NaNoWriMo 2011 || Con Crit

[slytherincesss.livejournal.com]

Hello peeps!

We've been discussing NaNoWriMo 2011 and wanted to bring to topic to the community to see how we can best support the efforts of any hd_writers members during the month of November, as they work on NaNoWriMo.

In case not everyone is familiar, NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month, wherein beginning November 1, 2011, you set out to write at least 50,000 words of a new novel during the month of November.

You'll note here that fan fiction is sanctioned for NaNoWriMo, so, yes, we can write a new fic for NaNoWriMo. The guidelines are very strict, however, that you must start fresh with a new fic or original novel. This means unfinished WIPs are not eligible for NaNoWriMo participation.

However, we want to be supportive of all you writers, and so we'd like to know:

- Would you like NaNoWriMo activities and encouragement from hd_writers?
- Would a daily check-in post during the month of November, where you can post your word count and/or progress bars, be helpful?
- Would you like a separate set of activities paralleling NaNoWriMo to work with unfinished WIPs?
- We were thinking that although this is a Harry/Draco community, pairings of all types would be allowable for purposes of writing a novel during NaNoWriMo -- how do you feel about this?
- Would extra posts on writing tips and SPaG FYIs be helpful during the month of November?
- What other ideas or needs do you have for NaNoWriMo?

Your feedback is encouraged and welcome!

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The Con Crit Exercise will be coming this week. The goal of the con crit exercise is to show how to give con crit and what the difference between con crit and deconstructive criticism is. Per dulcemia's suggestion, I will be con critting my own fic first, and you all will have the opportunity to add onto my criticisms, too. Five community members have submitted fics for this exercise; I will likely post one fic per month, with commentary on con crit and how to utilize it. So, yes, this is coming up soon!

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Everyone have a fabulous Tuesday!

Comments

[skriftlig.livejournal.com]

I doubt I'll be writing for NaNoWriMo, but I'm happy to cheer on other members of the comm during November. I'm absolutely okay with supporting writers of all pairings. :)

[teas-me.livejournal.com]

You know, I sign up every year to do NaNo, and I always fail terribly. I think this would be quite awesome to do! Very motivational with everyone participating in writing so much!

I have no other suggestions, except to say yes!!!

[jakuako.livejournal.com]

Ohh, I love the daily progress bar posting idea. It'll be like a massive GSD session. *g* I'm up for anything that will promote being cheered for and being able to cheer for others, because I know I'm gonna need the support. /o\

Also, I agree that all pairings should be accepted. As well as anyone working on an original fic, too. We all need to band together on this one! xD

[rebecca_selene]

- Would you like NaNoWriMo activities and encouragement from hd_writers?
YES! :-)

- Would a daily check-in post during the month of November, where you can post your word count and/or progress bars, be helpful?
Yes. The NaNo site doesn't really have one-on-one daily encouragement, so it'd be nice to get that here.

- Would you like a separate set of activities paralleling NaNoWriMo to work with unfinished WIPs?
Yes! Yay NaNo rebels!

- We were thinking that although this is a Harry/Draco community, pairings of all types would be allowable for purposes of writing a novel during NaNoWriMo -- how do you feel about this?
MY THOUGHTS: This is one of the best communities, if not THE best, for writing encouragement I've seen, H/D or otherwise. I've written H/D and plan to write H/D in the future, but the pairing isn't my only one. I'd hate to be excluded from the support here just because I'm not writing H/D (or even in the HP fandom, for that matter) at any particular moment. So, yeah, I'm all for opening up NaNo support to non-H/D.

- Would extra posts on writing tips and SPaG FYIs be helpful during the month of November?
Writing tips, definitely. Maybe SPaG would be better left for after NaNo for editing purposes, since a polished manuscript isn't the goal in November.

- What other ideas or needs do you have for NaNoWriMo? Word Wars!

[kitty_fic]

- Would you like NaNoWriMo activities and encouragement from hd_writers?
I'm not sure I'll be participating in nano but more activities is always a good thing to encourage writing of any kind!

- Would a daily check-in post during the month of November, where you can post your word count and/or progress bars, be helpful?
Yes :)

- Would you like a separate set of activities paralleling NaNoWriMo to work with unfinished WIPs?
Definitely!

- We were thinking that although this is a Harry/Draco community, pairings of all types would be allowable for purposes of writing a novel during NaNoWriMo -- how do you feel about this?
Great! h/d is what brings us all together but I'm sure most of us write other pairings and even fandoms also.

- Would extra posts on writing tips and SPaG FYIs be helpful during the month of November?
ANything to support writing is great!

- What other ideas or needs do you have for NaNoWriMo?
Can you get me a time turner? That's what I really need ^_~

[slumber.livejournal.com]

After all of the fests I've signed up for and the writing I've done this summer, I have just three fests left (all of which I hope to finish by the end of October) and, apart from some RL commitments to blog posts and articles, I'm calling the penultimate month of the year my No-Write November. No fannish writing from me-- but I've been thinking of turning it around and taking on an active support role instead. So if you guys need cheerleaders and whatever else, I'll be happy to sign up for those doing Nano0 this year!

[meglw0228.livejournal.com]

- Would you like NaNoWriMo activities and encouragement from hd_writers?
I'm not doing NaNoWriMo, but if you include all writers then definitely! I have 3 BB's due around that time, and I'm sure I'm not the only one!
- Would a daily check-in post during the month of November, where you can post your word count and/or progress bars, be helpful?
Absolutely!
- Would you like a separate set of activities paralleling NaNoWriMo to work with unfinished WIPs?
Sure!
- We were thinking that although this is a Harry/Draco community, pairings of all types would be allowable for purposes of writing a novel during NaNoWriMo -- how do you feel about this?
It's an excellent idea!
- Would extra posts on writing tips and SPaG FYIs be helpful during the month of November?
Absolutely!
- What other ideas or needs do you have for NaNoWriMo?
If you do the writing tips, I'd suggest a post about the difference between 'lay' and 'lie' and when to use which... it's a problem quite a few authors I've betaed for recently have had a problem with. Also, I know the comm itself hosts one word war a month with prizes, but maybe one a week in November; something a bit more laid back that way the mods don't have to do too much. Other than that, a time-turner please! I think I'll be needing another 30 days by the end!