Anyone doing Camp NaNo for April?

[kate]

I did it last July and made my goal, but my cabin was stupid and there was no excitement, chatter, or anything else. Anybody got a cool cabin that needs another person, or want to try building a cabin of our own?

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[trobadora]

What's Camp NaNo?

[kate]

Camp NaNo is an off-November thing tied to NaNoWriMo. I suck at November, so I usually try to do these, as it's more likely I can achieve word counts (no minimum - they say 50,000, but you get to pick whatever (I did 20,000 last July, and I'm going for an absolutely ridiculous 80,000 this April)). Cabins are like mini-cheerleading gangs (or can be - mine was lousy last year (I did random assignment).

[trobadora]

I know what you mean about November - it's never really a good time for me to be tackling this kind of thing either. I've tried a time or two, but never actually got there.

This looks interesting! I'm not sure if I should try, or if I'd just frustrate myself more by failing ...

[kate]

Maybe set yourself a realllllly low goal so you can't help but make it? I'm usually pretty good at cheerleading if I have a person or two who are in it with me.

[trobadora]

Can you actually go as low as you like? That might be fun, actually! And I could use feeling like I succeeded at something for a change.

Let me think if I can come up with a project of appropriate length I might want to tackle for this ...

[angrboda]

I'm dithering about it. I think I'm finished with regular NaNo. Last year I just didn't have fun with it at all. The camp concept suits me better because it's flexible. But I just don't know.

I've had the same troubles as you with cabins. If there are six other people in the cabin then three of them will post something, and then after a week it'll be silence.

[kate]

Yes, exactly! I sign up for NaNo every year but I've only ever made it once. It's just a bad time of year for me.

My cabin last year was exactly like that! I want something where people are excited! I need help getting over the hump with my story and I love enthusiasm. :D

SOOOOO.... are you going to play? Want to join our cabin? It's a third two thirds! of the way full! :D

[kate]

Or just do a general wordcount one? That's what I normally do, and my wife and I are both working on projects we've already started for this.

COME PLAY WITH US! I will cheerlead you so hard, bb! <333

[trobadora]

Nah, if I do this I want to use it to actually finish something, so no interminable WIPs need apply. *g*

I totally want to play, though! And I'll cheerlead you right back. ♥ ♥ ♥

[kate]

YAYYYYYY! I'm getting excited about this! Here's to finding and awesome project to work on!

[melannen]

I would be maybe up for it but I don't know how good I'd be at providing sustained cheer in a cabin, since I would also likely collapse and completely drop out by week two. ^_^

[trobadora]

Sooo ... okay. I'm doing this. *deep breaths* Getting excited, too!

Aiming for the lowest-possible word count - I know I can write and edit 10,000 words in a long weekend if I have to. So I should be able to get there in a month, right? *g* And I'm not entirely settled on a project yet, but I think I've got one that could be finished with 10,000 more words. *ponders some more*

I suppose I need to sign up now ... how does that cabin thing work again? (Excuse the clueless newb questions!)

[kate]

YAYAYAYAYAYAYYYYYYYY! OMG THIS IS THE BEST!

Okay, so if you have a NaNo login, you just go to the Camp NaNo site, log in, and edit your novel info. Once you've done that, we can start building our cabin. Your username is the same as here?

[kate]

Eh, so what?

OR MAYBE. Maybe our cheering will get you excited and you'll get some ridiculous word count you weren't even expecting. Huh? Huh?! YOU CAN DO IT.

[trobadora]

Logged in, novel info placeholdered in! (I made a new account under this username - my old one is connected to my RL name.)

[kate]

And now you should be invited! :D :D :D :D

We need to come up with an awesome cabin name!

[trobadora]

And here I am! *g*

[kate]

*flails* I AM SO EXCITED! This is the most excited I've been for writing in a really long time. Now to come up with a cool cabin name!

[trobadora]

Woohoo! \o/

I'm not good with names ... *flails*

[kate]

I'm hit or miss. Seems like something to do with flailing might be fairly accurate, though!

[melannen]

MAYBE. I just put my April schedule in a spreadsheet and I'll have two whole hours of free time a day! I CAN DO THIS! Anyway if you get a cabin together I'll sign up with something very low but I cannot be counted on not to flake.

[trobadora]

Heh. Can't really argue with that!

[kate]

\o/\o/\o/ No worries, we'll take you for as long as we can get you! If you go to Camp NaNo, log in with your NaNo info (or do a new one, whichever), and then edit your novel info, I can add you to the cabin. Just let me know your username there. YAYYYYYYYY!

Did someone say naming was needed?

[jjhunter]

Cabin Wordhoard? Cabin Flail To Finish? Cabin Flailhard? Cabin Generative Fun?

;oD

[lunesque]

Hey, if there's still space in your cabin, I'll throw in. :)