Comments on: Goals for NaNoWriMo? http://www.routinesforwriters.com/2008/11/03/goals-for-nanowrimo/ helping writers write more Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:10:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jenny Hansen http://www.routinesforwriters.com/2008/11/03/goals-for-nanowrimo/comment-page-1/#comment-2670 Jenny Hansen Fri, 08 Oct 2010 19:51:42 +0000 http://www.routinesforwriters.com/?p=398#comment-2670 I'm doing NaNoWriMo again this year and am making goals. Kitty is on my Writing Buddies list...who else is participating? Please come find me at http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/204882 and buddy up. I need to be held accountable! I’m doing NaNoWriMo again this year and am making goals. Kitty is on my Writing Buddies list…who else is participating? Please come find me at http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/204882 and buddy up. I need to be held accountable!

]]> By: LR http://www.routinesforwriters.com/2008/11/03/goals-for-nanowrimo/comment-page-1/#comment-133 LR Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:39:27 +0000 http://www.routinesforwriters.com/?p=398#comment-133 Hi Stephanie, I just wanted to say thanks for sharing about your writing process... I'm printing out your post because it's very very encouraging to me since I write in much the same way and it motivates me to keep at it. I also love all of your tips about discovering the turning points of your story. I'm trying NaNo for the first time this year, although I admit I'm not working towards 50,000 words by Nov. 30th-- my goal is maybe half of that. (I want to complete a first draft by the end of the year) I'm going to add you as a NaNo writing buddy. I definitely want Nov2008 to be a month of play. Happy writing! Hi Stephanie,

I just wanted to say thanks for sharing about your writing process… I’m printing out your post because it’s very very encouraging to me since I write in much the same way and it motivates me to keep at it. I also love all of your tips about discovering the turning points of your story.

I’m trying NaNo for the first time this year, although I admit I’m not working towards 50,000 words by Nov. 30th– my goal is maybe half of that. (I want to complete a first draft by the end of the year)

I’m going to add you as a NaNo writing buddy. I definitely want Nov2008 to be a month of play. Happy writing!

]]> By: Stephanie Shackelford http://www.routinesforwriters.com/2008/11/03/goals-for-nanowrimo/comment-page-1/#comment-123 Stephanie Shackelford Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:58:49 +0000 http://www.routinesforwriters.com/?p=398#comment-123 Maybe you are right, Kitty, but note that I said, "I THINK about . . ." and listed the various ways of planning a story. And in the case of this current NaNo project, I didn't even do too much of that. :) I did not write a word of this current story until Nov. 1. The act of writing the scenes gives me the story. Yes, usually in a non-NaNo month, it is interspersed with a few spurts of planning, outlining sequences, developing family trees, fine-tuning motivations or other planning issues, but even then I would still call it pantser method, not plotter. (So it's a to-MAH-to! LOL) Maybe you are right, Kitty, but note that I said, “I THINK about . . .” and listed the various ways of planning a story. And in the case of this current NaNo project, I didn’t even do too much of that. :) I did not write a word of this current story until Nov. 1. The act of writing the scenes gives me the story. Yes, usually in a non-NaNo month, it is interspersed with a few spurts of planning, outlining sequences, developing family trees, fine-tuning motivations or other planning issues, but even then I would still call it pantser method, not plotter. (So it’s a to-MAH-to! LOL)

]]> By: Kitty Bucholtz http://www.routinesforwriters.com/2008/11/03/goals-for-nanowrimo/comment-page-1/#comment-121 Kitty Bucholtz Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:34:45 +0000 http://www.routinesforwriters.com/?p=398#comment-121 You totally crack me up, Stephanie!! What's even funnier than your rant about being a non-planning panster is that you're doing everything before you start writing that I do, the "plotter"! LOL! I think there's a little bit of toMAto-toMAHto going on here! LOL!! But I promise to try not to spoil your fun writing month! :) You totally crack me up, Stephanie!! What’s even funnier than your rant about being a non-planning panster is that you’re doing everything before you start writing that I do, the “plotter”! LOL! I think there’s a little bit of toMAto-toMAHto going on here! LOL!! But I promise to try not to spoil your fun writing month! :)

]]> By: Lynn http://www.routinesforwriters.com/2008/11/03/goals-for-nanowrimo/comment-page-1/#comment-117 Lynn Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:12:16 +0000 http://www.routinesforwriters.com/?p=398#comment-117 Hi, Stephanie! I see you're signed up for A. Brennan's PASIC class and also a fellow NaNoWriMo -- wow! Thanks for a great website, and I'll be tuning in for encouraging bits during the writing blitz and also I'll be interested to tune in later for how you shape up your work from this month -- this frenzied pantser vs planner stuff is a little foreign for me... Best wishes! Hi, Stephanie! I see you’re signed up for A. Brennan’s PASIC class and also a fellow NaNoWriMo — wow! Thanks for a great website, and I’ll be tuning in for encouraging bits during the writing blitz and also I’ll be interested to tune in later for how you shape up your work from this month — this frenzied pantser vs planner stuff is a little foreign for me… Best wishes!

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