This is where WNFIN participants can leave comments about their progress. Tell us about the major hurdles you get past, what you’re struggling with, how many words you’ve written, when you pass mid-way in your project, if you’ve got writer’s block, and when you finish. And please, please comment on each others’ comments.
More than anything, we really want to know if you finish your project–and what results come of that later! We may use your success story in later blog posts, so if you meet the challenge, let us know!
Have fun here! Get to know each other. Support each other.
Or go to the Facebook page for more opportunities to chat and to ask questions and build community.
I am so grateful to hold myself accountable for writing a blog post daily (my goal is to post three or four times a week. This blog I have just set-up is :WHAT A RELIEF!: BABY BOOMER BIPOLAR II DIAGNOSIS. It will address all the issues that implies. And I am writing it in my OWN name. NO SHAME.
I urgently need to do all sorts of social media to promote my previously published novels, now republished in ebook form (by me and by the publisher). The books are written under different pen names. I live in Portland OR and would love to meet some in person writing buddies as well. I’ll be happy to hear from anyone who wants to post here or email me. I look forward to reading about you and your project(s)! Best, Eileen
Whoo hoo! You are participant #1 and deserve credit. Are you blogging your book? Or are you just writing your book? As the first one to sign up, either way, you get a 30 minute free consult with me on blogging or platform building for your book(s).
Dear Nina
I am really excited to sign up for nanonfiwrimo so thank you for creating the opportunity to take part in this. I did try my to sign up yesterday but couldn’t get onto this page. Do I need to sign up anywhere else on this website or this post is it, registration complete?
Kind regards
Marina
Marina,
I’m sorry for the problems. The page was here but the comment function wasn’t working. You are all “registered,” as far as WNFIN has any type of registration. You might want to go to the FB page at this point and mention what type of project you are working on, since you didn’t do it here, but you can also leave a second comment here. Good luck, and thanks for joining NaNonFiWriMo.
Since you actually were the first one to tell me they were trying to sign-in (you sent me an email), you also win a 30-minute consult. Email me at namir(at)copywrightcommunications(dot)com to set it up before the end of December.
Nina
Hi Nina, Thanks for being kind to a new writer. On a second glance, I see that the contest is about completing a book and not article length (blame my pregnancy brain)…I’m still in for the challenge. For me the challenge might not result in a completed book, but certainly plenty of material that could become useful for future projects…maybe a book or maybe articles. It’s helpful also to see what others are projecting as their daily writing goals. Thanks again!
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Hi Nina! A friend on FB turned me on to this when I said I’d be mis-using NaNoWriMo to try to finish up my in-progress workbook. Thanks for putting all of this out there! I look forward to delving into your many resources.
Hi Nina,
Happy to learn that not only was my comment posted, but that I’ve won a consult with you! Thank you!
I’m going to blog “What a Relief! Baby Boomer BiPolar II Diagnosis.” More about that later.
best to you,
Eileen
I’m in! Looking forward to getting a book done in November! Best to everyone and thanks Nina for organizing.
I just found this today – as a result of my friend doing the NaNoMo challenge, Love this. Since it begins in two days, I may get a slow start, but I’m going to dive in. I think I’ll blog on topics that I need to develop.
I’m so excited to be part of this adventure. This is a wonderful opportunity and thank you Nina for creating this space.
I will be writing the sequel to my first book which was Massaging Your Baby – The Joy of TouchTime..and now the new book will be offering Toddler TouchTime …subtitle to follow…
Bringing my heart out of this body, through my fingers, will be the ultimate touch, enabling me to share this work with those in need. Miracles happen each day, and I am so glad my friend told me about this challenge! Onward….
I am very excited to find out about this. I will be completing a memoir. I’ve been outlining it and toying with the idea for a little while now, I think it is finally time to leap. Bring on November!
I can’t find a place to sign in my intentions to participate in NaNonfiWriMo so I hope I can do it here. I am writing a book about heroism and using a WWII Polish resistance movement as example of this. I have conducted some research but am holding off on the real writing until Nov. 1.
This is the place to “sign in.” You can also go to the FB page. There is another place here on the site (listed under this page) for ongoing updates and your final updates.)
This is the perfect challenge to help me bring balance to my writing time and life. Although family issues involving out of town caregiving every three weeks will continue to interrupt, I appreciate the opportunity you provide. I’m working on a memoir and NaNoWriMo, as you well know, makes those of us writing nonfiction feel a bit left out. Please put me down as a participant! Whether I complete my first draft or not, I will at least I’ve made some headway.
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I plan to write 52 blog posts, with memories, inspirations, simple musings on life, leaership, how to treat others and ourselves.
If you are blogging a book, list it at http://www.howtoblogabook.com.
Hello I am excited and I look forward to participating. I was searching for the sign up page for the past couple days as well. I am writing a content marketing book. What seems feasible to me is completing 1500 words a day. My goal is really 2,000. I really would love to learn how to blog a book. I have a blog site called It is Written. I think the blogging book idea is great cause you can get some helpful feedback. I would love to find out just how you can go about this and whether it gets in the way of copyrights, etc. For instance if you want to sell a post as an article.
