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It's in three more days (Wednesday) and I'm definitely going to crank one out this month. Last time I tried, I only heard about it halfway through, and only got about a third of the way before giving up. This time there will be no surrender.

nothing can be prewritten, and you have to get an average of 2,500 words in a day to make it happen.

I'm doing a sci-fi in a setting with medium tech (No transporters, replicators, etc) and an all alien cast (trying to get away from the human-centrism in scifi, and it lets me make my aliens a bit more individual, rather than just a member of their species.)

Is anyone else participating, and what are your ideas for a novel?

I might participate. Don't know what I'd write about.

it sounds interesting. never entered one before, but new things are fun. hmm. if i did, it would be on an assasin.

I'm going to fail at least one essay because of this.

At the moment, I have two characters: one a soldier in the 13th century, the other a modern-day descendant of his. The storyline will connect the two genealogically.

I'm doing a sci-fi in a setting with medium tech (No transporters, replicators, etc) and an all alien cast (trying to get away from the human-centrism in scifi, and it lets me make my aliens a bit more individual, rather than just a member of their species.)

Is anyone else participating, and what are your ideas for a novel?

Sci-Fi is always fun, I would have an idea but this would mean to put the story, I am writing now on hold :/ Can't decide!

Hadisveja is a story about hackers in a weird economy and a girl getting sucked into the scene.

The other idea, is difficult to explain... a Sci-fi in which there are 2 different empires on earth, which after a nearly-war ceased all contact to each other. Then after a ship-wreck, one person is washed on the shore of the other empire.

Hm...perhaps this month having that designation might motivate me to write (somewhere other than on here).

You have to get an average of 1667.75 words a day if you can write everyday, I can't write everyday so I shoot for 3K a day.

This is my second year, I already have my story heavily outlined, research done, and am just waiting until Wednesday to get started. My local group is getting together Tuesday night for a "write-in" and we are all starting at midnight.

So fun.

You have to get an average of 1667.75 words a day if you can write everyday, I can't write everyday so I shoot for 3K a day.

This is my second year, I already have my story heavily outlined, research done, and am just waiting until Wednesday to get started. My local group is getting together Tuesday night for a "write-in" and we are all starting at midnight.

So fun.

Hah, I tried looking for an age limitation but found none; I assume now there is none?

I won't be thinking about joining (this year) as it's insane considering my uni workload ATM, but I like the idea.. I even found a single person taking part this year from my little German town..

I didn't last year because of my full course load, but, this year I'm in. I can easily crank out that much; I just have to picture a character I can do countless evil things to and watch as the mayhem unfolds.

Yep, I'm doing it.

Did it last year.

Decided to go a bit nuts about it this year.

I write a lot (read = way too much) and so my goal is actually 150k words, and I think I have a good chance of getting there.

I'm so doing it. Signed up a few weeks ago.

... still don't have any ideas >_<

IT BEGINS!
Please use this thread to keep us up to date on developments, and your word counts.

I have no time in my life.

Let's give it a try...

i dont have much of an attention span to write a novel. but i have some ideas. some actuallly trying to get done.
one about a facist society that works.
a comedy about irelnad turning to a uber liberal socialist country.
musical about the jews taking over the world.
comedy about a black person in ireland joining a neo-nazi basketball team.

I don't have time. I'm currently writing a novel-length story (it's currently 68,244 words long), but I couldn't have written it in only a month, and I'm still focusing on writing my current story, in addition to school work.

I wrote for about an hour this morning, current wordcount is 1753, I will work on it more this evening.

you can always check my wordcount on my blog, there is a neat little progress report thingy on it, and also a link to my profile on www.nanowrimo.org.

hah, I'm already past 10000 words.

of course, I have no life.

hah, I'm already past 10000 words.

of course, I have no life.

I worked a lot today on other things. ;)

And I nearly went to class.

hey, 2 classes out of 3 ain't bad, right? :D

I'm doing a sci-fi in a setting with medium tech (No transporters, replicators, etc) and an all alien cast (trying to get away from the human-centrism in scifi, and it lets me make my aliens a bit more individual, rather than just a member of their species.)

you know why there is a great deal of human centrism?

because people oddly enough relate to humans. thats what people like is characters they can in some way relate to through fantasy or real. im not saying its a bad idea, actually sounds kind of cool. just saying its going to be a really tough task to complete. i wish the best of luck to you.

you know why there is a great deal of human centrism?

because people oddly enough relate to humans. thats what people like is characters they can in some way relate to through fantasy or real. im not saying its a bad idea, actually sounds kind of cool. just saying its going to be a really tough task to complete. i wish the best of luck to you.

I think a story about aliens would be interesting, and besides you would relate to them at some point if the characters are realistic enough.

1147 ... I'm a little slow :(

or you have more of a life :p

I only have 108. I have writer's block. Going to work more on it later.

you know why there is a great deal of human centrism?

because people oddly enough relate to humans. thats what people like is characters they can in some way relate to through fantasy or real. im not saying its a bad idea, actually sounds kind of cool. just saying its going to be a really tough task to complete. i wish the best of luck to you.

That was kind of the whole point. Of course, getting rid of humans allows me to make the aliens feel a lot less alien without making them star trek aliens (humans with weird foreheads)

In most stories, aliens have been mostly background, and otherwise little more than an example of their race. I felt the best way to make my aliens real characters, with real characterization, was to make there be no alternative.

I still can't believe I'm doing it, but looks like I am. 3325 so far for me; seeing how I only heard about this when you made this thread (and therefore have no plot/character/anything outline), I feel rather good about it. So, umm, go us? :)

absolutely.

go us!

Hey, if you have a NaNoWriMo user name, post it here.
Mine is Pyritefoolsgold

I had work at 9am, but was up and out the door at 7:30am and in class... I'll write when I get home (around 9:30pm).

http://www.indietits.com/2005/11/current-sleep-schedule-abyssal-sleep.html

Hey, if you have a NaNoWriMo user name, post it here.
Mine is Pyritefoolsgold

I am Smunkeethewriter (original? I think so!)

I am Smunkeethewriter (original? I think so!)

Mine is 'Panda Propaganda'.

Mine is... *drumroll* TJHairball!

I really shouldn't have done this. I started this morning, though. 2106 after two and a half hours...

... I can't resist the temptation to go back and edit a little. I'll have to stop doing this if I'm to get this done.

it's 10:15pm on day 2, I am sitting at 3500 words exactly. Pretty good since I worked 10 hours today and then had a mental breakdown this afternoon over a stupid iron-on T-shirt project.

I can't write much tomorrow, but then again I thought that today and I churned out over 1500 words.

I am pretty sure I will pick up 12-15K this weekend. ;)

it's 10:15pm on day 2, I am sitting at 3500 words exactly. Pretty good since I worked 10 hours today and then had a mental breakdown this afternoon over a stupid iron-on T-shirt project.

I can't write much tomorrow, but then again I thought that today and I churned out over 1500 words.

I am pretty sure I will pick up 12-15K this weekend. ;)

I'm just over 3000, which is pretty good considering how demanding school has been recently. Which reminds me, I have to study for my physics midterm tomorrow. :(

Dang, Smunks, you're going to get past me again at this rate. I'm only at 3576 from today...

...and my weekend isn't free. >_<

I wanted too so much..I had my characters mapped out, a well-detailed outline, I even bought the book "No Plot, No Problem". But November was not to be the month of my Nano-novel, It was the month of my Fall Semester Term Papers. :(

it's 10:15pm on day 2, I am sitting at 3500 words exactly. Pretty good since I worked 10 hours today and then had a mental breakdown this afternoon over a stupid iron-on T-shirt project.
Nice work :) Did you finally get the iron thing done? *commiserates*

[/QUOTE]I am pretty sure I will pick up 12-15K this weekend. ;)[/QUOTE]

*is motivated to do the same*

AlthoughI had my mental breakdown today; turning on the computer revealed that somehow the biggest portion of my writing yesterday somehow mysteriously vanished.. I was at 5k already yesterday (and had it scrambled and uploaded), and now I'm at barely 4k and have to start over again.. BITCH! But I'll be fine.

I'm a loooooooooooooooooooser.

I'm already at nearly 30k. :eek: :D

I'm a loooooooooooooooooooser.

I'm already at nearly 30k. :eek: :D

*didn't hear that, didn't hear that, didn't..*

I'm just over 3000, which is pretty good considering how demanding school has been recently. Which reminds me, I have to study for my physics midterm tomorrow. :(
good luck on the test!

Dang, Smunks, you're going to get past me again at this rate. I'm only at 3576 from today...

...and my weekend isn't free. >_<
mine isn't either, but I think since hubby is driving I can blog some of my novel on my PDA and upload it to my google docs when we get close to the Wi-Fi that seems to be about every 4 blocks around here....I can't really do that while driving, I can dictate to my kid, but she does't type as fast as I talk. LOL (not that I have done that with this NaNo yet, I usually let her write emails and posts for me.)
I wanted too so much..I had my characters mapped out, a well-detailed outline, I even bought the book "No Plot, No Problem". But November was not to be the month of my Nano-novel, It was the month of my Fall Semester Term Papers. :(
I have friends who write their NaNo in Febuary, I might join them this year...I will TG you if I do.
Nice work :) Did you finally get the iron thing done? *commiserates*
I did. ;)

I am pretty sure I will pick up 12-15K this weekend. ;)

*is motivated to do the same*[/quote]
:cool:

AlthoughI had my mental breakdown today; turning on the computer revealed that somehow the biggest portion of my writing yesterday somehow mysteriously vanished.. I was at 5k already yesterday (and had it scrambled and uploaded), and now I'm at barely 4k and have to start over again.. BITCH! But I'll be fine.
always back up your stuff on google docs, and forget about uploading it for wordcount until the last week of the month...it takes way too long now, just use the honor system ;)
I'm a loooooooooooooooooooser.

I'm already at nearly 30k. :eek: :D
I have a friend in my local NaNoWriMo group who writes a 150K novel every November....you could do that I bet.
*didn't hear that, didn't hear that, didn't..*

always back up your stuff on google docs, and forget about uploading it for wordcount until the last week of the month...it takes way too long now, just use the honor system ;)
remember I'm in a completely different time zone; when I upload it's fast as a bunny :) . That, and: how do you do that google document stuff? I've now taken to send it to myself as an email, but that's not all that an a bag of chips..so?

remember I'm in a completely different time zone; when I upload it's fast as a bunny :) . That, and: how do you do that google document stuff? I've now taken to send it to myself as an email, but that's not all that an a bag of chips..so?

http://www.google.com/google-d-s/tour1.html

actually 150k is what I'm shooting for.

1 silly 50k story, 1 mildly more serious 100k one.

maybe I'll hit 50k today even! :D :D

Werepenguins Love Sushi
Political Anarchy in an Antarctic Oasis

Yea, that's my story and I'm sticking with it. Seeing that I've already written over 3000 words so far. It's the story (the psudo-autiobiography in fact) of Amber Red-Brown, her life as a werepenguin and her rise through the political insanity that is well based on a chain of inspired bys that you should probably be able to recreate on your own.

http://write.aftermatheffect.com/sig_39531.png

My username is ThePancake. :D

So far, no ideas. Nothing can be prewritten so I can't do one of my current stories so I guess I'll hve to make one up. A new one (numero 14!!!! :eek:)

always back up your stuff on google docs, and forget about uploading it for wordcount until the last week of the month...it takes way too long now, just use the honor system ;)
Huh. Really? I haven't had any trouble uploading plain-text files for wordcount. Takes much more time to reload the page than to actually upload the file.

