NaNoWriMo

Asherr

It's that time of year again. November 1st, when aspiring authors stock up on snack and canned drinks, close the blinds and say good bye to the world for a month as they attmept to create their masterpiece. National Novel Writing Month starts today! (or would it be International? InNoWriMo?)

http://www.nanowrimo.org/

guess i can try again this year. due to an error with my watch i've been ahead a day for a few days which has thrown me off. but since i haven't actually missed the first day of writing and WoW is down for maintenece i guess i have no excuse.

50,000 words in a month.

Ready...

Set...

Go!

snemmy

if you arent interested in writing a 'novel' then try your hand at writing a game design document.

the point is just to get your creative juices flowing. everyone needs practice at writing.

im going to attempt at least a short story, doubt ill get to 50k words but we'll see.

overwhelmed? need to break it down to simpler starting blocks? try http://www.rsingermanson.com/html/the_snowflake.html

looking for a pretty good all inclusive text program to keep notes and variations all in one app? give KeyNote a try

nealb4me

My uncle is running a writing competition on his site in case you or anyone else is interested. He's just starting out with it: http://enigma.skryf.net/ Hope you don't mind me mentioning it in here.

Asherr

don't mind as long as it's not a scam/vanity press like poetry.com.

other good links for writers:

tips: http://www.horror.org/writetips.htm
10 commandments of detective fiction: http://www.mysterylist.com/declog.htm
Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses by Mark Twain: http://users.telerama.com/~joseph/cooper/cooper.html
nine act structure: http://www.dsiegel.com/film/nine_act.html

Soul_Reaper

Awesome, I'll have to check these all out in more detail later on!

I just started writing a story.
If anyone wants to see what I have so far I'll put it up for some constructive feedback.

cholden

Fantastic, this is the perfect inspiration for me to continue working on my own novel (or what may end up a short story).