# NaNoWriMo: Plague Edition. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 31, 2020, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nanowrimo-plague-edition/850763 "2020-03-31T21:37:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2020, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nanowrimo-plague-edition/850763/1 "2020-03-31T21:37:38Z")
NaNoWriMo, which usually commences November 1, is encouraging people to use their quarantine time to write. I had actually planned on doing so, but now I’ve signed up for the latest iteration. There’s nobody local to me doing it that I can tell. Is anyone else doing it? ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nanowrimo-plague-edition/850763/2 "2020-04-01T02:01:07Z")
As of tonight, I will have written about 125,000 words in March. It has slowed a bit with this Wuhan shit. Hard to concentrate. ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nanowrimo-plague-edition/850763/3 "2020-04-01T03:02:27Z")
Well, I _was_ proud of the ~8k I had done over the past 10 days. Now I’m humbled. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nanowrimo-plague-edition/850763/4 "2020-04-01T03:08:36Z")
> [@Lancia](#): > > Well, I _was_ proud of the ~8k I had done over the past 10 days. Now I’m humbled. Naw, don’t be. Took me years and years to get to that sort of word count. And as a creature of habit, when I lost my day job due to the current shutdown and couldn’t go to the gym, I have been thrown out of my habits and my productivity has gone down over the last week or so. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nanowrimo-plague-edition/850763/5 "2020-04-01T03:54:12Z")
My focus since mid-January has been on Mr VOW and his recuperation from a heart attack. I need to start writing again. He is doing much better, and I have this NEED to start journaling again. There are so many family stories I want to preserve. I would so hate to get smacked in the face by this damnable virus, and end up saying to myself, “Gee, I wish I had written…” ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nanowrimo-plague-edition/850763/6 "2020-04-01T04:00:02Z")
> [@VOW](#): > > He is doing much better, and I have this NEED to start journaling again. There are so many family stories I want to preserve. I would so hate to get smacked in the face by this damnable virus, and end up saying to myself, “Gee, I wish I had written…” > ~VOW Same, although it’s not my stories I’m going to preserve. I am (perhaps was, at this point) a teacher in a boarding school and I want to document the stories and lives of the students I’ve been lucky enough to cross paths with. Students like this: [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=890497](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=890497) I dont know if I’ll write a collection of stories or turn it into a memoir, à la **Call the Midwife** which I recently read and loved the style of. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nanowrimo-plague-edition/850763/7 "2020-04-01T04:29:36Z")
> [@VOW](#): > > My focus since mid-January has been on Mr VOW and his recuperation from a heart attack. > > I need to start writing again. > > He is doing much better, and I have this NEED to start journaling again. There are so many family stories I want to preserve. I would so hate to get smacked in the face by this damnable virus, and end up saying to myself, “Gee, I wish I had written…” > ~VOW I wish my dad had written more of his stories down before he passed away. He had a colorful life, but he hated to talk about himself. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nanowrimo-plague-edition/850763/8 "2020-04-01T06:04:55Z")
I’m doing a different, but related, daily project. I’ve written a children’s book and am now painting the art for it. I’m trying to work for around an hour each day, though I am still in the experimental stage as I have never done anything quite like this before so it’s almost all new to me. So far it’s [going](https://twitter.com/GuanoLad/status/1242951552907669504) [well](https://twitter.com/GuanoLad/status/1245225005547311105) and I am encouraged.