///National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.///
And it looks rather good fun. Would any AnswerBankers be willing to join up and try and write a novel in a month? Let me know and we can have a sticky thread for discussion during November.
well i did a 12,000 word dissertation for my degree in about 24 hours so i don't see why not, that was a work of fiction as well. not sure people would buy it though.
I don't think it is about selling it really. What did you study Ankou? I find most dissertations are works of fiction in one way or another, usually best shown by the vast bibliography...
Cracking out a few thousand words as a student is much easier than trying to fit 1700 words into a lunch-break!
/// Writing a novel in a month is both exhilarating and stupid, and we would all do well to invite a little more spontaneous stupidity into our lives. ///
I've often wondered if I could get rich like Barbara by writing smut/romance novels... I even thought about looking in to being an author for mills and boon once... But I don't suppose it's as easy as all that really.
Ah - it doesn't have to be public - not for the writing part.
November is all draft, so you just try and get you 50,000 down. Editing is for December and I think they do something for submission in the new year. You needn't do the rest if you're worried about that.
But the point is you don't know if you're a writer until you write a book!
Woofgang - I did pop into the forum over there, it looks like a great place to waste time talking about writing a novel (when you should be writing one!). And, as you said, mental and fun!