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MetalDog 2 Oct 2014 08:55:46 24,076 posts
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Murbs 2 Oct 2014 09:04:13 25,151 posts
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One of these years.

MetalDog 2 Oct 2014 09:08:46 24,076 posts
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Why not... this year? =)

DFawkes 2 Oct 2014 09:16:17 32,786 posts
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I'd love to do this, but I tend to work on my procrastination skills instead and they still need work.

It's a great initiative though. There'll be so many great writers out there who just need a nudge like this to really get started.

Syrette 2 Oct 2014 09:22:42 51,181 posts
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Needs a new portmanteau.

THFourteen 2 Oct 2014 09:46:50 54,987 posts
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The only real idea i have for a novel is that there is a goody, and he has a sword, and he has to fight the baddy who also has a sword but has magic too. The novel goes on for about 500 pages, but essentially the goody loses either one of his best friends, or his tutor about halfway through, but then recovers from the pain of the loss and beats the baddy at the end of the book saving the world. Somewhere in the middle of the book the goody also has sexy time.

Not sure thats been done before

Murbs 2 Oct 2014 09:49:32 25,151 posts
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MetalDog wrote:
Why not... this year? =)

I've actually started embellishing a childhood experience into something a little more... 'Supernatural'. I could always work on that.

wuntyate 2 Oct 2014 10:31:29 17,494 posts
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I'm gearing up for this year. Still trying to finish my one from last year though, which I'm hoping to do within the next two weeks which will give me a good fortnight to get my brain in gear for November. Got quite a clear idea for this years that I hope I can get working.

Logged into my NaNo page a few weeks ago and found out my ML died earlier this year

MetalDog 2 Oct 2014 10:45:18 24,076 posts
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@Murbal - there you go, you have a starting point. Ditz around on a notepad (or in notepad) with the idea and you might find it growing legs.

@Wunty_Phyve Sorry to hear about your ML. Did you post your stuff here last year? Which one were you, if so?

CosmicFuzz 2 Oct 2014 11:02:59 32,632 posts
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Ah why not, I'll do it.

Never did finish my last one, but am currently about to start the 4th draft of a subsequent novel. This might be a nice change of pace.

I'm going to try and wing it and see where I get to. I've got a rough idea for a short story I was planning that I might just blart out onto the page and see where it takes me.

CosmicFuzz 2 Oct 2014 11:03:27 32,632 posts
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Plus I started reading Slaughterhouse-Five yesterday and want to write something in short, pithy paragraphs

wuntyate 2 Oct 2014 11:05:49 17,494 posts
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@MetalDog I won't pretend I knew her but still felt a bit sad when I found out. I think she'd been helping with NaNo since it's inception and had helped with the initial funding and setting up in the UK etc. Plus her little motivational techniques helped!

I was under Bill_Cityfingers or something.

frightlever 2 Oct 2014 11:06:06 1,524 posts
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I pretty much self-immolated during last year's NaNoWriMo and promised myself I was done with it. I'll get into TWINE, I told myself, write some little interactive fiction that won't stress me. Well that didn't work out. Basically playing games is easy and everything else is a chore.

Can't see me doing it this year, but I've been saying that for years now. I think I have a phobia about completing projects. I should be a Government contractor.

MetalDog 2 Oct 2014 11:10:44 24,076 posts
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@frightlever

Perhaps you should try for something shorter? Just because it's officially 50k doesn't mean you have to do 50k. Aim for 20 or something and FINISH and break the fear of finishing. It's an extremely common fear, but the only way I know around it is to finish something anyway. Things never turn out as glitteringly brilliant as they were in your head at the start, but better to come out a bit wonky than never be born at all, I reckon.

@wunty - ahh, yes. Remember the name.

wuntyate 2 Oct 2014 11:15:58 17,494 posts
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frightlever wrote:
Basically playing games is easy and everything else is a chore.

