Comments on: The Quick 10: 10 NaNoWriMo Books That Got Published

By: s

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:26:00 +0000

great info! didn’t know of nanowrimo…great idea! Bravo on the accomplishment Stacy!

By: Southern Buddhist

Southern Buddhist — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:33:00 +0000

Congratulations, cheers, and hallelujah for you! Great job. I wrote a book last year (being published in 2009), but I took about four months to do it. I’ve thought about tackling NaNoWriMo, but I write non-fiction, so I’d have to have all the research done beforehand and really carefully arranged, which may be sort of stretching the rules.

They also do a screenwriting blitz in the month of April (NaScreeMo?). So get ready to write that hit movie — you can’t do worse than what’s out there now.

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:27:00 +0000

I’ve gone for it 3 times and finished once, and another year I came within 5000 words. I didn’t even try last month, unfortunately. It’s always fun to go back and see the junk I came up with, but there are always some gems in there.

Didn’t know Water for Elephants was a nano book, that’s impressive. I thought I read she did a lot of research on it, but maybe that was done at another time, or maybe she just has amazing time management skills.

By: zda777

zda777 — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:10:00 +0000

Think its awesome your deciding to write a novel, best of luck with it, I’m sure it will be a great read Peace

By: Stacy Conradt

Stacy Conradt — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:11:00 +0000

I pretty much stopped talking to my husband between the hours of 7 and 10 every night. He gets home at 6:30 and we go to bed at 10, so you can see where he didn’t enjoy November much. Or maybe he did :)

also, I lacked a social life in November. I tailgated one Saturday earlier in the month and that was about it.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:43:00 +0000

It depends on the day Jason. Sometimes it feels impossible, like I budgeted extra word goals per day because I took a 5 day trip to Nashville. But during and after Nashville I felt listless and uninspired. But I tried to write a few (hundred) words each day. Then a few days in a row I caught fire.
I’m sure Stacy feels the same. You just have to push yourself to do something.

By: Jason English

Jason English — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:42:00 +0000

I think it’s so cool that you did this. Between all your regular writing, your job, and whatever home improvement projects are currently underway, where’d you find the time to bang out 50,000 words?

By: Renee Somebody

Renee Somebody — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:27:00 +0000

Lani’s latest book, “Wish You Were Here” was her NaNo last year (2007) also.