[NaNoWriMo] Stop posting and start writing

Houk · October 2009

Wank wrote: »

I think my antagonist needs some more interest. Right now he is sexually repressed and can regrow limbs, but that's about it.

this amazing combo means he can literally fuck women till it falls off, over and over again. get writing!

Quoth · October 2009

I am the best IRC harasser.

joshgotro · October 2009

best idler

BEAST! · October 2009

VThornheart wrote: »

Should we have some sort of NaNoWriMo user name list so we can friend each other? Over there I'm EdgarVerona (I moved away from VThornheart as my screenname some years ago because I was nervous that people thought it meant "Vermont Hornheart" which sounded wrong. =) But I digress thoroughly =) ) if anyone wants to friend me send a message over there! =)

i think that the better way to go would be to do what we did last year with the PA word count list....someone had created a special site for us all to join and add our word counts so we all knew where we stood

as far as i know we still haven't heard from this guy about whether we can use the site again this year....so I may throw a site together real quick at the last second if this all falls through

Usagi · October 2009

BEAST! wrote: »

VThornheart wrote: »

Should we have some sort of NaNoWriMo user name list so we can friend each other? Over there I'm EdgarVerona (I moved away from VThornheart as my screenname some years ago because I was nervous that people thought it meant "Vermont Hornheart" which sounded wrong. =) But I digress thoroughly =) ) if anyone wants to friend me send a message over there! =)

i think that the better way to go would be to do what we did last year with the PA word count list....someone had created a special site for us all to join and add our word counts so we all knew where we stood

as far as i know we still haven't heard from this guy about whether we can use the site again this year....so I may throw a site together real quick at the last second if this all falls through

that was anable

is he still around?

jacripe · October 2009

How many of you guys actually go to the write-ins and various Nano events? We tried to make it to one last night, but apparently there was a last minute mercury spill at the site for it and we didn't hear in time. Instead, we bought way too much junkfood from Walmart and went back home...

BEAST! · October 2009

I have not gone to any write-ins but was considering it this year.

Silvoculous · October 2009

jacripe wrote: »

How many of you guys actually go to the write-ins and various Nano events? We tried to make it to one last night, but apparently there was a last minute mercury spill at the site for it and we didn't hear in time. Instead, we bought way too much junkfood from Walmart and went back home...

This was my excuse for the midnight kick-off in my town last year. Didn't go to any actual events but still had a blast on this end. We need something akin to anable's site for this year, so whoever steps up to it is a gentleman and a scholar.

VThornheart · October 2009

I've never gone to a write-in, but I'll be doing so this year. My wife is helping our local write-in organizer apparently, so I won't have much choice.

As far as stories itself... I've been wanting to write a couple for a while, but have never really worked on them beyond some ideas in my head. (EDIT: After writing them down here, I noticed that I had in fact worked on the second one... but I dont' like what came out of it so I'm redoing it if I choose it =) )

One is a satire, involving people who escape from an insane asylum convinced that they are on a quest to save the world. I only have a vague idea of the characters I want in the story at the moment, but they all represent dramatizations of aspects of our culture that in moderation are considered sane.

The other is a fantasy story based around a historical event (this one) set in rhyming couplet, about a Knight returning to the Vatican to defend it from Barbarossa, but who ultimately ends up divinely rebuked for his bloodlust and mercilessness along his journey. Admittedly, I've written about a dozen pages worth of stanzas, but I think I want to throw them out and start over.

As far as a word count site, I've been playing with Ruby on Rails while attempting to get something special ready for the Magical Mystery Tour this year... maybe I can throw something together? What do you guys need? Do you want to be able to login/create accounts and post your score, or should it be less formal than that (i.e. you just type your screenname and your current count or something, with no real security)? I think I'd need to see the one you guys used last year to see whether it's too much for my Rails-n00b butt to get off the ground before November. =)

Plainclothesman · October 2009

This was last year's wordcount site.

