Next time I write a book, I'll again do my "30 Hours of Writing in 30 Days Challenge" because word counts are disheartening to a writer who's always deleting big chunks of her draft.
@@mishthemaverick8607 I write down the new words I wrote, when I rewrite parts of my story or see it as refining. No need to have empty words in your story. I have a similar tendency. I cut 30000 words of my first draft and 10000 in my second one. All the best!
I write 4 hours every day and do 2 ten hour days every weekend. Been doing that since May. And my books are at 60,000 words and 20,000 words. The 60k I've already tripple edited though, it's on the 5th draft on some chapters. But yeah. At the end of the day ive done hundreds of hours, and all I know is that it's getting absolutely savage!!! When I show people chapters now they say, oh my goddddd, Its insane I loooove it. Wasn't like that at first haha! I reckon it will take me another 200 hours to finish the last 40k of the 60k book. But the first 60k are pretty much finished. Lets go!
I decided to do my own challenge, writing 70,000 words in the last 3 months of the year. Roughly thats about 762 words a day. It's more words but two months longer and allows you to be more in-depth and connected with the story rather than trying to pump out enough words to reach a word count.
@@HannahDowell-k8x that's a good idea. I think the 100k challenge is good when you are a faster writer or have more time. My story might only be 70k long.
There is another tier in Heart Breathings's Rough Draft Challenge where you can set your own goal. It could be words, chapters written, chapters edited, hours writing, days writing, hours crocheting, or whatever you like. I participated and it was fun. I won the tier I chose and will be getting some goodies sent out to me. Can't wait. Thanks for this video.
That sounds like a solid plan! They're lined up perfectly that you can do both (even achieving the top tier with Heart Breathings's challenge of 100k in November). Can't wait to hear how your November goes!
me as well, I am working on something now. But I will be doing the roughdraft challenge to finish another story I started last year, then got sick and could not finish.
Being a Nano writer in the mid 2010s in the Bay Area was awesome. You could fine a Nano group meeting at somewhere to write together any day of the week. Those days are gone. But the truth is, I don't have any problem with writing discipline anymore. Don't need all that. I just write books.
Great video! These are amazing NaNoWriMo alternatives. I'm currently doing 'Novelmber' which is an alternate NaNoWriMo novel writing challenge on Bluesky.
I just finished plotting my book a few days ago so my challenge is to write every day starting yesterday! I'd like to average 500-1000 words a day so my first draft will be done in 3-6 months. But in reality, I'd like to spend at least 2-3 hours a day writing my novel, that way I'm not bummed when I get an awesome 10 words one day.
I'm going to instead spend NaNoWriMo season working on rewriting my main WIP, which was my NaNoWriMo novel last year. In 2025 I'll work on a new novel, possibly two or three 😲I'll use Lauren Kay's 100 Day Novel Planner. It's a useful tool that tracks your progress in drafting a novel over a 100 day period. A more realistic word count goal for me would be 100,000 words so probably write 1000 words a day over 100 days or 2000 words a day over 50 days. I look forward to it ☺
Im 20k words in or a 100k project 😅. So my goal is writing 3-4 chapters a day. Each chapter is 4-8 pages long, depending on the scenes. All my writing is by hand😮.
Okay, after actually reading up on the whole nanowrimo controversy I've completely changed my mind. I'm definitely doing Kate's instead. Nanowrimo has gone down a deep dark hole. I only wish I had learned about the challenge earlier. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to work 30% faster :)
I'm doing NaNoWriMo. Considering that NaNoWriMo doesn't ask you to show your work and you can "win" by just writing the same word 50,000 times (or just saying you did without writing anything) I'm not impressed by whether they allow AI. The decision doesn't change anything. You aren't required to use AI, and last year you could us AI all you want if you didn't tell anybody you're using AI.
My problem has always been that I’m never on a first draft when November rolls around. Does anyone know of a revision/second draft/copy edit challenge?