Thanks for the reminder; I'm doing it this year now!

http://www.google.com/google-d-s/tour1.html

Thanks, ma'am.

I just got home from a friends party, I have written zero words today *sad*

I am going to stay up late and work on it some more...well, some, I didn't work on it any yet today.

I think I am skipping church tomorrow to write.....so going to hell for NaNo...LOL

anywho, how is everyone doing?

I just got home from a friends party, I have written zero words today *sad*

I am going to stay up late and work on it some more...well, some, I didn't work on it any yet today.

I think I am skipping church tomorrow to write.....so going to hell for NaNo...LOL

anywho, how is everyone doing?

4663 words and counting. I got a little behind yesterday, so I've got to catch up tonight. *writes some more* :cool:

I just got home from a friends party, I have written zero words today *sad*

I am going to stay up late and work on it some more...well, some, I didn't work on it any yet today.

I think I am skipping church tomorrow to write.....so going to hell for NaNo...LOL

anywho, how is everyone doing?
I was taking a physics GRE today at sharp-early morningish. I've gone only far enough in the past two days as to decide that I don't like traditional narration after all. >_>

I was taking a physics GRE today at sharp-early morningish. I've gone only far enough in the past two days as to decide that I don't like traditional narration after all. >_>

I tend to use limited third person, it's easier for me that way. I have to go to sleep soon I had a conversation with one of my characters, I typed the whole thing and near the end I was like "why am I typing what I am thinking?" only I typed that too.....I think I might need some sleep.

I woke hubby up and stripped the bed, I am washing my sheets and blankets and then when they are dry I will go back to sleep....I have no idea why I did that, but he isn't happy.

I hit 50k today. :eek: :D

Gaah!
I learned about this last summer.
I even posted a thread here asking people about it.
I planned to plan the planning of my novel.
And so, naturally, I completely forgot. *sigh*

anywho, how is everyone doing?

Yay; thread's still up! ... I'm good so far, uni work's been suffering just a tad, but I crossed the 7k treshold yesterday night/this morning.

I've gone only far enough in the past two days as to decide that I don't like traditional narration after all. >_>

I tend to use limited third person, it's easier for me that way.
I started with a somewhat messed-up concept of technically writing in the first person, present; only that this me-narrator basically tells the story by telling us about what this other character does and speculating about her thoughts/feelings etc. It's a rather.. unusua mix of frist and third person narrator, but I think I'm going to stick with it alright.

I woke hubby up and stripped the bed, I am washing my sheets and blankets and then when they are dry I will go back to sleep....I have no idea why I did that, but he isn't happy.

You are so weird.

Yay; thread's still up! ... I'm good so far, uni work's been suffering just a tad, but I crossed the 7k treshold yesterday night/this morning.
I am about to sit down and churn out 10K whether it kills me or not. I got my stash of cherry coke, strawberry gum, and hershey's kisses, so I probably won't have to leave my room until I am done.




I started with a somewhat messed-up concept of technically writing in the first person, present; only that this me-narrator basically tells the story by telling us about what this other character does and speculating about her thoughts/feelings etc. It's a rather.. unusua mix of frist and third person narrator, but I think I'm going to stick with it alright.

last year I did each chapter from a different person's pov, it was very interesting, it was first person-ish since within the chapter you would only know what the one was thinking, but I would switch it up a lot within the book. I don't know what the heck I was thinking. LOL


You are so weird.
I am.

:p

I like cherry coke.

mmmmmmmm

I am about to sit down and churn out 10K whether it kills me or not. I got my stash of cherry coke, strawberry gum, and hershey's kisses, so I probably won't have to leave my room until I am done.
Yes, I promised myself that I'd hit 10k this weekend too.. I'm a bit over 8k so I'm confident, and my dinner's in the oven and it smells terrific; I hope that if it tastes just as good tat'll be the boost I need :) Plus, I just introduced two new characters so I have more, umm, things to fiddle with now :)


last year I did each chapter from a different person's pov, it was very interesting, it was first person-ish since within the chapter you would only know what the one was thinking, but I would switch it up a lot within the book. I don't know what the heck I was thinking. LOL
Sounding great! *plans ahead for next November*


I am.

As a participant of this thread, that kinda follows :). But it's a great thing to be. *nods*

last year I did each chapter from a different person's pov, it was very interesting, it was first person-ish since within the chapter you would only know what the one was thinking, but I would switch it up a lot within the book. I don't know what the heck I was thinking.
I've started out that way, pretty much. I was hoping I'd start repeating and re-cycling.

I tend to use limited third person, it's easier for me that way. I have to go to sleep soon I had a conversation with one of my characters, I typed the whole thing and near the end I was like "why am I typing what I am thinking?" only I typed that too.....I think I might need some sleep.

I woke hubby up and stripped the bed, I am washing my sheets and blankets and then when they are dry I will go back to sleep....I have no idea why I did that, but he isn't happy.
That reminds me, second person narration is very powerful. I don't think I can really get away with using it here though, it's hard.

That reminds me, second person narration is very powerful. I don't think I can really get away with using it here though, it's hard.
That's a strange concept, but I think I migt try that one out too sometime.. just not anytime soon ;]

I failed to hit 10k over the weekend ( I was.. busied) but I think I will today- I'm at 8.8 right now *hopes*

Too bad there doesn't seem to be any gatherings around the spot where I live..NaNoWrMo definitely needs to be pimped more in Germany *nods*

Nano = better than me.

Because of Nano, I slept straight through until noon today.

That wouldn't be so bad if I didn't have a class at 10 a.m.

Argh.

Nano = better than me.

Because of Nano, I slept straight through until noon today.

That wouldn't be so bad if I didn't have a class at 10 a.m.

Argh.

Because of my NaNo, I want to wake up every day at 8 am to get some writing done before having to go to uni. Umm.. let's say I've just barely been able to get up in time to have a very hurried shower and speed-bike to uni today. My word-count suffered a bit :)

I live in a dorm. It's never EVER quiet here, except between about 2-5 in the morning.

So that's when I write.

Possibly not the best solution :D

current wordcount at 8,380 :(

apparently you can't write a novel at my Sunday night job, people kept asking "whatcha writing?" and "can I read it?" and "what's it about?" and "how much RAM you got on that laptop?"
:headbang:

If I have my laptop and I look busy, then Leave me alone! how hard is that to understand?!

I couldn't do that.

I live in a dorm. It's never EVER quiet here, except between about 2-5 in the morning.

So that's when I write.

Possibly not the best solution :D

I share an apartment with 5 other people, two of which have their SOs here in addition to that. It's never quiet; I just write in the non-quiet.

current wordcount at 8,380 :(

apparently you can't write a novel at my Sunday night job, people kept asking "whatcha writing?" and "can I read it?" and "what's it about?" and "how much RAM you got on that laptop?"
:headbang:

If I have my laptop and I look busy, then Leave me alone! how hard is that to understand?!
Maybe you fail at that (the bolded part)? Umm.. make and print a short hand-out - FAQ and just distribute that when trying to write in public. Alternatively, just tape said handout to the lid of your laptop. *nods*
I couldn't do that.

If you just accumulated all your words you write on here every day, you'd be halfway there... *ducks*

No, I'm pretty good at writing in the non-quiet (I just put headphones on and turn the music up reeeeeeal loud), but there is something very peaceful about 3 or 4 in the morning :D

http://nowrists.com/n6.cfm/106104/Palm/NoNovelTitle/AddEta/n.png

okay I really gotta quit screwing around on NSG and actually like write now.

http://nowrists.com/n6.cfm/106104/Palm/NoNovelTitle/AddEta/n.png

okay I really gotta quit screwing around on NSG and actually like write now.

I just 'banned myself' from NSG as well (meaning I only bookmarked this thread directly and hope not to glance at NSG Homepage for the rest of this week, but only check up on this thread) :) Too bad I managed to somehow procrastinate for 4 hours on the iternet without NS, anyhow..

If you just accumulated all your words you write on here every day, you'd be halfway there... *ducks*

No, no! Don't duck!

I actually thought of that too. :p

No, no! Don't duck!

I actually thought of that too. :p

Yeah, look, with an average post-length of, say, 15 words (and that's a reasonably number for shortish spammy posts ;] ), and a post-count of 15,500, you're at 232,500 words already- that's 9 novels, give or take a few words. Scary, eh? :P

P.S. I duck whenever I want to! *ducks*

P.P.S. Yay! I cracked 10k! (http://www.nanowrimo.org/NanowrimoUtils/NanowrimoGraph/159549.png")

You have to get an average of 1667.75 words a day if you can write everyday, I can't write everyday so I shoot for 3K a day.

This is my second year, I already have my story heavily outlined, research done, and am just waiting until Wednesday to get started. My local group is getting together Tuesday night for a "write-in" and we are all starting at midnight.

So fun.

Grave and I are writing a novel together. We're not inspired by this, but it's cool to know so many people are doing this. What a great project. Since there's two of us we'll go for 100,000.

I've been writing too much. I think I killed my left hand.

Damn.

Grave and I are writing a novel together. We're not inspired by this, but it's cool to know so many people are doing this. What a great project. Since there's two of us we'll go for 100,000.
That's awesome! Have heaps of fun :) May one ask what it's about / what genre / general direction?

I've been writing too much. I think I killed my left hand.

A leftie! Yay!

Smunks, Tzor, if I have more days this week that I can spare enough time to bang away on the laptop, you are going to so get caught up to. ^_^

http://nowrists.com/n6.cfm/167492/Palm/n.png

I almost did today, but now I really should go vote before my day starts and gets too busy.

That's awesome! Have heaps of fun :) May one ask what it's about / what genre / general direction?



A leftie! Yay!

It's a comedy about two guys who trip (the fall down trip, not the whacked out on drugs trip) outside the universe.

The following bears no resemblance to how these events actually happened. At times, if I could use that word, Mike and I were among the timeless with no real shape at all. We had no location on the lines of any dimension. To tell it as it happened would cause your left eyeball to pop out of the socket. And after the first three tellings, I figured I better tell it differently or become an optician. So I adjusted it to give it a sense of order, to turn it into a story rather than the garbled mess that happens when one tries to take events with no time or place and convey them to beings that need their stories to have both.

I’ll tell what I remember and I’ll let Mike tell what he remembers and is willing to share. I can’t promise it will be enlightening or even entertaining. But I promise it will be true except for the places where no truth exists or where certain liberties were necessary to deal with that whole eyeball popping thing. Oh, and, to be fair, I smelled much worse at times than is apparent when reading the story. For that, I offer my humblest apologies to Mike.

Grave is a much better writer, but I don't want to post his stuff without his permission.

It's a comedy about two guys who trip (the fall down trip, not the whacked out on drugs trip) outside the universe.

-snipping excerpt-

Grave is a much better writer, but I don't want to post his stuff without his permission.
It slightly reminiscent of HG2G, but I'd never say that as if it were a bad thing..

I really liked what you posted, and I have full trust in Uncle Gravy's skills. Any chance of a humble girl getting acces to the thing one day?

I am nearly at 11K I posted an excerpt on my profile at NaNoWriMo.org if anyone is interested in reading it.

