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[olivermoss]

Earlier today I realized Nano was coming up and went to check how many words it is. For the first time, that didn't seem like an insane word count to me. It seemed do-able, but I never get anything out of trying it. The people who run the official PDX group are... [writes and deletes a few descriptions] uh, just, no. They are no. The alternate group run vie meetup keeps being piles of fail. Joining groups with people I know, like people who've been to the same cons I have, no one interacts past day 1.

And then tonight the online writing group I am in decided to do Nano as a group, so I guess I am suddenly doing Nano! Basically, we did a poll and most people said 'wasn't planning on it, but if the group is doing it I'm in'.

So, what to do? I have a few bigger projects I could slot into this. The projects I am most prepared to tackle are fanfic projects. I'd feel kinda okay doing a Stranger Things project, I might feel off doing something more obscure like Leverage. An orig project is tempting because that Legends and Lattes book that everyone was reading last year was a Nano project that got discovered and went viral. Even if that really was as much as a 'person is success out of nowhere' story as the articles say, my stuff would never do that. But, still, it does make doing an original project tempting... but for irrational reasons.

Possible things I could do:

* My werewolf horror novel that I am honestly not really ready to tackle yet, but kinda want to for Nano since I am doing Nano

* Take on the Steddie werewolf longfic I really want to write.

* Totally pants a paranormal investigations origfic, ignoring years of iterating on idea and just writing something.

* Something else?

I have a few other fanfic projects I could do, but they all feel like they are going to come in at about 20k words. I could lump a few together. We are not being very rules bound about it.

Comments

[gingicat]

I would totally read 50K words of Leverage fic.

[olivermoss]

Thanks! I think my current projects are all ones that will come in at 20k-ish, when I manage to finish them.

[muccamukk]

I like the werewolf horror novel idea, but any of the three sound good.

(I've done Nano before, including with meetups with a decent group, and it turned out not to be my personal writing process (I can write 50k in a month easily, I just don't use that process). However, a lot of people find it's a lot of fun and a really good push to finish something.)

[olivermoss]

It's not great for my process either. But having something of a writer's group for once is nice. If the group is going to be more interactive that month, I want to be part of it.

[mistressofmuses]

Hooray for doing NaNo! :D

I've been torn on it for this year... I can't quite settle on a project I want to go with, but I feel like I'll regret it if I don't at least try.

I'm glad you've got a group with actual interest in doing it! I might try wading into our local group's discord this year, but my experience with it the couple times I tried doing the social aspect in the past were... also big nopes.

[olivermoss]

I'm doing it because I am hopeful for a good community experience for once, which would be a stark contrast to every other Nano experience I've had. I hope you find a good idea, but don't burn yourself out!

I am probably going with Pantsing Paranormal and seeing what happens. But also I am going to still work on my other projects. I don't know how this will turn out but I can't completely drop my other stuff, and they wont be done in time.

[mistressofmuses]

I hope it IS a good community experience! It sounds like hopefully a good group.

Nice! I'm all for combining multiple projects for NaNo. I know that's what I did last year, because my original idea just didn't have 50k of story in it. I also think it's definitely a good choice not to put everything else on pause for a whole month.

I hope the project(s) go well!