I solve this problem by not writing a book and masturbating.
At the same time‽
Yes. It is very easy to masturbate while not writing.
Easy for you to say. I struggle with this.
I’ll send you a pamphlet.
Bro. I swear to god me, you, and a user called “the piccard manoeuvre” are like the only three users on here.
Like I see y’all everywhere. I had discussions with you in many places at this point.
Only 3 users? Don’t you count us lurkers out, we’re here too. We’re always here… always.
It just I notice those other names a heck of a lot.
I have a lot of free time at the moment, although that’s going to end next year.
Will you still have time to masturbate while not writing?
What happens next year?
You don’t have to share. Just curious is all.
I hear you can save a lot of time by writing Lemmy comments while masturbating.
I’m here too, as well as VikingHippie
Some of the meme gods of !risa@startrek.website will grace other communities with their fire hose of content.
So that’s your trick, you write pamphlets instead of book, I see. I’ll try that next time
Impossible, i’ve tried so hard and still wrote at least a 3 pages story
Or you could solve it by nut writing a book. Make it a two birds, one stone thing, but more like “many nuts, one book”
There’s a 50k word novel that doesn’t use the letter E. Doubling the word count while only using A, C, G, T, & U is on another level.
technically invisible ink
whats with the book writing thing? First I’m hearing about it.
New Novel November
(November is National Novel Writing month in which you’re encouraged to write a 50k+ word novel)
I would like to know who in the fuck thinks they can write a novel in only a month.
If college taught me anything, it’s that I can write thousands of words per night. Typically fastest in the wee hours of the morning.
None of these words are good, mind you, but they are in fact words.
I’ve done it. You’re not supposed to come up with a finished product in 30 days (although some people do). Mine was a first draft of roughly 55k words.
I’m reading a short book by Patrick Rothfuss (The Narrow Road Between Desires). This dude is such a notoriously slow writer that it drives me crazy. He had the audacity to do an author’s introduction where he said this was an existing story of his, but he added 15k words to it. I’m like… what is that, a couple weeks? Write faster, you bastard!
And it’s not like this kind of attitude online has in any way made him self-conscious and led to us most likely never getting the conclusion to his series.
I love the idea of Rothfuss planning all day, coming up with the perfect next chapter in his life’s work, knowing just how to wrap up the intricate threads he’s woven. Then he boots up his laptop, slowly stretches and cracks his fingers. Just before he opens up his word processor to record his beautifully crafted prose, he decides to check out Lemmy for a few minutes. Then he comes across a random comment of mine saying how his fans are frustrated at his pace of writing, and just goes:
“I absolutely care about finishing the book… I feel bad about [not giving people what they want] all the time. It’s one of the things that’s fucking me up, I’m in a lot of therapy right now… I went from fiddling around with a book that I just liked to work on and I knew would never be published… then it’s like 'hey a million people are disappointed in you because they want this book. It’s not a great feeling. … If I didn’t care about the book, you’d have it by now… I owe everyone who loved the book something beautiful”
Literally, the pressure makes it harder for him to make the book he thinks the fans deserve.
If you can make time for 1,700 words a day starting on the 1st then by the end of the month you’ve exceeded 50k
Making time and having energy for 1,700 words a day on top of daily life activities and working a job is the trick.
1700 words shouldn’t take that long. Are you allowed to write on the computer?
Of course. The trick is that you have to come up with which words to use in what order yourself.
Well the challenge is about word count, not about making a coherent novel.
I’m gonna cheese this challenge so hard.
If you want to go through a lot of trouble to make something long that doesn’t make sense, Dadaist theater is easier and more fun… 🤷
Hmmm, but are we speedrunning to 50k or are we going for the word record in the amount of time given?
As obviously we would need different cheesing strategies
I assume so, I don’t see why not
That’s gonna be piss easy!
Nobody said it had to be a good novel.
Branden Sanderson
He also does a friendly competition thing with his fans in his subreddit every year in November. He posts how many words he writes in a week and encourages others to post their word-count to see if anyone can keep up with his output.
Dudes a machine
Isaac Asimov. The guy was a fucking robot.
Then there was L. Ron Hubbard. Nobody spewed words like L Ron. Nobody wrote pulp like L Ron. Motherfucker could churn out a book in a day
Yeah, well, when you develop characters as much as he did, it’s manageable, I guess.
He did some good world building, though - don’t get me wrong, I feasted on the Hari/robot series several times over!
(Sadly not very active of a community yet)
That acronym sounds familiar, but I haven’t heard it in years. Totally forgot it existed.
API error trying to access that community
If your instance hasn’t “seen” it yet, you might need to find it in the search tool for it to show up.
Fuck that.
its called NaNoWriMo
Does anyone actually do any those challenges? I always thought it was a joke.
I’m doing no shave and trying to grow a beard. It’s not going very well lol, it looks like shit
It takes at least a month to get past the itchy and scraggly stage into something dignified.
Didn’t know about the novel one, but I already forgone NNN when doctors said it was bullshit.
National Novel Writing Month, often abbreviated NaNoWriMo, is an annual event encouraging people to finally write that novel they’ve always said they would. The goal is to write 50K words during the month. There are usually meet ups, writing workshops, and other gatherings so participants can encourage each other, share ideas, and generally have fun being part of a thing.
Edit to add: The “nation” is the USA I’m assuming. I’m in the USA and have only heard of it being a US thing. Presumably if you live somewhere else and want to write a book in November, the various online communities would be glad to have you though.
Great now I have to write a 50k word novel in 82 minutes.
You got this bro, I believe in you!
Some ridiculous percentage of all currently publishing novelists in the US have an MFA in literature or creative writing or something similar. If this makes you feel a little suspicious about how the publishing industry actually works, it should. It’s very much a closed ecosystem that’s all about recycling the tried and true and that is highly risk averse in terms of straying from the norm. This is why it’s almost impossible for “regular” people to get a novel published unless they self-publish.
#NovemberNunnery
I know I know. Not a lot of synonyms that start with N
#NinetyNutNovember
Since when do you have to write a 50k novel?
They’re talking about National Novel Writing Month (aka NaNoWriMo) which is November.
Also, 50k words is pretty short for a novel. It’s more of a novella.
Why are you guys doing this to yourselves?
Masochists
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But I am.
Millennial problems
Illuminating manuscripts on vellum November
Why do Americans ruin everything?
It’s not no shave November is Movember. Moustaches for Novemeber. Optional sideburns but they can’t touch the moustache. Just like the cool old timers. It’s been very clear when this started what the rules were.
And it isn’t about doing it as a challenging it’s about raising awareness and money for testicular cancer.