That's me to a tee as well. :S

@MD Yeah I was pretty useless at reading others last year, which I hope to rectify this year. I was a bit out my depth to be honest.

CosmicFuzz 2 Oct 2014 12:17:37 32,632 posts
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Finishing something is so difficult isn't it? Starting out fresh is always the best part - the book is ALIVE with the POSSIBILITIES of what could happen! Then about a quarter of the way in it starts to drown you as you juggle plot, characters, set up, motivation, etc.

I almost always give up before I'm halfway through, which is why I enjoy writing short stories so much

5k? No prob!

JoelStinty 2 Oct 2014 15:45:36 9,530 posts
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Might give it a go this year. I've got a couple of ideas floating around and I could really do with giving myself a project/purpose. And who knows?

sunjumper 2 Oct 2014 16:23:15 3,548 posts
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I'm in.
Let's see if I get to finish a story for a change.

drhcnip 2 Oct 2014 17:02:16 6,573 posts
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yup, i'm in...giving up on the idea i've bandied around the last few years and going down another route....wifey finished and got the t-shirt last year so i'm not letting that go...

Deleted user 2 October 2014 17:03:16

I'm vaguely in. Working 12 hour days over November, so daily updates aren't really possible, but I can blitz the off-days. Didn't finish last year, but what I did write was reworked into a short story that won a few awards, so that was nice.

CosmicFuzz 2 Oct 2014 17:05:15 32,632 posts
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Awesome! Nice one goose

wuntyate 2 Oct 2014 17:09:14 17,494 posts
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@thedancinggoose That's brilliant, well done on the win. Is it up anywhere that it can be read?

Deleted user 2 October 2014 17:14:35

I'll give it a shot.

RichieTenenbaum 2 Oct 2014 17:15:53 2,774 posts
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It's a maybe from me

Deleted user 2 October 2014 19:34:47

Thanks! It was only some local and online awards, nothing particularly exciting. I'll have to see if I can throw it up on my site, though it might be published somewhere else. I'm not sure.

boo 2 Oct 2014 20:48:49 13,901 posts
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Completely by coincidence...

(I don't do coincidences, muttered Able in the background)

...I've been looking at my previous NaNo efforts over the last week. I finished the first one, which, with the benefit of 18 months since I last read it, shapes up pretty well.

The 2011 effort, which I think I got about 30,000 words in, before illness forced me to abandon was looking pretty good too. And thanks to the notes that I found, it appears that I knew how it was due to end as well. A reread shows up a couple of bits that need changing, and countless edits that need making, but I might well go back and finish that off.

Skipped 2012 as I felt bad about not finishing 2011, but had another crack last year. Going back to have a look, it seems I only got about 6 chapters in when it fizzled out, and rereading it, I can see why. I can remember scant details of the plot, such as it was, and I think it was going to be pretty thin. Might just leave that as a bad job.

So don't think I'll be participating this year, but if I can get Able's second outing finished, and both of them spruced up a bit, I'll probably be up for episode three this time next year.

Good luck to everyone having a crack this time round though - look forward to seeing what you all come up with.

JoelStinty 4 Oct 2014 19:32:01 9,530 posts
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I got two ideas at the moment. One is an older idea I've had for a while, seems more organic and easier to write than my second Newley formed idea that when thinking about it is a shameless Murikami / Vonnegut rip off

Agent_Llama 4 Oct 2014 23:44:46 3,691 posts
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Only got to 10k last year before work and what-not interfered. Maybe this year.

MetalDog 6 Oct 2014 09:35:20 24,076 posts
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OP udated, let me know if you want moved.

I'm thinking of being a Nano Rebel this year and working on something I should have finished years ago. The whole front end needs such a heavy re-write it'll be 99% new and the arse end hasn't been written at all. Everything in between is ... messy.

CosmicFuzz 6 Oct 2014 10:24:54 32,632 posts
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Came to have the yearly moan about the silly name of the thing:
Syrette