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NaNoWriMo 2017 Begins!

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Nov 012017
 

October is over! Tomorrow I’ll be checking the count of comments made throughout the month of October and notify the winners of the Celebrating All Things Spooky contest, so stay tuned for that!

In the meantime, NaNoWriMo is here! Have a motivational picture from a couple years ago to get in the writing mood.

My plans have come together a little more clearly over the past few days. My novel now has the working title “The Threshing Night,” which I changed yesterday from the previous working title, “The Darkest Sun” (which I thought of the day before). It is YA fantasy.

I have three main characters figured out, and I have a good idea of where the story will go for the first five chapters or so.

That doesn’t include Chapter 1. I started writing at midnight with Chapter 2, because I’m not positive about the first chapter yet. Writing out of order is unusual for me, but this is a weird situation where I know my first chapter isn’t the first chapter.

So far, I’ve written just under 6,000 words, so I’m off to a good start!

What about you? If you’re participating in this year’s NaNoWriMo, how prepared do you feel?

Preparing for NaNoWriMo 2017

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Oct 252017
 

Image courtesy of National Novel Writing Month.

It’s that time of year again! NaNoWriMo is on the horizon!

(For those of you unfamiliar with it, NaNoWriMo refers to National Novel Writing Month, where people attempt to write at least 50,000 words in the month of November.)

I’ve been officially doing NaNoWriMo since 2009, when I wrote the first draft of Agent of the Relari.

Some years, I go into it with a strong idea of my story and characters, filled with excitement to get writing. These years go very well for me, like in 2014 when I wrote 94,000 words of The Nightbringer and last year when I wrote 78,000 words of The Time of Adversity (then using the working title Unto Dust).

Some years, I go in with barely any ideas, which is what happened in 2015, when I squeaked out 50,000 words of Elven Ascendant and haven’t touched it since.

In contrast, I spent the past months editing both The Nightbringer and The Time of Adversity and like those stories quite a bit.

This year, I feel as though I’m somewhere in between. I didn’t have any solid ideas for a long time, but now I think I’m going to write another YA fantasy novel. A few characters have begun to form in my mind, and that’s the most important part for me to start writing.

My plot ideas… are shaky. They keep changing. This definitely isn’t a 2014 or 2016 NaNoWriMo where I’ll go into it knowing the general course the story should take. Still, I feel I’m at least a little more prepared than I was in 2015.

What about you? If you’re doing NaNoWriMo, do you already know what you want to write?

NaNoRenO: NaNoWriMo for Visual Novels

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Mar 012017
 

You’ve probably heard of NaNoWriMo, the National Novel Writing Month where people challenge themselves to write 50,000 words in November, but have you heard of NaNoRenO?

NaNoRenO is basically NaNoWriMo for visual novels. It stands for……. well, it sounds a lot like “NaNoWriMo,” and the “Ren” refers to the visual novel software Ren’py. (And Ren’py comes from “Ren’ai,” a term sometimes used for Japanese dating sims.)

During NaNoRenO, developers challenge themselves to write an entire visual novel in the month of March. Many people work in groups so they can complete the entire visual novel. Consider it a cross between NaNoWriMo and a game jam.

I won’t be participating in NaNoRenO 2017 since I’m still working on projects like Ascendant Hearts (which just needs a little more help to reach its Kickstarter goal), but I might try it next year.

On the other hand, maybe I’ll use the concurrent IntRenAiMo (International Ren’ai Month) to finish up my writing for my current visual novel projects this March!

So, who here is participating in NaNoRenO or IntRenAiMo?

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