July 2018 is looming and with it comes Camp NaNoWriMo, a month long writing retreat held online and in some areas, in person.
Joining Camp Nano is easy. Click here, fill in the blanks, select your username and password, and create your project. You’ll be given the opportunity to join a cabin, a group of other authors who band together to cheer each other on. Do you already have a group of writers who are also doing Camp, or who you can convince to do Camp? Create your own cabin.
Whether you’re put in a random cabin, join a group you already know, or create your own cabin and fill it with your writer pals or random strangers, participate in the cabin chat. It’s a great way to learn more about each other, writing styles, philosophies, genres, and esoteric trivia.
Don’t have a group and are a bit scared of being sorted into a random cabin? No problem! The wonderful Camp Nano folks have a solution: they open a section of the Camp NaNoWriMo sub-forum on the NaNoWriMo.org forum called Finding Cabin Buddies just for folks to find other like minded folks for cabins. You have to have a NaNoWriMo.org account to do this, but you’ll want one of those anyway. It’s how I found my wonderful cabin mates!
So, what to do for your project? According to the folks who run Camp Nano, it’s your call. Some campers opt for new projects and keep to the November NaNoWriMo 50K word count; others continue or edit existing projects and set their own word counts. Me? I’m undecided, hence my camp project’s name of Undecided. I will keep the 50K word count, which should be fun as I’m on the road for conventions and meetings during the first two weeks of July.
Seriously, go ahead and sign up for July’s Camp Nano. You’ll write. And isn’t that the goal for writers?
If you want to, let me know what you’ll be writing for Camp Nano. I’ll post as soon as I decide what I’m going to write for Camp.
Come on fellow writers! Let’s write.