In my English class, we were making short stories in the last week of October. I just finished the first draft. it's probably a day and a half worth of NaNoWriMo cramming.
Is that cheating?
If it's only a day and a half of work, it's not worth the cheating. ;p However, you could use the characters from it, perhaps, and make a new story out of it. Just make sure you don't use any of that written text in the NaNo itself.
Last year, my NaNo was kind of a rewrite of a story I wrote ages ago. The characters and setting were recycled, along with some concepts in it, but for the most part, the plot was original. That's perfectly legal, from what I've been told.
Might not be in the true spirit of NaNo, but screw them -- I needed the NaNo spirit to get it down. >:O
Hippy! said:
Is anyone else having trouble loading nanowrimo.org?
Yeah, it's been busy the past two days.
I have 7110 words written so far! (Yes, I haven't updated the NaNo counter yet.) I feel like I'm going a bit too fast, though. I'll have to slow down before moving on. Only problem is, I have no idea what I want to write. :/ Probably about the relationship between two of the characters. They are supposed to hook up, after all... I just didn't want the romance to be a major point in this part of the story. XD;;