It slightly reminiscent of HG2G, but I'd never say that as if it were a bad thing..

I really liked what you posted, and I have full trust in Uncle Gravy's skills. Any chance of a humble girl getting acces to the thing one day?

Certainly. I expect it to be about 24.95 next Christmas. ;-)

I might offer up excerpts from time to time on my blog. Depends on if Grave is comfortable.

And I consider that a huge compliment.

Certainly. I expect it to be about 24.95 next Christmas. ;-)

I might offer up excerpts from time to time on my blog. Depends on if Grave is comfortable.

And I consider that a huge compliment.

when you get it ready and for sale TG me and I will buy one, or you know 5.......I have a feeling that a few of my friends might like it, we could read it at book club!

*yes I am a dork in a book club

oh, I had a dream about you and GnI last night, you guys wrote me a poem for my birthday. weird. It was hilarious though........My birthday is next month........

I am nearly at 11K I posted an excerpt on my profile at NaNoWriMo.org if anyone is interested in reading it.
Smunks, that's a looong excerpt. 0_o I didn't know you could make them that long.

when you get it ready and for sale TG me and I will buy one, or you know 5.......I have a feeling that a few of my friends might like it, we could read it at book club!

*yes I am a dork in a book club

oh, I had a dream about you and GnI last night, you guys wrote me a poem for my birthday. weird. It was hilarious though........My birthday is next month........

Done and done. I'll contact GnI right now so we can start working on it.

And you'll like the premise even if it turns out we handle it badly. Our 'heroes' are going to meet God. You have to think a book written about the absolute truth of the universe by an Atheist and a Christian is going to have some interesting ways of explaining things.

By the way, Smunk, I read some of your stuff. I can't believe you swore. Tsk... tsk... tsk...

Smunks, Tzor, if I have more days this week that I can spare enough time to bang away on the laptop, you are going to so get caught up to. ^_^

http://nowrists.com/n6.cfm/167492/Palm/n.png

I almost did today, but now I really should go vote before my day starts and gets too busy.

The book concept was partly inspired and absolutely made possible by our time on NS. You think Max would be willing to write a foreword?

You're a moderator, so you guys must be best friends.

Meanwhile, where's your excerpt?

Done and done. I'll contact GnI right now so we can start working on it.

And you'll like the premise even if it turns out we handle it badly. Our 'heroes' are going to meet God. You have to think a book written about the absolute truth of the universe by an Atheist and a Christian is going to have some interesting ways of explaining things.
I think it will bring interesting debate within our group, we have Christians, pagans, wiccans, atheists, and a real life vampire......well, not really but she thinks she is. LOL

By the way, Smunk, I read some of your stuff. I can't believe you swore. Tsk... tsk... tsk...
I didn't, my character did, actually all of them do, except for Inez. She doesn't really say anything coherent, but that's important to the plot.

I think it will bring interesting debate within our group, we have Christians, pagans, wiccans, atheists, and a real life vampire......well, not really but she thinks she is. LOL


I didn't, my character did, actually all of them do, except for Inez. She doesn't really say anything coherent, but that's important to the plot.

I think GnI was a bad influence on you, young Smunkeeville. Our ears must never hear such language. However, it's okay if we hear about blood splatter, but a inoccuous word that we decide was evil? No way.

(I'm definitely going to have God comment on swearing at some point in the book).

I think GnI was a bad influence on you, young Smunkeeville. Our ears must never hear such language. However, it's okay if we hear about blood splatter, but a inoccuous word that we decide was evil? No way.

(I'm definitely going to have God comment on swearing at some point in the book).

actually you probably shoudn't read the rest of my book, it's quite violent.

http://www.nanowrimo.org/simpleinfo.php?uid=139450

8000 words ... I have to catch up ...

The book concept was partly inspired and absolutely made possible by our time on NS. You think Max would be willing to write a foreword?

You're a moderator, so you guys must be best friends.

Meanwhile, where's your excerpt?
He might indeed. It sounds like something he might enjoy. I'll ask.

I have a couple very short excerpts on NaNo. Account name is the same here. I'll post a longer excerpt after I get home and can plug my laptop into the cable.

I am nearly at 11K I posted an excerpt on my profile at NaNoWriMo.org if anyone is interested in reading it.
I'll head there right after posting this (thus procrastinating some more on my novel-to-be.)

ETA: I like it! Lot's of dialogue; it's what mine is still missing so far- but them my heroine is slightly deranged and most of the time I can only record monologues as nobody willingly subjects themselves to her talking..Just reading One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, I'm in a good mood for the general setting of yours so far, too :)

I might offer up excerpts from time to time on my blog. Depends on if Grave is comfortable.

And I consider that a huge compliment.
Linky link? And, umm, if Smunkee's implication is right and there ever will be a published version, I demand word on it as well! :)
And yes, compliments were fully intended and well deserved.


And you'll like the premise even if it turns out we handle it badly. Our 'heroes' are going to meet God. You have to think a book written about the absolute truth of the universe by an Atheist and a Christian is going to have some interesting ways of explaining things....
I think matters are put into trustworthy hands there :)

Melikes your plot scheme..

ETA: I like it! Lot's of dialogue; it's what mine is still missing so far- but them my heroine is slightly deranged and most of the time I can only record monologues as nobody willingly subjects themselves to her talking..Just reading One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, I'm in a good mood for the general setting of yours so far, too :)


yeah, it's a very dialogue driven story, I hate that because it kills my wordcount but Inez's incoherent rants seem to make up for it.

My husband has been reading my novel as I add to it and he said it's "dark and twisty" (he stole that from Grey's Anatomy whether he admits it or not) but there are parts when he is laughing so hard he almost falls off the bed, I don't know if it's good for a book like mine to have those parts, but he says it's important or people would get bogged down between the backwater mental institution, the serial killer, the shady doctor, the evil nurse, and the sociopath who likes to annoy the innocent insane heroine of the story.

Vroom vroom. In spite of today being a very busy day on the face of it, I'm past 11K already.

And I have several more hours left in which I may be able to pretend to do work and punch out more novel. By the time I actually get to post an excerpt, it may be past 12K.

I'm burying myself in NaNo to make up for not getting 50K last year..with a story I've since finished; it clocks in at about 75,000. I don't think I'm going to make this year, though. I have a good plot, but I'm going to have problems extending it to novel length.

... and the sociopath who likes to annoy the innocent insane heroine of the story.
Yeah, I think I like him :P

I don't think I'm going to make this year, though. I have a good plot, but I'm going to have problems extending it to novel length.
Don't worry, I have no plot at all and only heard about this a day or two before November started and I'm at about 12k now.. I seem to be rather talented at producing mind-numbing nonsense at a half-way coherent level in an astounding time frame.. guess what gets me through uni :)

Don't worry, I have no plot at all and only heard about this a day or two before November started and I'm at about 12k now.. I seem to be rather talented at producing mind-numbing nonsense at a half-way coherent level in an astounding time frame.. guess what gets me through uni :)

Ah, I have a plot and all... I rather enjoy my storyline.. it's just I don't think I can extend it to the necessary 50,000. It looks like it might fizzle out on its own before then, probably around 38,000 like I did last year.

Ah, I have a plot and all... I rather enjoy my storyline.. it's just I don't think I can extend it to the necessary 50,000. It looks like it might fizzle out on its own before then, probably around 38,000 like I did last year.

my plot fizzled about 36K last year, so I decided that aliens came and abducted everyone, that got me at least another 20K and apparently it works because I am talking with a publisher and last year's NaNo should be out soon.

my plot fizzled about 36K last year, so I decided that aliens came and abducted everyone, that got me at least another 20K and apparently it works because I am talking with a publisher and last year's NaNo should be out soon.

Haha, congrats. Last year's NaNo fizzled out at about 38,000... before I finished it, like I said, at about 75,000. It's a satire about publishing based heavily on an experience I had with literary agents. I'm in the revision process of the story now and will be sending it out, hopefully to get published. I did not have a friendly time when I tried to get an earlier novel published.

This year's submission takes an internet craze and spins it around a bit.

my plot fizzled about 36K last year, so I decided that aliens came and abducted everyone, that got me at least another 20K and apparently it works because I am talking with a publisher and last year's NaNo should be out soon.

Jesses, I don't waste a single thought about getting mine anywhere near published.. uh. But congrats on the success of yours! Mind sharing details, like, title and such?

blarg, I have fallen horribly behind and I cannot get back up.
I should be at at least 10K, but am stuck at six.
just haven't been feeling well lately.
Blarg.
(we need a blarg smily.)

blarg, I have fallen horribly behind and I cannot get back up.
I should be at at least 10K, but am stuck at six.
just haven't been feeling well lately.
Blarg.
(we need a blarg smily.)

Nah, I think what we need is a blarg soundfile as I have no real idea what is sounds like (foreigner, here).

Umm.. [insert pep talk here]

By the way, Smunkee, you were a true inspiration; I found my heroine a depressed clown with paranoia coming on as a stranger she picked up on a bus stop and she's been having a fantastic conversation with him for the last half an hour or so. This guy'll be a great plot enrichment, and I'm loving the way they talk! The dialogue incentive is on you..:)

I passed 12K just now...

...I've basically started OFF with having everybody abducted by aliens.

Oh, and I had twenty one nubile young women walking around stark naked for an entire chapter and mentioned the word "naked" only once. I think editing this is going to be fun, but I must get it all out there first. ^"^

I think I might be able to catch up today.
I just have to relax really hard for the next half-hour, drink several cups of coffee, and then try and write 4-5 thousand words in a day, and fit in homework and the grading I do for money.

I had to take a bit of a break for a silly thing called a psych midterm, but other than that, things are going great.

I hit 30k :D

Oh, and I had twenty one nubile young women walking around stark naked for an entire chapter and mentioned the word "naked" only once.

Oh, does your excerpt come with pictures..? ;)

Oh, does your excerpt come with pictures..? ;)
As a compromise between the desire to frustrate you and the desire to please such an avid reader, I have excerpted a section involving one nubile young naked woman talking about sex and engaging in intense personal activity with an alien male.

^_^ It is, of course, completely non-pornographic, and is not illustrated. Check it out, you should know my screenname. I daresay it's not half-bad, although I'm going to have to go over everything with a fine toothed comb in NaNoEdMo.

As a compromise between the desire to frustrate you [...]
Oh, I like you too. :)
and the desire to please such an avid reader, I have excerpted a section involving one nubile young naked woman talking about sex and engaging in intense personal activity with an alien male.
I'd have preferred matters to stay within the nubiles, but you can't always get what you want, eh? ;)

Off to read, back to comment later.

oh, not doing great guys, I let my mom (who is dense btw) read my novel so far and she said "I think I know how this will end" and she guessed correctly, my twistyness untwisted :(

quick! random plot twist! I need it...........NOW!

oh, not doing great guys, I let my mom (who is dense btw) read my novel so far and she said "I think I know how this will end" and she guessed correctly, my twistyness untwisted :(

quick! random plot twist! I need it...........NOW!

Hijacked by Russian timetravellers?

Hijacked by Russian timetravellers?

:p :eek: :D

you sir are a genius!

:p :eek: :D

you sir are a genius!

