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Title: Another writing challenge: Novel in 90
Post by: SFEley on January 06, 2007, 05:01:08 AM

LiveJournal community here:
http://community.livejournal.com/novel_in_90/profile (http://community.livejournal.com/novel_in_90/profile)

The initiating post from Elizabeth Bear:
http://matociquala.livejournal.com/1002185.html (http://matociquala.livejournal.com/1002185.html)

The idea is to get roughly 70,000 words on a novel draft done in 90 days, under "real world conditions," with a productivity of 3 manuscript pages a day.  It can be a project you've already started, or a brand new one, and you can do it synchronous with anything else you've currently got going on.  Bear describes it as an "anti-NaNoWriMo (http://www.nanowrimo.org)," as the idea is not to drop everything else in your life but rather to maintain a sustainable pace.

I'm not doing this one, but I think it's a fine idea.  If it's something that could work for you, there are the links.

Title: Re: Another writing challenge: Novel in 90
Post by: bekemeyer on January 25, 2007, 10:05:54 AM

i have written 2 screenplays in one month (120 pages or more, mostly more because i'm wordy).  but, something about a novel just hasn't clicked with me yet.