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the_siobhan ([personal profile] the_siobhan) wrote2020-11-02 10:07 pm
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NaDruWriNi 2020: November 7 2020

You know, I signed up for this Write Every Day host gig thinking it would be good timing because of vacation at the end of the month. I completely forgot about NaNoWriMo and NaDruWriNi and if I hadn't I might have changed my mind - acting like a fool is one thing in front of people who know me, it's a little daunting in front of an entirely new audience.

But hey, the risk of falling flat on my face in public has certainly never stopped me doing anything ill-advised so far, so why start now?


National Drunk Writing Night: November 7 2020


So for those who are unfamiliar with it, NaDruWriNi is National Drunk Writing Night. Back in 2005 somebody came up with the idea of having a marathon writing-while-drinking session on the first Saturday of of NaNoWriMo. Maybe it was a way of getting past the first-blank-page brain freeze of starting a new project, maybe they were just tired of hearing people talking about their novels and wanted to be a dork about it. The answer is lost to the shadows of time.

Anyway I heard about it shortly after the second annual and I've been doing it every year since.

The rules as copied from the original source are here. I have a couple of add-ons.

If you don't drink, that doesn't mean you can't participate. I would suggest though, that you do something to shake up your regular practice. In the past I have done this gathered around somebody's kitchen table, in a bar, in a cottage (where I basically just rewrote the plot of Evil Dead featuring my co-cottagers) and once while eating pizza along with a group of friends who had just finished helping me sledgehammer a wall in my house. (They read along and made comments the whole time.)

Everybody is invited to play along. If you bothered by mention of alcohol or drinking, I will be putting everything behind a cut and will tag everything with NaDruWriNi so it will be easy to skip those posts.