Well, obviously... :D

I am, however, mainly looking for ways to procrastinate... I've been putting off doing NaNoWriMo for years, now - and I almost got sucked in this year... but, it's too late, now, and I have no ideas, and I don't think I really want to...and... and... and... I can't believe Inez just came out and admitted it...and... gosh, is that the time?

Well, obviously... :D

I am, however, mainly looking for ways to procrastinate... I've been putting off doing NaNoWriMo for years, now - and I almost got sucked in this year... but, it's too late, now, and I have no ideas, and I don't think I really want to...and... and... and... I can't believe Inez just came out and admitted it...and... gosh, is that the time?

actually Inez is not the problem.......she is the solution, or she would be if she could communicate at all.

actually Inez is not the problem.......she is the solution, or she would be if she could communicate at all.

Who says she doesn't communicate? She is clearly communicating - it's just that she doesn't seem to be bound by the same rules of communicative cause-and-effect that the rest of us enjoy. :)

Who says she doesn't communicate? She is clearly communicating - it's just that she doesn't seem to be bound by the same rules of communicative cause-and-effect that the rest of us enjoy. :)

LOL she was praying through the rosary this morning, it was hilarious....I think that most people don't get where I am going with that character, but it's pretty typical for people to gloss over and fail to understand the point of my novels. I got a call back from an editor on last year's a few days ago, she said it was very deep and very shallow at the same time and she couldn't figure out if she was reading stuff into the manuscript, so we ended up talking about my book for about an hour.......she ended the call saying "you are either very intelligent or slightly insane" to which I replied "can't I be both?"

LOL she was praying through the rosary this morning, it was hilarious....I think that most people don't get where I am going with that character, but it's pretty typical for people to gloss over and fail to understand the point of my novels. I got a call back from an editor on last year's a few days ago, she said it was very deep and very shallow at the same time and she couldn't figure out if she was reading stuff into the manuscript, so we ended up talking about my book for about an hour.......she ended the call saying "you are either very intelligent or slightly insane" to which I replied "can't I be both?"

:D I think the best literature SHOULD be both deep and shallow at the same time. Half of the 'text' is no creation of the author, after all - but the relationship between author and reader. You get out of it what you put in.

The only risk with the Inez character, I think, is that a lot of people are lazy readers. If you make them work for it, they'll either skip the whole section, or they'll skim it one time. I blame Hollywood, with it's 'story-telling-for-dummies' approach to the audience. :(

:D I think the best literature SHOULD be both deep and shallow at the same time. Half of the 'text' is no creation of the author, after all - but the relationship between author and reader. You get out of it what you put in.

The only risk with the Inez character, I think, is that a lot of people are lazy readers. If you make them work for it, they'll either skip the whole section, or they'll skim it one time. I blame Hollywood, with it's 'story-telling-for-dummies' approach to the audience. :(

yeah, she doesn't speak to others often, there are whole chapters of her thoughts to herself, and her observations of others, in her head everything is right, well, almost right, but when it comes to trying to talk.......everything is just mixed up.

Off to read, back to comment later.
I look forward to your review. I probably won't have another productivity surge like that for another couple days, my writing is clearly hit and run.

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Well, obviously... :D

I am, however, mainly looking for ways to procrastinate... I've been putting off doing NaNoWriMo for years, now - and I almost got sucked in this year... but, it's too late, now, and I have no ideas, and I don't think I really want to...and... and... and... I can't believe Inez just came out and admitted it...and... gosh, is that the time?

You are writing. Or should be. Get to producing, bucko.

Hijacked by Russian timetravellers?

It is time for you to accept that not every novel can be about hijacking Russian timetravellers.. (I love how one can construct double-meaning sentences like that in English).
P.S. Hooray, Uncle Gravy's in the thread! My life hasn't been pointless after all :P

I look forward to your review. I probably won't have another productivity surge like that for another couple days, my writing is clearly hit and run.

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I wanted to edit it right in, but then I was distracted..so here goes:

Impressions in chronological stream-of-consciousness order (I'm reading and posting more or less simultaneously):

Like the title. :)
Her name's Katie. *lol. His name's Ofer. *überlol. There's.. cats? I was thinking earthling and aliens so far.. okay, cats. Fine. First paragraph, by the way, I know that from somewhere. Realization hit me when it was [..] been coated in vomit [..]- that was in that other paragraph I'm referring to, too. Do you, by any far chance, know what I'm talking about- because I, for one, don't remember where exactly it's from. Anyway. Like the way you described O.'s limited abilities. Umm.. I don't understand a thing here. I liked it so far, but I'm confused. Is this somehwere at the beginning, and you do this backwards-style where we get to listen to someone recapitulate events and we understand more and more as it goes on?

You are writing. Or should be. Get to producing, bucko.

Ah. Errrr... I was, and then my dog ate my homework. No - there was an earthquake. Tidal wave?

That's it - I was on a train, and these nine invisible ninjas came crashing in through the window...

It is time for you to accept that not every novel can be about hijacking Russian timetravellers.. (I love how one can construct double-meaning sentences like that in English).
P.S. Hooray, Uncle Gravy's in the thread! My life hasn't been pointless after all :P


Yay! Oeck in one of the blink-or-you-miss-it flybys :)(Yes... Half the reason I want to be a writer, and almost all of the reason I want to be a poet *smiles*).
If Smunkee wants to hijack timetravellers, she should be allowed to. :)

Gravy, if you go back to writing your novel and go line up a publisher after it's done, Santa Max might just come to down and stuff your stocking with a foreword. So get back to work before J. starts really cracking the whip on you.
Her name's Katie. *lol. His name's Ofer. *überlol. There's.. cats? I was thinking earthling and aliens so far.. okay, cats. Fine. First paragraph, by the way, I know that from somewhere. Realization hit me when it was [..] been coated in vomit [..]- that was in that other paragraph I'm referring to, too. Do you, by any far chance, know what I'm talking about- because I, for one, don't remember where exactly it's from. Anyway. Like the way you described O.'s limited abilities. Umm.. I don't understand a thing here. I liked it so far, but I'm confused. Is this somehwere at the beginning, and you do this backwards-style where we get to listen to someone recapitulate events and we understand more and more as it goes on?
Right now "cat" is being used as the generic term for one variety of alien. "Dog" and "rabbit" are the other two generic terms. I'll figure out exactly what to do with it during NaNoEdMo. (I'll probably also re-sequence the novel a bit.)

This is actually about 40 pages in right now, and everything that Katie describes in that paragraph has already happened for someone reading straight through, but I do start in the thick of things and go in both directions chronologically through a combination of description, recounting, and narration. Chronologically speaking, Katie's just about up to where the novel starts with Joseph and the cyborg, only on a different thread for the moment.

Yay! Oeck in one of the blink-or-you-miss-it flybys :)(Yes... Half the reason I want to be a writer, and almost all of the reason I want to be a poet *smiles*).
If Smunkee wants to hijack timetravellers, she should be allowed to. :)

I am totally honest when I say I am keeping that idea, if this plot dies out at 36K like last year's did Russian Timetravelers are the new "we got abducted by aliens" I swear to bob.

Gravy, if you go back to writing your novel and go line up a publisher after it's done, Santa Max might just come to down and stuff your stocking with a foreword. So get back to work before J. starts really cracking the whip on you.


Oy... the pressure mounts, and it looks like the Hand of Mod and even 'higher powers' are bearing down upon me. Plus, the enticing prospect... I mean, terrifying concept... of being whipped to within an inch of my life by Jojo. :D

Slave to the grind, me.

I am totally honest when I say I am keeping that idea, if this plot dies out at 36K like last year's did Russian Timetravelers are the new "we got abducted by aliens" I swear to bob.

Ooooh - and it works with Inez, too. Not 'crazy', just 'sideways'. :o

Ah. Errrr... I was, and then my dog ate my homework. No - there was an earthquake. Tidal wave?

That's it - I was on a train, and these nine invisible ninjas came crashing in through the window...
I so totally saw that! But you gotta admit it was über-awesome how that wormhole in the sideboard swallowed them whole and you got off without a scratch and even propelled backwards in time for a few minutes just enough to make up for the time lost in shock?

Yay! Oeck in one of the blink-or-you-miss-it flybys :)(Yes... Half the reason I want to be a writer, and almost all of the reason I want to be a poet *smiles*).
If Smunkee wants to hijack timetravellers, she should be allowed to. :)
I've been telling you for ages better not to blink. Now there's a quality man :)
It looks like she's more considering the conservative version..*sulks*

Right now "cat" is being used as the generic term for one variety of alien. "Dog" and "rabbit" are the other two generic terms. I'll figure out exactly what to do with it during NaNoEdMo. (I'll probably also re-sequence the novel a bit.)
Shit, here goes my excitement at actual cats being in there. I always quite fancied the idea of surveillance cats.

This is actually about 40 pages in right now, and everything that Katie describes in that paragraph has already happened for someone reading straight through, but I do start in the thick of things and go in both directions chronologically through a combination of description, recounting, and narration. Chronologically speaking, Katie's just about up to where the novel starts with Joseph and the cyborg, only on a different thread for the moment.
I see. I think. And if not, I'll just hijack time and start again.

I so totally saw that! But you gotta admit it was über-awesome how that wormhole in the sideboard slawwoled them whole and you got off without a scratch and even propelled backwards in time for a few minutes just enough to make up for the time lost in shock?


Wow, you actually saw that? See! I have witnesses! Of course - logically, you shouldn't remember, what with the backwards propelling and all...


I've been telling you for ages better not to blink. Now there's a quality man :)
It looks like she's more considering the conservative version..*sulks*


Nah - that's just Smunkee's way. She's a clever one :)

Wow, you actually saw that? See! I have witnesses! Of course - logically, you shouldn't remember, what with the backwards propelling and all...
Nah, it was *you* who got propelled backwards; I was, uh, riding my magic cat and therefore not affected?

Nah, it was *you* who got propelled backwards; I was, uh, riding my magic cat and therefore not affected?

'Riding your magic cat'? *must resist must resist must resist*

'Riding your magic cat'? *must resist must resist must resist*

Don't corrupt my innocence now. *nods*

Just to, umm, stay on topic, I'm trying hard to add to my novel-to-be as I'm procrastinating on here anyway, and I'm currently at a proud 14 160 as far as the OO wordcount goes. I hope to hit 15k by the time I have to head off for my next class (yeah, that's in..50 minutes..a girl can dream.)

Nah - that's just Smunkee's way. She's a clever one :)

clever enough to fool you :fluffle:

Right now, Gravy and I are long on ideas and short on writing. It's partly because we've spent far too much time on NS. Darn Max and his forums.

Don't corrupt my innocence now. *nods*

Just to, umm, stay on topic, I'm trying hard to add to my novel-to-be as I'm procrastinating on here anyway, and I'm currently at a proud 14 160 as far as the OO wordcount goes. I hope to hit 15k by the time I have to head off for my next class (yeah, that's in..50 minutes..a girl can dream.)
Yes - but we know the sort of things 'a girl' dreams about... *shock*
Of course, I would hate to corrupt your innocence. When did you get that, then? :o

I'm still debating whether or not to commit myself to a NaNoWriMo fling on top of my other literary commitments, and already-insanely-busy life. Hmmm.

Yes - but we know the sort of things 'a girl' dreams about... *shock*
Of course, I would hate to corrupt your innocence. When did you get that, then? :o

I'm still debating whether or not to commit myself to a NaNoWriMo fling on top of my other literary commitments, and already-insanely-busy life. Hmmm.

you could cheat, write what you are originally writing only pick up the word count goals.

