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main | novel | word count | prep work | journal | links Updates 12.4.2004 There's still some activity on the Nano forums and there are some interesting questions. On one thread, someone suggested that there should be a "junior" nano where younger participants could have a smaller goal like 25k or 30k instead of 50k. I'm sure this would be more attainable but if I were younger, I would think it almost condescending. I would argue that older people have less time than younger people and it wouldn't be fair to arbitrarily limit the goal for a subset of people. When I was in middle school and high school, I wrote a lot (even though I never attempted the 50k in one month deal) and if Nano had been around then, I would have done the whole thing. Another question was why so many participants chose to do science fiction and fantasy. I think it someone else who responded to the thread had the idea: that the very nature of the internet draws out the people who are more interested in sf/f. Consider: most people who spend any time on the internet tend to be geeks. And geeks usually read sf/f. Personally, I find sf/f, horror, mystery, and any other type of speculative fiction more interesting than the regular stuff so as a writer, you wouldn't catch me doing any of the boring slice of life fiction. [ posted by sya on 6:58 PM : ] 12.1.2004 Nanowrimo is now officially over (at least for this year) and I'd like to congratulate everyone who "won" as well as everyone who even attempted the challenge. November is an extremely hectic month for those of you with jobs and school work so it's very impressive--or maybe more accurately, completely insane--to even think of writing a 50,000 word novel in 30 days. So I salute all of you, and perhaps, I'll see you around next year when the madness begins all over again. [ posted by sya on 3:17 PM : ] Copyright © 2001-2004, S. Y. Affolee Powered by Blogger Comments by HaloScan  |