Brigitte,
All the information you seek is either in my book, How to Blog a Book, or on the website, http://www.howtoblogabook.com. Or sign up for a free 15-min. coaching call with me. I also have blog-to-book coaching groups starting every two months.
Hello Nina and fellow writers,
I am so excited about coming onboard with all other heartfelt writers that take their writing seriously. I have pedged to write everyday, now I just hope I can meet my criteria. I’ve been working on a Science Fiction saga for two years now with the first of a series of five, “THE UNBORN PROPHECY” almost complete. In between, I’ve been working on the other sequels as well. This writing challenge will hopefully help motivate my writing and keep me on track with completing my saga. This first novel is set in the past, as well as the future and weaving the two time frames together through out my story has been a real challenge for me. I must have my time schedules, both the past and present exactly precise! Since my secret planet takes place in another time and dimension on the other side of Earth, I ‘m blending two very different world’s together while slowly meshing my charcters into what is to be the final episode, the climatic final novel, “THE REDEMPTION SEED.” Who said writer’s weren’t artisits? Give ourselves a pat on the back!
I think you are in the wrong place, Penny. This is the nonfiction challenge. I think you want NaNoWriMo.org.
Hi, this is my first time participating in something like this. I need the extra motivation it will provide, so thanks Nina for doing this. I’m going to finish a book this month that I actually planned to publish for New Years. It’s called “You Lost Me At Leviticus: The No-Excuse Guide to Reading and Understanding the Bible.” I’m also going to get started on another book. It doesn’t have a title yet, but it’s a new translation of the first five books of the Bible. I don’t have a target word or page count for it now, but I just want to make some headway with it.
Hi!
I’m really excited to participate in NaNoWrMo! I’ve done it in spurts before, but this time I’m committing to the full anty. 1,600 words a day for 30 (or 31?) days!
Book will be about the virtue power and racism.
Thank you!
I am signing in late–better late than never I suppose. I decided to participate before November began (ok, it was only a day or two before), but when I woke up this morning I realized that it was already the second! I had better get moving. I will be working on a project about growing up with undiagnosed autism, and life now as an adult woman navigating the world with Asperger’s Syndrome.
Good Luck to everyone.
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Thank You Nina for the clarification and steering me in the right direction. My mistake. Good Luck to you all in your writing adventures.
Penny Morford
Thank you Nina — and everyone! I am in too and have been writing these past three days and getting a clearer vision of the project each day. I hope to create a first draft of a series of historical stories about letter writers.
We’re headed down the final bend and I’m very close to a full manuscript; love this pending deadline and the promise of a contest entry to keep me going. Question what format to submit the final text of the book in? And to whom? I love all your material on publishing but have had to bookmark and save them for the future as the writing comes first. Looking forward to Friday midnight and some instructions as to how to submit it all. I’ll add another Invisible Grandparent letter in a minute … I’ve hundreds.
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SAMPLE OF A LETTER TO THE GRANDCHILD I’M INVISIBLE TO:
‘October 15, 2012
Dear Anne,
How I wish I could see how you are growing into a young woman, a “maiden” in the three phases of women’s lives: Maiden, Mother and Crone. The maiden is the stage of youthfulness, playfulness and innocence before your body announces with menstruation, (your first “period” or monthly bleeding that I’m sure your mother told you about), that you could move into the next phase of “mother.”
Then you get 40 years (sounds like a lot doesn’t it?) of the motherhood or pro-creative phase in which you can birth either children or your best work in the world. When you stop menstruation after menopause somewhere between 45 and 55; you get the honor of being called a “Crone.” That word comes from the Greek word meaning ‘crowned’ or ‘holy one’ or ‘wise elder woman,’ likes me at 67. It is the stage in a woman’s life when she stands in her own truth and power.
I just got home from a national gathering of 200 women called Crones Counsel in Salt Lake City. There we attended a RED TENT CEREMONY that prompted me to think of you. In ancient Hebrew times the red tent was a place women were sent when they were bleeding for ritual and rest, some men thinking they were ‘unclean’ at that time. The Counsel built these three beautiful tents with sparkling see-through veils. Groups of younger women were invited and we elders moved with them to each tent to listen and share with one another about the greatest tasks and challenges of each stage.
I was particularly moved at the MAIDEN tent when one young teenager, tears in her eyes, shared about guys having it so much easier than girls on looks and appearance. She told us that guys take pictures of girls and post them on a website called ratingmylooks.com, and rate them from 1-10 and make often nasty comments! How awful! How horrible that must make you feel, whether you got a 9 or 10 and were chased by boys for only your looks; or a 2-3 and were laughed at!
Anne, I hope that you learn to believe in your own inner beauty when you look in the mirror and at your girlfriends, and not let what others say about you affect you; but I know that won’t be easy.