That's what my mom is doing, she rationalizes it that she is writing a novel within her novel. ;)

clever enough to fool you :fluffle:

Argh... braintwist. Fool me = not clever, then. Clever enough to fool me = clever. Fool me, therefore = clever. So... clever enough = not clever. So...

Ow.

*crosseyed*

Argh... braintwist. Fool me = not clever, then. Clever enough to fool me = clever. Fool me, therefore = clever. So... clever enough = not clever. So...

Ow.

*crosseyed*

VICTORY!

I knew I was twisty!

you could cheat, write what you are originally writing only pick up the word count goals.

That's what my mom is doing, she rationalizes it that she is writing a novel within her novel. ;)

I'm already way too committed... half a dozen established projects, two others at or near completion, another two collaborations - and that doesn't include the 'non-literary' stuff :o

The problem is... the bane of my existence... the curse under which I suffer... I now (having put the moment of thought into it) have two (new)characters and a story arc vying for space in my head.

*curses NaNoWriMo*

Yes - but we know the sort of things 'a girl' dreams about... *shock*
Of course, I would hate to corrupt your innocence. When did you get that, then? :o
You do? Which 'girl' spilled the secret? *up in arms*
Oh, we import them from Lithuania. Relatively cheap now since the EU-expansion and OTC.

I'm still debating whether or not to commit myself to a NaNoWriMo fling on top of my other literary commitments, and already-insanely-busy life. Hmmm.
Well, this is *not* a debate forum, so please take that elsewhere. You may return with your novel anytime once you're through with it, though. :)

Right now, Gravy and I are long on ideas and short on writing. It's partly because we've spent far too much time on NS. Darn Max and his forums.

I think there might be a subtle hint in here somewhere, if I could just put my finger on it..

VICTORY!

I knew I was twisty!

Think "Labyrinth", where Sarah puzzles out which door leads to the castle...

Think "Labyrinth", where Sarah puzzles out which door leads to the castle...

I never got that, my husband explains it to me everytime but I still don't understand.

my freaking kid gets it.........but I am like "uh.... it's not fair!"

You do? Which 'girl' spilled the secret? *up in arms*
Oh, we import them from Lithuania. Relatively cheap now since the EU-expansion and OTC.

"up in arms", indeed... but whose arms?*more shock*
I stand corrected, then. I shall attempt not to further corrupt any recent innocences you may have happened upon. So to speak.


Well, this is *not* a debate forum, so please take that elsewhere. You may return with your novel anytime once you're through with it, though. :)

I stand abashed, also. Or, maybe I stand bashed.

I never got that, my husband explains it to me everytime but I still don't understand.

my freaking kid gets it.........but I am like "uh.... it's not fair!"

You say that so often. I wonder what your basis for comparison is. ;)

(Of course, the real twist of that film, is that she needn't actually have got lost in the maze, at all... indeed, she is given the 'solution' before she even takes her first faltering steps...)

I think there might be a subtle hint in here somewhere, if I could just put my finger on it..

You have to admit that this idea has real potential if we can just find a way to get it on paper. Right now we know the story line itself even with an ending (which is where I always fall down). I have excellent ideas of where to take the story for the plot to flesh out. You have some great ideas of how these places should appear in order to get the proper amount of depth to the story. You have some excellent twists and turns to keep it interesting. It really seems like we have everything but words and you know where those come from.

You have to admit that this idea has real potential if we can just find a way to get it on paper. Right now we know the story line itself even with an ending (which is where I always fall down). I have excellent ideas of where to take the story for the plot to flesh out. You have some great ideas of how these places should appear in order to get the proper amount of depth to the story. You have some excellent twists and turns to keep it interesting. It really seems like we have everything but words and you know where those come from.

Sunflowers? prevaricateprevaricateprevaricate

Sunflowers? prevaricateprevaricateprevaricate

Darn it, I was gonna say

Santa?

You say that so often. I wonder what your basis for comparison is. ;)

(Of course, the real twist of that film, is that she needn't actually have got lost in the maze, at all... indeed, she is given the 'solution' before she even takes her first faltering steps...)
It may help to remember that a labyrinth, in modern use of the term, differs from a maze in the following way:

A maze has branching twisty paths and dead ends. A labyrinth has a single winding path for you to lose yourself in.

Darn it, I was gonna say

Santa?

Yay! Even better! I've been ever so good, this year - bring me words!

It may help to remember that a labyrinth, in modern use of the term, differs from a maze in the following way:

A maze has branching twisty paths and dead ends. A labyrinth has a single winding path for you to lose yourself in.

sounds like the inside of my head

It may help to remember that a labyrinth, in modern use of the term, differs from a maze in the following way:

A maze has branching twisty paths and dead ends. A labyrinth has a single winding path for you to lose yourself in.

Indeed, she makes her own route. :)

(Hoggle even tells her the 'right way', but she's just not ready to listen... great movie.)

Indeed, she makes her own route. :)

(Hoggle even tells her the 'right way', but she's just not ready to listen... great movie.)

yep was a great movie

P.S., I've never seen the film. ^_^

P.S., I've never seen the film. ^_^

You really should. It's one of those things where you can pick what you want to get out of it, depending on how hard you want to work. :)

You really should. It's one of those things where you can pick what you want to get out of it, depending on how hard you want to work. :)

very true, hubby and I watch it and get tons of deep converstation topics, the 5 year old gets the message of "life isn't fair, so quit whining and do something" and the 3 year old gets "where you going with a head like that?!"

LOL

second best Saturday afternoon movie time choice ever

(first goes to Princess Bride)

very true, hubby and I watch it and get tons of deep converstation topics, the 5 year old gets the message of "life isn't fair, so quit whining and do something" and the 3 year old gets "where you going with a head like that?!"

LOL

second best Saturday afternoon movie time choice ever

(first goes to Princess Bride)

head like that :)

very true, hubby and I watch it and get tons of deep converstation topics, the 5 year old gets the message of "life isn't fair, so quit whining and do something" and the 3 year old gets "where you going with a head like that?!"

LOL

second best Saturday afternoon movie time choice ever

(first goes to Princess Bride)

As you wish. ;)

Personally, I think Bowie singing tips the balance. "The Last Unicorn" is a good third choice... and another 'deep-as-you-want-to-look' one.

"Nightmare Before Christmas" and "Corpse Bride" are both promising contendors, also.

Indeed, she makes her own route. :)

(Hoggle even tells her the 'right way', but she's just not ready to listen... great movie.)

Plus, as has to be mentioned, Jennifer Connelly. (For the record, she's older than me, so I was allowed to be in love with a girl that age when she made the movie.)

That movie was so fun. I loved some of the creatures in it.

Plus, as has to be mentioned, Jennifer Connelly. (For the record, she's older than me, so I was allowed to be in love with a girl that age when she made the movie.)

That movie was so fun. I loved some of the creatures in it.

*Sigh* A crush I never got over. She's the one girl on 'my list' (you know, that couple thing, where you pick like 5 famous people...?). Fell in love with her in Labyrinth... fell in love all over again in Dark City.


'Allo!

Did you say 'hello'?

No, I said 'allo, but that's close enough....

As you wish. ;)

Personally, I think Bowie singing tips the balance. "The Last Unicorn" is a good third choice... and another 'deep-as-you-want-to-look' one.

"Nightmare Before Christmas" and "Corpse Bride" are both promising contendors, also.
I don't do Tim Burton......he creeps me out.

I think the song at the begining of Labrynth and the one at the end of Princess Bride........are just way too cool to compete with eachother.....

I think maybe both tie for first.


Plus, as has to be mentioned, Jennifer Connelly. (For the record, she's older than me, so I was allowed to be in love with a girl that age when she made the movie.)

That movie was so fun. I loved some of the creatures in it.

My husband had 3 crushes growing up

Jennifer Connelly, Jodie Foster (freaky friday days), and Paula Abdul

one of these things is not like the other.......

he still likes Jodie, but now it's more of a 'I like her movies' (or that's what I tell myself)

I don't do Tim Burton......he creeps me out.

I think the song at the begining of Labrynth and the one at the end of Princess Bride........are just way too cool to compete with eachother.....

I think maybe both tie for first.




My husband had 3 crushes growing up

Jennifer Connelly, Jodie Foster (freaky friday days), and Paula Abdul

one of these things is not like the other.......

he still likes Jodie, but now it's more of a 'I like her movies' (or that's what I tell myself)

Jennifer Connelly, Paula Abdul and Janet Jackson for me. Only Jennifer survives to this day. Beautiful and talented so I'd like her even if I weren't shallow.

my crushes growing up cant think of them

Jennifer Connelly, Paula Abdul and Janet Jackson for me. Only Jennifer survives to this day. Beautiful and talented so I'd like her even if I weren't shallow.

Never flipped for Paula, and was never a Janet fan. Pretty much Jennifer Connelly all the way for me. :) Oh - and maybe Phoebe Cates (of "Gremlins" and "Drop Dead Fred" fame).

back on topic..............

I am heading out tonight to a write in, it's 3K words or you don't get to leave.

I hope I get to leave, I have to work tomorrow.


and here is my pretty banner thingy (they are trendy on the NaNoWriMo boards)

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a10/angstypen/smunkee.jpg

back on topic..............

I am heading out tonight to a write in, it's 3K words or you don't get to leave.

I hope I get to leave, I have to work tomorrow.


and here is my pretty banner thingy (they are trendy on the NaNoWriMo boards)

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a10/angstypen/smunkee.jpg

How did you make the banner?

I, uh, never heard of that movie, none of the names you mentioned ringed a bell, so...

I didn't quite manage 15k, I'm at an honorable 14.8k and I think now (it's close to 11pm) that's not going to change much anymore.. *hears bed calling for her*

How did you make the banner?

it's a commissioned peice (my friend made it on photoshop for me)

I truly wish that any of mine made sense.

The truth is, that I'm scared to go back and read any of it. I might just die with how bad, senseless, ridiculous, impossible etc it is.

*my novel* :mp5:

I truly wish that any of mine made sense.

The truth is, that I'm scared to go back and read any of it. I might just die with how bad, senseless, ridiculous, impossible etc it is.

*my novel* :mp5:

a) No gun smileys.

b) It's only the seventh day and therefore not the second week yet, so you may not despair at this moment. Wait till tomorrow :)

*sets time*

7 hours and counting :p

*sets time*

7 hours and counting :p

That's the spirit ;)

Hah, I managed to get a short break from life this morning and finally crossed the 15k line- celebration is in order.

*places huge bowl of chocolate-y goodies in the thread*

Help yourselves. :)

Hah, I managed to get a short break from life this morning and finally crossed the 15k line- celebration is in order.

*places huge bowl of chocolate-y goodies in the thread*

Help yourselves. :)

Yay! My breakfast cereal this morning looked like little teddy bear smily faces.

Teddyheads > chocolate goodies.

Yay! My breakfast cereal this morning looked like little teddy bear smily faces.

Teddyheads > chocolate goodies.

