Posts Tagged ‘i’ll keep my purple prose if i want to’
November 13th, 2009 | 
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Mini NaNoWriMo: are you up for the nano challenge?
Even this baby can type faster than us.
NaNoWriMo season is fast approaching… and around the Iwilldothatformoney offices, it’s invoking a sense of swiftly impending doom.
What the hell is this NaNoWriMo thing and do you get money for it?
In case you haven’t heard of NaNoWriMo – and you probably haven’t unless you know a handful of crazy writers who spend too much time online (nice to have meeting you!) – it’s a writing challenge with the aim to write an entire novel in the single month of November. 50,000 words in 30 days. 1,667 words a day. Last year, 119,301 people from around the world participated.
Yes, it’s fecking hard. And no, you don’t win anything. Except, perhaps, the modest pride for having written a shitload of crap words that you hate and will never look at again.
Stupid ways to earn a living #2: writing
JK Rowling: queen of fiction and everyfuckingthing else
I know. You’re thinking, what the hell? That’s a weird topic, considering a sizeable proportion of Iwilldothatformoney’s team are writers. The thing is, we’re not pretending anything. We know Iwilldothatformoney is never going to make money — we produce this blog for the mere joy of enriching the world every day with pithy, insightful and witty commentary… And as for our other writing, well, we do that because we’re mental. A strong dose of insanity is needed for someone to want to be a writer.
Being a writer is not easy. It’s a peculiar thing. Many writers hate writing; loathe it with a passion (as much as they hate clichés) — and yet, they must write, because the alternative (which would be not writing, for those following at home) is so much worse. Who would voluntarily select a life of such day-to-day repugnance?
