TnT: November Hell (AKA NaNo)

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Good day, folks! November is almost upon us, and you know what that means – NaNoWriMo! (Or, for the less voluble, there is picowrimo, though I haven’t seen it catch on in a big way.)

I have a confession to make: I’m not the most qualified to talk about NaNo. After all, I’ve never done it – never started, to say nothing of never won. I guess NaNo just isn’t my thing – I like to set my own pace, and deadlines kinda freak me out. And then there are the folks who are really, really keen on NaNo and start planning the next year’s by mid-December!

So there’s a whole range of approaches people take, even as the Internet hunkers down for another month of 50k+ wordspam.

What’s yours?

How do you cope with writing? How do you cope with not writing as the rest of the crowd goes wild? How do you write/how do you hide? What does NaNo mean to you: communal fun, self-imposed asceticism, a groan of ‘oh no, not again’? Or what?

Go on, tell us! ^^

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On the housekeeping side, don’t forget to check out this week’s editing post and the week two topic!