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So, I'm getting NaNoWriMo spam

Drew-BDrew-B Registered User regular
edited October 2012 in Social Entropy++
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Who is down to write a novel this fall? Anyone?

Lets write some novels.

It's a fun exercise in masochism that will likely have you hating your keyboard. One month, 50,000 words.

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  • Dex DynamoDex Dynamo Registered User regular
    I kind of want to a NaNo Rebel project (some kind of RPG book), but I don't know how to properly define it in terms of words per day, and I just finished (and failed) a massive 25-adventures-in-a-month blogging challenge. So I don't know if I have the energy. But it's an option.

  • The BetgirlThe Betgirl I'm Molly! Registered User regular
    Challenge being considered, 'cause I need a reason to write more.

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  • Drew-BDrew-B Registered User regular
    You can just do what I'm doing and write right now to give yourself a head start, regardless.

    I'm not going to submit a formal entry or anything this year.

    Tis the season.

  • -smash-smash Registered User regular
    I'm in. A friend got me to try it two years ago and it was an unexpectedly good time.

    Although, I recently tried to re-read my first attempt and *erk* *blegh*

  • Drew-BDrew-B Registered User regular
    Yeah, it's definitely rewarding but also an incredible chore at times.

    A couple years back, me and three other people co-wrote a NaNoWriMo book, switching back and forth from chapter to chapter with no collaboration involved. It almost seemed like more of a pain in the ass because when it was your turn, you had to catch up on several thousand words of plot, not to mention characters and the like. Holy balls, I was glad when that was finished.

  • -smash-smash Registered User regular
    Drew-B wrote: »
    Yeah, it's definitely rewarding but also an incredible chore at times.

    A couple years back, me and three other people co-wrote a NaNoWriMo book, switching back and forth from chapter to chapter with no collaboration involved. It almost seemed like more of a pain in the ass because when it was your turn, you had to catch up on several thousand words of plot, not to mention characters and the like. Holy balls, I was glad when that was finished.

    That sounds like a ton of work. But it also sounds awesome

  • HeadCreepsHeadCreeps NOW IS THE TIME FOR DRINKING! Registered User regular
    I tried this a few years ago, but I was way too unfocused. I don't even think I wrote more than 100 words.

    I think I'll give it another whirl this year. I've been trying to write more and I have a lot of ideas kicking around in my head, I just gotta try to organize my thoughts a bit more.

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  • Drew-BDrew-B Registered User regular
    -smash wrote: »
    Drew-B wrote: »
    Yeah, it's definitely rewarding but also an incredible chore at times.

    A couple years back, me and three other people co-wrote a NaNoWriMo book, switching back and forth from chapter to chapter with no collaboration involved. It almost seemed like more of a pain in the ass because when it was your turn, you had to catch up on several thousand words of plot, not to mention characters and the like. Holy balls, I was glad when that was finished.

    That sounds like a ton of work. But it also sounds awesome

    Heh, yeah it was meant to be sort of chaotic. It was a thing for a magazine that we worked for. It was a few of us editors and a copy writer, if I remember correctly.

    We started out each writing the first 500 words of our own novel, all of which were printed in the October issue. The article directed readers to our website where we had a poll so they could vote on which author's idea would be turned into a novel (I should note that mine was winning until 15 minutes before poll close, and the person who won somehow spammed the poll through a number of different IP addresses with minutes left to go. He was kind of a scumbag, and I never brought it up because who the fuck would do something like that for such a petty project?).

    Over the course of the next month we did our chaos writing, and had a side-blog on the site to basically lament, with wry smiles, the ridiculousness of what we were doing.

  • The BetgirlThe Betgirl I'm Molly! Registered User regular
    Drew-B wrote: »
    You can just do what I'm doing and write right now to give yourself a head start, regardless.

    I'm not going to submit a formal entry or anything this year.

    Tis the season.

    May as well! I've been slowly expanding the idea I want to write about over the year anyway, so I should probably just do it instead of being a lazy butt.

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  • CheeselikerCheeseliker Registered User regular
    Yeah, I'm doing this again. Probably my 5th or 6th year? But I've only gotten one win so far and that was last year. Time for number 2.

  • QuothQuoth the Raven Miami, FL FOR REALRegistered User regular
    This is my seventh year, sixth as ML

    Last year I failed miserably due to baby-having

    This year it is ON

    By which I mean I will probably fail again but whatever

  • Drew-BDrew-B Registered User regular
    A baby? Pfff, people will find any excuse these days...

  • RazalgrimRazalgrim Registered User regular
    I need top men to break into my house and plant a bomb on the nape of my neck. The bomb will detonate if I fail to write 2000 words between sunrise and sunset every day.

    That way I might have a chance.

