3 months

1 novel



Right, ready for this? You have 2 months to put together a novel (50K+ Words) It can be about anything, but it has to be longer that 50 thousand.

I recommend daily doing a thousand words or more.

The contest ends at the end of the Summer Holidays.

Post your progress in the this thread if you wish to participate.

Sorry I locked the topic lol.

OH OH YAY!!!! I'm gonna try and do it, i'll be on vacation for about 3 weeks so i'll have bunches of time to write, hopefully, yaya i'm excited :D

yeah. it sounds cool

I'll definitely be attempting it. I need to set a goal sometime and this is perfect! I already have some of the characters down and I know the plot and 3 months will be plenty of time especially in summer! :D

I know about one of the charries. teeehee.

Yeah, I'm trying, too. I already started it for one of the previous challenges but then Lumos crashed and you changed it, so now I'm going to extend it and work off of what I already have. I have about 500 words already.


~Mel

YAY!

I plan do do some every klunch time at school, then we have the half term which will realy bolster my word count. I should have a novel by the end...hopefully.

tehe..
It took me 2 days to plan it! I feel happy I'm trying something! Yea its 3,000 words or more right?
Just checking

yea I know, how much is 5K?

It's 50k, that's 50 thousand.

I'll try, I'm going to be really busy allsummer but I'll work on it.

Define: "end of the summer holidays?"

what is the aprox. date?

Why not. I've got few ideas. I'm not a great writer, but I'll try.

I love my Prolouge. This is an entirely different style for me. I'm used to happy kinds of stories, and stupid ones, too. This one is more serious and stuff, which I like. I want to write when I'm older and experimenting like this helps me know what areas I'll write in. I think I'd be a good Children's Author, but that's just me.



~Mel

September 1st

Sweet.

Ok thank you:)

I'll totally do it. I tried a contest like this once...except it was for one month, not 3. so far I have 362 words. Impressive, lol.

4, 000 so far

My compy doesn't have word count so I have no idea.<_< I do know that it's not 4,000 though. :P




~Mel

Using MS Word?

Tools > Wordcount

If not:

http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/script2/countwords.shtml

yea, most programs use have it. All microsoft stuff does. I think....

Well I'm unloved and I don't have MS Word. I have Wordpad and WordPerfect.

Thanks for the link, Adam. :HUG:

I have about 1600 words, which I think is pretty good for me.



~Mel

alright, i have about 2,400. but the time it takes me to write, ill be done in about 50 years, as Adam will tell you.

hey, anyone wanna partner edit with me? I need someone to edit mine, to help me.

PM Kelly Adair. She's an english wiz. Every time I IM her it takes forever becasue the only word she abbreviates is bcuz. Besides that it's all in perfect english and it gets on my nerves! She won't even do U R or ttyl most of the time. I only know her through the internet but she has to be some kind of genius.

HA! I already wrote a novel! But it would take me forever to type it, since when I wrote it it was all in script, and it's kinda hard to read. :blink: Plus, I need to do major editing, since I wrote it in like...6th grade. But i think it's pretty cool!

I finished mapping out 5 out of 10 of my characters which is a HUGE accomplishment for me! Because I usually never map out characters, but this time I want to know everything about them before I start writing and making up stuff.

:) And I'm a procrastinator, but most of it is because I'm still in school and my story is on my laptop at home.

Paige, the short answer is: You don't need an editor until the novel is finished, write the thing, leave it a month then edit yourself.


http://hollylisle.com/fm/Workshops/one-pass-revision.html

For self-revision from a pro author.

I've started mine. I'll probably never finish it but I'm having fun writing it. It will probably suck too, but I'm still having fun.

As long as you're having fun, it won't matter what the outcome is. ^-^ I'm having fun with my story. I'm incorporating some of my friend's personalities into it. ^-^ Mel knows all about that. And yeah, not much progress...a few more details about characters, but the story is all in my head.

Edit on June 3, 2006:

1,887 words so far not including my character profiles...and my map that I'm making. ^-^ Not that great...but I feel proud of myself. :)