Stole some from littly sonny boy, did you? ;)

This reminds me of how I used to have cold cuts with smiley faces worked into them via differently colored meat when I was a kid... great stuff! *wanders off to find linky link to a picture on the Almighty Web*

Something very much like this (http://images.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http://www.tmeyer.de/img/baerchen.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.tmeyer.de/bl/%3Fcat%3D7&h=400&w=400&sz=15&hl=de&start=3&tbnid=m0YFu73Vb-xPxM:&tbnh=124&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3Db%25C3%25A4rchenwurst%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Dde%26lr%3D%26sa%3DG)

Stole some from littly sonny boy, did you? ;)

This reminds me of how I used to have cold cuts with smiley faces worked into them via differently colored meat when I was a kid... great stuff! *wanders off to find linky link to a picture on the Almighty Web*

Something very much like this (http://images.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http://www.tmeyer.de/img/baerchen.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.tmeyer.de/bl/%3Fcat%3D7&h=400&w=400&sz=15&hl=de&start=3&tbnid=m0YFu73Vb-xPxM:&tbnh=124&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3Db%25C3%25A4rchenwurst%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Dde%26lr%3D%26sa%3DG)


Oh - I've eaten that meat-type thing. :)

And, yes - I stole baby boy's breakfast. He seemed quite happy to share. :)

(Here is a picture of the breakfast I was 'half-inching'... there's another of those little England phrases... http://www.shopnatural.com/product/12419.jpg)

Just for you - here's a little of the pre-edit flavour text from the 'project':

As though walking backwards away from a window, Mike watched the sun-filled airport recede and fade. Suddenly, the world was just one wall in a big, dark room. A picture on a wall. A postage stamp. A dot in the distance... and... nothing. The last traces of the sunlight bathing the city gone, no more thn a memory.

A feeling of wightlessnes. No - not weightless, more like... falling. But, falling so slowly. Drifting down like snow, a gentle descent. Almost hypnotic. No sense of surprise, yet. No panic, and no shock. It was almost like a dream.

Thinking about it, Mike decided this 'dream' idea was the most likely explanation. Some dreamstate... some imagining, or confusion. The alternative was that he and Eric had somehow tripped over the edges of reality, and were falling in a timeless, spaceless void. That was a good point... the thought of Eric provided a kind of anchor. It might not be much, but if he could just work out where Eric was, he'd have some kind of a reference point... one small reference point, in a vast confusion..

Looking around, he spotted Eric lying face down, just an armslength away. Face down... lying. There was another reference point. If Eric was lying, he must be lying on something.

So.

So... the blackness around him must actually be two blacknesses - a blackness above, and a blackness below. In fact - he could almost resolve the difference. A black 'sky', devoid of features, and a glassy black ground beneath them.

He reached towards his motionless friend.

"Eric... you're really not going to believe this..."


:)

Oh - I've eaten that meat-type thing. :)
Yeah, I must/should have put that in the past tense, too (in case I didn'); if it's unbecoming of a vegetarian to eat things that formerly had bowel movements, it's even more unbecoming of them to eat something that smiles at them.

(Here is a picture of the breakfast I was 'half-inching'... there's another of those little England phrases...
And you never failed to explain any of the previous ones ever so meiculously, so what's this one, now?

[Just for you - here's a little of the pre-edit flavour text from the 'project':]
-snip-

Oooooh! Wordy object! [I have just been informed by my friend that 'wordy' has a negative connotatio or even definition to it. I refuse to believe such militant propaganda and herewith proclaim it to mean nothing else than "consiting of, or relating to, words".
I'm so honored. If you would now excuse me while I haul this one back into my den to safe-store it for future unforeseeable excerpt draughts?


P.S. Anybody else just read the new Chris Baty message? 20k words by tomorrow.. aha..ahaha..ahahaha. This might have enormous potential for comic value if it weren't so sad. If any of you (and I warn you, I shall know) passes said threshold by tomorrow, expect a real bunch of those "kick me" stickies by me :]

P.S. Anybody else just read the new Chris Baty message? 20k words by tomorrow.. aha..ahaha..ahahaha. This might have enormous potential for comic value if it weren't so sad. If any of you (and I warn you, I shall know) passes said threshold by tomorrow, expect a real bunch of those "kick me" stickies by me :]

I also saw his signature stating he was at 8400 words. Hehehe.

I could pass it by tomorrow... if I weren't busy and promising myself not to NaNo until Saturday so I can get other stuff done.

I also saw his signature stating he was at 8400 words. Hehehe.
I wondered whether that was the truth or whether he put that in order to publicly fraternize with, and encourage, the slower ones.

I could pass it by tomorrow... if I weren't busy and promising myself not to NaNo until Saturday so I can get other stuff done.

*checks your profile*

You want to write 5k in one day? Whoosh.

Yeah, I must/should have put that in the past tense, too (in case I didn'); if it's unbecoming of a vegetarian to eat things that formerly had bowel movements, it's even more unbecoming of them to eat something that smiles at them.


I tried that vegetarian thing once... I really did. But the argument of 'bacon' was just too overwhelming. :)

My philosphy now is closer to "vegetables are great... for food to EAT".

Nonetheless, the idea of food that smiles back is somewhat unnerving.


And you never failed to explain any of the previous ones ever so meiculously, so what's this one, now?


'Half-inch' is derived from 'pinch', which is used as a phrase for taking or stealing. Not sure how common 'pinch' is... even less sure how common 'half-inch' is. Could just be an East-End-of-London thing. :)


Oooooh! Wordy object! [I have just been informed by my friend that 'wordy' has a negative connotatio or even definition to it. I refuse to believe such militant propaganda and herewith proclaim it to mean nothing else than "consiting of, or relating to, words".
I'm so honored. If you would now excuse me while I haul this one back into my den to safe-store it for future unforeseeable excerpt draughts?


Poor little story, dragged away to a cave somewhere for later munching. :(

:D

I tried that vegetarian thing once... I really did. But the argument of 'bacon' was just too overwhelming. :)
Eww, bacon.

Nonetheless, the idea of food that smiles back is somewhat unnerving.
Which is why I cannot figure out for the life of me how people can eat whole fish, you know, with the head on and all, or those piglets with the head and stuff all 'intact'.


Poor little story, dragged away to a cave somewhere for later munching. :(
:D
As long as it doesn't smile... I'll have to call the electrician and cancel that light-installing thing he was about to do, lest I see it..

... so this isn't about posting your work, but just writing it out and recording the word count?

... so this isn't about posting your work, but just writing it out and recording the word count?

No, what this is actually all about is procrastinating under the holy veil of socializing with other NSers under the poor disguise of discussing alternative plots.. or something.. and there's chocolate chip cookies!

..oh, you meant NaNoWriMo, not the thread. Uh, well.

No, that is all about writing your novel during the allotted time slot and motivating yourself by updating and comparing your wordcount and quick glances at the deadline... you can share excerpts on your profile (like Smunkee and TJHairball apparently did), and there's sharing at the live meetings as far as I understand it (nobody meets in sparsely WriMo-populated Germany, at least not around here), and many people contact publishers around the possibiities of NaNoWriMo contacts etc. - but no, at the very website itself you don't post your (entire) novels. It's a place to get you started and help you through actually doing it, but not the place to put it up at in the end.

No, what this is actually all about is procrastinating under the holy veil of socializing with other NSers under the poor disguise of discussing alternative plots.. or something.. and there's chocolate chip cookies!

..oh, you meant NaNoWriMo, not the thread. Uh, well.

No, that is all about writing your novel during the allotted time slot and motivating yourself by updating and comparing your wordcount and quick glances at the deadline... you can share excerpts on your profile (like Smunkee and TJHairball apparently did), and there's sharing at the live meetings as far as I understand it (nobody meets in sparsely WriMo-populated Germany, at least not around here), and many people contact publishers around the possibiities of NaNoWriMo contacts etc. - but no, at the very website itself you don't post your (entire) novels. It's a place to get you started and help you through actually doing it, but not the place to put it up at in the end.
...

well... there was a fanfic series I was writing...

:cool:

...

well... there was a fanfic series I was writing...

:cool:

Well..you weren't supposed to have written anything that belongs to the very text you want to make count towards the 50k goal in advance (read: before November), but in case you can identify/crate an isolated, single piece that you didn't work on before (even though you may hvae created the context before; let's say you'll be writing a new episode or whatever it's called in he series), you're game for NaNoWriMo.. you know where to sign up, and where to boast about your fabulous work.. ;P

Well..you weren't supposed to have written anything that belongs to the very text you want to make count towards the 50k goal in advance (read: before November), but in case you can identify/crate an isolated, single piece that you didn't work on before (even though you may hvae created the context before; let's say you'll be writing a new episode or whatever it's called in he series), you're game for NaNoWriMo.. you know where to sign up, and where to boast about your fabulous work.. ;P
it's a series... so I can write one story/set of stories as long as it's new... right?

it's a series... so I can write one story/set of stories as long as it's new... right?

absolutely.

a friend of mine is working on the third book in a series all of them for NaNoWriMo, but each a seperate book (just the same characters)

absolutely.

a friend of mine is working on the third book in a series all of them for NaNoWriMo, but each a seperate book (just the same characters)

Great!

*digs for notes for book TWO... book one being written about two YEARS ago... *:p


but where to post em?

any suggestions?

Oh - I've eaten that meat-type thing. :)

And, yes - I stole baby boy's breakfast. He seemed quite happy to share. :)

(Here is a picture of the breakfast I was 'half-inching'... there's another of those little England phrases... http://www.shopnatural.com/product/12419.jpg)

Just for you - here's a little of the pre-edit flavour text from the 'project':



:)

I wanted to post that part so people could see our different styles. I really like that segment.

I wanted to post that part so people could see our different styles. I really like that segment.

Shucks. *blushes* I had to post it, after being so sweetly petitioned by the lovely Oeck. :)

I wondered whether that was the truth or whether he put that in order to publicly fraternize with, and encourage, the slower ones.



*checks your profile*

You want to write 5k in one day? Whoosh.
I wrote 7K on Tuesday, and that day I was busy away from home from 7:30am to 8:00 pm.

My life is filled with many busy and interesting things. I'm writing my novel in the cracks between the empty spots in a rather sporadic fashion.

I decided not to sign up an instead write on hadisveja.

it's a series... so I can write one story/set of stories as long as it's new... right?
Absolutely. So.. your username would be...? ;)

Shucks. *blushes* I had to post it, after being so sweetly petitioned by the lovely Oeck. :)
*blushes* I just had to, after being so sweetly seduced by the lovely Jocabia..;P

I wrote 7K on Tuesday, and that day I was busy away from home from 7:30am to 8:00 pm.

My life is filled with many busy and interesting things. I'm writing my novel in the cracks between the empty spots in a rather sporadic fashion.
Uh. I'm somewhat scared now, but I'm currently telling myself that that's okay. :)

P.S. Seeing how this thread had slipped way too far into oblivion, I had to forumsearch it and hit last year's NaNoWriMo thread (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=450994) while I was at it.. So, anybody who participated that year and is NOT in this thread, too- will you please appear in droves and tell us you're doing it this year too as last year was such a blast..?

P.P.S. I refuse to believe that I knew about this last year already. Really, I do. I'm 100% sure I've never heard of it before this thread now. :confused:

*blushes* I just had to, after being so sweetly seduced by the lovely Jocabia..;P


I might have known.. as usual, it's ALL Jocabia's fault... :D

I might have known.. as usual, it's ALL Jocabia's fault... :D
Did I ever tell you how I got an A in Blame Deflecting and Guilt Shifting in Contemporary Societies last semester? ;P

I am so behind it's pathetic, I think I wrote like 300 words yesterday (if that).

