citrusjava | Days Meme: Creative new thing to do for starrylizard

Starrylizard prompted:

If you could offer me one creative suggestion, something new I should try (doesn't need to be fandom related), what would it be?

I've given this a lot of thought, though I should say that I don't know you that deeply, so I may be off. I considered fandoms, tropes, prompts, kinks, social justice stuff and geeky experiments.... BUT - IINM, you did and enjoyed GISHWHES. A somewhat similar activity I can't find evidence you've tried, is NaNoWrimo.

You probably know all about it, but just in case - this takes place during November (though there are other events during other months of the year) - and the goal is writing 50,000 of a story.

I rec it, for the craziness and the camaraderie, for the things you discover about yourself and the things you teach yourself to write while scrambling to do so.

I personally have never managed to finish editing one of the drafts I'd written for this - but I did enjoy, felt a belonging, and had just a wild crazy having fun time. It's an excuse ot write for days, to put it before other things. It is definitely draining, so that is something to take into account when deciding whether or not to do so. And if it takes you in the self flagellation path - then no, don't do that to yourself, that sucks! - but if you can ENJOY IT - YES!

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Sounds interesting when you put it like that! I always thought of NaNoWriMo as a solitary experience. So there are forums and cheerleading and discussions and such?

I usually stick to WriSoMiFu (write something you miserable fuck) on LJ for the hilarity (you pledge to write 10mins a day and check in consists of saying how badly you're doing - it's hilarious trust me) but maybe I should try the real thing sometime. Will most definitely consider it.

Thank you! I appreciate it! :-)

WriSoMiFu (write something you miserable fuck)

LOL i love it. I didn't know that existed but it sounds amazing! XDD Is it also in November, or a different month?

Yep it's also in November. It's an LJ community. I'm not sure how I stumbled on it now, but I love the hilarity that ensues and it does usually prompt me to do some writing even though it's a busy month for me. Pretty sure they open membership just before Nov each year.

Sounds great! I'll have to see how my Nov is looking this year!

Awesome!
can be so so fun to do it at the same time!

I think I'd like to try NaNo this year! Lord knows what I'd write for it, but I think I'll finally have a November I where I can build that into my schedule. FINALLY. (Mostly because I'll be supposedly writing my dissertation at that point. But what is NaNo if not a fun warmup for academic writing?? Maybe they'll be mutually beneficial to each other!)