Where my WRIMOS at? (NANOWRIMO2015)

[Team_Wingless]

Hey writers, it's prep-season! Anyone doing NANO this year?

I wrote Crisis Core in all of a few months last time around. This time, I'm going for the full game novelization of Final Fantasy 7 proper, going to finish it in a month and I'm not letting myself go above 35-40 chapters so I can keep it industry length, bang it out and get it out of my life. I've heard horror stories about some fan novelists working on their projects for like 10+ years and I'm getting shakey even imagining that. So far I've been doing this for about 11 months and the lessons I've learned about marketing and general writing have been invaluable. So my goal for this year is the entire story of FF7, minus like 3 disks of bs, in less than 100k words in 30 days. Granted I solve my current housing crisis (no pun intended) before November, I'm pretty psyched to pull this off. I lost like 10lbs in the process last year and my friends were worried about me, maybe I'll videoblog the process this year for lulz.

Anyone else participating? Let's cheer each other on! What are you writing, even if it's not FF related?

 

[Jason Tandro]

Eh I did NaNoWriMo last year, though I don't know if it's really all that fair since I wrote an autobiography.

I think I'll try it again this year but actually write a proper novel. I'm in the midst of my fantasy trilogy, which is seeing the writer's version of development hell, so I think I'll do something in the horror genre for this season since I've developed a taste for it. But we'll see what I feel like doing when the time comes.

 

[RedFFWolf]

I've only heard about this recently. Seems rather interesting. Might give it a go if I have time - Lord knows I wanted to do other writing projects around now *looks up at Jason with a sheepish expression, unable to keep eye contact*

Spoiler: BUT

I haven't given up yet

 

[Team_Wingless]

@JasonTandro lol I think you can write "Lorem Ipsum" forever if you want. Did you hit the full 50k?

Good stuff all, if anyone's doing it this year lets like get a cheerleading squad going to get each other to the end. Like I said I gotta see if I can get situated with stuff before November but October just started. Good luck all!

 

[Jason Tandro]

Yup, though about 5k of it was excerpts from old journals etc.

 

[Flare]

I've never done this before, and while I doubt I'll write 50,000 words in November, I might use it as a smaller goal for the fun of it, like I dunno, 10,000 words at least or something.
I'm in the process of writing the second book in my own fantasy series; I'm currently re-reading/editing the first book, the first time I'm reading it in print form, and I'm wanting to finish the first one before I write too much on the second one so it's fresh in my mind.

I try to stay away from fanfic writing for now to focus on my own novels.... we'll see if it works.

 

[Team_Wingless]

@Flare did you print it out for the first time? Isn't it bizarre to have this big phone book of text in front of you and be like "wow, I wrote that." (2nd thought of course is man, I need to get out more. Lol). I've been there, for me it was kinda anticlimactic but surreal at the same time. When I finished the first draft of my original novel, I think the first thing I did was slept for like 12 hours. Ha ha.

For NANO, it's really just about writing anything and FINISHING it. That's the whole reason it was invented, to get us heel-draggers over quarter-syndrome. I'm all for the red-eye balls to the walls crying in a corner dash to 50k, but I think the writers who set smaller goals are more sane. I saw this one vlog of a girl who wrote a whole 90k word novel in 30 days and I'm just like daaaaayyyuum.

 

[RedFFWolf]

A phonebook, you say?

- Complete with Chocolate Stains!

Sure feels weighs that way!

 

[Flare]

@Flare did you print it out for the first time? Isn't it bizarre to have this big phone book of text in front of you and be like "wow, I wrote that." (2nd thought of course is man, I need to get out more. Lol). I've been there, for me it was kinda anticlimactic but surreal at the same time. When I finished the first draft of my original novel, I think the first thing I did was slept for like 12 hours. Ha ha.

For NANO, it's really just about writing anything and FINISHING it. That's the whole reason it was invented, to get us heel-draggers over quarter-syndrome. I'm all for the red-eye balls to the walls crying in a corner dash to 50k, but I think the writers who set smaller goals are more sane. I saw this one vlog of a girl who wrote a whole 90k word novel in 30 days and I'm just like daaaaayyyuum.

Haha, no I printed it out last year, and I've been able to have some family read it and critique it for me, but this is the first time I've actually read the printed version. It's about 100k words, I'd have to check again to be sure, but it took me a year to write it. It was tons of fun, but I didn't spend like 8 hours a day on it, I just wrote a little bit every day.
Except for these two weeks, where I gave myself a challenge to write 8 pages a day... And by the end of those two weeks, I had written about 56 pages, so I reached the deadline (even if I didn't write 8 pages a day all the times, I'd make up for it the next day).

When I finished it.... I don't remember it being particularly like "WHOOO I finished it!" Maybe because I already had the next book being planned in my mind, but it was a nice feeling to have it finished. It meant I could now start to edit it again and polish it up and look for agents to help publish it, all while starting on the next book.

Long story short, I never found an agent to take on the book and have since decided to self-publish it, for better or worse.

 

[Team_Wingless]

@RedWolf it's beautiful! :')

@Flare Good stuff. Most pub'd authors are self-pubing anyway now, doing a "hybrid publishing" thing, so it'll probably all work out for the best! Mine was almost done until life happened, and I sat on the last chapter for like 2 years before going back to it. My process was not smooth sailing