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Monday, October 5th, 2009
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6:50p - If a marathoner runs outside of Boston and nobody's there to hear it, does it deserve a purple bar?
It's the first (mini)wank of NaNo 2009! *pops champagne* Tiny, considering that the wankery is contained entirely in RiddleMeThis like some kind of nuclear radiation coffin, but passably amusing.
Okay, you all know what National Novel Writing Month is, right? It's an informal contest where the goal is to write a 50,000+ word novel in the month of November. You're not competing against other people and you don't really get anything if you "win" (aside from a feeling of accomplishment and a little purple bar beneath your forum name) but it's competitive enough that some people get really touchy over what constitutes a victory. Some people think the goal is to write a novel, some people think it's just to get 50,000 words down. The general consensus seems to be that as long as you're not doing this you're fine.
User chet-a-box posts asking:
I'm 90% sure I'll be writing a non-fiction book about my passion for giant pandas.
Is that allowed?
There are three or four responses, primarily by a staff member (Dragonchilde) saying very nicely that nobody's going to stop anybody from writing what they want, but *technically* it wouldn't really be the point of NaNo seeing as how they define a novel as a lengthy work of fiction. (Of course it should be noted that NaNo is welcoming of flexible approaches to the contest. They have a NaNo Rebels forum specifically for people who want to do things like write short stories or screenplays for their challenge. Additionally, the rules state that if the writer considers it a novel, they consider it a novel too). chet-a-box seems a little disappointed but takes it rather well and it's a polite, respectful, wankless thread. The end!
Well, no.
RiddleMeThis posts a thread in the NaNo Rebels forum entitled NaNoWriMo's Discrimination Against Creative Non-Fiction, saying that, essentially, non-fiction should be allowed to count as a NaNo victory because the state of our nation demands it.
( I didn't think you guys discriminated against pandas. )
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