National Novel Writing Meh?

@curtise When I worked at Macmillan, we had an author whose debut book was written during NaNoWriMo. It won several young adult book awards and sold a good amount of copies. Plus got her more book deals.

@bluedyn Dude, what'd you do at Macmillan?

@curtise Quite a few. http://nanowrimo.org/published-wrimos. (Also, jealous that you've worked for Macmillan. I'm interning for agents right now. It's fun, but it's a frustrating process trying to find jobs even after 2 years of interning.)

@joelmw I was the editor of Square Fish, the children's paperback imprint.

@bluedyn There had to be some accounting for your good taste in goat candidates. ;-) But I don't think I could ever write children's books. Parents would fucking hate that.

@bluedyn I'm a frustrated writer. But don't worry, I won't stalk you and bug you for insider connections and shit. But, yaknow, I'd take whatever you offered. Awkward, right?

@bluedyn I think if I could just gather together all of my catastrophically long posts scattered across social media (I can fit within 140 characters too, without doing multi-parters--I hate when people do that) . . . I think if I did that I'd have a heaping pile of shit, but it would be substantial (in volume if not import). Okay, damnit, that's enough. I'm at the office on a Saturday. I gotta get shit done. Curse you, @cengland0. BTW, apparently the word for today is "shit." If I had more time, I'd photoshop Elmo saying that.

@Starblind http://nanowrimo.org/ Is the main site for this.

So far, nothing, but I'm thinking about writing a lot. That probably doesn't count, does it? I think I'll combine nanowrimo with movember and write on days that I shave. This makes my not writing over the weekend totally acceptable. Yes, yes it does.

@Jamileigh17 You people make me sick. Seriously though, very nice. What's the secret (don't tell us self-discipline or I'm fucked) and what have you written?

@joelmw The busier I am, the less I procrastinate, and if I want to do anything with it afterwards, having a fairly detailed outline helps. Mostly, I've written a bunch of crappy scifis and fantasy novels, but some of them have potential if I ever get around to editing them. ;) Though like every writer, I'm far more critical of my own stuff than I probably should be.

@Foxborn National novel writing month. You can finish a novel (or a first draft of it) in a month, The site (http://nanowrimo.org), and the people here can help motivate you and keep you on track.

@dashcloud Sweet I'm in

@Foxborn - Elementary, my dear. I suspect you should work on the supernatural detective story.

@Foxborn You should have all three story lines converge. ;) That would take the tropes and make them interesting. ;)

@Foxborn I like the idea of the mortal goddess, but @Jamileigh17's idea sounds intriguing.

@Foxborn Yeah, you could have the vampire as a supernatural detective or as the best friend or lover of a detective helping them out (done plenty but it's a popular genre) and the issue he/she is investigating leads to this Mortal Goddess. If you publish and it sells, you could then split that into two series, one about each of the subjects.

@moondrake the Detective is like a sudo Demon, never fully fleshed out that idea I might be able to pull it off if I drop the Vampire still a little hard to add the goddess into to it but I might be able to pull something off, she is a goddess of passion @joelmw I like her too. @Jamileigh17 interesting idea THANKS @KDemo how did you know he was a Sherlock holmes type who goes by ViDocq (or just doc for short)

@Foxborn - "Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth."

@moondrake That's the whole point! NaNoWriMo forces you to make time to write when you think you don't have any. I feel like they intentionally chose November as a month that is usually busier than normal for people to prove that even on top of all that, you can still write something if you commit to it. All of that said, I totally get it because this is probably the 4th or 5th year I've thought about doing it. I even have the companion book and have since I first considered it. This is the year!

@editorkid You could always start there. You still might end up at the same place, but, Idunno, I just like that as a starting point, that's all.

@joelmw But then my stories would be one sentence lo... hey.

@editorkid I read a book many years ago which was basically a detective novel with some little unsettling elements of distorted reality and the supernatural which increased as the book went on. At the end of the book we learned that the lead character had been murdered just a few seconds before the story began, and the detective story we'd been reading were his last thoughts and memories as he tried to puzzle out who had murdered him as he breathed his last. The book essentially started and ended with the character's death and took place entirely in his mind in the space of a couple of seconds.

@moondrake That's really cool. And it gets me off the hook, since It's Been Done.

@JonT Added, of and here;s me too nanowrimo.org/participants/tesa-fox/