Release Your Inner NaNoWriMo Rebel
You don’t need to write a novel for NaNoWriMo. What are rules to you? Nothing, that’s what! You’re a rebel, baby! Here’s how you dance the NaNoWriMo rebel dance. If you’re not a rebel yet but feel that surging tide of defiance rising within you, consider this your sign. Time to go off-roading on that literary trail to glory.
An Annotated Bibliography About the History of Table Settings
Let your research about eating utensils and positions never go unnoticed! Set your goal at one academic article a day. Read it, absorb it, cite it, and then let flow forth your opinions and analysis about the humble spoon.
A Very Detailed Daily Diary for Your Hamster
Your hamster leads a charmed, fascinating, Kafkaesque life. Take your hamster on adventures. Engage with your hamster. Watch your hamster with an automated webcam for a few days to see how it likes being surveilled. Then write all about its behavior, feelings, concerns, and the weird glass-walled nightmare in which it finds itself.
Vegan Thanksgiving Recipes Forever
NaNo is a particular challenge for us Americans because Thanksgiving dominates the latter part of the month. Don’t waste your precious time writing something fanciful! Thanksgiving is culinary war and you only have three weeks to prepare. Invent recipes that will suit your plant-based dietary needs. Create new, fantastical smoothies of almond cream, mango, and paprika. Dream up new uses for fruit leather. Make up for the critical paucity of animal-free Thanksgiving recipes with the Lovecraftian beasts of your repressed vegan rage. It doesn’t matter if the recipes are any good. It’s Thanksgiving. They will eat what you give them. Plus, you can edit later.
A White Paper for a Computer That Hasn’t Been Invented Yet
Quantum computing is about to knock us all directly onto our asses. Get out in front of it by composing technical specifications for the quantum computer you want to own. Let’s face it: you’re done with serial buses anyway. Screw binary and all the years you spent learning to read it fluently! Build the computer of your dreams in your imagination and then meticulously detail how many millimeters each side of Quantum Chassis Version 1.0 will be.
Descriptions of a Series of Random Objects You Find All Over the Place
You need to write a little less than 1700 words a day to win NaNoWriMo. That’s 340 descriptive words about five objects every day. All you need are 150 random small objects to describe and you’ll be all set up to win this thing like a NaNoWriMo rebel. Your descriptive powers will be off the chain by the time you’re through. Time for a thrift store run!
Book Reviews of Titles That You Haven’t Read
Just choose them randomly from Project Gutenberg, Goodreads, and your local library. Don’t read them. Just make wild assumptions based on the title, cover, and whatever else you’ve gleaned about it from common knowledge and social media. Do one a day.
A Postmortem of the Worst Entertainment Event You’ve Ever Attended
Everyone has one of these in their past. Whether yours is a terrible high school musical or the concert where your buddy’s band debuted their final and most memorable song, “A Fart In The Rain,” you’ve got opinions and they could fill a book. This one’s a true challenge. Do a deep dive. You may need to pull out some Aristotle to really make your point.
Letters to 30 People Discussing What Your Relationship Means to You
Want to be sweet for the holiday gift-giving season? List 30 people you know and write each of them a heartfelt, 1667-word letter detailing what makes your relationship special. Extra points: choose people with whom you aren’t intimate, like professors and bosses from ten years ago. Triple points: actually mail them.
Ontological, Philosophical, and Psychological Perspectives on the Term “Cray-Cray”
It needs to be done. You’re just the NaNoWriMo rebel to do it. Expound philosophically on why we use this bizarre abbreviation. Do all the research, or do no research. It’s just an obnoxious and vaguely offensive phrase that everyone wants to see raked over the coals. Make up your own rules about it if you want to. You’re a NaNoWriMo rebel, baby! Turn that status quo into rubble and stomp it into diamonds with your NaNoWriMo boots.
Yes, you should do NaNoWriMo. It’s not too late! If you’re already flagging, we’ve got fuel for your creative fire right here.
