So that little thing called NaNoWriMo is coming up again......

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Hukos	So that little thing called NaNoWriMo is coming up again......	Lead	[-]
Posts: 1252 (10/26/2009 7:19 PM) Up the Irons! \m/ Spam Protection Agent Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	http://www.nanowrimo.org/ Honestly, I've never done it before, but a friend of mine on another forum dragged me into it, and I've seen this announcement get posted up here before, so I figured, why not? XD I already have my idea planned out, got a lot of free time, just gotta have the motivation to get 2k words a day! @_@ Just wondering who else is getting in on this, if any. Links to participating MoFo novels (in alphabetical order) Craig Bayfield - "Grief" ~~Hukos - "(untitled as of right now)~~" Rapidfire - "School Daze I" Shadowed Spirit Sage - "Confessions of a Combat Waitress" SilverShadow - "Beyond The Sky" ~~Swanson - "Edit The Sad Parts"~~ My dA page! Go and rate some poems plz. Last Edited By: Shadowed Spirit Sage 11/12/2009 5:30 PM. Edited 4 times.
Rapidfire the Hedgehog		#1	[-]
Posts: 1231 (10/26/2009 7:49 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I have theoretical plans to get to it. However, it will be an uphill task this year, for my docket also includes two senior theses. Reasonably plowing through the word count per day will be...an interesting prospect, to say the least. At least I have my ideas prepared. I think, just as Craig did last year, it'd be encouraging for those of us participating to put up our works-in-progress in Carny Isle.
Hukos		#2	[-]
Posts: 1253 (10/26/2009 8:15 PM) Up the Irons! \m/ Spam Protection Agent Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Eh, I'm not too confident in my skills as a writer, this is a mostly "for-fun" thing for me. Only thing I post there would be my own poetry (Speaking of that, I'm still working on that epic poem.....). Still, be awesome to do this alongside other MoFo'ers. My dA page! Go and rate some poems plz.
Dirk Amoeba		#3	[-]
Posts: 3052 (10/26/2009 9:22 PM) Woon Socket Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I will be doing it again, as always. I have successfully completed it six times. I know I say this every year, but this time I really think I might not be able to make it. Schoolwork is really intense this year. I think anyone can do this. It just takes motivation, fortitude, and a certain recklessness. AMOEBA VISIT tawm.net. Reading my blog MIGHT make you a better person.
NelStone		#4	[-]
Posts: 773 (10/26/2009 9:31 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I've always wanted to try it (might motivate me to actually finish a story for once), but between school, work, and a general writer's block I've had all year, I don't think there's time.
tiggerkiddo		#5	[-]
Posts: 123 (10/26/2009 10:53 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Kind of already in the middle of writing one...and I can't really work on two so perhaps I'll...try to finish it in November?
Craig Bayfield		#6	[-]
Posts: 4523 (10/27/2009 12:49 AM) Kyon/John Smith Shipper Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	It's time, time, time, time, time... to write a book. To write a book. Gotta write the book on time! If you don't, you're gonna get in trouble! Time, time, time, time, to write a book--- ...write a book. I don't wanna do it again. I don't wanna do it aga--- looks at plot outline and the loose continuity crossover with Tricia's project DANG IT. NOT AGAIN! (Won my first two years, this will be my third)
Hukos		#7	[-]
Posts: 1255 (10/27/2009 7:01 AM) Up the Irons! \m/ Spam Protection Agent Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Well, technically all you need is 2k words a day to beat it, I can get that in a couple of hours of typing (Maybe less depending on how inspired I am). Oh well, I'll be trying to get this done. I'm sure it would be way more fun with the lot of us doing it =D My dA page! Go and rate some poems plz.
Silvershadow0		#8	[-]
Posts: 1575 (10/27/2009 10:00 AM) Tenna prena posteri dire Vertus narrel mea chorus Aude valde generous sana fiare actertis Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	In a shocking and surprising move, I too shall be joining the ranks of the NanNoWriMo participants this year. Ph33r.
