1mnleona
I may do it this year. I have written the 50,000 words for NaNoWriMo a couple of times and would like to edit what I have written.
3mnleona
It is for people who want to write and those who also have written books. In November the challenge is to write at least 50,000 words. Just write and do bother to edit or worry about your spelling. Badges are given and the "winners" get a badge. I have accomplished it 3 times. No plans to publish at my age but I wanted to challenge myself. Last November I was on an European cruise so did not try.
They have an April and July Camp where people make their own schedule and how many words they want to write. I may do some update and editing on the ones I have written.
There is no charge.
They have an April and July Camp where people make their own schedule and how many words they want to write. I may do some update and editing on the ones I have written.
There is no charge.
4WholeHouseLibrary
I ran a writing group for eight years, meeting every Saturday at first, with a different format for each weekend, and repeating in that order every month. For the occasional 5th Saturday, 2 weeks in advance, invariably the members chose to have the additional time to just write. We met in a comfortable back room of a coffee shop downtown. I appreciated them very much, and they appreciated me (for bringing in so much business) that they made me their first Customer of the Month.
Every November, we scheduled one to three meetings on weeknights for those who wanted to participate in NaNoWriMo. It was so popular that we used a secondary room as well, and our members wanted to make it a regular thing. So, we did, but just one weeknight meeting in addition to our Saturday schedule. One could come to write; others could use the other room for a critique session.
Every November, we scheduled one to three meetings on weeknights for those who wanted to participate in NaNoWriMo. It was so popular that we used a secondary room as well, and our members wanted to make it a regular thing. So, we did, but just one weeknight meeting in addition to our Saturday schedule. One could come to write; others could use the other room for a critique session.
5mnleona
>4 WholeHouseLibrary: What a great idea. Do you still do NaNoWriMo and have you written any books?
We lived in Round Rock form 1985-1995 and moved back to Minnesota because our kids were having kids. We lived on Sam Bass Road. The area has really grown. Remember when Pflugerville had the yellow blinking light? My hometown is in West Texas, Monahans.
We lived in Round Rock form 1985-1995 and moved back to Minnesota because our kids were having kids. We lived on Sam Bass Road. The area has really grown. Remember when Pflugerville had the yellow blinking light? My hometown is in West Texas, Monahans.
6WholeHouseLibrary
>5 mnleona: I moved here from New Jersey in 1989; still in the same house in Round Rock West.
The writing group was formed in early 2008, and the first manager left after a few months. The second manager left after six months due to health reasons, and asked me to take it over. I didn't make many changes to the format if the meetings (mostly,) but I had a few malicious members that I had to remove. Some had created sock puppets, so I went through two rounds of weeding out members who had never come to a meeting. I contacted them all first; gave them plenty of time to reply. Fortunately, manager #2 had run two years of NaNoWriMo meetings, so I was familiar with what was expected.
I left the group, (actually shut it down) in 2017. Too many things I was dealing with, mostly involving the writing group, and no one stepped forward to help, although I asked, then pleaded. They started back up again three days later, but you wouldn't recognize how it's run now. Administratively, the writing group had been demanding more of my time than before, and my priority was not them. It was being a caretaker for my (now late) wife.
I, personally, have not written any books. I don't have the temperament. My best writing tends to be impulsive, rambling, stream-of-consciousness short stories - and some of the first drafts were written here on LibraryThing. I have edited and/or proofread over forty novels, a few novellas, etc., that have made it to print. None of these were something that sprang out of NaNoWriMo, though.
The writing group was formed in early 2008, and the first manager left after a few months. The second manager left after six months due to health reasons, and asked me to take it over. I didn't make many changes to the format if the meetings (mostly,) but I had a few malicious members that I had to remove. Some had created sock puppets, so I went through two rounds of weeding out members who had never come to a meeting. I contacted them all first; gave them plenty of time to reply. Fortunately, manager #2 had run two years of NaNoWriMo meetings, so I was familiar with what was expected.
I left the group, (actually shut it down) in 2017. Too many things I was dealing with, mostly involving the writing group, and no one stepped forward to help, although I asked, then pleaded. They started back up again three days later, but you wouldn't recognize how it's run now. Administratively, the writing group had been demanding more of my time than before, and my priority was not them. It was being a caretaker for my (now late) wife.
I, personally, have not written any books. I don't have the temperament. My best writing tends to be impulsive, rambling, stream-of-consciousness short stories - and some of the first drafts were written here on LibraryThing. I have edited and/or proofread over forty novels, a few novellas, etc., that have made it to print. None of these were something that sprang out of NaNoWriMo, though.
