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At one month to madness it's the start of a new thread. I'll update the first post with names and links as people sign up, drop out, have breakdowns and feign death. Official website here: NaNoWriMo It's worth noting that the official site's buddy system is a bit strange. You both need to buddy up before you'll both see each other in your lists. The clock of doom here: Gaze upon me and despair You know you want to. Brave adventurers: Agent_Llama | [link=http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/participants/just-too-mooky">NaNoID | NaNoID | NaNoID | NaNoID | NaNoID | NaNoID | NaNoID | NaNoID | NaNoID | NaNoID | NaNoID | |
National Novel Writing Month 2012
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MetalDog 24,076 posts
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I really have no idea where I'm going with my latest idea, but sign me up anyway. Sink or swim, yes? Yes. Sink! -
boo 13,901 posts
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Registered 18 years agoI'll be there! -
sport 17,064 posts
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Registered 16 years agoJust a "heads" up, erotic prose is pretty big this year! -
Murbs 25,151 posts
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Registered 17 years agoEvery year I say I'll do it the next. Kinda like the local half marathon. -
spamdangled 31,803 posts
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Registered 13 years agoIm going to give it a go this year. Been meaning to for the last couple years but never done it. -
sport 17,064 posts
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Registered 16 years agoMurbal wrote:
She'll do it eventually, but baby gets in the way.
Every year I say I'll do it the next. Kinda like the local half marathon. -
I'll reactivate my writing blog once I get five minutes to myself. So possibly sometime mid-December. -
MetalDog 24,076 posts
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Registered 20 years agoDo you want to take it a step further and have your name on THE LIST, Murbal?
And what about you, Sport? Peanut gallery or in the pit this year? =)
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Murbs 25,151 posts
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Registered 17 years agoMetalDog wrote:
I think it may have last year up to a point!
Do you want to take it a step further and have your name on THE LIST, Murbal?
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sport 17,064 posts
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Registered 16 years agoMetalDog wrote:
Well I do have an idea for an Erotic Thriller. Maybe I could combine it with my rapist wit.....hmmmmm
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TechnoHippy 19,245 posts
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Registered 18 years agoSign me up. I'll be writing Faust 2.0 - An Internet chatbot starts granting wishes, but what does he want in return?
I'm TechnoHippy on the nano site as well.
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Metalfish 9,191 posts
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Registered 16 years agoI'm not allowed to join this year. I'll be making a push on the ongoing epic and embracing "shitty first draft" ethos of nano in order to bump up the word count. -
MetalDog 24,076 posts
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Registered 20 years agoI put you in another castle. Are you going to finish the bloody thing? =D
@Sunjumper what has happened to your Nano page? It throws me to the main page when I click on you there. -
Metalfish 9,191 posts
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Registered 16 years agoI feel like a princess. No change there then. Hope to be finishing it this year. It's a bit overdue. -
Salaman 24,162 posts
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Registered 17 years agodarkmorgado wrote:
Won't your finger surgery make it a bit impractical to type up a novel?
Im going to give it a go this year. Been meaning to for the last couple years but never done it. -
evild_edd 4,334 posts
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Registered 14 years agoBloody hell. This sounds insane. A novel in a month???
I'm putting the finishing touches to my first novel at the moment and that's taken me a year. Admittedly it's 150k words and been completely rewritten, but still this seems near impossible...
I'm sort of tempted but very imtimidated :/
Has anything decent ever come out of NaNoWriMo? -
TechnoHippy 19,245 posts
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Registered 18 years agoNothing decent comes out of the first draft of a nano, but it's a good way to get a first draft done.
Editing of course takes substantially longer.gif)
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MetalDog 24,076 posts
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Registered 20 years ago@evild_edd
50k is really a novella in a month and it is first draft, not polished washed and brushed final draft. It's more doable than you think and it is a wild a crazy ride. Don't be intimidated. Do it for the lols. The whole point is to chuck out all the 'I must write a MASTERPIECE or there's no point' stuff and just go hog crazy on a yarn.
The first time I tried it, I was convinced I'd be writing 'banana ping kablow' type nonsense just to keep up the word count, but I did manage to crack out a reasonably entertaining spaceship disaster. Entertained me if no-one else and fuck it, that's reason enough to NaNo right there =) -
I'm a "maybe". Full-time degree stuff and an actual writing career take up almost all of my time nowadays, but I'm writing so much at the moment another 1,600 or so a day isn't going to make much of an impact. Was thinking of doing 5 10,000 word stories, or possibly 10 5,000 word ones. Maybe even 100 500 word ones. Or 50,000 one word ones.
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Kumquat
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Aubergine
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Ghosts
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CosmicFuzz 32,632 posts
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Registered 15 years agoI'm still (pathetically) working on my novel from last year. Can I sign up with the aim of finishing it? -
Metalfish 9,191 posts
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Registered 16 years agoJOIN ME IN MY CASTLE!
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MetalDog 24,076 posts
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Registered 20 years agoThe NaNo website has made the switch for the next round and has a rather nice 'add a cover' feature now too.
Cosmic is now in the castle with Fish - possibly in a state of trepidation. Castle-dwellers, I will add websites, titles and descs to your list too as desired and supplied.
The maybes on the adventure list need not feel nervous about the mini barrels of barbecue sauce being given out. That's for the berries we'll pick along the way and by no means a flavoursome dip to aid the consumption of those who start and fall along the way... -
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boo 13,901 posts
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Registered 18 years agoJoin us!
If you succeed, you can revel in literary glory.
And if you fall along the wayside during November, you'll make a tasty snack for the rest of us.
/digs out portable barbecue
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CosmicFuzz 32,632 posts
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Registered 15 years agoMetalfish wrote:
/Castle crashes
JOIN ME IN MY CASTLE!
/Not creepy.
Want to share my wild boar? -
Metalfish 9,191 posts
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Registered 16 years agoWhy not? While listening to this. -
localnotail 23,079 posts
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Registered 13 years agosport wrote:
Murbal wrote:
She'll do it eventually, but baby gets in the way.
Every year I say I'll do it the next. Kinda like the local half marathon..gif)
Good luck to those taking part. It's hard work but I really enjoyed this last year, it's a great challenge. Finding out I was pregnant a week in threw me a bit, but I'm still really proud of finishing the 50k,
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I'll be in again. Never did do anything with my last one but it can't hurt making another attempt, can it? -
Yeah, I should be in, and have started planning.
But
My idea of writing an "interactive novel" is drifting towards biting-off-more-than-I-can-chew teratory. The flow chart of all the options/storylines is looking more and more like a massive scribble each day I add to it.
Gonna persist with the planning till the weekend then take stock.
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