NaNoWriMo &mdash; Nate Dickson Thinks... https://thoughts.natedickson.com/tag:NaNoWriMo Small Thoughts for a Quiet World. Sun, 26 Apr 2026 03:53:38 +0000 https://i.snap.as/Ex4mOou4.png NaNoWriMo &mdash; Nate Dickson Thinks... https://thoughts.natedickson.com/tag:NaNoWriMo NaNoWriMo 2020 https://thoughts.natedickson.com/nanowrimo-2020?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[I've done NaNoWriMo every year since 2008, and I have "won" (meaning I have written 50,000 words in one month on a single project) every year as well. !--more-- So I'm doing it again! Last year I wrote my novel "in the open" on my (now defunct) private write.as instance. This time I've created a little blog for my project this year. I don't have a real title for the novel yet, so I'm calling it Exchange Magic, because that's the idea that sparked this year's novel. I'm taking things a slightly different direction this year as well. I've been writing a lot of more serious sci-fi for the past few years, including a moderately dystopian novel, but 2020 just ain't the year for dystopia. This year I'm looking more at a young-adult novel, with lighter themes and...just...happier. Probably. I have very little planned out so far. NaNoWriMo tends to jokingly categorize writers into three categories: Planner: Someone who has everything planned out as they go into it. Pantser: Someone who just flies by the seat of their pants. Plantser: Someone right between the other two. I've been all three, from time to time. But this year: I have a slight concept of an outline, an idea of what I want to do. But I don't actually have a whole plot treatment laid out. And I'm kind of excited to try it this way for the year. div class="notice"pemI’m publishing this as part of 100 Days To Offload. You can join in yourself by visiting a href="https://100daystooffload.com" rel="nofollow"100 Days To Offload/a./em/p/div 100DaysToOffload 45/100 NaNoWriMo div class="signature" Thoughts? Tell me about them!br/ a href="https://social.lol/@natedickson"on Mastodon/a |del a href="https://thoughts.natedickson.com/a-farewell-to-twitter"on Twitter/a/del| on Remark.as a href="https://remark.as/p/thoughts.natedickson.com/nanowrimo-2020"Discuss.../a /div]]> I've done NaNoWriMo every year since 2008, and I have “won” (meaning I have written 50,000 words in one month on a single project) every year as well. So I'm doing it again! Last year I wrote my novel “in the open” on my (now defunct) private write.as instance. This time I've created a little blog for my project this year. I don't have a real title for the novel yet, so I'm calling it Exchange Magic, because that's the idea that sparked this year's novel.

I'm taking things a slightly different direction this year as well. I've been writing a lot of more serious sci-fi for the past few years, including a moderately dystopian novel, but 2020 just ain't the year for dystopia. This year I'm looking more at a young-adult novel, with lighter themes and...just...happier.

Probably. I have very little planned out so far. NaNoWriMo tends to jokingly categorize writers into three categories:

  • Planner: Someone who has everything planned out as they go into it.
  • Pantser: Someone who just flies by the seat of their pants.
  • Plantser: Someone right between the other two.

I've been all three, from time to time. But this year:

I have a slight concept of an outline, an idea of what I want to do. But I don't actually have a whole plot treatment laid out. And I'm kind of excited to try it this way for the year.

I’m publishing this as part of 100 Days To Offload. You can join in yourself by visiting 100 Days To Offload.

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