Subject: Man, I remember my NaNo days...
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Posted on: 2012-10-16 00:02:00 UTC
I always got to 50k, but it was 50k words of crap so...
Anyway. I dunno if I'll have the time, but I still get in a huge-ass writing project every year (just not in one month and not in November). So yup.
Good luck to all of you marathon writers!
So, I finally took the time to glance at my calendar, and I noticed that holy goodness, it's October!
This means that NaNoWriMo is less than a month away!
I tried to participate in it a few years back, but I missed the deadline by about three weeks and over 1,300 words.
I might try for it again this year and see if I can't pull it off this time. Hey, I might even go for an award, who knows?
Anybody else excited about the upcoming, internet-wide event, or San I just a blabbering fanboy?
As of today, I am now an active member of NaNoWriMo again.
If anybody wishes to find me, my user handle is SpecstacularSC, and I have posted a full except of my story to be read at one's leisure.
Enjoy, and see you in ten days!
This will be my fourth year of NaNoWriMo-ing. I haven't lost yet, and I don't intend to this year, either!
Although I'm still working on finishing my novel from last year. I want to get that story done before starting a new one.
I also have no idea what this year's is going to be about, but, hey, that's never stopped me before!
This is only my second, and I'm still looking to even finish the 50K in time.
But, if I planned it right, I should end up finishing my novel and getting it up just about halfway through the month, I think.
If not, meh. The novel I'm working in is a serious project that I've been working on for years anyhow, I'm seeing it through to the end.
Good luck to you!
I always got to 50k, but it was 50k words of crap so...
Anyway. I dunno if I'll have the time, but I still get in a huge-ass writing project every year (just not in one month and not in November). So yup.
Good luck to all of you marathon writers!
And may our hands not blister too severely from the typing!
I've been doing NaNoWriMo since 2006, and I've never actually managed to finish yet. This year, I'm taking four classes, working part-full-ish time, and writing for the school newspaper.
...But I refuse to cede the game! I'm almost done with a shortish story that came along, about a courier and an emperor, and I think the emperor's backstory might make a good NaNo - I don't know what happened at all, so there's no plot yet besides a Vizier who's not evil, several Council members who are... ambitious, and at least one civil war.
I'll probably make it to halfway through the year and then explode. They'll find a puddle of words and a herd of scattering plot-bunnies in the middle of the campus one day, and that'll be the end of it.
Until then, though, We NaNoers, who are about to write, salute you!
I'm getting saluted now? Wait, what?
Well, in the name of good sportsmanship, just remember that if your fate occurs as you say it will, I will be obligated to dance on your crater and laugh at you.
Nothing personal, just... You know. I have a trollololololol quota to fill.
And also good luck.
Whoooo, here we go again. I only discovered the madness that is NaNoWriMo last year and I am sad to say my story fell through. It was plot that was destined for short-storyhood, something I only discovered after the first ten thousand words. Thankfully, I have a plot that looks like it will survive my bouts of writers block, procrastination, and midnight inspiration. Praise the month of coffee and hand cramps from typing too much!
I-ju-G-wha-You-
Well!
Are notebooks and trash binds overflowing with crumpled paper no longer involved in this worship?
Not that that's how my month goes. I'm just saying, don't exclude the old time classics!
Don't worry, my school agenda is already crammed with notes about plot and little snippets of scenes.
I'm definitely doing it this year, mostly because I've got a great story idea that I can't wait to write, but also because my one friend who got me into it will kill me if I don't. Last year was my first year and I fell short by about 5k, but by the end of the month I had lost all semblance of plot and I had no idea where I was going. Hopefully this year will be better; I actually have all the plot details planned out this time!
You and me, both.
Here's hoping you, if nothing else, make the deadline. I know I'm sure as heck in for a rush to finish.
As I see I am not simply a blabbering fanboy, I shall disclose my idea.
So for a few years, now, I've been privately tossing a story about on my head that's kind of like Hellsing meets Magical Girl meets-
Don't kill me, it's better than it sounds, I made sure of that.
Anyhow, the story is about a teenager named Simon Bellamay who, once upon an eighteenth birthday's eve, gets unceremoniously attacked by demons, and in order to protect his life, he is forcefully knighted into an order of demon slaying paladins who have secretly existed since the days when mankind was little more than a bunch of warring tribes.
It's gritty and action packed, with some sarcastic humor here and there, and it will count as the first real draft of this story.
If I might shamelessly plug a quote:
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"Ave, Maria," Simon whispered in awe as he beheld the impossibly detailed and beautiful statue of the winged princess.
Maria looked over at her commander quizzically. "I'm right here, Simon," she said.
"G- Shut up, Maria," Simon snapped.
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So? Thoughts?
Hmm.....
"Demon-slaying powers, Make Up!" sort of thing? Because that sounds inhumanely funny.
Well, in a sense.
The sudden change from clothes to armor is similar, but minus the vocalization. It's more like Kingdom Hearts: The keyblade just shows up when Sora wants it to.
Likewise: Simon's armor and weapons show up when he wants them to.
