{"id":239,"date":"2019-03-28T23:02:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T23:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d41\/?p=239"},"modified":"2019-03-28T23:03:37","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T23:03:37","slug":"join-me-at-the-armadillocon-cabin-at-camp-nanowrimo-this-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d41\/2019\/03\/28\/join-me-at-the-armadillocon-cabin-at-camp-nanowrimo-this-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Join me at the ArmadilloCon Cabin at Camp Nanowrimo this April"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>by Rebecca Schwarz<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you have two thumbs and some writing to accomplish in April? I know I do. I did a traditional National Novel Writing Month YEARS ago and enjoyed it for what it was. While I did NOT get a viable novel out of it, I did love the camaraderie. And publicly stating \u2013 and tracking \u2013 my word-count goals over that month was productive. I\u2019ve got a novel to finish this spring so when <g class=\"gr_ gr_9 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Grammar only-ins replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"9\" data-gr-id=\"9\">notification<\/g> about <a href=\"https:\/\/campnanowrimo.org\/\">April\u2019s Camp Nano<\/a> came around it felt like kismet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"210\" height=\"210\" src=\"http:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d41\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/nanowrimo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d41\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/nanowrimo.jpg 210w, https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d41\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/nanowrimo-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>April also happens to be a great time to generate material if you are considering signing up for the <a href=\"http:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d41\/writers-workshop\/\">ArmadilloCon Writing Workshop<\/a>. The deadline to submit a 5,000 (or less) word story is Friday, June 14. That means as of May 1, you would have a solid six weeks to revise and polish something for the workshop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I like Nanowrimo because you can set whatever goals work for you. Sure, the standard template is 50,000 words in a month, but that is only a suggestion. I need about 25,000-30,000 more words to finish out my novel and I also want to get back to blogging, so I\u2019m setting a goal of 35,000 words next month. That works out to about 1,450 words six days a week, which I know is doable for me. 1,000 daily words on the novel and the rest can go to blogging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Be creative, think about what serves YOUR writing next month. Maybe you have revisions to work on. Revising four pages (in standard manuscript format) per day = 1,000 words. Maybe you like to revise as you go or just move through your drafts more slowly, set a goal of 250 words a day (one double spaced page), that would be 7,500 word goal for the month. A perfectly reasonable goal as writing is about quality over quantity, IMHO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"291\" height=\"173\" src=\"http:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d41\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/chapter1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-237\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>So, if you think an endeavor like this will serve your writing, it would be my pleasure to write-along with you. I\u2019ve created an \u201cArmadillocon-or-Bust\u201d cabin. If you would like an invite to the cabin, make a profile at Camp Nano and then leave a comment here with your Nano handle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019re not writing for the ArmadilloCon workshop you can still find me at Camp Nano in April as Curiousworlds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See you in the word mines!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Rebecca Schwarz Do you have two thumbs and some writing to accomplish in April? I know I do. I did a traditional National Novel Writing Month YEARS ago and enjoyed it for what it was. While I did NOT &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d41\/2019\/03\/28\/join-me-at-the-armadillocon-cabin-at-camp-nanowrimo-this-april\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d41\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d41\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d41\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d41\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d41\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d41\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241,"href":"https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d41\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d41\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d41\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d41\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}