I've been to a bunch of write-ins. It's always interesting meeting up with other NaNoers - as you might imagine you get a pretty wide range of backgrounds and writing talent. I'd definitely recommend going.

PolloDiablo · October 2009

VThornheart wrote: »

The other is a fantasy story based around a historical event (this one) set in rhyming couplet, about a Knight returning to the Vatican to defend it from Barbarossa, but who ultimately ends up divinely rebuked for his bloodlust and mercilessness along his journey. Admittedly, I've written about a dozen pages worth of stanzas, but I think I want to throw them out and start over.

That sounds super crazy hard. I think it would be awesome if you could swing 50,000 words of it, though.

Dalboz · October 2009

jacripe wrote: »

How many of you guys actually go to the write-ins and various Nano events? We tried to make it to one last night, but apparently there was a last minute mercury spill at the site for it and we didn't hear in time. Instead, we bought way too much junkfood from Walmart and went back home...

I've been to the kick-off parties the last two years, and to the TGIO party in 2007. I intended to go to the TGIO party last year, but I wound up lying down on my couch shortly before it intending to take a short nap, which turned into a long snooze, and I woke up in the middle of the night after it was all over.

I never made it to any write-ins before. I intended to last year, but circumstances wound up standing in my way. I did go to an initial get-to-know-you meeting for the local write-in group a few weeks ago, and they had a write-in for NaNo planning already, although I couldn't go to that because I had the flu. I'm hoping to make it to the write-ins this year.

Clevinger · October 2009

For those of you serious about another project, has doing Nano ever hurt it in any way?

InkSplat · October 2009

Blargh and on crazy work hours. Double blargh on outlinning. I'm just not going to bother--i just don't do well when trying to come up with every scene beforehand. Shit just comes to me as I'm writing, and I'm content to leave it that way. I mean, it usually comes to me a couple chapters ahead of what I'm actually writing, so at least I'm not totally making shit up on the fly.

VThornheart · October 2009

PolloDiablo wrote: »

VThornheart wrote: »

The other is a fantasy story based around a historical event (this one) set in rhyming couplet, about a Knight returning to the Vatican to defend it from Barbarossa, but who ultimately ends up divinely rebuked for his bloodlust and mercilessness along his journey. Admittedly, I've written about a dozen pages worth of stanzas, but I think I want to throw them out and start over.

That sounds super crazy hard. I think it would be awesome if you could swing 50,000 words of it, though.

Aye, that's the rough part... 50,000 words seems almost impossible to me with that idea when I really think about it. But I'd really love to work on it... maybe I should in my own time, separate from NaNo. =)

Plainclothesman wrote:

This was last year's wordcount site.

Ahh, cool! So he had just a very VERY basic login capability, and gave some stats. I think I could whip something like that out. I'll try during the week and on this coming weekend, and see if I can get enough free time in that period that I can get it to that state.

I've got to get a host though, I've been meaning to for a while and I've been dragging my feet. I think there's some darn cheap Rails hosting out there (we don't need a lot of bandwidth), so I'll take a look and snag something. =) (if anyone has any recommendations for cheap rails hosting by any chance, feel free to speak up for PM me just in case

)

EDIT: I just grabbed some really cheap hosting at railsplayground.net. They're apparently not great, but it was cheaper than everywhere else and we don't particularly need anything resembling a lot of bandwidth or space. This thing's going to be minimal... and it'll provide a good hosting site for this and the MMT registration stuff. I'll be working on this and the MMT app during the week and this coming weekend. =)

Varethius · October 2009

Ok, so I'm going to try this, I have no idea what I'm going to do. Possibly something I was working on ages ago but... Not too sure yet. Might try or something horror related ;p

Problem is, will I be able to fit all this stuff in while I'm doing a full time course in college?
Guess I'll find out ^^

BEAST! · October 2009

VThornheart wrote: »

PolloDiablo wrote: »

VThornheart wrote: »

The other is a fantasy story based around a historical event (this one) set in rhyming couplet, about a Knight returning to the Vatican to defend it from Barbarossa, but who ultimately ends up divinely rebuked for his bloodlust and mercilessness along his journey. Admittedly, I've written about a dozen pages worth of stanzas, but I think I want to throw them out and start over.

