NaNoEdMo?

*takes a bow* why thank you, Snoinky dear. I figured since this was my first time doing NaNoEdMo that I needed to turn it into a rousing success. Failure can be saved for next year. lol.

Duskglimmer >> Oy. Congratulations!

Duskglimmer wrote:I feel really weird. People on the NaNoEdMo forum were talking about how much they cut from thier novel and how they lost thousands of words. I started the mont with an 83,000 word count and, um... I have a 101,000+ word count now. is that odd?

Not necessarily ... I think my wordcount is slowly but steadily increasing, too. The thing with Nanowrimo is that a lot of us padded our novels with excessive and useless subplots for extra wordcount, so in Nanoedmo, a lot of people had to take all of them out again.

Ah... *lightbulb goes off* that makes more sense. Me and my family just couldn't figure out why they were be decreasing thier novel lengths so dramatically, but that explanation makes a lot of things clearer. I wasn't even thinking that way. I guess that's what I get for trying EdMo before WriMo.

Also, there is NaNoFiMo, National Novel Finishing Month, which takes place write after NaNoWriMo...I think I'll try for that as well.

http://nanofimo.org/

That's kind of silly... I mean you look, they aren't affiliated with NaNoWriMo. At first thought, it's almost like "So you didn't win Nanowrimo? WELL! here's your chance to make it up!!!! you get ANOTHER WHOLE MONTH!!!" that's how I take it...lol.

Whats the point of trying it if you already finished your novel?

Well, for me, it gives me a time limit--otherwise, I'll never finish what I want to. I'd set it aside for 4-5 years, hate it, and then try to write something else. The pattern is continuous for me and I don't care if I win or lose, I want to finish my creation. This will help. Over the years, I don't know how many times I've tried to stay on task. I don't have the discipline for writing a novel because my schedule will interfere. I'm a Junior. I've started looking into scholarships, colleges, gov. loans, etc. and at this point that's more important to me than my novel. But I WANT both and if I accept the structured environment handed to me, it'll be easier over here on my side of the world, or at least in my reality.

well you have the time limit within Nanowrimo.

I really think nanofimo is just an exstention date...lol

I understand. I'm def. trying to 50,000. But I don't think I'll actual finish the novel and ext. dates are sometimes need.

The point of NaNo is not to finish a novel: it's to write fifty-thousand words. I don't think I'll finish my novel in November: my plots tend to be long, drawn out affairs (not a good thing, I know). But then, at least you have another deadline you can challenge yourself with. Deadlines are key.

*shrug*

Yeah, my NaNo novel is going to be much longer than 50,000 words once I expand it, so this NaNoFiMo isn't such a bad idea.

Anyway, back on topic to talking about NaNoEdMo.

For a lot of people, NaNoFiMo isn't something they set out to do. Which is to say, they go for 50 000 words in Nanowrimo and then (for whatever reason) they don't finish. And so they use NaNoFiMo as an opportunity to finish. Does that make sense? NaNoFiMo is good if you lose Nanowrimo but want to finish your novel and need motivation to do so.