NaNoWriMo

Stupot · Wed 31/10/2007 18:38:36

Only five and a half hours to go.
I'm not optimistic about how dedicated I'm going to be, but I'll only regret it if I don't at least start it.
So as soon as it turns 12 I'm gonna try and bash out 1667 words without thinking about it, and then read it back in the morning and realise how crap it was.

[Edit]
I have a bad habit of ignoring the existence of time zones... Of course for some people it already is Nov 1st.
Apologies if you live outside the GMT timezone.

[Edit 2]
Woah... did anyone see that?
The AGS blue turned to turquoise... I wonder if this is the beginning of a new colour scheme ('color' for our American friends).

Tuomas · Wed 31/10/2007 22:33:38

Yes we saw that like a month ago. And hmm, I'll have to start thinking of a tubject to write upon and quickly, 33 minutes of my time is already wasted. Oh well, I'll see to it on sunday then! Good luck everyone!

Obi · Wed 31/10/2007 23:35:23

I'm going to enter and it's going to be the best homoerotic robotic love story ever.

Stupot · Thu 01/11/2007 00:57:29

Quote from: Obi on Wed 31/10/2007 23:35:23
I'm going to enter and it's going to be the best homoerotic robotic love story ever.

Mine has an Indian guy who's pick-up line is "Do you wanna see my robot?"

He's based on a real guy I met in Japan... He was such a man-whore, but he was so naive about it, it was sickening... he didn't seem to realise that most normal guys get shy.

voh · Thu 01/11/2007 11:00:33

I'm starting now

rubywaves · Thu 01/11/2007 15:06:04

I'm only 100 words in, and already I want to edit the whole thing.

Must ignore mental editor who criticizes my every word... editing is for after the piece is written... every first draft sucks, it's a fact...

[A few minutes later...]

Hey, I just created a surprise beginning for my story. I think I'll just forge ahead and ignore all mistakes until December.

Stupot · Thu 01/11/2007 23:29:17

Yeh I'm gonna try and do that... My brain tells me to to change something but it's best to ignore it for this exercise otherwise we'll be forever tweaking and won't get anywhere near the target.

Pelican · Thu 01/11/2007 23:42:47

1722 words so far. Wonder how long I'll keep that up?

Tuomas · Fri 02/11/2007 00:38:14

Hopefully long, since that's not quite enough yet

Though it's 1722 more than what I have

Domino · Fri 02/11/2007 00:48:16

I hired Stephen King to write mine for me. Hoping to have my winning novel back soon.

I wish i could write a novel...I might be able to come up with one page on my own and that is about it.

I used to write short stories in my teen days, but i don't think i can do that any more, even though i have a great imagination.

Good Luck to everyone.

Baron · Fri 02/11/2007 01:25:46

Only 49846 words to go! Unfortunately, I seem to have hit a bit of a mental block

Stupid no-alcohol for a year....

...............

Alright, back to the manuscript.

Grundislav · Fri 02/11/2007 02:08:58

Well, I wrote the first chapter. I have no title and no idea how to flesh out the story, but I feel confident that it'll all come together somehow.

1,092 down, 48,908 to go!

InCreator · Fri 02/11/2007 02:55:47

It's weird to write something based on word count.
If you have a good story, number of words used should have nothing to do with it.

Isn't writing creative process? This one here sounds like Soviet 5-year plan, where specified amount of potatoes had to be planted or machine parts produced.

Strange.

Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens · Fri 02/11/2007 11:14:04

I have entered as of today (Nov 2), and 3 hours later I have 3,018 words of fantasy-style action-adventure!

voh · Fri 02/11/2007 11:50:25

I'm at 2015, all written yesterday. I'm working on a minimum of 1667 words a day, so I'm on schedule so far

nihilyst · Fri 02/11/2007 13:00:53

Quote from: InCreator on Fri 02/11/2007 02:55:47
It's weird to write something based on word count.
If you have a good story, number of words used should have nothing to do with it.

Isn't writing creative process? This one here sounds like Soviet 5-year plan, where specified amount of potatoes had to be planted or machine parts produced.

Strange.

You see what it's good for. People write. If they reach the 50,000 or if they don't ... who cares? I always found it to be an accelerator for my creativity, if I have some kind of goal to reach.

voh · Fri 02/11/2007 14:08:19

To me, nanowrimo is a way of forcing creativity. Even if I end up with only 20.000 words worth of utter crap, I've still honed my skill somewhat. One thing which has already been mentioned is the endless thoughts concerning editing.

Nanowrimo isn't about writing something good. It's simple about writing at all.

And for that I'm thankful, because last year's nanowrimo gave me some good ideas for stories.

It's like 24 hour comics. The point is not to create a comic which is awesome, but to create 24 pages within 24 hours.

It's good practice

LGM · Sat 03/11/2007 00:26:38

I'm also partaking this year. Last year I only got to about 8,000 words but alot of them were good words. This year I'm only at about 1,500 so far but I feel like I can at least get half-way if I stick my mind to it. It doesn't help that I have about three papers to write by the 16th, but whatever. I shall perservere.

Anyone interested can watch my site for updates. I will be posting what I write each day in full, so if you're interested in the writing process, or just how badly I write, then check it out: http://www.aedmark.com/nano

FSi++ · Sat 03/11/2007 05:45:20

2105 and counting!
PDFs of my uninterrupted flow of consciousness available soon

Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens · Sat 03/11/2007 09:21:13

10,130 in just over one day (from 12 am yesterday to 1:30 am today). Yeehaw, it's russlin' time at the word ranch!