Then I went to the MOTHERHOOD tent. A young woman of 22 with 7-month-old twins and a three year old at home who she loved very much, told us weeping that she was overwhelmed and didn’t think she ever was ‘enough’ for her babies! She wanted to know if we grandmother and great grandmother types had ever felt that way. We all assured her YES! And suggested ways she could ask for help when she needs it.
So Anne, I heard these RED TENT CEREMONIES are being held by and for women all over the world to bring women of all ages together. I am sorry I cannot bring you to one, yet. I still vision the day that maybe I will.
May your journey to woman hood be a smooth and glittering one, with lots of support from your “girl-friends” and women elders along the way. I love you.
Invisible Grandma Pat
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Pat,
Glad you are enjoying everything and finding the challenge helpful. The info on submitting is back in the pre-November posts. And you attach your manuscript as a Word doc. just to prove it’s done. It likely will not get read since it is a pitch fest–you are just pitching. It’s time to submit your pitch when the contest is over. So locate that post, work on your pitch, and watch for a post on Dec. 1.
I also suggest you post that letter in your last comment on the Facebook page. It will get some comments there…
Nina
I finished!! It is a very rough draft, but it is finished!!
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Quick question about the “you must have written the entire book during the month of November” rule: if a lot of your book came from previous blog posts over the years, but you put it all together and wrote much more of it during November, does that count, or do the previous blog posts take me out of the running for the pitch?
I have another few questions. I see that you are advising people who are blogging books to list them at your other site, but when I go to the other site, I don’t see where to do that. This is not an existing blog by the way but one that I plan to do. I wanted to have enough entries though so I can post frequently and not get stuck for wanting material.
The other question I have is about submitting the whole document as a Word document. I write longhand as well as typing in, depending on how I feel, etc. How do I account for all the longhand pages? Plus, this is all a hot mess at this point. It’s going to read as jambalaya:)
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Here’s the link for listing blogged books: http://howtoblogabook.com/list-your-book/
Explain that your book is partially in longhand, I guess. It’s the pitch that’s important.
Elizabeth,
If you can tell us how you put the book together–booked your blog–and also how much you wrote from scratch, we’ll consider it.
Nina
I did it! I completed my 60,000 word manuscript this month, although I didn’t do it for WNFIN as much as I did it for myself. It just so happened to be good timing! Very happy to read about others projects and to find your site Nina! Now I guess I have to start shopping it around? I’ve written and published several travel guidebooks but have never published the traditional way and am a bit confused about what happens next. I’ll keep you all posted!
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Halleluia, I am posting my status update to my November writing project before midnight on November 30, 2012, as promised. I came into this game late, not having realized I was supposed to register as a participant. In late October, I created a goal for myself to host a gratitude challenge on my two blogs and write daily blog posts on both sites. I pushed myself harder than I ever did, trampled any excuses that cropped up, and forged ahead.
My successful result was having met my goal – - I wrote, published, and uploaded 60 gratitude blog posts, which I am now in the process of repurposing into a book. I saw Nina Amir’s Facebook message about the virtual pitch slam, but I do not qualify because I did not write the entire book. Now that I wrote the 60 original blog posts, I have to now work with them to make them a seamless, cohesive book.
Thank you for this wonderful opportunity, Nina. I’m gearing up for WNFIN 2013, with a much larger goal.
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My manuscript is DONE … it is 11:25 pm and my husband is putting the final touches on formatting the document with a fully operational Table of Contents, whew! Deadlines work! Stay tuned … now to figure out exactly where to upload it.
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Nina: You have asked participants to comment on each others’ status updates here. I tried to do that, but there is no reply feature that allows for threaded replies. Replying in a general sense makes for confusion, imo. I did, however, visit the personal blogs of two of your participants and left detailed comments.
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Amanda,
You are right. Next year I’ll install a better comment feature.
Thanks for the feedback.
Nina
Did it! Completed the first draft in roughly two weeks, then revised. Now final layout is done and the manuscript is with a technical reviewer (cross-checking my science). Woot!
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I was going to do the full challenge, but realized after a week of groping and thrashing around that I wasn’t at all ready to actually start writing. So I changed my goal to something more realistic for me: I simply pledged to write something every day. That goal I did achieve and feel good about it. Also, about halfway through the month, I decided to pull long-buried notes for an essay out of a drawer and work on that. I reached that goal too. In fact one more go-through after the end of this month and I think I’ll feel ready to do something with it. Never having published anything or even tried to submit anything, I feel the month was a success.
My current goal: continue writing every day. Next year… Next year I’ll be ready to jump in on day one.
Thanks. I appreciate the little push this site has provided.
I don’t think I reached 30,000 words, but I did complete 29 posts in 30 days. For my efforts, I was nominated for an EduBlog award for best school administrator blog. I have a good outline for my eBook. I have started it on iBooks Author and will continue to work on it.