I'm a big proponent of NaNoWriMo as I've been doing it for 5 or 6 years now. However, this will be the year I don't do it. Why? I just feel like getting 50,000 words in a month isn't the goal I want to achieve anymore. I'm going to try something different and I'm wondering if anyone would like to join in.
My proposal is to write with intense furor for two weeks and then edit the hell out of it for two weeks throughout November. The goal is to basically have a first draft completed in two weeks. This means the goal would be more along the lines of longish short story or a novella (around 15,000-30,000 words) Then the following two weeks will be spent focusing on edits. This means at the end of the month you wouldn't have a first draft, you'd have a complete, polished work in November. The goal is certainly smaller, but more focused.
If anyone is interested in joining in, I'll probably start a thread in November on the forum. Not sure what I'm going to call it yet, but my hope is that I'll have something ready to submit in one month.
Thoughts?
My proposal is to write with intense furor for two weeks and then edit the hell out of it for two weeks throughout November. The goal is to basically have a first draft completed in two weeks. This means the goal would be more along the lines of longish short story or a novella (around 15,000-30,000 words) Then the following two weeks will be spent focusing on edits. This means at the end of the month you wouldn't have a first draft, you'd have a complete, polished work in November. The goal is certainly smaller, but more focused.
If anyone is interested in joining in, I'll probably start a thread in November on the forum. Not sure what I'm going to call it yet, but my hope is that I'll have something ready to submit in one month.
Thoughts?