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30 July 2012 @ 10:06 pm
Camp NaNo Support Group - August Session  
A few of us were talking over in the Creative Support Group Thread (CSGT?) about Camp NaNoWriMo. The site is here). In a nutshell, by signing up for CampNaNo, you're challenging yourself to write 50,000 words (a novel) in 31 days, beginning August 1st.

Since there isn't really much of a message board system over on site for Camp, I'm just gonna put this here so we have a place to cheer, commiserate, and have fun. (I have plot bunnies - literal little puff-ball bunnies with sticky feet attached to prompt cards - and I'm not afraid to use them**.)

ETA: Word Count Check-In

**If anyone needs them, the blue bunnies are object bunnies, the purple ones are conflict bunnies, the yellow ones are general bunnies (but not General bunnies), and the pink ones are relationship bunnies.
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http://lar_laughs.livejournal.com/[identity profile] lar_laughs.livejournal.com on July 31st, 2012 04:17 am (UTC)
How do you use the bunnies?
[identity profile] cybermathwitch.livejournal.com on July 31st, 2012 04:23 am (UTC)
When we're doing an in-person write-in in my home region I just pass the bag around and people draw one, then try and write that prompt into their story. For virtual write-ins, I keep them handy and whoever wants one tells me what color they'd like and I pull one and tell them what's on it.
http://lar_laughs.livejournal.com/[identity profile] lar_laughs.livejournal.com on July 31st, 2012 04:44 am (UTC)
Ah, so like prompts or challenges, even. Very interesting!
[identity profile] cybermathwitch.livejournal.com on July 31st, 2012 04:47 am (UTC)
Exactly! :D

The thing that got me through the first NaNo I finished (particularly through week three) was a table of one-word prompts. I just sat down and tried to write 100-200 words around each word on the list, without necessarily trying to tie them together into a story (though several of them did that, anyway.) I was tons of fun, and really upped both the word count and how well I understood the characters.
http://lar_laughs.livejournal.com/: Cinnamon Toast Crunch - nom nom nom[identity profile] lar_laughs.livejournal.com on July 31st, 2012 02:23 pm (UTC)
My first ever NaNo novel consisted of dares that I got from the site! Two characters, stuck on a deserted island, discussed how to make a cake for nearly 1500 words. It was delightful!

I still use selective dares these days but nothing like that first time through.