I had no idea what my story would be about, but the first chapter is forming all by itself. I now have 4 or 5 characters in mind, and know where the next 2-3 chapters should go.

Day 1: 674 words; Total: 674 words

:: ~1 hour. This is hard.

I figured out I can't realistically do it this year, but I am going to step up my production this month.

It begins.
I'm doing 7 pages a day. At least, that's the plan. I'll just check Paizo in the morning other than that, I'll be working.

My problem is coming up with a story I can write 175 pages on, that I can't take to a publisher.

Okay I am going to be honest I really don't see the point in this. I mean I have always felt writing should come naturally and because you want to tell a story Not because someone tells you to do it some random month.

It begins.
I'm doing 7 pages a day. At least, that's the plan. I'll just check Paizo in the morning other than that, I'll be working.

If I was to start it out like,
"The night was dark, and I'll be damned if it wasn't stormy too...."
would that be a bad start?

Okay I am going to be honest I really don't see the point in this. I mean I have always felt writing should come naturally and because you want to tell a story Not because someone tells you to do it some random month.

Okay I am going to be honest I really don't see the point in this. I mean I have always felt writing should come naturally and because you want to tell a story Not because someone tells you to do it some random month.

Which sometimes takes a clever gimmick.

Plus, like, if people don't have a deadline, well.....they usually just try to get it done some time before they're actually dead.

Sorry still not getting it. I mean if you are having to wait for someone to tell you to do it in a month to get motivated to begin with Instead of being motivated by excitement for the actual story. well it just seems somewhat soulless to me

Sorry still not getting it. I mean if you are having to wait for someone to tell you to do it in a month to get motivated to begin with Instead of being motivated by excitement for the actual story. well it just seems somewhat soulless to me.

Edit as a sidenote is there actually a prize for doing this and is there actually anyway to prove that the writing you have done has all been within that one month?

Admittedly I guess I don't get it since I spend a lot of time on fan fiction boards where the idea of a deadline is none existent. The next chapter is done when it is ready.

And Kevin
"Well, you're entitled to your own opinion, but I think that this game where you make-believe with dice and stuff seems kinda pointless. If yo need dice and rulebooks that weigh five tons to help you Roleplay, then maybe you're in the wrong line of work."
At least, that's I how read it.

I delete it.

Deleted most of mine as well. I apologise if I caused any offence with my questions it was not my intent

Not trying to get this somewhat back on track or anything ; )

I'm not much of a writer. Never have been. However, it intrigues me. I can come up with character ideas, but I can't come up with a story idea if it came up and slapped me upside the head with a wrecking ball.

Is there something out there that has ideas for plots (probably the wrong word for it). To clarify, whole "this is why you're doing it" thing. The expansion of "Man vs Man", "Man vs Nature", etc. A "man abducts woman for a handsom bounty and will kill anyone that gets in the way of his profit." Maybe that wasn't clear, but if I at least could get some kind of idea, maybe then I could write an adventure...

Now, I'll say I didn't read up on the links, but I wonder how this would work in a programming/coding nature? I can code until my heart's content, but for each 10 "words" of code, I probably will end up with 5 "words" of actual content. Dang bugs and errors ; )

Kevin Mack:
As to the general philosophy of this event, a couple of points occur to me:
1) If you are a professional writer and your publisher says 'write me 50,000 words by the end of the month' then, unless your name is J.K. Rowling, I imagine that you have to write those 50,000 words by the end of the month or go hungry.... In that context, I suspect this could be good practice for those who have aspirations to some day be published.
2) Some people may have a yearning to write a novel but tend to defer it, and defer it, and defer it... and never get anything done without being set goals by an institution and format such as this.

How many of these words being written by hundreds of different people might actually be worth anything except to those who wrote them and their immediate circle of friends and relatives? Very few words I suspect. Does that mean that the time spent writing them is wasted? In my opinion not at all, so long as those doing it derive a sense of satisfaction, or something else from it. If nothing else, they could have spent all those hours doing something passive and brain-rotting, instead of actually having to sit and think.

Hisssss! Topicsessss! We doesssn't likesssss themssss, no we doessssn't!

Not trying to get this somewhat back on track or anything ; )

I'm not much of a writer. Never have been. However, it intrigues me. I can come up with character ideas, but I can't come up with a story idea if it came up and slapped me upside the head with a wrecking ball.