I have way too much to do this weekend to write....like an uber important test Saturday....that I think I am going to fail, that I can't re-take, that I know I am going to fail.

:(

I am hoping to pick up a few thousand words today........my story is getting too far ahead of itself so it will probably mostly be fluff........that's okay, I can edit out all the crap later, or maybe I will fluff it up with useful to the plot crap.

Oh, btw, this mega big outline I did in December? it's useless.

I am so behind it's pathetic, I think I wrote like 300 words yesterday (if that).

I have way too much to do this weekend to write....like an uber important test Saturday....that I think I am going to fail, that I can't re-take, that I know I am going to fail.

:(

I am hoping to pick up a few thousand words today........my story is getting too far ahead of itself so it will probably mostly be fluff........that's okay, I can edit out all the crap later, or maybe I will fluff it up with useful to the plot crap.

Oh, btw, this mega big outline I did in December? it's useless.


Well - if the test is so important.. shouldn't you be focusing on that? I mean - NaNoWriMo is nice, but 'real' world' issues just might have to intrude over wordcount, no?

Not that I'm trying to discourage you - I think when you 'hit your stride' again after this little burst of excitement, you can put yourself back on track. In the meantime - you can use the 'downtime' to explore some other ideas in your head, without committing yourslf to them on the page. That way - if you try three ideas in your head, and drop two... your word count doesn't jump up and down, but you do have fresh concepts when you hit the books later.

Did I ever tell you how I got an A in Blame Deflecting and Guilt Shifting in Contemporary Societies last semester? ;P

:o

You said that wasn't you!

Well - if the test is so important.. shouldn't you be focusing on that? I mean - NaNoWriMo is nice, but 'real' world' issues just might have to intrude over wordcount, no?

Not that I'm trying to discourage you - I think when you 'hit your stride' again after this little burst of excitement, you can put yourself back on track. In the meantime - you can use the 'downtime' to explore some other ideas in your head, without committing yourslf to them on the page. That way - if you try three ideas in your head, and drop two... your word count doesn't jump up and down, but you do have fresh concepts when you hit the books later.

yeah, I am pretty sure I am going to fail the test regardless of what else is going on though.......my brain is fried.

yeah, I am pretty sure I am going to fail the test regardless of what else is going on though.......my brain is fried.

Well, if you've written it of, I suppose, it can't be helped.

But then, if you cram... might you not scrape by?


If you really have decided 'screw the test', then wave it byebye now and stop worrying. Spend your time instead on some new twist for your story... maybe a character who is sure the building is empty, and is petrified that he/she keeps getting moved around and manhandled by ghosts/aliens...

Well, if you've written it of, I suppose, it can't be helped.

But then, if you cram... might you not scrape by?


If you really have decided 'screw the test', then wave it byebye now and stop worrying. Spend your time instead on some new twist for your story... maybe a character who is sure the building is empty, and is petrified that he/she keeps getting moved around and manhandled by ghosts/aliens...

it's a hard test, I forgot until yesterday that I had to take it tomorrow, there is no amount of cramming in the world that could make me pass it, either I know it or I don't, and while I think I know most of it, I am pretty sure it's not enough

*reaps what she sows*

:(

it's a hard test, I forgot until yesterday that I had to take it tomorrow, there is no amount of cramming in the world that could make me pass it, either I know it or I don't, and while I think I know most of it, I am pretty sure it's not enough

*reaps what she sows*

:(

Prayer? :(

Prayer? :(

gotta be.

gotta be.

I hate that feeling when something 'bad' is going to happen... especially, something you might have been able to avoid if you'd known sooner, maybe...

At times like this, I envy you.

I hate that feeling when something 'bad' is going to happen... especially, something you might have been able to avoid if you'd known sooner, maybe...

At times like this, I envy you.

my problem is I have been putting off the test all year, and this is my last chance to take it this year... I probably should have gotten over it earlier and just failed in June when I got the chance.

I won't find out for 3-4 weeks how I did officially but I will post tomorrow night and let you guys know exactly how horrible it was.

my problem is I have been putting off the test all year, and this is my last chance to take it this year... I probably should have gotten over it earlier and just failed in June when I got the chance.

I won't find out for 3-4 weeks how I did officially but I will post tomorrow night and let you guys know exactly how horrible it was.

gotta be positive Smunkee! you'll do fine!

Good Luck! :fluffle:

my problem is I have been putting off the test all year, and this is my last chance to take it this year... I probably should have gotten over it earlier and just failed in June when I got the chance.

I won't find out for 3-4 weeks how I did officially but I will post tomorrow night and let you guys know exactly how horrible it was.

Come on, Smunkee. Chin up, girl.

You know you are our superstar. We have all kinds of faith in you. :)

Come on, Smunkee. Chin up, girl.

You know you are our superstar. We have all kinds of faith in you. :)

it would probably help if I wasn't listening to depressing music....darn Jakob Dylan is feeding my mood.

-snip snip snippy-.

Oh girl, get over it. Now. Either you quit the whining and get yourself together and cram what you can for the next [inset amount of hours left here] and get yur energy focussed on the belief you can, and if only just, make it; or you quit the whining and admit that you failed to do anything for it, are not ready and will never be ready in time and then disconnect yourself from that project and leave it behind, emotionally and energetically.

You are a goddamn adult, so you go and pick one of those choices, but don't wallow around in whining here.

Oh girl, get over it. Now. Either you quit the whining and get yourself together and cram what you can for the next [inset amount of hours left here] and get yur energy focussed on the belief you can, and if only just, make it; or you quit the whining and admit that you failed to do anything for it, are not ready and will never be ready in time and then disconnect yourself from that project and leave it behind, emotionally and energetically.

You are a goddamn adult, so you go and pick one of those choices, but don't wallow around in whining here.

you know my husband said the same damn thing to me about 10 minutes ago.....you aren't much fun.

you know my husband said the same damn thing to me about 10 minutes ago.....you aren't much fun.

You ain't exactly a rush of joy right now either.. so move ahead now; and if I'm allowed to give some partial advice, then please move into the direction labelled "getting my ass down and my head up and get as ready as possible for the exam". At least give it that infamous best shot.

You ain't exactly a rush of joy right now either.. so move ahead now; and if I'm allowed to give some partial advice, then please move into the direction labelled "getting my ass down and my head up and get as ready as possible for the exam". At least give it that infamous best shot.

thanks to you I promptly postponed my pity party and studied a LOT, I think if I can keep some of the info crammed jammed or otherwise stuck where I put it in my head I might squeak through........

I reserve the right to another pity party in 3-4 weeks if the test doesn't go well........but this time with chocolate and better music.

thanks to you I promptly postponed my pity party and studied a LOT, I think if I can keep some of the info crammed jammed or otherwise stuck where I put it in my head I might squeak through........

I reserve the right to another pity party in 3-4 weeks if the test doesn't go well........but this time with chocolate and better music.

You go, girl :) :shakehands:

Now I'll keep my fingers crossed (mentally, you know how bitterly I need them to type now) and keep us posted on how it went whenever you know something. Oh, and, uh, share the chocolate.


I only squeezed in a couple hundred words yesterday while at uni; theplan was to have a writing splurge in the evening but then a friend called and the night was properly spent and so.. I better get to write some today! :energy:

it's kind of funny that the person who started this thread (Me) is now severely behind. I've only got 9000 words, and I'm hoping to hit 10000 before I go to bed, but I don't know if I can really make that happen.

Any positive encouragement here, please?

it's kind of funny that the person who started this thread (Me) is now severely behind. I've only got 9000 words, and I'm hoping to hit 10000 before I go to bed, but I don't know if I can really make that happen.

Any positive encouragement here, please?

Ah no, that's not 'funny', that's a given. Thread-srtarters per definition are the procrastinators; why else would you start a thread in NSG for? ;P

Positive encouragement..umm,you've still got 20 days left to catch up at your own pace; your lower wordcount most probably means that you still ahve lots of room left to have your characters go all kind of different way, while at 17k things are pretty defined already (or so they say.. mine is still swinging all kinds of ways) so you are in creative advantage, and you'll ahve the weekend now to really hit the eyboard and catch up some?

I'm not going to make it this year. Sonuvabitch.

=\

I'm not going to make it this year. Sonuvabitch.

=\

Not true... unless you make it so. I realise that the NaNoWriMo deadline is a third of the way towards us, but the 'month' is fairly arbitrary, as is the wordcount.

They could have said 100,000 words in a month, and some people would still do it - you just have to pop out enough words in the time that remains.

Now - if you only have two days left, and 50,000 words to write... that might be a tall order. :)

Not true... unless you make it so. I realise that the NaNoWriMo deadline is a third of the way towards us, but the 'month' is fairly arbitrary, as is the wordcount.

They could have said 100,000 words in a month, and some people would still do it - you just have to pop out enough words in the time that remains.

Now - if you only have two days left, and 50,000 words to write... that might be a tall order. :)

I'm not going to make it. I know I'm not. I have other writing projects to deal with and this one...just isn't flying as high as I thought the storyline would. I'm more than perfectly able to write a fifty thousand page novel--that's nothing to me. I've more than doubled that in one story. It's just...I don't feel like writing this. It's...not interesting..this year.. or something. I don't know. I need to pull more all nighters, I suspect. My writing comes more freely when I have no sleep whatsoever.

;)

I'm not going to make it this year. Sonuvabitch.


[...]this one...just isn't flying as high as I thought the storyline would. [..] It's just...I don't feel like writing this. It's...not interesting..this year.. or something. [...]
I don't know. I need to pull more all nighters, I suspect. My writing comes more freely when I have no sleep whatsoever.

Decide, now; is it because you feel you will not be able to (because of some sort of block or time constraints or whatev), or because you don't feel like it / don't want to? You're giving mixed messages here.

If it is the former, then I side with Uncle Gravy and say that nothing ain't decided yet and you just gotta keep on trying- the biggest part of it, after all, is really having tried it and crossed that threshold of sanity that'd usually keep you from things like this. If you honestly kept trying and putting a real effort into it and end up 30k, I think you've een more of a NaNoWriMo than the one who half-heartedly managed to churn out 50k in 20 days and never had to push themselves beyond that sanity level.

If it is the latter, then, well, I suggest trying beyond the second-week milestone, and then really give it up if it doesn't get better. This si not exactly the kind of thing that gets you anywhere if you're only trying half-assedly.

I am leaving to take "the test" as it's being called around here, it's a 4 hour test and no breaks, I have to sit for all sections if I fail one section I fail the whole thing and will have to re-take it in June..... so if you guys are praying people.......pray......if not send good thinking vibes in my general direction.

The proctor called to remind me that I need 4 #2 pencils because we are not allowed to sharpen them and mechanical pencils are not allowed so I have to stop by the store on the way......

anyway.....:eek: I'm scared.

I am leaving to take "the test" as it's being called around here, it's a 4 hour test and no breaks, I have to sit for all sections if I fail one section I fail the whole thing and will have to re-take it in June..... so if you guys are praying people.......pray......if not send good thinking vibes in my general direction.

