Nanowrimo - Blog Posts

Me: *feeling proud I wrote 1,736 words* That's good for today, I'll go on tumblr. Oh shit they wrote 8,000+ words in one day...

I’m planning on doing NaNoWriMo in November, so expect snippets of my writing to start to appear daily 

So it looks like NaNoWriMo are happy to have AI as part of their community. Miss me with that bullshit. Generative artificial intelligence is an active threat to creativity and the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of people in creative fields.

Please signal boost this so writers can make an informed choice about whether to continue to take part in such a community.

I’m participating in NaNoWriMo because I hate myself. Wish me luck!!

So thinking about NaNoWriMo stuff, I think I know what I want to write.

I'm going to write a novel about a girl with a very silly name (Jane Dogfood) who starts a mess of a podcast where she interviews the people around her about their life experiences and discovers who she is as she explores how she does/doesn't relate to the people she interviews.

While it is a coming of age story, a lot of focus will be developing these characters and exploring their life experiences, possibly in a "story within a story" sort of way

I have a story I want to write for NaNoWriMo and a character I have in mind would need to be handled with care.

The character in question is a 2nd generation immigrant from a pair of Filipino parents who's relationship with his mother is tenuous at best because of a language barrier. He is named Luis. The idea in my head is that Luis' father wanted him to assimilate to Western norms in the hope that he would have a better/easier time, and so he never really let Luis learn Filipino, and Luis' mother's grasp of English is fairly weak overall. Luis is also a high school student living in Vegas, going to a magnet school for computer engineering/tech stuff and he's also being the sound engineer person for a podcast with his childhood friend, Jane.

Before I go any further with this, I was wondering if there were any POC 2nd generation immigrants I could consult.

Anyway, my DMs are open

I totally forgot nanowrimo was a thing until write this moment but I kinda want to try it.

Also, I've decided to let myself make "bad" art and write "bad" things in the hopes that telling myself it's okay if what I write/draw/make is bad because until very recently I've been getting so caught up on making sure the things I do are "good" that I just haven't been letting myself do any of the things I like doing.

So yeah, I'm thinking I might write a bad novel for nanowrimo for funsies

WRITING!!! I SIGNED UP FOR NANOWRIMO AND NOW I WILL START WRITING!

i have achieved my nanowrimo goal! 20k words !!!! cannot believe it

16k/20k words for nanowrimo <3 cannot believe this actually. am i going to achieve a writing goal ?!?

16k/20k words for nanowrimo <3 cannot believe this actually. am i going to achieve a writing goal ?!?

Goddamnit, I just realized I missed NaNoWriMo :(

"I'll come back to edit it in December" no. no I wont. but that doesn't stop me from lying to myself.