Doing the NaNoWriMo : no. Writing a novel : yes !
Posted by HED
I won't do NaNoWriMo this year. More precisely, I will write a novel which doesn't fit NaNoWriMo regulations : I'll rewrite my NaNoWriMo 2007 novel. And it will take longer than a month.
Doing the NaNoWriMo is a way to learn how to write a novel. How to beat the writer's block. How to create characters and move them around. But NaNoWriMo isn't about learning how to finish a novel.
This year I want to finish a novel. But how do you do that ? It's a brand new world. I won 2 NaNoWriMo's but I never finished a novel... And don't tell me about NaNoFiMo or NaNoEdMo. It won't take a month. It won't take two months. Hell, standard novelists take 1-3 years to finish a novel !
So these weeks, I'll post info on both activities : how to write a novel, for YOU Nanoers ! And my ventures into the novel finishing world.