That sounds super crazy hard. I think it would be awesome if you could swing 50,000 words of it, though.

Aye, that's the rough part... 50,000 words seems almost impossible to me with that idea when I really think about it. But I'd really love to work on it... maybe I should in my own time, separate from NaNo. =)

Plainclothesman wrote:

This was last year's wordcount site.

Ahh, cool! So he had just a very VERY basic login capability, and gave some stats. I think I could whip something like that out. I'll try during the week and on this coming weekend, and see if I can get enough free time in that period that I can get it to that state.

I've got to get a host though, I've been meaning to for a while and I've been dragging my feet. I think there's some darn cheap Rails hosting out there (we don't need a lot of bandwidth), so I'll take a look and snag something. =) (if anyone has any recommendations for cheap rails hosting by any chance, feel free to speak up for PM me just in case )

EDIT: I just grabbed some really cheap hosting at railsplayground.net. They're apparently not great, but it was cheaper than everywhere else and we don't particularly need anything resembling a lot of bandwidth or space. This thing's going to be minimal... and it'll provide a good hosting site for this and the MMT registration stuff. I'll be working on this and the MMT app during the week and this coming weekend. =)

oh so you're going to do this for us? alright, then i will take this off my list of things to do this week..haha

i too was thinking i should get some new hosting for this since the only thing we'd be able to run this off of would be my 266mhz nslu2 and since i was THINKING of doing sig image creation i wasn't sure how great it would run if even a single person put it in their sig..haha....

if you end up not wanting to or having time for this, let me know and i'll throw together a quick Catalyst site

VThornheart · October 2009

BEAST! wrote: »

VThornheart wrote: »

PolloDiablo wrote: »

VThornheart wrote: »

The other is a fantasy story based around a historical event (this one) set in rhyming couplet, about a Knight returning to the Vatican to defend it from Barbarossa, but who ultimately ends up divinely rebuked for his bloodlust and mercilessness along his journey. Admittedly, I've written about a dozen pages worth of stanzas, but I think I want to throw them out and start over.

That sounds super crazy hard. I think it would be awesome if you could swing 50,000 words of it, though.

Aye, that's the rough part... 50,000 words seems almost impossible to me with that idea when I really think about it. But I'd really love to work on it... maybe I should in my own time, separate from NaNo. =)

Plainclothesman wrote:

This was last year's wordcount site.

Ahh, cool! So he had just a very VERY basic login capability, and gave some stats. I think I could whip something like that out. I'll try during the week and on this coming weekend, and see if I can get enough free time in that period that I can get it to that state.

I've got to get a host though, I've been meaning to for a while and I've been dragging my feet. I think there's some darn cheap Rails hosting out there (we don't need a lot of bandwidth), so I'll take a look and snag something. =) (if anyone has any recommendations for cheap rails hosting by any chance, feel free to speak up for PM me just in case )

EDIT: I just grabbed some really cheap hosting at railsplayground.net. They're apparently not great, but it was cheaper than everywhere else and we don't particularly need anything resembling a lot of bandwidth or space. This thing's going to be minimal... and it'll provide a good hosting site for this and the MMT registration stuff. I'll be working on this and the MMT app during the week and this coming weekend. =)

oh so you're going to do this for us? alright, then i will take this off my list of things to do this week..haha

i too was thinking i should get some new hosting for this since the only thing we'd be able to run this off of would be my 266mhz nslu2 and since i was THINKING of doing sig image creation i wasn't sure how great it would run if even a single person put it in their sig..haha....

if you end up not wanting to or having time for this, let me know and i'll throw together a quick Catalyst site

Oh! I didn't realize you had volunteered, I've got to pay closer attention to the thread =)

Aye, but I'll give it a shot, it'll be fun! =)

What's Catalyst? I've not heard of that, I'll have to take a peek around for it. =)

Haikufrenzy · October 2009

All I know is my brain hates me, and wishes to punish me by giving me established ideas for NANOWRIMO, new ideas, and fucked up ideas which make me morbidly curious as too how they'd work out.

