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Hey everyone!
I know it's been ages since I've wrote a journal or helped out around here. Life is amazingly crazy. Best part of this crazy its its mid way through week one of NaNoWriMo! Woot!
Recently I was reading through the NaNo hand book by Chris Batty and a little something he suggested doing was deleting your inner editor. Here's a quote from the founding father of NaNoWriMo in his book 'No Plot? No problem!':
"I'll need to confiscate your Inner Editor. That's right, the Inner Editor. The doubting, self-critical voice that we all inherited around puberty as an unfortunate door price for surviving childhood. The inner Editor is a busybody and perfectionist, happiest when it's tsk-tsking our shortcomings and weaving our past blunders into a rich tapestry of personal failure. For reasons not entirely unclear to anyone, we invite this fun spoiling tyrant with us on all our artistic endeavors. And from painting to music-making to writing, our endeavors have paid the price of this killjoy's presence. Thanks to the inner Editor's merciless second-guessing most of our artistic outputs end up tentative and truncated, doomed to be abandoned at the first sign that the results are anything short of brilliant. The fear of doing things imperfectly turns what should be fun, creative endeavors into worrisome tasks. With the Inner Editor on board completing any extracurricular activity you haven't already masters is like trying to ride a bicycle uphill towards while towing a rhinoceros in a wagon behind you. This month we lose the rhino."
From there he goes to give us a big shiny button and once it's pressed your inner editor is gone for the entire month of November and it will be returned December 1st, just in time for editing time. Here is your shiny button
[[TAKE MY INNER EDITOR]]
Touch that, close your eyes and try not to leave a finger mark on your screen... and imagine that nice feeling as your inner editor disappears for the next 20ish days.
Alright, that's my nano advice for this week! Be sure to check out the pep talks, use write-or-die for self WW's and be sure to stay ahead before the storms of week 2 hit!
ALSO, super happy note
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I know it's been ages since I've wrote a journal or helped out around here. Life is amazingly crazy. Best part of this crazy its its mid way through week one of NaNoWriMo! Woot!
Recently I was reading through the NaNo hand book by Chris Batty and a little something he suggested doing was deleting your inner editor. Here's a quote from the founding father of NaNoWriMo in his book 'No Plot? No problem!':
"I'll need to confiscate your Inner Editor. That's right, the Inner Editor. The doubting, self-critical voice that we all inherited around puberty as an unfortunate door price for surviving childhood. The inner Editor is a busybody and perfectionist, happiest when it's tsk-tsking our shortcomings and weaving our past blunders into a rich tapestry of personal failure. For reasons not entirely unclear to anyone, we invite this fun spoiling tyrant with us on all our artistic endeavors. And from painting to music-making to writing, our endeavors have paid the price of this killjoy's presence. Thanks to the inner Editor's merciless second-guessing most of our artistic outputs end up tentative and truncated, doomed to be abandoned at the first sign that the results are anything short of brilliant. The fear of doing things imperfectly turns what should be fun, creative endeavors into worrisome tasks. With the Inner Editor on board completing any extracurricular activity you haven't already masters is like trying to ride a bicycle uphill towards while towing a rhinoceros in a wagon behind you. This month we lose the rhino."
From there he goes to give us a big shiny button and once it's pressed your inner editor is gone for the entire month of November and it will be returned December 1st, just in time for editing time. Here is your shiny button
[[TAKE MY INNER EDITOR]]
Touch that, close your eyes and try not to leave a finger mark on your screen... and imagine that nice feeling as your inner editor disappears for the next 20ish days.
Alright, that's my nano advice for this week! Be sure to check out the pep talks, use write-or-die for self WW's and be sure to stay ahead before the storms of week 2 hit!
ALSO, super happy note
This group has over 100 members Co-Founder,
-AJ-
If you're looking for a sign to do Camp NaNo...
... This is it.
Camp NaNoWriMo starts in just a few days from now. Camp NaNoWriMo is just like NaNoWriMo except that it's in either April of July (and there's cabins, fires and marshmallow roasts). You also get to set your word count goal or even work on another project such as a script, etc. The website is here if you're unfamiliar with it: https://campnanowrimo.org/
Anyone who want's to or who is going to participate go ahead and update us with your progress here on this journal. State your word count goal April 1st and I'll keep it written down. Anyone who finishes their word count and challenges themselves will get a feature here in th
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Ahhh fall is in the air! The sweet smell of hot chocolate mixed with crisp leaves swirls around some. Others its the smell of ink, paper and character blood littering your desk. Yep, it's that time of year again, NaNoWriMo is in just a short 23 days from now!
Personally it just doesn't feel like NaNoWriMo is coming unless I'm re-re-re-reading No Plot? No Problem! by Chris Baty for the 20th time all of October (Just the first half of course, don't want to tear rifts in the time-space continuum. Those who read the book will get this.) I also like to read Writing Magic: Creating Stories that Fly by Gail Carson Levine. Those two off and on durin
For those doing Camp NaNoWriMo...
That dreaded week two.
It's that week the old people talk about like a bad predictable annual storm as they close the hatches of their writing ship. It's that week for the newbies where they wonder why they got into this crazy idea and going back to actually sleeping and socializing (and probably showering) like a normal person again would be so much better.
Cue lighting, cue thunder, cue 80% of the writers quitting.
I want to start off with a story that I read a long time ago that sticks with me during week two.
Once upon a time there was a boy and his dog. This boy and his dog were close. They played together every day, the boy used the
Last Minute Pep Talk and Word Count boosting tips!
Hey guys! November's been a hectic month for me (and all of you I'm sure!) This is my first year writing a novel while being in a public school so it's been an insane challenge. Personally I was ready to quit Saturday and then on Sunday... I wrote 12,000 words! So it's not too late for you to catch up and push that extra little boost into your novel to win if you're behind. :la:
If you've already won or are right on track good for you. Go eat a cookie and get on with normal life. :XD:
Here's a few tips to boost that word count a bit and they're right out of the NaNoWriMo handbook... so not cheating! :shifty:
1) Open your novel and find the
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Mine is still there... im going to use it now XD