khanes wrote:This may be a silly question. I'm thinking of doing NaNoWrMo, but I'm not sure if I want to wait another three weeks to start on my book. Is this challenge for starting a book at the beginning, or is the challenge to get 50,000 words? If the latter, I could start on it now and then churn the heck out of it in November. What do you guys think? I'm also keep thinking my book idea is dumb (typical writer self-doubt), and NaNo would force me to write it, haha.
The challenge is to start on Nov. 1 and write 50,000 words by midnight Nov. 30. The nanowrimo website has a place to paste your text for the word count.
You could start now, but just don't count your words.
Last year I worked on a novel in progress. This year I will be finishing the same one. I went to all the write-ins, encouraged everybody else, and found it was really helpful. I was also upfront about working on a story I'd already started. I gave a zero word total for myself. Nobody cared, I was more than welcome, and it was a lot of fun.