THIS IS NOT THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR... SOMEWHAT NEATO SURE...BUT SURE AS HELL NOT BEST.

EmptyGlass · October 2009

So what are you drinking? It's like what are you reading, except it has a proof. I'm drinking a Mojito I made. No, I don't think it's a gay drink.

Mo-ji-to.

Every day I think 'man I wish it were November 1 so I could get cracking on NaNoWriMo!' I don't know why, since I've gone 25 years and not written anything longer than 4 pages, so I don't know what my rush is.

Though in my defense, that 4 page work of art was my NaNo entry from last year.

Nerissa · October 2009

I don't think I even managed 1000 words last year, but I'm going to do better this time.

I've got sort-of characters and a setting, but so far only the most basic excuse for a plot.

Basically, I've got a young child whose "imaginary" friends are werewolves and vampires. She's always telling her family "don't worry, they're my friends, I'll keep you safe" and they just chalk it up to imagination.

And then one day they find out it's all real. She really IS talking to werewolves and vampires, and they really DO consider her a friend, and her friendship reallly IS what is keeping her family safe from them.

And... then what? I need to do some serious brainstorming over the next week or two.

Quoth · October 2009

Seriously guys, if you ever want to have people beat you about the face and neck with ideas, come on over to the IRC.

jacripe · October 2009

Finally making some progress with the actual investigation side of my story, yay!

EDIT: Need someone to tell me how much this sucks...

Story starts with the assassination of a mob boss, protagonist is sent by mob to track killer down with help of a mob soldier. Protag/Sidekick check out the crime scene, many body guards, mistress, janitor, doorman and mob boss are all very dead. Hatchet is found in the boss's head/body. Eye witnesses from neighboring buildings all say it was only one guy. Protag/SK start looking into the big hitmen in the City, all of them say it was an out of towner. Hear rumors of some legendary hitman who was put into a mental institution for killing his entire 4th grade class with a hatchet. Track the rumors to the Metro (still trying to think of a name), another city in the area. Find the assassin, but accidentally kill him because Munk is not confident enough (hero's flaw) that he has the right guy. Learn that it was the killer when they recover the Boss's ring or something. Head back to the City to begin the search anew. End ACT I.

InkSplat · October 2009

So, I think I'm scrapping my original nano idea and am going to run with something completely different. Should be exciting!

BEAST! · October 2009

VThornheart wrote: »

Oh! I didn't realize you had volunteered, I've got to pay closer attention to the thread =)

Aye, but I'll give it a shot, it'll be fun! =)

What's Catalyst? I've not heard of that, I'll have to take a peek around for it. =)

Just an MVC framework for Perl, nothing to concern yourself if you're working in Ruby, haha...if you change your mind about doing this let me know, I can throw something together.

Fearghaill · October 2009

Quoth wrote: »

Seriously guys, if you ever want to have people beat you about the face and neck with ideas, come on over to the IRC.

Except you apparently only chat during the day and mibbit is blocked at work, and everyone's quiet in the evening :?

Quoth · October 2009

I was on last night for a while... it seemed pretty active when I left.

Nerissa · October 2009

I actually got a pretty good start on my plot in the IRC channel last night. I now actually have a framework to build my story around, at least.

Also, as a result of that conversation, I'm beginning to think that having both vampires and werewolves is unnecessary, and I think I'm going to drop the vamps entirely.

Now, I have:

Family is disturbed when the feds come knocking on their door to talk to their pre-schooler about the werewolves she considers her "friends" and the family had thought were all imaginary. When the feds' tactics become abusive toward the child, the family flees, and ends up hiding out with the very werewolf that the feds are hunting. They discover that he is innocent, and work to save him from being hunted down and executed like a rabid animal.