The explanation there is that the equipment is kept in an armory that is enchanted with a special kind of summoning magic that makes it so that the users can simply will their equipment to them, making it so that they can't be caught off-guard and unprepared as easily.
A for the other typical magical girl stuff: there's no calling of attacks, but they are big and flashy, and everybody wields a unique weapon of some variety with magical properties. And everybody knows magic in some fashion - even magically-inept Simon.
Also: oh gods, the mental image. Oh gawd. Simon in a sailor fuku whyyyyyyyy
Go ahead, try to live everything down, Simon.
I had no idea this existed. Let's see... Magical Girls are pretty much my favorite thing, so perhaps some kind of magical girl story? I've always liked the idea of a really stereotypical, RAINBOWS AND FRIENDSHIP, magical girl who ends up in a world of modern-day-ish comic superheroes. Ideas, Ideas...
Whaaaaaaaaat?! How could you not have known about NaNoWriMo, you poor Boarder?!
(Actually, I didn't know about either for a while...)
I would usually be in for this sort of thing. I never make a very good showing, but I have participated for three years now. This year, though, I don't have any novels that particularly scream to be written, at the moment. I think I will put aside my noveling for the year and work on other projects instead.
For instance: I have a couple of plays that have been in my head for a while. Maybe I will get a start on one of those.
-Derrick
It's never fun missing out on NaNoWriMo.
Ah, well. You win some, you lose some, or something like that, right?
I'm already making notes. Crazy notes, but notes. And I'm rolling in plot ideas already.
Hey, if you need it, toss a holler my way and I'll pitch in some ideas for consideration.
I'm going to try. This year I'm doing something for serious which... I just hope it turns out. It's kind of the foundation of a series of novels that currently only exist in my head.
But on the other hand, bad stuff happens and I don't want to write it... because I really don't want to suck at showing people how bad the bad stuff was and how there isn't any easy way back. I mean, this event is kind of the foundation of the personality of one of my characters... and my attitude to editing is to either run a SPAG and bad logic flow check or to go whole hog on how many syllables a sentence has...
You and I are way more alike than you realize in that regard, man.
Best of luck to you! Here's hoping you at least make the deadline, if nothing else!
Considering I'm being paid forty bucks to write crack slashfic? I'm in. I'm very in.
Ah, those were some fun days in my childhood.
Batman/Legolas. Which is something I've been threatening around here for a long time.
I still have decided what I'll do, though. Either comedy about vampire or horror about faries.
So, the works, then? :3
Hey, it sounds like you're on about the same road I am, me with my Demonslayer story and you with your silly vampires/scary fairies.
I tried it last year and managed to get up to around 27,000 words before my computer crashed and wiped my file out. There was much crying and swearing on my part.
This year I'm sure to hit the mark! YEEEEEUH, BRING IT, OPEN OFFICE!
Right? Me, I just flat ran out of time before I could get the whole story on there.
And there was much self-ridiculing!
BOO.
(PS: yup, I'm mass-replying. Kind of in a chatty mood. Feel free to kick grots at my face (RIESE.) if it gets too crazy.)
Good! Keep feeling chatty, your opinions are interesting!
Oh. Well then.
Shameless link-to-story plug: http://specstacularsc.deviantart.com/art/Iris-Travels-Homecoming-328719288
(Because HTML is impossibru.)
But how long did it take you to get 27k words, young padawan? :3 16.2 days? (Crying and swearing is definitely reasonable, though. SCREW CRASHED COMPUTERS >:C)
Yesss, do that! Betcha can't do it faster than I'm planning to, I'm going to try for 5k a day until I hit 50k and then see how much farther I can go before I plow head-first into a wall and break my metaphorical nose.
Uhm, sommat like seventeen to twenty days. I had one day where I managed a seven thousand word spurt, and then the count varied between six hundred and six thousand. (Why must you follow a schedule? It's more fun to wing it!)
Ah, I'll be too busy writing to compete with y'all. Maybe at the end we can compare word counts, though!
My plan is at least 5-7 k on weekends, at least 4 k per day on thanksgiving break (that will be averaged, because we're going to the grandparents' and there will be no typing there with two toddlers and a dog...) and then at least 3 k on normal days.
How it's probably going to happen is: First weekend = like 12-15 k. Thanksgiving break: like 15 more K. On regular days... about 1 k if I'm lucky.
Hopefully my more realistically undershot expectations will squeak me by. :)
I'm definitely doing it this year, like I have since 2006. I want to manage my 5k-a-day speed from last year's Week One, but this time I want to extend it for another three days and finish on day 10 just to prove I totally can. Who needs quality, I've got QUANTITY! And just enough momentum that the brain-weasels are left futilely shrieking in my wake as I zoom off into the sunset. In November I don't have time for criticizing myself, it's seriously the best month of the year...
My only goal? Completing the damn thing this time.
But yes. For anybody who says that we literary nerds are unrecognized and unappreciated in the world of today, November would like to prove to you otherwise.
How did my phone auto-correct "am" to "San"?