I've done NaNo for the past two years, and won both.
The first time it was basically a rewrite of a story I'd written years beforehand then last year was a story about a woman who was an author taking part in NaNo. It was mad and a lot more fun than my serious attempt from the first year.
The best bits as far as I'm concerned are the word wars where you try and churn out as much as you can as quickly as possible in competition against other people.
The important thing to remember is that it's all for fun, if at the end of it you end up with something which you think is a good novel then so much the better. I'm working on random stories all year round but I know that come November there's hundreds of thousands of other people all manically trying to up their word counts right along side me :D
The first time it was basically a rewrite of a story I'd written years beforehand then last year was a story about a woman who was an author taking part in NaNo. It was mad and a lot more fun than my serious attempt from the first year.
The best bits as far as I'm concerned are the word wars where you try and churn out as much as you can as quickly as possible in competition against other people.
The important thing to remember is that it's all for fun, if at the end of it you end up with something which you think is a good novel then so much the better. I'm working on random stories all year round but I know that come November there's hundreds of thousands of other people all manically trying to up their word counts right along side me :D
First couple of times I saw her I stared, but hey, you see all kinds of interesting people in Glasgow Central!