BEAST! · October 2009

For those not in IRC, my story has changed from candy porn to a busty librarian solving a mystery while only referring to herself in the breast tense.

Quoth · October 2009

Guys, please don't feel bad about coming into the IRC with nothing but the proverbial shirt on your back. The point is to have people ask you questions so you can figure things out. You don't need to have a full outline with character bios and maps of relevant land masses.

EmptyGlass · October 2009

I'm not cool enough to know what the IRC is, otherwise I would drop by occasionally.

Crazy Larry · October 2009

I think I'll give this a try for the third year in a row. Didn't make it through the previous two years. I think my problem was that I was trying to write (and last year, rewrite) a story that I actually took seriously, so i fussed over making it decent way too much. So this year I'm going for a different tack. I'm going to take Brutal Legend as my inspiration and expand on a goofy short story idea I had and write a heavy metal fantasy parody/homage story. Given the relatively goofy concept and the fact that I'll be writing a format I have little aptitude for (parody), I fully expect it to be horrible, and thus hopefully can overcome the irresistible urge I have to make everything I write perfect on the first draft. I also fully expect that I'll be using a lot of whiskey and coke as inspiration.

Quoth · October 2009

zenpotato wrote: »

Ugh, you're going to make me find all this info and post it again, aren't you? Evil bastards.

irc.slashnet.org #thewritersblock

I suggest using a web client like Mibbit if you don't already have an IRC client preference.
Go to http://mibbit.com and then click the server link, enter in the server name (irc.slashnet.org) and then your nickname and the channel information (#TheWritersBlock). Or watch this video to see how: http://screencast.com/t/AGIEEGEy7A

Behold, the IRC.

Silvoculous · October 2009

BEAST! wrote: »

i too was thinking i should get some new hosting for this since the only thing we'd be able to run this off of would be my 266mhz nslu2 and since i was THINKING of doing sig image creation i wasn't sure how great it would run if even a single person put it in their sig..haha....

I forgot all about the sigs. They are essential - I was more interested in watching the progress bar on that thing than I was interested in my actual NaNo.org stats. And regarding the IRC, what time is the largest amount of people usually on? We've got a mere three idlers here at 6PM.

Quoth · October 2009

Right now I am having trouble getting on the IRC on my phone... I may get that app donuts was talking about if necessary. People should be on soon though, may be eating and such.

Horseshoe · October 2009

hey thanks for yappin with me in IRC earlier today quoth

it really helped

Quoth · October 2009

No problemo Shoe! Also I went into IRC and everyone was quiet so I left. Maybe we should set a specific time...?

VThornheart · October 2009

Got the simple login/registration capability working (yay Rails plugins... I feel like such a newb having just discovered them after struggling with trying to make my own =) ), and I'm currently working on the basic word count posting and result showing pages... and then it's all over but the shouting! =) Yay =)

EmperorSeth · October 2009

Well, I'm ready to get started for Nanowrimo this year, but for some reason, things aren't going as smoothly this year. This is odd, as I did this thing successfully for 5 of the last 6 years, and I didn't even try that one year (I worked on another project.) Now, though, I'm seeing problems.

1. I'm starting SO DAMN LATE. I usually have at least some characters and an outline, but I'm late due to a new job warping my hours and working on another damn writing project.
2. I think I'm treating this too seriously. This time, I see trying to sell it, even if that ends up failing miserably. Too many were simply self-indulgent writing projects before.

Maybe I should just hit the IRC stuff for ideas on how to start. Or maybe I need to do some research. Anyone have a recommendation for a source on the demons of the Goetia, preferably one I can read quickly? I definitely need that. For my children's novel.

Gandalf_the_Crazed · October 2009

Yeah. I've been put behind by the fact that I haven't gotten normal sleep lately (ran out of my sleep meds, and with a busted car it's kinda difficult to get to the doc to renew 'em). Which sucks, because there was another writing project I wanted to finish before November got here.

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