Thread 24853752

Any of you doing NaNoWriMo this month? We're only three days in, plenty of time to start still. I haven't, but maybe if enough people call me a fag I will.

Didn't the people who run this thing all die?

>>24853755
Didn't they endorse AI generative text and get roasted for it?

>>24853755
>>24853764
The idiots running the site said it was ok to submit AI slop. When they got called out they doubled down and said it was “ableist” to not be ok with slop.
They lost much of their audience, thus support and funding, and collapsed.
Really not surprising they’d be corporate neoliberals. That being said, no one owns the concept and I’m still doing it, same as every year. ~7000 words in as of today.

>>24853784
if it's ai
it can be killed

>>24853752 (OP)
It's a cool concept, but has anyone ever actually written a GOOD novel for it? I've looked at published novels that were written during NanoWriMo and desu they all looked like slop, but I could be mistaken

>>24853801
Not sure if they count as 'good' but Knausgård's My Struggle series were each done under NaNoWriMo:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Struggle_(Knausg%C3%A5rd_novels)#History

>>24853801
Almost all novels written today are slop anyway, so what’s your point? The point isn’t to shit out a perfect, complete novel in a month. It’s to generate a sizeable rough draft to edit.
Probably 95% of the people who did it were lonely, boring women so what do you expect?

>>24853752 (OP)
It's dead, right? Anyway, I hope you have a good month of it anon. I churned out some slop with other litbros back in the day

>>24853784
>no one owns the concept and I’m still doing it, same as every year.
why not every month? Isn't 50k words a month a good way to build and maintain the muscles?

>>24853755
>>24853764
>>24853784
I'm sure the people who run whatever organization that promotes it are completely retarded, but that doesn't mean there's no value in sitting down and writing a lot.

>>24853808
He hammered it out quickly, but it doesn't sound like he was intentionally doing a NaNoWriMo thing.

>>24853966
I quite literally said I was doing it in my post.

>>24853861
50k a month continuously is tough if you have a job, family, etc. if I were a rich hermit I could do more than that though.

>>24853764
>>24853784
>>24853966
I remember part of their stated reason was "community vitriol." I can see now why their community became so vitriolic

>>24853808
>Knausgård
>good
Hah! Good one one anon

How do you figure out what to write? Do you come up with an idea or plan beforehand or do you just make it up as you go along through the month?

>>24854701
Ah, that's one of the great questions

>>24853752 (OP)
I cant write. My mastery over the language is very shoddy, my sentences come out awkward and maligned and i dont even have good ideas to boot.

I've done nanowrimo every month this year

>>24853784
This was very wrong from their side.
The purpose of nanowrimo was to improve yourself as a writer, if you delegate the practice to another person or instrument you learn nothing.
It's like someone studying to be a cook and ordering someone else to cook the plate: he does nothing, he learns nothing.

>>24854954
>The purpose of nanowrimo was to improve yourself as a writer

>>24853990
it's not hard at all to shit out 50k words in a month. Now to have that content be good, or non-slop is the hard part

Every year, I look at beat sheets and outline templates and try to come up with something to write about, and every year I fail. I've even set my sights lower and tried to just write a complete short story and I can't even do that. I know the common advice is something like 'just get words on paper, don't worry about quality'. But this doesn't help me when I have no ideas regardless of quality.

>>24853784
>The idiots running the site said it was ok to submit AI slop
wonder if they did that because they realized there was no way to prevent it