Is there something out there that has ideas for plots (probably the wrong word for it). To clarify, whole "this is why you're doing it" thing. The expansion of "Man vs Man", "Man vs Nature", etc. A "man abducts woman for a handsom bounty and will kill anyone that gets in the way of his profit." Maybe that wasn't clear, but if I at least could get some kind of idea, maybe then I could write an adventure...

Now, I'll say I didn't read up on the links, but I wonder how this would work in a programming/coding nature? I can code until my heart's content, but for each 10 "words" of code, I probably will end up with 5 "words" of actual content. Dang bugs and errors ; )

...then stick them all in a tavern, toss a random event such as someone being assassinated at the next table into it, and see what happens from there...

I'm the kind of person that makes things a reality, a "doer". I don't come up with my own ideas, that's usually someone else or I find a need for something. I don't say "I'm going to make a widget that someone wants", I say ""I'm going to make a widget that someone needs".

Charles Evans 25 wrote:

...then stick them all in a tavern, toss a random event such as someone being assassinated at the next table into it, and see what happens from there...

Actually, it's that kind of stuff I'm looking for. In the end, an adventure (RPG adventure) is an outline of a book. Everything that characters do is what makes it a novel.

I'm the kind of person that makes things a reality, a "doer". I don't come up with my own ideas, that's usually someone else or I find a need for something. I don't say "I'm going to make a widget that someone wants", I say ""I'm going to make a widget that someone needs".

Edit:
Possibly James Jacobs may have commented on novels versus adventure modules on one of the various Golarion fiction threads around the place.
But if you go away and look at books of adventure modules (or vice-versa) you'll be able to see that what is good in one format doesn't always cross over terribly well into the other, for one reason or another.

Plus, like, if people don't have a deadline, well.....they usually just try to get it done some time before they're actually dead.

That being said I'm giving NaNoWriMo a go this year, so wish me luck.

Best of luck to all of you who are participating this year!

(edited)
I'm unsure now that I have understood correctly what you're looking for?
However I have an idea that James Jacobs has commented in chats and other places that Novel Writing for Publication and Adventure Writing for Publication are two very different beasts.
If you're looking for advice about writing an Adventure for Publication, I don't know that advice about writing a novel will carry over very well....
Even as an amateur I'm reasonably confident stringing together stories (silly or otherwise) in the novel/fiction sense, but my attempts to respond to Pathfinder Society Open Calls or RPG Superstar have frankly sucked beyond belief, and I simply ignore the open calls now because I recognise how out of my depth I am with the format. The two formats are looking for completely different things. I wish I could remember James Jacobs' exact description of the differences between the writing requirements, because I think it might be helpful here, and would be much clearer than any attempts I could make to explain them...
If you're looking for suggestions/help coming up with a publishable adventure to run under Pathfinder or some other RPG I think you might be best starting a thread specifically for it, rather than looking for novel-writing help.

Edit:
Possibly James Jacobs may have commented on...

While my intents aren't for publication, mostly to entertain a group with a good adventure, it makes sense that the two aren't the same. The whole "coming up with an idea" is pretty much where I get stuck.

If there's something out there with archetypes (kidnapping, murder, overtrow the government, etc) for stories with suggestions on how to twist them so they aren't the same story, I'd pick it up in a second!

You have some good points. I may have to create a new string for this subject.

While my intents aren't for publication, mostly to entertain a group with a good adventure, it makes sense that the two aren't the same. The whole "coming up with an idea" is pretty much where I get stuck.

If there's something out there with archetypes (kidnapping, murder, overtrow the government, etc) for stories with suggestions on how to twist them so they aren't the same story, I'd pick it up in a second!

Day 2: 850; Total: 1,524

:: <1 hour.

Day 2: 850; Total: 1,524

:: <1 hour.

I signed up on October 31st and started last night. I have heard about this for some time now and am finally giving it a shot.

Day 1: 680ish. (way too slow to make it).

...
If there's something out there with archetypes (kidnapping, murder, overtrow the government, etc) for stories with suggestions on how to twist them so they aren't the same story, I'd pick it up in a second!

This if from an email the NaNoWriMo autobot sent me:

Day 2: 850; Total: 1,524

:: <1 hour.

My goal is to do 3,000 words a day, which should give me a decent buffer. Although I fell about 500 words short yesterday.