You could design your own depending on how you go about editing, eg doing review work for a certain amount of time each day or a certain number of pages? Editing is harder because you often have to stop and think, and some bits will take longer, so maybe time-based commitment would be the way to go?
I’ve been writing without “Nanowrimo” for the past 20 years. Is that website some kind of a rite of passage? You can still pen a word doc and write for christs sake
Many of us enjoyed it for the social aspect in our local areas. I haven't participated for years because I had children, but still fondly remember weekly write ins and other events where I got to meet fellow writers. I am sad to discover, 10 years later, that the wheels have fallen off and all the people I knew have left (understandably so - I don't care at all about the AI stuff, I work with machine learning models in my day job and it's just a tool, you still have to do the work. The forum issue completely killed it for me, which is why I'm on this video in the first place)
I am doing something new: A.I.-WriMo 😆😆😆 I set it up as a non event project on NaNo site with 500k word counts instead of the traditional NaNoWriMo project. For irony gag sake 🤣🤣🤣
Why is everyone freaking out about nano. If someone who never wrote manages to use gpt to make a novel that's good! Some people are disabled and can't even write, the new chatgpt voice feature let's them dictate to the AI. And using ai to edit content instead 9f paying expensive editors seems good. I think people are freaking out over nothing. The person still has to make the novel, anybody who thinks these things can just make a good book are tripping balls lol. It writes garbage on its own, but if you have talent you can probably go faster as save some cash getting it ready for the final human editor. I bet when typewriters came out some people were against them because you write a novel by hand! Lol you cant stop progress. In 10 years EVERY novelist will use AI. That is a certainty imho. It will just be like word. Nano is 100 percent correct really. Get over it :) you can write how you want, but don't stop others writing how they want.
@@_LikeATumbleweed because 99% of writers have no talent and no willpower to finish a book. The idea that someone might come along and find a way to do the thing they wish they would do to completion feels threatening. They would rather complain than consider whether they can accomplish their goal more easily by using it. As for published authors who already write? Because they genuinely believe they are special for getting it done when others can't and they refuse to live in a world where others complete works without the suffering they went through. What they don't realise is that a good book will require suffering no matter which route you take. If your aim isn't to simply finish absolute crap lol
This all reminds me of when digital cameras first started becoming popular. There were all these film photographers complaining about how it was cheating and not real photography. Funny how. it goes like that.
@@_LikeATumbleweed yeah, the world goes on. The cats out of the bag. it's like the people complaining really think that if nano and publishers stand up to the AI it will go away. But no. As soon as someone makes a novel that is to die for using AI, and the publishers see dollar signs, the AI book will be on every shelf. Facts
@@sixfeetwonder_ I think it will be a long, long time before AI matures enough to produce a well written story. I've seen the crap that ChatGPT creates, horrible. It should be used as a tool to spark creativity and ideas which is fine with me.
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Thank you for sharing these options! :) My small press is also running an event, The Order of the Written Word, if you're curious about checking it out. I've got a couple videos up on my channel discussing our plans, and so far it's been really exciting to see this community come together in a new way!
Next time I write a book, I'll again do my "30 Hours of Writing in 30 Days Challenge" because word counts are disheartening to a writer who's always deleting big chunks of her draft.
That’s actually so smart
@@mishthemaverick8607 I write down the new words I wrote, when I rewrite parts of my story or see it as refining. No need to have empty words in your story. I have a similar tendency. I cut 30000 words of my first draft and 10000 in my second one. All the best!
good idea!
I write 4 hours every day and do 2 ten hour days every weekend. Been doing that since May. And my books are at 60,000 words and 20,000 words. The 60k I've already tripple edited though, it's on the 5th draft on some chapters. But yeah. At the end of the day ive done hundreds of hours, and all I know is that it's getting absolutely savage!!! When I show people chapters now they say, oh my goddddd, Its insane I loooove it. Wasn't like that at first haha! I reckon it will take me another 200 hours to finish the last 40k of the 60k book. But the first 60k are pretty much finished. Lets go!
