Camp NaNoWriMo spring 015

[crich70]

Is anyone else here at MR going to try to work on a novel this coming month? Camp starts on April 1st.
Camp NaNoWriMo

[Graham]

I wasn't specifically going to hang this off NaNoWriMo, but things are working out that I should have a good block of free time for most of April, and I was going to get moving on the novel I outlined last year... so I might join the fun.

Graham

[crich70]

I'm working up the order of events based on a novel idea I had the other week. Using a foam board and post it notes to organize it is one thing that I'm doing.

Edit: One thing I'm doing is sorting out my scenes via a board I made up. I got a piece of foam board (20" X 30") at Wal-Mart and a package of post-it notes and I put a brief account of what the scene will be about on each post-it. That way I can re-use the board again in the future. I can fit up to 48 scenes on the board with it split into 4 parts:
Act 1
Act 2 pt. 1
Act 2 pt. 2
Act 3
I have a bunch of scene notes on my KF and just have to transcribe what I have and find events that fit between and I'll have my basic plot all mapped out. I'm also using a trick I learned from a writing book this next month. You write down your daily goal on a calendar i.e. 2k on day 1, 4k on day 2, 6k on day 3 and after you finish that days work you cross out the date. That way you have a visual reference of how well you are doing (or not doing).

[Dr. Drib]

I use Scrivener for the same thing.

They have something called Corkboard, which works wonderfully.

[crich70]

I also have scrivener and plan to transfer my notes there. I'm just using the foam board to help with the initial order of things.

[gmw]

Wow, planning, I've heard about that, now I know what it looks like too!

Mostly, my cork-board is in my head. Sometimes those pins really hurt.

No, I won't be joining the fun. I find NaNoWriMo is a bit like a cork-board, it doesn't fit with how I want to write.

That's only partly tongue-in-cheek. I write out some experimental scenes and dialogues as they occur to me, mostly as a way of sticking the pin in my memory about a particular idea (I rarely use those experimental texts directly). And I keep a timeline so I always know where everyone is and what they're up to in relation to one another, but mostly that's something I keep up to date as I go rather than use for advance planning. I've never managed to make the whole advanced planning whiteboard/cork-board thing work for me, either I know where I'm going in my head ... or not. If I don't, the only way I've found to move forward is to start writing and see where it takes me. It is interesting to see how others approach the problem.

[crich70]

I'm still working out some of my plot myself but since if I can get 2k a day it will only take me 25 days to write 50k I should be ok even if I fall a bit behind at first. And post its are thumbtack free.

[AixenPixel]

I am thinking of nanowrimo for 2015 seriously! Especially after coming up with solutions to slaughter my writers block!!!

[crich70]

I also made this for helping me to keep track of word counts in future.
Reusable calendar