Comments on: A Writer’s Alternative to NaNoWriMo http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/wentrekin/2009/10/a-writers-alternative-to-nanowrimo/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-writers-alternative-to-nanowrimo This is the podcast station for TheNervousBreakdown.com, an online culture magazine featuring authors and artists from around the world. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:42:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Jeffrey Pillow http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/wentrekin/2009/10/a-writers-alternative-to-nanowrimo/#comment-44633 Jeffrey Pillow Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:52:46 +0000 http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/?p=21591#comment-44633 Enjoyed the article, Will. I tried my hand at National Novel Writing Month this year. I'd never heard of it until last year. (I don't get out much) I was unsuccessful in my attempt and, quite honestly, lasted a single day. I'm a slow writer. To pace myself at 2,000 words a day isn't really possible. I can knock off that in a day no problem. I can knock off 8-9,000 words a day, just not everyday. Not consistently. By signing up, I sort of signed up for failure. I knew that ahead of time. I still proceeded. I decided instead to do National Novel Writing Year. I feel that is more feasible for me, my personality. I made a promise to myself I would write at least 165 words a day everyday on my novel. Good words. At least 165. That way it stays concise and on the right path. Granted, I keep a hardback notebook with me for ideas that pop into my head, character outlines, etc. At 165 words a day for 365 days, that's just over 60,000 words, and I am a fan of the just over 200 pg. novel. It allows me to achieve a goal I probably wouldn't reach otherwise since I also partake in National Play Basketball for Two Hours a Day Year, also known as NaPlBasTwHoDayYe. Enjoyed the article, Will. I tried my hand at National Novel Writing Month this year. I’d never heard of it until last year. (I don’t get out much) I was unsuccessful in my attempt and, quite honestly, lasted a single day. I’m a slow writer. To pace myself at 2,000 words a day isn’t really possible. I can knock off that in a day no problem. I can knock off 8-9,000 words a day, just not everyday. Not consistently. By signing up, I sort of signed up for failure. I knew that ahead of time. I still proceeded.

I decided instead to do National Novel Writing Year. I feel that is more feasible for me, my personality. I made a promise to myself I would write at least 165 words a day everyday on my novel. Good words. At least 165. That way it stays concise and on the right path. Granted, I keep a hardback notebook with me for ideas that pop into my head, character outlines, etc.

At 165 words a day for 365 days, that’s just over 60,000 words, and I am a fan of the just over 200 pg. novel. It allows me to achieve a goal I probably wouldn’t reach otherwise since I also partake in National Play Basketball for Two Hours a Day Year, also known as NaPlBasTwHoDayYe.

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