Instead of doing NanoWriMo I will be doing something where I try to aim for writing an actual average of 400 words a day for the month of November in memory of Terry Pratchett, who as far as I know never thought telling a computer to write a book for you is a good way to hone your skills as a writer.
I LOVE THIS. THIS is the spirit of NaNoWriMo: to invent a challenge to make you write.
If I may add some ideas:
- The 666 challenge: Writing six pages a day in a month (no matter how shitty) because Stephen King writes 6 pages a day. Equating it with the devil is to explain why it’s shit sometimes.
- The 420 challenge: Get high. Write 420 words a day.
- THE OTHER 51 challenge: Write 51 words a day because, yes, Hamilton wrote 51 essays in six months, but that bitch was crazy, and you can write 51 words without feeling like you’re running out of time.
- The Fibonacci challenge: Try to write as many words a day as required to meet the Fibonacci sequence. So, 100 on day one. 200 on day two. 300 on day three. Etcetera. If you don’t hit the number in the sequence, you can respond “DO I LOOK LIKE A MATHIMATICIAN TO YOU”
- If you wanna NaNo your heart out at 1667 a day, absolutely do that. Enjoy it! But if start talking now if you’re looking for a group who will join you and not try to fuck AI up its server-hole.
I would like to gently advise any Tumblr users to absolutely the fuck not try to attempt that “Fibonacci challenge,” because it means that your goal for the month of November would be to write 134,692,200 words.
As usual I am doing Picowrimo (one one-thousandth of Nanowrimo) (a fifty-word shitpost at some time during the month will be considered success) (Pithy Comment Writing Month)