Beethovenfan wrote:Here's a question. I guess I could look this up but you guys could probably answer it quicker and better anyway. So, when you enter Nanowrimo, do you have to start from scratch? Or, can you be in the middle of a story and just begin where you are and work for the 50,000 words from that point? Thanks in advance!
Here's what I've heard NaNo Staff say about this:
Rules are, you have to start from scratch. If you're jumping in the middle of a story, you aren't "really" doing NaNoWriMo.
On the other hand, they cannot check what you write. They don't know if your 50k is made of poems, shorts, the middle of a novel or the word potato x 50,000. And they don't care. They're so welcoming of "rebels" that they set up a whole chunk of forums just for them.
As a ML I stick to the rules and start from scratch every year (sometimes rewriting). I also encourage any regional Wrimos who asks this question to do whatever the heck they want, as long as they write new material and enjoy themselves. As Sommer said, "NaNoWriMo is whatever you make of it and whatever you need it to be."
Honestly, I decided to take a deep breath and forget the no regional e-mail things. It sucks. I have no other ways of contacting my Wrimos. But, really... they'll come. I am 100% certain they will, old and new ones both, even if I mailed them on the 28th instead of early in the month. If they're crazy enough to take the challenge with 3 weeks of preparation, they're crazy enough to do it with 3 days. Once a Wrimo, always a Wrimo. And I don't know for your region, but my wrimos are the motivated, non-judgemental kind. They'll shrug off the lack of early e-mail, grin and jump into the fray.