@@sixfeetwonder_ That’s amazing!!
I decided to do my own challenge, writing 70,000 words in the last 3 months of the year. Roughly thats about 762 words a day. It's more words but two months longer and allows you to be more in-depth and connected with the story rather than trying to pump out enough words to reach a word count.
@@HannahDowell-k8x that's a good idea. I think the 100k challenge is good when you are a faster writer or have more time. My story might only be 70k long.
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Good plan. I’m thinking the same thing
There is another tier in Heart Breathings's Rough Draft Challenge where you can set your own goal. It could be words, chapters written, chapters edited, hours writing, days writing, hours crocheting, or whatever you like.
I participated and it was fun. I won the tier I chose and will be getting some goodies sent out to me. Can't wait. Thanks for this video.
I will be doing both Kate's 100k and probably the Rough Draft as well. I'm pretty sure they will work together to keep me motivated for the season.
That sounds like a solid plan! They're lined up perfectly that you can do both (even achieving the top tier with Heart Breathings's challenge of 100k in November). Can't wait to hear how your November goes!
me as well, I am working on something now. But I will be doing the roughdraft challenge to finish another story I started last year, then got sick and could not finish.
Why do you need motivation?
+1
I’m doing my own challenge. I’m calling it November Writing Challenge. The challenge is to write 1000 words per day or 30,000 words.
Being a Nano writer in the mid 2010s in the Bay Area was awesome. You could fine a Nano group meeting at somewhere to write together any day of the week. Those days are gone. But the truth is, I don't have any problem with writing discipline anymore. Don't need all that. I just write books.
Very happy to have discovered your channel! Subbed. I'll be doing my own version of NaNo this year.
Me too ❤
Great video! These are amazing NaNoWriMo alternatives. I'm currently doing 'Novelmber' which is an alternate NaNoWriMo novel writing challenge on Bluesky.
I just finished plotting my book a few days ago so my challenge is to write every day starting yesterday! I'd like to average 500-1000 words a day so my first draft will be done in 3-6 months. But in reality, I'd like to spend at least 2-3 hours a day writing my novel, that way I'm not bummed when I get an awesome 10 words one day.
Love your channel. You're so poised and clear. Definitely subscribing ❤
Thank you for sharing and good luck!
November 2024 is an editing/rewriting sprint for me. I'm making good progress.
I like Katie's 100k challenge. I already started and wrote 8000 words, yet I also will do both challenges.
I plan on writing every day this month without focusing on the word count
Her name is Sarra Cannon for heart breathings
I'm going to instead spend NaNoWriMo season working on rewriting my main WIP, which was my NaNoWriMo novel last year. In 2025 I'll work on a new novel, possibly two or three 😲I'll use Lauren Kay's 100 Day Novel Planner. It's a useful tool that tracks your progress in drafting a novel over a 100 day period. A more realistic word count goal for me would be 100,000 words so probably write 1000 words a day over 100 days or 2000 words a day over 50 days. I look forward to it ☺
Im 20k words in or a 100k project 😅. So my goal is writing 3-4 chapters a day. Each chapter is 4-8 pages long, depending on the scenes. All my writing is by hand😮.
Never wrong. Always write.
I’m thinking of taking part in Kate challenge. I’m gonna be drafting a paranormal why choose. As well as editing something else.
Okay, after actually reading up on the whole nanowrimo controversy I've completely changed my mind. I'm definitely doing Kate's instead. Nanowrimo has gone down a deep dark hole. I only wish I had learned about the challenge earlier. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to work 30% faster :)
I'm doing NaNoWriMo.
Considering that NaNoWriMo doesn't ask you to show your work and you can "win" by just writing the same word 50,000 times (or just saying you did without writing anything) I'm not impressed by whether they allow AI.
The decision doesn't change anything. You aren't required to use AI, and last year you could us AI all you want if you didn't tell anybody you're using AI.
