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NaNoWriMo 2013
Posted by Bob Jonkman on 1st November 2013
NaNoWriMo — Why so black?
NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month, in which people (the WriMos) try to write a 50,000 word novel during the 30 days of November. That’s not as ludicrous as it sounds — 50,000 words over 30 days is only 1667 words a day (with 10 days off for good behaviour, at least, 10 days with only 1666 words). 50,000 words is about the size of Brave New World, which someone once told me was the benchmark for NaNoWriMo (but TIL that Brave New World has 64531 words).
The first year I participated I got a terrific start on my first novel. All 675 words. Last year I got as far as the novel description. 11 words. But this year I have better idea. I’ve got some unfinished blog posts queued up, so I’ll take their word count, flesh them out, count the word difference, and submit that as my daily writing quota. Of course, it’s possible that I’ll edit more out of an incomplete blog post than I’ll be adding, so there’s a very real possibility of a negative word count. If that keeps up I might end up with a deficit at the end of the month. Let’s see how the NaNoWriMo word counter deals with a Buffer Underflow.
Come join me in the Kitchener-Waterloo-Cambridge region pages. Here are some handy links for local WriMos:
- See the KWC NaNo calendar, in plain HTML, suitable for printing and framing.
- And if you want to include it in your own calendar software (like Microsof Outlook, Apple iCalendar or Thunderbird Lightning) use this iCal link (.ics file, 7.5 kBytes)
- Or if you have an Atom/RSS feed reader and want new events to pop up in your news stream automatically there’s an Atom feed.
- And if you’re looking to chat in these long, lonely November nights, I’m hanging out (all alone, I might add!) in the KW Nano Chat Room.
- For those of you with an IRC program use the server irc.mibbit.com, select secure (SSL) port number 6697, and tune into channel #kwnano You might be able to click on (or copy’n’paste) the IRC link: irc://irc.mibbit.com:6697/#kwnano to have your IRC program connect automatically.
The NaNoWriMo crest has all rights reserved, and so couldn’t be used here. From their FAQ page: Logo: Please do not use our logo (or parts of our logo) on anything without our permission.
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