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50,134 Words of Crap Later
Nov. 29th, 2006 02:05 pmIt's true that I've been absent from the web, but this time I have an even crazier reason to do so. This past November was National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo as participants call it.
This fun little month of hell is all about one thing: writing a novel in thirty days or less. It doesn't have to be quality -- just quantity. You have to turn out 50,000 words, albeit 50,000 words of crap. Then you get to upload it to an online word-counter that tells you if you passed.
Although I have to admit that I was a little late getting started, and I had to turn out about 3000 words a day for the first week that I participated just to catch up. And guess what? I did it! I even got the little certificate to prove it!
(Below are the pictures of the little web icon they gave me and a picture of the certificate sitting on my laptop)
Why would a person ever engage in such madness?
Don't ask me -- I'm not even sure why I did it, except maybe to say that I actually did it! I haven't even finished the story. If I really felt like it, I've got a day and a half more before NaNoWriMo ends, and I think my story is worth at least another 5000 words before it's over.
For anyone who is really insane and isn't sure how to prove it to the world, I highly recommend NaNoWriMo. To describe how a person feels after a month of word-churning, this comic says it all.
Even if writing isn't your thing, I highly recommend stopping by the website and taking a look. Besides teaching people how to write crappy novels, NaNoWriMo is also about raising money for libraries all over the world. So far they have built ten libraries in Cambodia and Laos with the money raised, and this year's donations are going to build a children's library in Vietnam. In addition to this, they have projects for getting young children in the U.S. and elsewhere to become writers. Even if you don't have an interest in writing for NaNoWriMo, please stop by and make a donation if you support worldwide literacy projects.
This fun little month of hell is all about one thing: writing a novel in thirty days or less. It doesn't have to be quality -- just quantity. You have to turn out 50,000 words, albeit 50,000 words of crap. Then you get to upload it to an online word-counter that tells you if you passed.
Although I have to admit that I was a little late getting started, and I had to turn out about 3000 words a day for the first week that I participated just to catch up. And guess what? I did it! I even got the little certificate to prove it!
(Below are the pictures of the little web icon they gave me and a picture of the certificate sitting on my laptop)
Why would a person ever engage in such madness?
Don't ask me -- I'm not even sure why I did it, except maybe to say that I actually did it! I haven't even finished the story. If I really felt like it, I've got a day and a half more before NaNoWriMo ends, and I think my story is worth at least another 5000 words before it's over.
For anyone who is really insane and isn't sure how to prove it to the world, I highly recommend NaNoWriMo. To describe how a person feels after a month of word-churning, this comic says it all.
Even if writing isn't your thing, I highly recommend stopping by the website and taking a look. Besides teaching people how to write crappy novels, NaNoWriMo is also about raising money for libraries all over the world. So far they have built ten libraries in Cambodia and Laos with the money raised, and this year's donations are going to build a children's library in Vietnam. In addition to this, they have projects for getting young children in the U.S. and elsewhere to become writers. Even if you don't have an interest in writing for NaNoWriMo, please stop by and make a donation if you support worldwide literacy projects.
