"All I really know about it is you have to write x-number of words per day for a whole month." The goal is to reach 50,000 words during the month of November. As long as what you write is new and at the end of the month can be saved into one doc, you're good. Fanfic does count. The official site even has a fanfiction section in the forum.
"This seems like a serious thing for serious professional and near-professional writers." Sure, there are some professional and near-professional writers, but I hazard to guess there are even more amateurs. There might be a fantasy while writing the novel will be published and turned into a hit, but realistically no. The 50,000 words and completed novel is the payoff.
The goal is serious, getting there often isn't. Word wars(timed writing races), silly prompts, insertion of odd characters, and desperation to break a writer's block can add absurdity to a serious goal
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Date: 2014-10-15 03:54 pm (UTC)The goal is to reach 50,000 words during the month of November. As long as what you write is new and at the end of the month can be saved into one doc, you're good.
Fanfic does count. The official site even has a fanfiction section in the forum.
"This seems like a serious thing for serious professional and near-professional writers."
Sure, there are some professional and near-professional writers, but I hazard to guess there are even more amateurs. There might be a fantasy while writing the novel will be published and turned into a hit, but realistically no. The 50,000 words and completed novel is the payoff.
The goal is serious, getting there often isn't. Word wars(timed writing races), silly prompts, insertion of odd characters, and desperation to break a writer's block can add absurdity to a serious goal