Comments on: NaNoWriMo ‘09 http://webcartoonists.com/2009/11/07/nanowrimo-09/ Wed, 10 Nov 2010 17:38:15 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Tiana http://webcartoonists.com/2009/11/07/nanowrimo-09/comment-page-1/#comment-17 Tiana Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:01:33 +0000 http://webcartoonists.com/?p=5#comment-17 Sure you're actually writing a novel! Why NOT write a novel in November for Nanowrimo as a webcartoonist? A bit late, but I thought I'd drop some thoughts down anyway. Writing a novel in November as well as running a comic gave me something else to work on and something else to think about. Plus I got to explore backstory for the world in my comic no less, giving more depth there. And don't give off the idea that you can't hit 50,000 words as a cartoonist either! You can, and update regularly. It just might take a bit of preplanning, that's all, or maybe a bit of fiddling around with your time. I know that prior to November, I pencilled all the pages I needed, plus one week after for recovery, panelled and texted them, did as many backgrounds as I could and started laying down flats before midnight on the 31st rolled in. (And I won't share my novelly wordcount, but suffice to say it was far beyond 50k.) But something to think about for next year: if you really don't want to write a novel but you want to do Nano, there's a side event called NaNoMango where you have to do 30 pages/strips in a month. (Runs in November and in June.) Suffer along with other artists! And if you really don't want to write a novel but you still want to write, there's ScriptFrenzy in April. That's coming right up. If Nano's too much, maybe the 100 page goal of ScriptFrenzy would be right up the webcartoonist alley. B-) So there's a couple events maybe more suited to the webcartoonist than Nanowrimo. But I heartily agree, it's well worth participating, for everyone--including the webcartoonist. The deadlines, the creative rush of writing tons of words in a short period of time, and it's a great excuse to just go crazy. Sure you’re actually writing a novel! Why NOT write a novel in November for Nanowrimo as a webcartoonist? A bit late, but I thought I’d drop some thoughts down anyway. Writing a novel in November as well as running a comic gave me something else to work on and something else to think about. Plus I got to explore backstory for the world in my comic no less, giving more depth there. And don’t give off the idea that you can’t hit 50,000 words as a cartoonist either! You can, and update regularly. It just might take a bit of preplanning, that’s all, or maybe a bit of fiddling around with your time. I know that prior to November, I pencilled all the pages I needed, plus one week after for recovery, panelled and texted them, did as many backgrounds as I could and started laying down flats before midnight on the 31st rolled in. (And I won’t share my novelly wordcount, but suffice to say it was far beyond 50k.)

But something to think about for next year: if you really don’t want to write a novel but you want to do Nano, there’s a side event called NaNoMango where you have to do 30 pages/strips in a month. (Runs in November and in June.) Suffer along with other artists!

And if you really don’t want to write a novel but you still want to write, there’s ScriptFrenzy in April. That’s coming right up. If Nano’s too much, maybe the 100 page goal of ScriptFrenzy would be right up the webcartoonist alley. B-)

So there’s a couple events maybe more suited to the webcartoonist than Nanowrimo. But I heartily agree, it’s well worth participating, for everyone–including the webcartoonist. The deadlines, the creative rush of writing tons of words in a short period of time, and it’s a great excuse to just go crazy.

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