I might do this, depending on how quickly I finish my current novel. I will need a break before starting the next one. Like Jannert, I don't understand why they chose November. It's a bad month for students pretty much everywhere, not to mention everyone else shopping for Christmas or Thanksgiving in the US.
I was part of the camp in April, worked out pretty good. The goal wasn't 50k, but I think with more effort I could have been close if not completed. November is a funny month with Thanksgiving and all. January sounds Ideal. What I think sucks about these self goal competitions is that you are drained when its over. I did not even look at a computer for at least two weeks after the event. Even then I was sick in my stomach thinking about marching forward. It took til mid June for me to even think I had something good coming from my small brain. I did have fun though and would be prepared if anyone wants to do January.
I don't have one. I had a holocaust idea that I really enjoyed writing, but lately I've been feeling that's too touchy of a subject to ever publish. I'm currently not working on anything, but the forefront on my mind to work on is this story I have about the red strings of fate. I originally had a short story, but after completing it, I came up with an expansion for it (but the SS can still stand on its own). What about you?
The Holocaust in general is a subject that needs to be written about, so we don't forget and let it happen again. The only "touchy" thing I can think of would be if your story idea said it never happened, it was all an evil propaganda campaign by rich--- well, you fill in the blank. Not that novelists haven't written lies and plenty of them, but that particular lie is so large and so dangerous that it's best left unexplored. But I'm assuming your Holocaust idea wasn't like that.
The red strings of fate sounds like an interesting topic to write about I think my favourite genre to write in is historical fiction or alternative historical fiction ... I wrote my undergraduate creative writing dissertation as an alternative historical fiction and my masters creative writing dissertation will be a historical fiction piece but, as I mentioned before, I do like writing dark fiction and dark fantasy as well (minus the cliches of course)
Thanks, but I still feel like it would generate controversy. It was about the son of Jewish writer who he and his wife died, their son being adopted in secret by their (non Jewish) friends who slowly ended up rising in the Nazi ranks. When the boy grows up he and his siblings work in a concentration camp. He gets attached to someone who dies in the camp, and he along with others stage a mutiny, but it all goes wrong and he ends up taking the commandant's daughter hostage and travels across Poland to evade capture. I don't know why but I just feel that it would generate a lot of dislike.
The main difference is that it explores darker themes than normal fantasy which is usually quite light-hearted
Probably. Believe it or not, I've never read the books nor watched the TV series. But one can't help hearing about it all the time. Anyway, back to Nanowrimo. Or was that Janowrimo? I think it would be hilarious if we did get an alternate novel writing month started, not only here on WF, but in the wider writing community. Sure, some people would say it was for sissies who can't take the November big time, but who cares? The point is to get a good start on one's next novel, and have fun and companionship doing so.
One thing, however. That name reminds me a lot of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geronimo_(exclamation) Good or bad? Great for jumping into things, but would it be inconsiderate? Though the original Geronimo's family is cool with it, it seems . . .
I've never heard about the origins of the word before, but it sounds like nobody actually knows where it came from? IDK, it doesn't bother me.
I believe it is considered historical fantasy but it is definitely dark in places. I think GoT would be considered dark fantasy if it had more fantastical elements - I know it has telepathy, dragons, and White Walkers - but fantasy isn't the main element of GoT but its historical setting, politics and relationships between people are the important factors and are focused on the most. If you took out the fantastical elements of GoT it would still work just as well whereas a fantasy story has a greater need for those elements; if you took the fantastical elements out of a fantasy piece then they usually would not work quite as well as they did before lol
If NNWM wasn't in November, I would be all for a summer month. Students have breaks then, and some companies give half days on Friday then (or at least my dad's does, but he works longer hours other days)
Publishing does. That's why NOTHING FREAKIN' HAPPENS over summer. Not that I'm tearing my hair out or anything.
Okay so... whenever I get on the site and try to go onto the forums, I can't find anyone else's forum posts!!! If anyone knows what's wrong, please let me know!!!
Have you read the comic Red String? It's more about romantic fate than fate in general but, if you like comics, might be worth a read. Though maybe worth waiting until after you write your story, depends on how your creative process works! http://www.redstring.strawberrycomics.com/ On a different note, I'm in for NaNo. Another full time student, part time worker, part time writer here so pretty busy... But we can do this! Right? Not quite the same as a NaNo Camp Cabin, but would folks be interested in adding each other as buddies on NaNo? That would give us some of the friendly competition/poking each other to get back to writing! I'm E.M.Warde there if folks want to find me: http://nanowrimo.org/participants/e-m-warde
Pretty sure there's plenty of space for originality in that topic . It's huge! That said, I made the mistake of re-reading Patrick Rothfuss's Name of the Wind last month and now everything I write is coming out sounding like Kvothe... So maybe better to look at the comic after writing ? On another note, got some great advice at a NaNo word sprint the other day. Apparently "writing sh** the first time makes it much less painful when you have to go back later and cut or massively edit that scene for plot reasons." Long story short, she was saying 50,000 words of word vomit is a-okay. So I'm going with it and viewing my NaNo as more of a long-form outline than a draft. My inner editor is usually unsuppressible so I'm hoping this will help with that. I'm also trying out an RPG style online writing app that I found on the NaNo Supporters page. You fight monsters by writing a specific number of words against a timer. Hoping it'll keep me on track and stop me from editing since I won't have time for that. Don't know what happens if you don't hit the word count in time since that hasn't happened yet, but guessing it's less extreme than them deleting all your progress like some other writing apps !
