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What is Camp NaNoWriMo?

Based on November’s National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), Camp NaNoWriMo provides the online support, tracking tools, and hard deadline to help you write the rough draft of your novel in a month… other than November!

Camp NaNoWriMo was established in 2011 as a project of the Office of Letters and Light, the parent 501(c)(3) nonprofit to National Novel Writing Month and the Young Writers Program. 2013 Camp sessions will take place in April and July.

What: Writing a novel from scratch in one month’s time.

Who: You! (And about 20,000 other novelists around the world.) Let’s write some perhaps-awful, but definitely lengthy, prose together.

Why: The reasons are endless! To actively participate in one of our era’s most enchanting art forms! To write without having to obsess over quality. To be able to make obscure references to passages from our novels at parties.

When: You can sign up anytime to add your name to the roster. Writing begins at 12:00 AM on April 1, and again on July 1. To be added to the official list of winners, you must reach your word-count goal by 11:59 PM on the last day of the month. Once your novel has been verified by our web-based team of robotic word counters, the partying begins.
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I hope some of you will participate. It's a great way to train yourself with word count goals. It also gives you an awesome deadline rush that will help you finish. Unfortunately we've already missed the April start up, but a second one starts in July. If you're interested, start planning now! Or if you'd like to use it as an aid to continue something you already have, that's okay too. I myself will be participating in July. There is also the official National Novel Writing Month in November. Good luck everyone! Feel free to post your thoughts in this thread! And don't be afraid to share your username so we can all keep track of eachother!

Well since you have the basic premise of a previous nano attempt, it's sort of like already having a plan, right?

I'm not sure yet. I've been thinking of just continuing what I've already been writing. Use nano as a grindstone to stick my nose to.

How many times have you done nano before? I've only ever done it once- failed miserably. I've been thinking of starting something new for the sake of taking a break from all of my other writing. The only reason I was thinking of doing a continuation was because last November I completely let go of the novel I was workong on so I could work on nano. I hate dropping things and then trying to pick them back up.

I hope some of the guild members will take advantage of nano. It's a great thing.

I wish you luck with pantsing it. I've never been much of a planner. I usually only plan in my head if that even counts, haha.

That's very true. The more a person is involved in the full nano experience, the more likely they are to reach their goal. Congrats on all those wins by the way! I only reached 24000 last year. I still considered it a won though sicne it was the highest word count I had ever managed. Since then word counts have been no problem. I'm just too much of a perfectionist to finish anything. I think that's why I eventually gave up last year. I couldn't read my work without cringing, ahaha. My new user for nano is Taliadelune by the way. I couldn't remember my old one... It's too hot outside to think properly.

Really? Only two have seen the light of day? I guess that's not surprising though. I've done that enough times with my own work. One day it's a great idea and the next I'm banging my head against a desk wondering what the hell I was thinking.

The forums are definitely a black hole of distraction. I, of course, learned that the hard way.

You said you did script frenzy, right? I've heard of that though I've never really taken a look. Do you enjoy script writing?

I've never tried script writing before, but I'm starting to think I ought to. It seems like it could be a fresh change of perspective. I already know, like you, I'd prefer good old prose though. You know writing a script for a novel already being worked on could really help someone with writer's block...

Sorry?

No, I'm sorry! I had no clue what napomo was! Jeeze, I should make a page for it. But yeah, haha, it'd be cool to have the poets compete against the novelists.