The proctor called to remind me that I need 4 #2 pencils because we are not allowed to sharpen them and mechanical pencils are not allowed so I have to stop by the store on the way......

anyway.....:eek: I'm scared.

dont be scared
if its to be, its to be as i say to myself
yes i may be the only one who knows what iam saying it my saying after all

I am leaving to take "the test" as it's being called around here, it's a 4 hour test and no breaks, I have to sit for all sections if I fail one section I fail the whole thing and will have to re-take it in June..... so if you guys are praying people.......pray......if not send good thinking vibes in my general direction.

The proctor called to remind me that I need 4 #2 pencils because we are not allowed to sharpen them and mechanical pencils are not allowed so I have to stop by the store on the way......

anyway.....:eek: I'm scared.

Thoughts are with you, Smunkee. I'm not the praying kind, plus I'm sorta skeptical about this whole outsourcing craze.. so I'll just send you the requested good vibes personally, and I'll add this incredibly funny flavour of vanilla pudding mixed with cactus läkerol (http://www.lakerol.com) to be teleported to you too, it's the perfect talisman.

Seriously, you go and kick some ass. Or stab some ass, with these pencils of yours. Best of luck from Germany landing in 3..2..1..

I am leaving to take "the test" as it's being called around here, it's a 4 hour test and no breaks, I have to sit for all sections if I fail one section I fail the whole thing and will have to re-take it in June..... so if you guys are praying people.......pray......if not send good thinking vibes in my general direction.

The proctor called to remind me that I need 4 #2 pencils because we are not allowed to sharpen them and mechanical pencils are not allowed so I have to stop by the store on the way......

anyway.....:eek: I'm scared.*Bakes cookies for Smunkee when she returns.*

you studied, you are going to do your best...

my prayers are with you :fluffle:

P.S. NaNo WordCount tells me I'm at exactly 18.700 now; I do hope very much that I'll get the 20k this weekend. Looking forwards my new and shiny second black line on my progress report (http://www.nanowrimo.org/NanowrimoUtils/ProgressReport/159549.html).. :]

Anybody being struck by the supposed 2nd-week depression yet? Or is everyone still dancing through their novels..

just got home from "the test" I am pretty sure I passed 2/3 of it......the remaining third happened right about when my brain started oozing out of my ears......but I might have squeaked by.

I find out in about a month. Expect a celebration thread if I passed.

P.S. NaNo WordCount tells me I'm at exactly 18.700 now; I do hope very much that I'll get the 20k this weekend. Looking forwards my new and shiny second black line on my progress report (http://www.nanowrimo.org/NanowrimoUtils/ProgressReport/159549.html).. :]

Anybody being struck by the supposed 2nd-week depression yet? Or is everyone still dancing through their novels..
I couldn't work for half this week. Too busy. >_> Time to get cracking, methinks.

just got home from "the test" I am pretty sure I passed 2/3 of it......the remaining third happened right about when my brain started oozing out of my ears......but I might have squeaked by.

I find out in about a month. Expect a celebration thread if I passed.

*Hands Smunkee a slice of Ice Cream Cake.*

http://www.gourmetfoodmall.com/merchants/Bubbie01/5.jpg

you did your best. and if you didn't make it, as you said, there is a next time. ;)

Just wanted to say I'm back to work and back on track! Spent a couple hours and knocked out another 2,000 words. Just crossed the 17,000 word line.

I may get a bit more done tonight, but I thought I'd upload my word-count while it was still the 11th to be honest about it.

just got home from "the test" I am pretty sure I passed 2/3 of it......the remaining third happened right about when my brain started oozing out of my ears......but I might have squeaked by.

I find out in about a month. Expect a celebration thread if I passed.

You be sure we celebrate with you, then! For now .. hit the keyboard and write it all off your, what so you say.. heart? Soul? Umm.. if you were German, you'd write it off your soul.. but the, being the US-American you are, all it is is probably a load off your mind, and/or you'll get it off your chest, which is so very much less spectacular than our soul-thingy..;P

Just wanted to say I'm back to work and back on track! Spent a couple hours and knocked out another 2,000 words. Just crossed the 17,000 word line.
Yeah, I can hear you breathing behind me again. ;P

I may get a bit more done tonight, but I thought I'd upload my word-count while it was still the 11th to be honest about it.

Being the nighthawk I am (at least in Anglo-Saxon languages; in German, I'm still a nightowl ), that happens to me a lot, that I forget to upload in the middle of it and then end up with a meager few hundred words for the one day when I had a coupleof minutes somehwere, and the bulk is counted towards the next day.. so my day-to-day wordcount is slightly skewed.

Yahoo, made the 20k! Will be off to celebrate and play funny games with flatmates now :]

Never mind that I didn't do a single scrap for uni the whole weekend. All is good.

I wouldn't have imagined I'd be procrastinator enough to search YouTube for NaNoWriMo (oh who am I kidding), but this is the absolutely coolest thing.

Check out the one and only NaNoWriMo ad! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQo4AcfrsIo)

And, umm, do I see someone posting a sort of video blog of themselves writing their NaNo? :eep:

still sitting here under 15K :(

I should pick up some writing later in the week, but I keep thinking back to 'the test' overthinking my answers to questions trying to figure out if I got them wrong or not.....

I hate myself sometimes.

still sitting here under 15K :(

I should pick up some writing later in the week, but I keep thinking back to 'the test' overthinking my answers to questions trying to figure out if I got them wrong or not.....

I hate myself sometimes.

Aww now, that's okay. You'll have caught me, for one, soon again as I have imposed a writing ban on myself until I get all of this uni work which accumulated for nearly two weeks done. Coveniently, this happens as I have a major plot problem.. heh.

Oh, and get your adult side out again and convince yourself that there's nothing you can do now in hindsight and stop mulling it over. That's an order, ma'am. :]

Writing will help you move away from reviewing the test problems in your mind.

Just crossed the 20K line. I'm finding that when I have trouble moving Joseph forward, it's easy to talk about Katie, and when Katie gets stuck, it's easy to just go back to Joseph.

I don't know what I would do if I had been trying to write this from a single perspective.

Writing will help you move away from reviewing the test problems in your mind.

Listen to the wise man, because his words are..uh.. wise? ;P

Just crossed the 20K line. I'm finding that when I have trouble moving Joseph forward, it's easy to talk about Katie, and when Katie gets stuck, it's easy to just go back to Joseph.

I don't know what I would do if I had been trying to write this from a single perspective.

Probably get stuck in plot morasses, procrastination hysteria and devastation like us ordinary people ;P

I wrote an entire children's story this morning. It took me about fifteen minutes. That'll teach my girlfriend not to challenge me.

How is everyone doing in the quest to get to a novel?

between work, sick kids, sick husband, broken laptop (I fixed it myself....GO ME! of course I also broke it myself.... shame)

I haven't written much. If my babysitter doesn't end up in the hospital I might get some work done Saturday. Tonight after dinner hubby and I are going to work on our novels for a while, if we don't get bored and decide to go to a movie. LOL

I wrote an entire children's story this morning. It took me about fifteen minutes. That'll teach my girlfriend not to challenge me.

How is everyone doing in the quest to get to a novel?

Uh. Help. Too bad YouTube doesn't have the CTD's 'Overachiever' or I'd have linked you..

I'm fine-ish; lagging about 2k behind because I took 2 days off, but I'm working on it :] I think both my coherence and my continuity made a dash for it after around page 11, but we manage quite alright without them ;P

How's the duo coming along?

It's now halfway through the month. Time's a-ticking.

I'm finding I'm starting to get behind a bit. It's not that I've run out of plot - it's that I've started to get hooked back in to my old time-wasting habits, preventing me from working on my novel.

It's now halfway through the month. Time's a-ticking.

I'm finding I'm starting to get behind a bit. It's not that I've run out of plot - it's that I've started to get hooked back in to my old time-wasting habits, preventing me from working on my novel.
Yeah, I caught up some yesterday, using the free time on my hand after being kicked out of a class, but I'll probably not get to write any more than a thousand or so words this weekend.. my ass starts to seriously be in trouble.

P.S. Smunkee, I only cursored over the other thread, whatever it is, hope you get well soon :]

How's the duo coming along?

It hasn't been. The storms last week killed my DSL connection, and when they finally repaired it, it turned out it had also fried my DSL modem.

I'm back online now, but I haven't had any time to do anything. :(

I'll probably not get to write any more than a thousand or so words this weekend.. my ass starts to seriously be in trouble.

Umm, update: it's the evening of the 20th for me, and I'm at 26.6 so far.. I never managed to write more than an hour this weekend, and I have the sinking feeling it's not going to be much more today.. uh.
It hasn't been. The storms last week killed my DSL connection, and when they finally repaired it, it turned out it had also fried my DSL modem.

I'm back online now, but I haven't had any time to do anything. :(
Aww, damn. Off you go now, then, to work some more on it! *gently shooes UG out of the thread and into the arms of the project*

Umm, update: it's the evening of the 20th for me, and I'm at 26.6 so far.. I never managed to write more than an hour this weekend, and I have the sinking feeling it's not going to be much more today.. uh.

Keep at it! You can do this!

Keep at it! You can do this!
Thanks. I'm doing my best here, and I'm more than determined to make it this year, but I still need to fill in the last of my four fill-in-the-blanks grammar sheets on the progressive and conditional (I feel so 5th grade here, but that's what you get for trying to become an English teacher) and I fear that today..

.. but I just received an email that one of my classes tomorrow is cancelled, so there's hope. Is what I say. Now.

It's 8 pm now and my progress report says
Current word count: 26676 (53.35 %) with 10 days left, with current pace, expected to finish in 18 days.
I shall now set out to change that depressing number- talk to you again at midnight.

It's 8 pm now and my progress report says

I shall now set out to change that depressing number- talk to you again at midnight.

blech, with my current pace I will finish in 41 days.........how sucky is that?!

I might not finish this year, freaking kids and their propensity for flu-like symptoms....

blech, with my current pace I will finish in 41 days.........how sucky is that?!

I might not finish this year, freaking kids and their propensity for flu-like symptoms....

Keep at it! You can do this!

..even though I am not a good shining role model with the not even 2k words I wrote yesterday...

..even though I am not a good shining role model with the not even 2k words I wrote yesterday...
I need to average 3K a day if I'm to finish on time. I'm trying anyway.

I need to average 3K a day if I'm to finish on time. I'm trying anyway.

The very same here. And I'm very much determined that I'll make it.

http://www.nanowrimo.org/
It's in three more days (Wednesday) and I'm definitely going to crank one out this month. Last time I tried, I only heard about it halfway through, and only got about a third of the way before giving up. This time there will be no surrender.

nothing can be prewritten, and you have to get an average of 2,500 words in a day to make it happen.

I'm doing a sci-fi in a setting with medium tech (No transporters, replicators, etc) and an all alien cast (trying to get away from the human-centrism in scifi, and it lets me make my aliens a bit more individual, rather than just a member of their species.)

Is anyone else participating, and what are your ideas for a novel?

There's a minimum word count? Shit! I thought it was something much different. I've already finished my book and it's only about 16,000 words.

There's only 6 days left to this gig; when will it repeat so that I may catch it from the beginning? Is it safe to assume that this is an annual event that will happen next year at this time? :confused:

There's only 6 days left to this gig; when will it repeat so that I may catch it from the beginning? Is it safe to assume that this is an annual event that will happen next year at this time? :confused:

the official official National Novel Writing month is in November of each year, but if you go register and get on the forums you will find people who write a novel every month. There is a group starting one again in December.