  • QuothQuoth the Raven Miami, FL FOR REALRegistered User regular
    Oh wait whoops this is my eighth year, seventh as ML

    I can write but I can't count

    And I don't need to make up excuses, I've already won this four times

  • QuothQuoth the Raven Miami, FL FOR REALRegistered User regular
    SOOO

    I'm writing urban fantasy because I am a silly goose

    How about you guys

  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    I have no idea how to do this
    I can come up with like, a big idea (maybe) but when it comes from getting a story from point A to B to C I'm just like... nothing
    There's absolutely nothing going on in my head

  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    I tried this two years in a row and wound up hitting a wall on like, day 2

    I just sit and stare at the monitor and then delete the file and go do something else

  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    I

    will take up the challenge

    Hard boiled PI noir shit, probably, maybe with some sci-fi flavoring because I'm utterly predictable

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  • QuothQuoth the Raven Miami, FL FOR REALRegistered User regular
  • EtchwartsEtchwarts Eyes Up Registered User regular
    I think my problem is that I'm too retrospective when I write. I go to bed thinking "man I could have done that last chapter way better" and then it ends up being a mess.

    I just need to be more consistent.

  • Drew-BDrew-B Registered User regular
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    I have no idea how to do this
    I can come up with like, a big idea (maybe) but when it comes from getting a story from point A to B to C I'm just like... nothing
    There's absolutely nothing going on in my head

    Read up on some famous authors' writing processes. You'd be surprised how much you probably have in common.

  • QuothQuoth the Raven Miami, FL FOR REALRegistered User regular
  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    I've been trying this since like...2006? I've failed to make it past like, day six every year. I'll try again this year though! Especially now that my hand is better.

  • CelloCello Registered User regular
    Olivaw wrote: »
    I

    will take up the challenge

    Hard boiled PI noir shit, probably, maybe with some sci-fi flavoring because I'm utterly predictable

    Olivaw I will read this. I will read the heck out of this.

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    Hero should accomplish something with his tearing around, if only to rescue Eloise, and surprise! Eloise is a ring-tailed monkey. The hero counts the rings on Eloise's tail, if nothing better comes to mind.

    They're not real. The rings are painted there. Why?

    My mind is blown

  • Drew-BDrew-B Registered User regular
    I sort of want to set my novel in Ukraine, but I'm not so sure it's worth the headache of having to research culture/names and the like.

    Still, there's something exotic about the country that makes me want to build a world within it.

  • LarlarLarlar consecutive normal brunches Moderator, ClubPA Mod Emeritus
    I may try this for the first time this year.

    And by that I mean I'll back out at the last minute again.

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    Olivaw wrote: »
    I

    will take up the challenge

    Hard boiled PI noir shit, probably, maybe with some sci-fi flavoring because I'm utterly predictable

    I was thinking about a detective story as well, or possibly a Lovecraft pastiche

    or both

  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    Olivaw wrote: »
    I

    will take up the challenge

    Hard boiled PI noir shit, probably, maybe with some sci-fi flavoring because I'm utterly predictable

    I was thinking about a detective story as well, or possibly a Lovecraft pastiche

    or both

    GG if you actually want to try this shit

    I will help you

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  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    I write every day anyway

    who knows, maybe I'll try to write a novel

  • QuothQuoth the Raven Miami, FL FOR REALRegistered User regular
    I think it's worthwhile for everyone to see how mysteries are structured because I think in some sense every story is a mystery

    What will happen next, what's going on behind the scenes, how will it all come together

  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    I'm gonna do this this year

    Normal guy takes a teaching job at a high school that is full of terrible fantasy cliche archetypes

    basically it's Great Teacher Onizuka if it took place in a terrible Gaia Online high school RP

  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    orrrr maybe I'll just write the screenplay/book that @Blankzilla helped me develop which is basically Fast 5 In Space

  • JarsJars Registered User regular
    I wish I knew where my life is going to be in a month

    are there any rules or something. I am no stranger to writing long papers but usually they are boring historical ones

  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    Hullis wrote: »
    orrrr maybe I'll just write the screenplay/book that @Blankzilla helped me develop which is basically Fast 5 In Space

    Fuck

    Fuck

    I would read this book

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  • -smash-smash Registered User regular
    I'm going back to a cyberpunk setting this year -- I can technobabble far better than I can imagine a consistent fantasy universe, or "real life".

    I think I've got a main character and the stirrings of a plot. Things I have considered but not yet decided on: ending the world halfway through.

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    This year...this is the year I actually follow through with this.

  • smofsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    I am definitely up for doing this. I made my first attempt last year and was doing pretty well for the first week. I mean what I was writing was tripe but I was getting words down and it was a lot of fun. Then Skyrim came out and my novel died from neglect.

    Think I managed about 10-15k last year so, while I will try for the full 50 this year, if I get above 15 I will consider it a success.

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    OH SNAP!

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