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JT

National Novel Writing Month
« on: October 26, 2010, 05:37:23 PM »
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November is the kickoff for National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo for the really cool people. This is the chance for us little people to live the exotic, high-flying lifestyle of the novelist for thirty days. This is your opportunity to write the next great novel in one month. And it costs nothing.

What does it take? First, it takes balls. Second, it takes commitment. Third, it doesn't take good spelling or a good idea. It takes balls because you're going to write a shitload in one month and you have to be able to keep plowing even when you know what you just put to paper was pure horseshit. It takes commitment because you'll need to write 1700 words a day to reach the 50,000 word goal. You pretty much gotta write every day or work doubly hard for every day you take off. I spend about 90-120 minutes a day in November on NaNoWriMo. It doesn't take spelling skills or a complete story. You ain't worried about grammar or editing in November. You can deal with that later. Hell, you'll have 50,000 words to work with.

Why wouldn't you do NaNoWriMo? Because you're a pussy and you're not cool. The only valid reason is if you are incarcerated and only have computer access for thirty minutes a day. And even then only if you were incarcerated for a novel-writing-related crime. If you don't think you have a story to tell, you'll discover one somewhere in the 50,000 words you put down. If you don't consider yourself a novelist, you will by the end of the month. Hell, no author was a novelist until he wrote his first one. Once you have, you can tell the world to go fuck itself, and get ten-percent novelist discounts at your favorite fast food restaurants. Even if you don't finish your novel or reach the 50,000 word goal, whatever you do write is more of a novel than you have right now. What the fuck do you have to do that's more important than this? Nothing. Unless you're a pussy.

Who's in? I'm totally doing it. 8)


<Polaris> Listing off those people that have said they'll participate
<JT> Gonna update this regularly with links and word counts.
<Polaris> I'll help o7

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« Last Edit: November 04, 2010, 03:47:42 AM by JT »

Alfred F. Jones

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Re: National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #1 on: October 26, 2010, 05:41:46 PM »
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YOU'LL NEVER GET ME TO WRITE MORE

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Re: National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #2 on: October 26, 2010, 05:43:41 PM »
I've never managed to complete this :ohdear:

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Re: National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #3 on: October 26, 2010, 05:44:18 PM »
Does the stuff you write have to be related, sequential or linked in any way?

Re: National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #4 on: October 26, 2010, 05:45:13 PM »
I think a series of short stories still counts

Moerin

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Re: National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #5 on: October 26, 2010, 05:45:44 PM »
Gaaah as much as I'd love to do it, there's no way in hell I'd be able to keep up with that deadline. >.>

...I'm so very, very envious of those who can, though... >.<
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Re: National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #6 on: October 26, 2010, 05:48:20 PM »
The people do this are awesome.  Hell people who can make it longer than two weeks are awesome.  With my short attention span I

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Re: National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #7 on: October 26, 2010, 05:50:18 PM »
An extremely rough word count of White Rose thus far is 158,000~ words.



YOU WANT ME TO WRITE THE EQUIVALENT OF A THIRD OF WHITE ROSE IN A SINGLE MONTH.

Moerin

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Re: National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #8 on: October 26, 2010, 05:52:35 PM »
An extremely rough word count of White Rose thus far is 158,000~ words.



YOU WANT ME TO WRITE THE EQUIVALENT OF A THIRD OF WHITE ROSE IN A SINGLE MONTH.
No, no.

...Enter White Rose do it do it do it you know you want to go on go on do it. >.> <.<
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Re: National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #9 on: October 26, 2010, 05:56:42 PM »
No, no.

...Enter White Rose do it do it do it you know you want to go on go on do it. >.> <.<

Wouldn't that basically defeat the whole point of entering?

Re: National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #10 on: October 26, 2010, 05:57:46 PM »
An extremely rough word count of White Rose thus far is 158,000~ words.



YOU WANT ME TO WRITE THE EQUIVALENT OF A THIRD OF WHITE ROSE IN A SINGLE MONTH.
EVEN MORE REASON TO DO IT :smug:

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Re: National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #11 on: October 26, 2010, 05:59:01 PM »
I felt like entering last year. And the year before. And this year too.

But, you know. :effort:. I also feel unmotivated since - who is going to read whatever garbage I produce anyways?

Matsuri

Re: National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #12 on: October 26, 2010, 06:04:07 PM »
I felt like doing this last year, but didn't.

I felt like trying this year, and then I realized that I can't even motivate myself to write my fics in PSL right now. >_>

JT

Re: National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #13 on: October 26, 2010, 06:05:22 PM »
I felt like entering last year. And the year before. And this year too.

But, you know. :effort:. I also feel unmotivated since - who is going to read whatever garbage I produce anyways?

If you enter, I'll read it. That's at least one person.

Also, it doesn't matter if it's crap. In fact, it's pretty much expected of you. I'm going to write crap, you're going to write crap, we're all going to write crap. Crap is better than nothing because it can always be refined and made into not-crap later. The goal is just to get a rough draft laid out.

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Re: National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #14 on: October 26, 2010, 06:11:27 PM »
ACTUALLY YOU KNOW WHAT



HURT ME MORE.

I am going to do this and I will do it with style.

