NaNoWriMo

[Anonymous No.16748003]

Anyone doing NaNoWriMo this year? How's it going, what's your elevator pitch?

[Anonymous No.16748041]

>>16748003
>what's your elevator pitch?
You guys just keep sounding faggier every day

[Anonymous No.16749080]

>>16748041
The whole thing is a gay tumblr movement

[Anonymous No.16749218]

>>16748003
34,000 words into a pot boiler where Mira Gonzalez is renditioned into the IDF to serve out her conscription from which she had been absentee for many years. Torn from her breezy life of Apple curated choomfests, Mira must survive perilous security services training pipelines, discover the fate of her spouse, Tyler, reclaim her moon chakra, and hopefully make some time for that Tel Aviv night life she longs to experience outside the strict confines of her new militaristic life. Tentatively titled "Mira Mira"

[Anonymous No.16749259]

>>16748003
Staying far away from the forums but writing as much as feasible

[Anonymous No.16749431]

>>16749218
She'd be funny in a comedic film role, Mira might even pull the whole franchise

[Anonymous No.16750264]

>>16749218
Whose pots are you boiling?
Mine, for one, is steaming. Post some of that shit when you're done.

[Anonymous No.16751089]

>>16748003
NaNoWriMo is for faggots lel, based boys take 3-4 years to write a good novel, not a month

[Anonymous No.16751153]

>>16751089
The point is to finish it, and then spend that long fixing it and fine-tuning it.

[Anonymous No.16751183]

>>16751153
>>16751153
That's even worse. Almost like you want to spend more time trying to polish shit than actually carefully crafting the bedrock of a story.

[Anonymous No.16751258]

>>16751183
yeah fine whatever

[Anonymous No.16751617]

>>16751183
Moron.
>>16751089
Are you sure?

[Anonymous No.16751624]

>>16751617
t. retarded genre shit "writer"

[Anonymous No.16751660]

>>16751624
Have fun spending 6 years writing a dismal and boring post-postmodern novel about a depressed virgin

[Anonymous No.16751683]

>>16751183
that's a solid way to never finish shit.
you have to create absurd made up time limits to get shit done, be it writing your novel or cleaning the house. The bedrock will never be good enough to instantly get 200 pages written.

[Anonymous No.16751704]

>>16751660
are you published? I actually am

>>16751683
Cormac McCarthy took 20 years to write Suttree and didn't publish anything after Blood Meridian for 7 years. I think your point about "absurd made up time limits" is a rule of thumb; the reality is that books need as long as they need, and it will change for each project.

[Anonymous No.16751737]

>>16751704
Cormac McCarthy should be regarded as a savant with a ton of luck and not a standarized way to produce literature.

[Anonymous No.16751752]

>>16751737
>standardized
There's your problem. You cannot standardize something that is completely organic and differs from person to person. It's like these literary events and "TEN WAYS TO WRITE A NOVEL" shills are not actually going to help anyone flourish as a writer. It's like any industry is going to have people trying to sell a gimmick in order to stay in business or shill other products, such as the Scrivener sale going on for NaNoWriMo contestants.

[Anonymous No.16751761]

>>16751089
Sounds like you are coping for not being able to write prolifically. Face it anon, you are a lazy piece of shit and will write like 4 novels over the course of your life, tops

[Anonymous No.16751781]

>>16751752
there is no industry if there's no production. The less books get published the more expensive each one will become, cutting off people who haven't given the medium a chance, and reducing how many people can live as a writer. If you can't live as a writer you have to spend 8-12 hours a day doing something else, not even excercising your writing skills. Cheap disposable crime novels in the 50's financed the great writers of that era and made them accesible to anyone, spreading them out to this day. Perfectionism kills anything that needs more than one person to be made.

Unless you're a youtuber, in that case you will probably sell any novel you write.

[Anonymous No.16751793]

>>16751761
Coetzee released a book nearly every 3-4 years since his first in 1974. The first book, Dusklands, was published when he 34, meaning he was a late-comer. So using him as an example is a conservative estimate of what a good writer releases within his lifetime. He has written 18 proper book-length tomes, three of which were semi-autobiographical novels. That is 14 more than you say would be the case, and I have been published at a much lower age than 34.

[Anonymous No.16751800]

>>16751781
>he cares about money and being a literal genre shit bugman
I can see that you don't actually care about writing or the apotheosis of the word. Again, McCarthy lived in squalor and he's one of the best American writers ever. He didn't even sell more than 5000 copies of his books until his breakthrough in 1992.

[Anonymous No.16751837]

>>16751793
>late coomer
ftfy

[Anonymous No.16751850]

>>16751800
Oh, you don't live in a material world, good luck haunting that house or whatever etereal beings do to support themselves.

[Anonymous No.16751880]

>>16751850
>He doesn't realise you can eat for less than 10 dollars a day, pay 100-200 dollars in rent a month some places, read via library, write for virtually no cost except paper/computer. That amounts to 6050 dollars per year, which you can easily make working for less than two hours a day (probably doable through working as casually as a cleaner, editor, etc.) which would virtually be covered by book contracts.

[Anonymous No.16753036]

>>16748003
How's everyone's writing going? Don't be like some of the goofuses ITT. Get to writing, anons.

[Anonymous No.16753071]

>>16751880
that was never my point. You need books to be cheap for people to be open to buying them so you prepare them for higher literature. No one reads online novels until some company makes them easy to get en mass in a single place. Reading is a habit you teach through mass production of low quality content.

[Anonymous No.16754268]

>>16748003
I still haven't started

[Anonymous No.16754909]

>>16753036
Needa write more bruh

[Anonymous No.16755036]

17k words so far for me, I hope I can reach 55k or 60k
>>16751089
>there's only one good way to write a book!
>nooooo, not like that
gosh I wish these board tourists would go away

[Anonymous No.16755169]

>>16755036
Ezpz, anon

[Anonymous No.16755199]

>>16748003
what's an elevator pitch?

[Anonymous No.16755334]

>>16751683
>you have to create absurd made up time limits to get shit done, be it writing your novel or cleaning the house.
Literally only immature people who complain about “adulting” do this. No normal person has to try that hard to exercise basic time management

[Anonymous No.16755467]

>>16753071
You’re a fucking retard if you think gross sales of one book impact the unit cost of another book

[Anonymous No.16755771]

be amazing, anons

[Anonymous No.16755888]

>>16755334
>4chan isn't filled with crybaby mangina manchildren who spend their time obsessed over genre fiction, anime, video games, cartoons, or movies

[Anonymous No.16756351]

[Anonymous No.16756373]

>>16756351
Saved. These people are FAGS

[Anonymous No.16756485]

>>16751737
a standarized way to produce literature is bound to produce shit literature.

[Anonymous No.16756610]

>>16755467
Was that his argument? That's a really bad argument.

[Anonymous No.16756615]

>>16748003
this sounds like such an awful idea. any book you write in a month is bound to be surface level SHIT

[Anonymous No.16757135]

>>16756615
you a nutty log yourself

[Anonymous No.16757156]

>>16757135
whats this like?