Kamikaze Novel Writing

spotmonk writes "November is National Novel Writing Month, and the beginning of this year's nanowrimo program will be starting on Nov 1st. Participants will write a novel of a minimum of 50,000 words in a month's time. Described as valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over talent and craft, nanowrimo takes a kamikaze approach to writing a novel - you may not get the best novel out of it, but at least you've written a novel. Sign-ups last till the end of the month."

Comments

Re:Chapter One

[mclearn]

Whoever modded this offtopic obviously has no idea as to the reference...

It was from "Throw Momma From the Train" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094142/) and Danny Devito's character wrote a godawful short story that started this way.

Hilarious movie. :-)

Re:Cheating

[daeley]

As they point out in the faq:

Yes, they can. But since the only real prize of NaNoWriMo is the self-satisfaction that comes with pulling off such a great, creative feat, we don't really worry too much about people cheating. Those who enter an impossibly high number or send in 50,000 words they copied from Wikipedia.org just to see their name on the Winner's page are pitiful indeed, and likely need more help than a downloadable winner's certificate can provide them.

Sign-ups last until the end of which month?

[dkellis]

Last year, you could sign up on the last day of November if you wanted to. If you could write a 50,000 word novel in less than 24 hours, more power to you.