I PROPOSE A CHANGE! [Move to October]
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I PROPOSE A CHANGE! [Move to October]
NaNo should be not November because after Thanksgiving muse dies...
NaNo should be in October...
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I agree it would be more convenient in another month. Thanksgiving is a pretty important holiday.
October has Halloween though, which I'm sure that being the last day, everyone's not going to want to be bothered by trick-or-treaters as they scramble to finish up their word count wins.
MOD NOTE
Moved from Reference Desk. OP noted.
Also, would like to point out that Canadian Thanksgiving is in October, and many other countries around the world don't have Thanksgiving in either October or November.
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There is never a good time for everyone. There's always a major holiday, or important tests, or SOMETHING. Why is it in November? To take advantage of the miserable weather. There is never a good month. NaNoWriMo teaches you to be persistent even though you have real life interventions.
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I was at the beach yesterday. *pokes tongue out* But that's me being all Southern Hemispheric.
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Well, having gotten back from San Francisco during November... I can assure you, the weather can be pretty miserable there. ;) And when they started, that's why they picked November!
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One of these years I'll get the money together to come up there and be miserable with you at the NOWD.
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It's so worth it. Unloading the truck in the pouring rain beforehand isn't so much fun... but inside it's warm and toasty and so very, very classy.
*nods sagely*
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I just want to see the candy buffet in person.
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That's my main reason for wanting to go.
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Pretty much this. October would be a horrible time for me, since that's always the month I have the biggest workload from school. (I would still attempt this if it was in October, don't get me wrong, but I just want to point out that even October wouldn't be good for everyone.) The point is to find the time to write. Instead of sitting down to watch that movie - go write! Instead of sitting and drinking coffee for half an hour in the morning - write and drink coffee for half an hour in the morning! Instead of taking a half hour shower, take a five minute shower and spend the rest of the time writing! :)
There are lots of other Writing Months created by users who wanted to write more. Why not try one of those? :)
Here's the list I could find for all of them, though I'm not sure if they link to the most popular sites for that month: http://www.squidoo.com/novel_writing_months
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Oh! It would also feel a little funny to have a random 31 days instead of an even 30, IMO. :)
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November also gives us an extra hour, though. And, really, I got more writing done on Thanksgiving than I did almost any other day of the month.
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Not for the UK it doesn't. Our clocks go back in October.
As proven several times in this thread, there's no "perfect" month for everyone.
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For every American who feels like Thanksgiving kills things, there's probably another who loves having Thanksgiving break to work - and then, of course, there's all the people who do not have a major holiday in November at all.
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This too. I was able to and inspired to write much more for my novel than I had been doing and even ended up being able to write an actual ending!
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I propose ... FEBRUARY! Yes, it's the shortest month, but that makes it an even bigger challenge, and every 4 years you get an extra day!
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Well, the problem with that is it's right before Script Frenzy in april... and we just plain can't handle back-to-back events.
We learned this with Camp NaNoWriMo. ;)
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Wait what but would the two back-to-back NaNo months still happen, though? Since you say you can't handle it and stuff.
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I think that all depends on funding. I think I've read a reply to one of the many threads that says if there's not enough donations, then possibly not.
This year was just to see how it could all run and what was possible, it wasn't necessarily how it was going to stay and happen in years to come.
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I was (mostly :) joking. For me personally, November is good, since I get Veteran's Day off and I don't have to travel for Thanksgiving. But for people who do travel, that's 4 days they can't write, or not as much. But I've thought quite a few times, in the depressing cold dark days of Jan-Feb, that it would be a good time for NaNoWriMo.
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Ahahaha, yes. ;P
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I seem to recall from last year that someone posted something that listed similar events -- some OLL sponsored, some not... but you could take part in some sort of event that was at least loosely organized, and revolved around writing and/or editing... every month of the year.
Sorry! no time to clarify, as I'm heading off to work... but perhaps Dragonchilde or Keladryie have understood what I'm saying and that list can be re-posted? (bc, of course, you guys know EVERYTHING!!!!)
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Ask and ye shall receive!
A list can be found here - I'd post it all here, but the list is long and full of links to the other writing sites.
I doubt this is a full and complete list however, since new challenges are always being created. It's a good start, though.
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That list is part of the "I Wrote a Novel, Now What" block... it's not comprehensive, but it won't be posted until sometime next week, when special offer codes are distributed.
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You can find a list of all of them (one I completed isn't in Keladryie's list) here:
http://www.wikiwrimo.org/wiki/List_of_timed_artistic_challenges
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Though, as Keladryie said, they're being created all the time :) This is the most up to date I know of.
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I have done group writing competitions, not affiliated with NaNo/etc, in January, March, April, June, July, September, and December. Every single one of those months had something flail-worthy. Doctors appts, school stuff, work stuff, my mom's health issues, trips that couldn't be postponed... Any month out of the year will have *something* to flail about, for a large portion of NaNoers. It's not going to help anything to move it to a different month, expect maybe to help people flail about something different, besides Thanksgiving.
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Argument about Thanksgiving muse is invalid for every country that is not the US.
(Excuse me, princess. I only happen to know that not every country has the same holidays! *ragespasm*)
You are always free to write your novel whenever you want. o_o November wasn't easy for me either in the last two years due to lots of work and other stress. I'm glad it's not officially in October.
Lots of people from my writing group are university students or otherwise students. September is the time school starts after the summer break here in Austria, afaik other countries as well. Plotting your novel and concentrating on new school stuff? Kind of irritating.
Also a bonus point about November: You know that after its over there's some holiday time ahead.
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Holiday time ahead in your country, you mean? 'Cause did you know not all countries have the same holidays?
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Although quite a number of cultures observe some kind of feasts around solstices, so I thing majority of people of the world have some kind of holiday. I remember only Christmas and Hanukkah, but I'm sure there are others (Moslem religious year is shorter than solar year, so the feasts "wander" anyway), and also the Western New Year...