So glad to see a reasonable person 😅
I’m going to do StoryForge’s 30k in 30 days challenge!
I have enough imagination, that I can write my own stuff, thank you. AI go away!
My problem has always been that I’m never on a first draft when November rolls around. Does anyone know of a revision/second draft/copy edit challenge?
You could design your own depending on how you go about editing, eg doing review work for a certain amount of time each day or a certain number of pages? Editing is harder because you often have to stop and think, and some bits will take longer, so maybe time-based commitment would be the way to go?
I’ve been writing without “Nanowrimo” for the past 20 years. Is that website some kind of a rite of passage? You can still pen a word doc and write for christs sake
Many of us enjoyed it for the social aspect in our local areas. I haven't participated for years because I had children, but still fondly remember weekly write ins and other events where I got to meet fellow writers. I am sad to discover, 10 years later, that the wheels have fallen off and all the people I knew have left (understandably so - I don't care at all about the AI stuff, I work with machine learning models in my day job and it's just a tool, you still have to do the work. The forum issue completely killed it for me, which is why I'm on this video in the first place)
I am doing Autocrit's Novel90 challenge.
I am doing something new: A.I.-WriMo 😆😆😆 I set it up as a non event project on NaNo site with 500k word counts instead of the traditional NaNoWriMo project. For irony gag sake 🤣🤣🤣
Why is everyone freaking out about nano. If someone who never wrote manages to use gpt to make a novel that's good! Some people are disabled and can't even write, the new chatgpt voice feature let's them dictate to the AI. And using ai to edit content instead 9f paying expensive editors seems good. I think people are freaking out over nothing. The person still has to make the novel, anybody who thinks these things can just make a good book are tripping balls lol. It writes garbage on its own, but if you have talent you can probably go faster as save some cash getting it ready for the final human editor. I bet when typewriters came out some people were against them because you write a novel by hand! Lol you cant stop progress. In 10 years EVERY novelist will use AI. That is a certainty imho. It will just be like word. Nano is 100 percent correct really. Get over it :) you can write how you want, but don't stop others writing how they want.
I was wondering the same thing. Why is everyone freaking out? Don't use AI if you don't like it. Use it if you need it.
@@_LikeATumbleweed because 99% of writers have no talent and no willpower to finish a book. The idea that someone might come along and find a way to do the thing they wish they would do to completion feels threatening. They would rather complain than consider whether they can accomplish their goal more easily by using it. As for published authors who already write? Because they genuinely believe they are special for getting it done when others can't and they refuse to live in a world where others complete works without the suffering they went through. What they don't realise is that a good book will require suffering no matter which route you take. If your aim isn't to simply finish absolute crap lol
This all reminds me of when digital cameras first started becoming popular. There were all these film photographers complaining about how it was cheating and not real photography. Funny how. it goes like that.
@@_LikeATumbleweed yeah, the world goes on. The cats out of the bag. it's like the people complaining really think that if nano and publishers stand up to the AI it will go away. But no. As soon as someone makes a novel that is to die for using AI, and the publishers see dollar signs, the AI book will be on every shelf. Facts
@@sixfeetwonder_ I think it will be a long, long time before AI matures enough to produce a well written story. I've seen the crap that ChatGPT creates, horrible. It should be used as a tool to spark creativity and ideas which is fine with me.
Start something like an Independent Author Challenge?
Definitely not doing Nano again. Not since their AI thing!
wow, she is beautiful ❤
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Make a TH-cam video?
Why are we making up ridiculous words ? 🤔
I guess society is sick of our regular words.
NaNoWriMo???
This sounds like a babbling infant sound.
National Novel Writing Month
Are you ok?
@@katgreer6113
No not really.
I go thru each day like a zombie.
Thank you for sharing these options! :)
My small press is also running an event, The Order of the Written Word, if you're curious about checking it out. I've got a couple videos up on my channel discussing our plans, and so far it's been really exciting to see this community come together in a new way!