Not, that isn't some wacky spam or ROT13 gibberish. It's:
International Fanfic Writing 20 Days.
I'm sure many of you have heard of NANOWRIMO. If you're doing it... awesome! Good for you, and good luck.
I had considered doing it the last two years, but was busy each time writing my own multiple-novel-sized-fanfic.
Well, now it's done, but I have a significant personal matter taking up a third of November. Well, say I, NO EXCUSES.
Since I can't take the whole month and write a novel, I'm going to take two thirds of it and write a fanfic. A single fanfic in its entirety, totaling no less than 50,000 words.
From November 1st to November 20th, I will write every single day. I don't give a damn if it's good, bad or indifferent. I picked the subject based on the first thing that popped into my head, and intend to do the rest the same way. I've got four days left to get some sort of "ideas" to work with, but after that I won't have time to think, just to write. That's the point - just to write, to prove I can do it.
Because I CAN. 50,000 words is 2500 a day, and I can certainly do that if I sit down for one or two hours and type or write whatever comes to mind.
And so can you.
So that's why I'm extending the invitation to join me in this (mad?) quest. Well, and to publically shame me if I wuss out, that's good incentive too. If you're scared, lower the requirement a bit. 30,000. Whatever. But sit down every day for at least an hour and write. Don't reread it, or send it to people to critique, or stop to think about it in the middle, just write your brains out until it's done. You'll find you're surprised, at the end, with how much you CAN do, if you just stop thinking about writing and write. And you'll find you're surprised at how much better a writer you are for it when you're done.
And if you don't, well, hell, at least you've got something to hold over your wussier fanfic-writing friends.
Current projects, you say? Pshaw. If you're writing so much that twenty days downtime puts a huge dent in your schedule, you're obviously so awesome you are putting out regular large monthly updates and could do this anyway!
You're making excuses. You know it. Stop it! C'mon, be a man (or woman). Nobody cares how good it is. You don't even have to show anybody.
I'll even offer to read the first five people's works (after the end of the month) who actually want someone to, and offer critique. Nah, I don't care what it is. This is the only way anyone will ever get me to read a Naruto fanfic. Or Urusei Yatsura. I have made a commitment! Make me suffer for it!
Now, c'mon.
Who's with me?
International Fanfic Writing 20 Days.
I'm sure many of you have heard of NANOWRIMO. If you're doing it... awesome! Good for you, and good luck.
I had considered doing it the last two years, but was busy each time writing my own multiple-novel-sized-fanfic.
Well, now it's done, but I have a significant personal matter taking up a third of November. Well, say I, NO EXCUSES.
Since I can't take the whole month and write a novel, I'm going to take two thirds of it and write a fanfic. A single fanfic in its entirety, totaling no less than 50,000 words.
From November 1st to November 20th, I will write every single day. I don't give a damn if it's good, bad or indifferent. I picked the subject based on the first thing that popped into my head, and intend to do the rest the same way. I've got four days left to get some sort of "ideas" to work with, but after that I won't have time to think, just to write. That's the point - just to write, to prove I can do it.
Because I CAN. 50,000 words is 2500 a day, and I can certainly do that if I sit down for one or two hours and type or write whatever comes to mind.
And so can you.
So that's why I'm extending the invitation to join me in this (mad?) quest. Well, and to publically shame me if I wuss out, that's good incentive too. If you're scared, lower the requirement a bit. 30,000. Whatever. But sit down every day for at least an hour and write. Don't reread it, or send it to people to critique, or stop to think about it in the middle, just write your brains out until it's done. You'll find you're surprised, at the end, with how much you CAN do, if you just stop thinking about writing and write. And you'll find you're surprised at how much better a writer you are for it when you're done.
And if you don't, well, hell, at least you've got something to hold over your wussier fanfic-writing friends.
Current projects, you say? Pshaw. If you're writing so much that twenty days downtime puts a huge dent in your schedule, you're obviously so awesome you are putting out regular large monthly updates and could do this anyway!
You're making excuses. You know it. Stop it! C'mon, be a man (or woman). Nobody cares how good it is. You don't even have to show anybody.
I'll even offer to read the first five people's works (after the end of the month) who actually want someone to, and offer critique. Nah, I don't care what it is. This is the only way anyone will ever get me to read a Naruto fanfic. Or Urusei Yatsura. I have made a commitment! Make me suffer for it!
Now, c'mon.
Who's with me?