50,000 words? Big fucking deal. Who the hell do you think I am, huh?! I'M SAKURA RUROUNI HERSELF! AND I'LL DO THE IMPOSSIBLE AND BREAK THAT LIMIT!



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ROW ROW FIGHT THE DEADLINE

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Re: National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #15 on: October 26, 2010, 06:15:37 PM »
that tenshi is oddly motivating

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Matsuri

Re: National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #16 on: October 26, 2010, 06:19:04 PM »
ACTUALLY YOU KNOW WHAT



HURT ME MORE.

I am going to do this and I will do it with style.

50,000 words? Big fucking deal. Who the hell do you think I am, huh?! I'M SAKURA RUROUNI HERSELF! AND I'LL DO THE IMPOSSIBLE AND BREAK THAT LIMIT!



THIS KEYBOARD WILL BE THE KEYBOARD TO PIERCE THE HEAVENS

ROW ROW FIGHT THE DEADLINE

Oh dear lord.

This can only end with the production of a masterpiece. :o

Re: National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #17 on: October 26, 2010, 06:21:46 PM »
Fuck year Ruro!


Actually you know what, COUNT ME IN TOO

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Re: National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #18 on: October 26, 2010, 06:33:35 PM »

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Re: National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #19 on: October 26, 2010, 06:55:22 PM »
Oh god... that is....I....this is crazy....
.... Right, so totally doing this. Writers unite! :getdown: :colonveeplusalpha: :getdown:

Also linked this thread in PSL for good measure :3
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Moerin

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Re: National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #20 on: October 26, 2010, 07:03:47 PM »
Why it wasn't there instead of here in the first place, I'll never know... >.>

Gaaah I kinda do want to at least try this, but I know there's no way I'd be able to... 'Sides, college and all that.  Mmmm... We'll see, I guess.
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Re: National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #21 on: October 26, 2010, 07:04:11 PM »
Everyone should break out Renpy and write VNs for this thing. (Would lines of code count towards the word limit?)

Incidentally, I decided to check how many words 1700 is:
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You need to write that much EVERY DAY.

Alfred F. Jones

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Re: National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #22 on: October 26, 2010, 08:03:01 PM »
Oh, Ruro, I love your legs
:blush:

Why it wasn't there instead of here in the first place, I'll never know... >.>
I could have moved it to PSL in a jiffy, but I also don't want people to think that their 50,000 words somehow need to be posted in PSL after they're done, or that it has to be Touhou fanfic. :<

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Re: National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #23 on: October 26, 2010, 08:13:31 PM »
I could have moved it to PSL in a jiffy
Eh, seeing as this isn't an overly serious thing in the first place, it's totally fine here in CPMC. In fact, CPMC can use some ~*~culture~*~ such as the fine art of writing once in a while :V

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Re: National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #24 on: October 26, 2010, 08:39:09 PM »
1700 words in a day is nothing~! ...If, uh, you don't suddenly get stuck. *glances at Hakurei's Reign* Uh, yeah... I would enter but uh I sincerely doubt it would work. I can't write consistently enough to manage this :|

Then again deadlines do tend to spur me into doing stuff even if just barely- NO!

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Re: National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #25 on: October 26, 2010, 08:57:21 PM »
I suck at writing, I can't come up with ideas worth crap.

I suck at consistency, I usually give up on stuff like this inside a week.

You know what?

HELL WITH IT.

It's ON.

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Matsuri

Re: National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #26 on: October 26, 2010, 09:02:11 PM »
I suck at writing, I can't come up with ideas worth crap.

I suck at consistency, I usually give up on stuff like this inside a week.

You know what?

HELL WITH IT.

It's ON.

I came in here to say the same goddamn thing.

Even if I don't complete what I start in a month, there's nothing wrong with using what I do come up with and finishing it late. I'd still feel pretty damn accomplished. =O

This is now my motivation to write the Ellen fic I've been talking about.

Fuck it, I'm in. I ain't gonna sit here and wonder what I could have done. I wanna try, at least. 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
« Last Edit: October 26, 2010, 09:03:56 PM by Monotsuri »

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Re: National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #27 on: October 26, 2010, 09:03:23 PM »
I wonder if I could write a 50k word epic poem oh my GOD my BRAIN HURTS from thinking about it

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Re: National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #28 on: October 26, 2010, 09:03:36 PM »
Just so people know, the entire point of NaNoWriMo is to train your consistency in writing. Just writing. Not in thinking up stories, not in clever wordplay, not in literary craftmanship. Just writing.

There are a number of unofficial rules such as no using backspace, no looking back over anything you've written, etc. Just keep spitting out words untill you hit your 1700 goal each day. Unless you're already an experienced writer, there's no way you can hit 50k if you waste time with those things, and if you can, then there's no problem then. The point is all that stuff can be taken care of later, and the first copy will always suck anyways so there's no point in trying to make it good, just make it.

This is coming from someone who does the wrong thing every year. :ohdear:

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Re: National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #29 on: October 26, 2010, 09:04:34 PM »
Everyone should break out Renpy and write VNs for this thing. (Would lines of code count towards the word limit?)

Incidentally, I decided to check how many words 1700 is:
You need to write that much EVERY DAY.

oh when you quantify it like that, it doesn't seem like that much anymore

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