NaNoWriMo: A Tip for When Desperation Strikes!

[JaneW45]

During my first year of NaNo, I got my word count up to where it should have been by incorporating into my story some of the words I wrote for work, and some of the words I wrote for pleasure.

Glad to hear that someone else is doing the same thing!

I reconciled the addition of extraneous materiel by saying that my characters might be reading minutes from a meeting (minutes which I took) or e-mails to friends. These words were not likely to survive the editing process, but they could have!

[residentwriter]

Or for all you college students out there, if you have final papers due oh say the last week of November, first week of December, have them write your paper! Lol I love epiphanies!

[MyFaceInATube]

I love it when work can do double-duty!

[partlycloudyholiday]

I did something like that early this year. In my English class, we were supposed to write something, anything really, on transcedentalism. In creative writing, we were supposed to write an elegy to something, so I wrote and elegy to transcendentalism and turned in the assignment for both classes.

[laurafoster327]

@partlycloudyholiday Isn't that considered plagiarism?

[partlycloudyholiday]

No, I wrote it... You can't steal from yourself. lol

[laurafoster327]

@partlycloudyholiday At the university I went to submitting the same assignment twice wasn't allowed. Then again I don't think I had any classes that overlapped enough for me to even consider it. I guess I'm just jealous I never had the opportunity to even consider it. If you don't mind me asking, did you get the same grade on each assignment?

[partlycloudyholiday]

I ended up using a different poem for the one class and both of them were a do it or don't do it thing, so I got a 100% on both. I did consider using the same poem, though.