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Me! Whether or not I'll come close to finishing remains to be seen...
But several of my students (about half the students in each of my two classes, sixth graders) are doing it, so maybe that will motivate me. I have the idea, but it's finding the time. I have to work it into my class so that they write during independent writing and reading time, but I'll still have the rest of my kids to work with.
I'd like to--but I'm in the middle of my own competition: desperately trying to finish a novel over my six-week break. Which, seeing that I didn't commit to the idea till half-way through, I don't think I'll win this year! However, I'm really hoping to be done with it by mid-november at the latest and by then, I'll probably be too exhausted to start another (not to mention busy transferring all that I've written to the keyboard, since its written all on notebook so far. Which is new for me, but I'm frightened to switch mid-way).
I've finished NaNoWriMo every year since 2005. I'm retired and have time to write every day. I also publish and enter contests, as well as "lead" a creative writing class at a local Methodist Church Shepherd Center.
I've finished NaNoWriMo every year since 2005. I'm retired and have time to write every day. I also publish and enter contests, as well as "lead" a creative writing class at a local Methodist Church Shepherd Center.
Mitch
That is great! That's my goal.
I signed up but I am in the middle of moving so haven't had time to do what I wanted to do.
I'm still going to use the opportunity to write during the days I have off after the move.
I've finished NaNoWriMo every year since 2005. I'm retired and have time to write every day.
That is my goal as well--or at least to just work part time so I could have more time to spend on writing. Well, I didn't finish my novel at the end of my break, however--I did get about 60,000 words done (as a rough estimate, which I probably actually underestimated; as soon as I get it to a computer I'll have a better idea). So--at least according to the nanowrimo rules, I would have won!!! (had they started in mid-october!).
Yes! It's an early New Year's resolution of mine. I've been working on a novel for about a year and am now only about 80 pages into it. It's about a young struggling musician in California who has a day job at a factory where they make lawn & garden products & tools, kinda like Scotts or something. Among their products are outdoor thermometers. One day while he's outside on break smoking a J by a dumpster he comes across some thrown away documents from their R & D department which devulge that they are deliberately altering the mercury solution in their thermometers--and the electronics in their digital thermometers--so as to alter the visible temperature, making it a few degrees cooler than it really is, as part of a government-ordered conspiracy to hide the fact that global warming is underway. The kid figures this is a great opoprtunity for a blackmail scheme and begins his scheme.
Then he's all of a sudden beset by a visit from the men in black who take none-too-kindly to his plan.
Mayhem ensues..but the kid is more wiley and formidable than these spooks realize.
Tentative book title: "Stay out of the Kitchen"
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