those of you who write fic but aren't doing NaNo ... why not?
Mostly because I've tried it in the past and not done well at it. A thousand words for me is a lot. You have to write nearly twice that number of words every day...and if you fall behind and get sick (which is inclined to happen with me), then you have to write even more to catch up.
Then, too, the emphasis is on producing a large number of words--a larger number than most writing awards require. Did you know that a book could win a Hugo and a Nebula and yet not pass muster in NaNoWriMo? It's true. The Hugo Awards and the Nebula Awards define novels as books of 40,000 words or more (http://www.emcit.com/hugo_types.shtml). NaNoWriMo demands 50,000. It seems odd that a professionally published novel could fail to qualify.
Plus I have other projects I have to finish. My FemGen story, which is really late. A Dresdenficathon story. A story for yuletide. I don't need the stress of NaNo on top of that.
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those of you who write fic but aren't doing NaNo ... why not?
Mostly because I've tried it in the past and not done well at it. A thousand words for me is a lot. You have to write nearly twice that number of words every day...and if you fall behind and get sick (which is inclined to happen with me), then you have to write even more to catch up.
Then, too, the emphasis is on producing a large number of words--a larger number than most writing awards require. Did you know that a book could win a Hugo and a Nebula and yet not pass muster in NaNoWriMo? It's true. The Hugo Awards and the Nebula Awards define novels as books of 40,000 words or more (http://www.emcit.com/hugo_types.shtml). NaNoWriMo demands 50,000. It seems odd that a professionally published novel could fail to qualify.
Plus I have other projects I have to finish. My FemGen story, which is really late. A Dresdenficathon story. A story for