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Title: NaNoWriMo
Post by: Polpolion on November 01, 2010, 11:39:47 pm
Anybody else trying? (http://www.nanowrimo.org/)
Title: Re: NaNoWriMo
Post by: General Battuta on November 01, 2010, 11:42:33 pm
I did 30k in October. Gonna push for 50k more in NaNo proper. Need a novel to sell when my short stories (hopefully) win the Dells this year and publishers go gaga (that's totally going to happen guys.)
Title: Re: NaNoWriMo
Post by: IronBeer on November 01, 2010, 11:55:01 pm
Hey, I'd totally pay for your novels, Bat. FARTs be damned, I'd be happy to give you my money!
Title: Re: NaNoWriMo
Post by: NGTM-1R on November 02, 2010, 01:24:48 am
Never have, probably never will. No interest in publishing anyways. :P
Title: Re: NaNoWriMo
Post by: S-99 on November 02, 2010, 01:55:23 am
I did 30k in October. Gonna push for 50k more in NaNo proper. Need a novel to sell when my short stories (hopefully) win the Dells this year and publishers go gaga (that's totally going to happen guys.)
Yes, sure it will. More shrooms?
Title: Re: NaNoWriMo
Post by: General Battuta on November 02, 2010, 07:26:43 am
I did 30k in October. Gonna push for 50k more in NaNo proper. Need a novel to sell when my short stories (hopefully) win the Dells this year and publishers go gaga (that's totally going to happen guys.)
Yes, sure it will. More shrooms?

**** is your issue, nooblycaeks? I've worked my way up to second place over the past couple years. First isn't an outside shot. Just the selling a manuscript as a result of that is, but it's not gonna hurt my chances.
Title: Re: NaNoWriMo
Post by: Dilmah G on November 02, 2010, 07:33:28 am
/me purchases said 'shrooms for Battuta and S-99.

I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt and say he was joking around. I personally support you though Battuta, as much as I disagree with you sometimes, denying the fact you're an extremely capable writer would just be being a dick.

This NaNoWriMo thing sounds interesting; may do it for the fun of it. :D
Title: Re: NaNoWriMo
Post by: esarai on November 02, 2010, 11:19:16 am
I've always wanted to try this.  Perhaps now I'll give it a legit shot.  Helm, engage randomspace drives.
Title: Re: NaNoWriMo
Post by: The E on November 02, 2010, 11:29:27 am
Same here. But I sorta lack concepts that I can expand to novel size.
Title: Re: NaNoWriMo
Post by: Mongoose on November 02, 2010, 09:01:47 pm
Is it a bad thing that the only Dell I know of is a computer? :p
Title: Re: NaNoWriMo
Post by: S-99 on November 03, 2010, 01:19:46 am
/me purchases said 'shrooms for Battuta and S-99.
...................(thx, i feel better now.)
Title: Re: NaNoWriMo
Post by: Ransom on November 03, 2010, 10:21:59 am
I do this every year and it is such a BAD IDEA
Title: Re: NaNoWriMo
Post by: Polpolion on November 03, 2010, 09:00:38 pm
I had a great idea back in December for a novel. But now 11 months later I think it's stupid and I can't write about it, so I'm still stuck at just about 82 words. :(
Title: Re: NaNoWriMo
Post by: General Battuta on November 08, 2010, 12:58:22 pm
All right, you little nooblets, how are you doing?

I'm just ahead of the curve. Still on target to make it.
Title: Re: NaNoWriMo
Post by: esarai on November 08, 2010, 03:43:42 pm
nnngh deads... can't find time... FRAK.  FRAKKING FRAKKER FRAKKER FRAK.
Title: Re: NaNoWriMo
Post by: General Battuta on November 23, 2010, 04:22:15 pm
I won yesterday.
Title: Re: NaNoWriMo
Post by: NGTM-1R on November 23, 2010, 05:39:33 pm
NaNoWriMo is a huge conspiracy to slow down my writing. I haven't gotten 5k words done this month.
Title: Re: NaNoWriMo
Post by: StarSlayer on November 23, 2010, 08:25:08 pm
I won yesterday.

Elaborate to receive commendation/condemnation.
Title: Re: NaNoWriMo
Post by: Dilmah G on November 23, 2010, 08:33:01 pm
From memory, winning is simply (or not so simply) meeting the word count.
Title: Re: NaNoWriMo
Post by: General Battuta on November 23, 2010, 08:55:34 pm
To win you need to hit 50,000 words in the month, which is the goal of NaNoWriMo. I did it in 2/3rds of the alloted time!
Title: Re: NaNoWriMo
Post by: StarSlayer on November 23, 2010, 10:30:22 pm
Congratulations Authortutta.

You are hereby awarded the HLP Meritorious Verbosity Commendation

(http://i51.tinypic.com/4sh3kk.jpg)
Title: Re: NaNoWriMo
Post by: sigtau on November 23, 2010, 10:36:00 pm
Wear it proudly!

This is why I'm no longer into writing myself, because 1. I sucked, and 2. it sucks you in... and keeps you like a parasite.
Title: Re: NaNoWriMo
Post by: General Battuta on November 23, 2010, 10:41:45 pm
Thank you, kind sirs.

I will hopefully try to sell the manuscript, since I've made enough of a positive impact in previous forays into publishing to know that my work is at or nearly at pro grade.
Title: Re: NaNoWriMo
Post by: General Battuta on December 01, 2010, 12:49:27 pm
ugh

Crisis of confidence, stuck in a single scene for a few days.
Title: Re: NaNoWriMo
Post by: Nuke on December 01, 2010, 01:20:00 pm
i couldnt write to save my ass.
Title: Re: NaNoWriMo
Post by: General Battuta on December 01, 2010, 01:22:14 pm
ngtm1r tell me what to doooooooooo
Title: Re: NaNoWriMo
Post by: NGTM-1R on December 01, 2010, 02:40:26 pm
ngtm1r tell me what to doooooooooo

In my case, I would switch subjects, as I'm running two separate stories at the moment. (Alternately, radical genre shift for a chapter.)

In your case, however, I can only recommend generic panicking and running around in small circles while waving your arms, because I haven't got a clue what you've got going.
Title: Re: NaNoWriMo
Post by: General Battuta on December 01, 2010, 02:43:35 pm
It's just too ****ing long. 80k and I'm like one paragraph into the outline. Nothing over 100k will ever sell as a first novel.  :(
Title: Re: NaNoWriMo
Post by: NGTM-1R on December 01, 2010, 03:25:14 pm
We should totally switch. I write too stripped-down if anything.
Title: Re: NaNoWriMo
Post by: General Battuta on December 01, 2010, 03:36:10 pm
We should totally switch. I write too stripped-down if anything.

I envy that. It's a much more valuable skill than you'd think (or actually you might well know how valuable it is, but it's still super valuable.)

I'm not an overwriter, per se, but I'm too infatuated with my own prose and not spare enough in deploying it.