Hukos		#9	[-]
Posts: 1257 (10/27/2009 10:21 AM) Up the Irons! \m/ Spam Protection Agent Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I am not frightened by your presence! Nothing can scare me! :O My dA page! Go and rate some poems plz.
darkwinguk		#10	[-]
Posts: 577 (10/27/2009 11:53 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Dirk Amoeba wrote: I think anyone can do this. It just takes motivation, fortitude, and a certain recklessness. And free time, and inspiration, and imagination, and a certain talent for writing... DW I am the terror that flaps in the night. I am the substantial and inescapable penalty for early withdrawal. I am Darkwing Duck!
Hukos		#11	[-]
Posts: 1258 (10/27/2009 12:31 PM) Up the Irons! \m/ Spam Protection Agent Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Technically you could just write 50k words of gibberish and you would have passed, it just wouldn't be any good My dA page! Go and rate some poems plz.
Dr Fexusfan		#12	[-]
Posts: 220 (10/27/2009 2:56 PM) The Good Doctor Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	8 inch floppy dugout seats are too much of a fuss including the initial petrol of paperwork boatraces. Pineapple would see 50 kinds of SEXY Kong are not good drumsticks. was this Arrows... not good GIF a human for an 80's clue I tell you Leghorn I have ears. Each station of the possible work becomes of the impulses in sleepdrunk of wheeeee of the chain of the proximity of the title of cakes of the cereal with censer more, to select uses the kingdom of Klingon. Debugging Canadian Seagull Collectibles of Infinite Decimal Places -- COMING SOON!! triple monkeys twice the pudding octopi for tango man. Very blender use cellular...scooter their daisyheads.
Silvershadow0		#13	[-]
Posts: 1576 (10/27/2009 3:04 PM) Tenna prena posteri dire Vertus narrel mea chorus Aude valde generous sana fiare actertis Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Ash Fox: Dr Fexusfan is doing NaNoWriMo? o__O Dr Lighthead: Yes Ash Fox: omg XD Ash Fox: I am intrigued and frightened. XD Dr Lighthead: Debugging Canadian Seagull Collectibles of Infinite Decimal Places -- COMING SOON!!
Swanson		#14	[-]
Posts: 539 (10/27/2009 4:23 PM) Herald of Galactus Spam Protection Agent Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I'm going for it, this will be my first attempt and as such will probably suck. But, I'm hopeful that I'll finish. Come on over to the mighiest forum alive Earths Mightiest and take part in the greatest adventure ever.
Dirk Amoeba		#15	[-]
Posts: 3053 (10/27/2009 4:35 PM) Woon Socket Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	darkwinguk wrote: And free time, and inspiration, and imagination, and a certain talent for writing... "Free Time" isn't so hard to come by. Just stop doing some things you usually do. Tell friends you can't hang out, play video games less frequently, write during your lunch time, get up an hour earlier than usual, watch less TV or fewer movies, spend a bit less time at this forum, or whatever. Every day you have to write 1667 words, which should take you somewhere between one and three hours. And you can do it in short bursts, just little bits at a time, or clear a block of space and do it then. I guarantee the time is there if you look for it. As far as inspiration and talent, those don't mean as much as people think they do. Granted, they can be a help, but getting the job done is more down to hard work. And as far as imagination is concerned, that's something everyone has but not everyone is accustomed to using. Which is one of the great things about NaNoWriMo: it puts you in touch with that creative part of yourself. But as I said, it takes hard work. AMOEBA VISIT tawm.net. Reading my blog MIGHT make you a better person.
Rapidfire the Hedgehog		#16	[-]
Posts: 1232 (10/27/2009 6:44 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Hukos wrote: Eh, I'm not too confident in my skills as a writer, this is a mostly "for-fun" thing for me. Only thing I post there would be my own poetry (Speaking of that, I'm still working on that epic poem.....). Still, be awesome to do this alongside other MoFo'ers. Now now, I'm sure you're downplaying how good you can possibly be. In any event, I suggested displaying our works in Carny Isle because, at least from my vantage point, reading and comparing others' material can be a striking source of inspiration. Not plagiarism, obviously, but there may be a particular turn of phrase in someone else's work that, once read, sticks in the mind and generates images that make for inspired literature.
Shadowed Spirit Sage		#17	[-]
Posts: 5685 (10/28/2009 7:40 PM) Grace under pressure Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I wholeheartedly agree with posting each novel in Carnival Island. Of course, if you genuinely don't want to, that's perfectly fine. But feeling self-conscious about your writing compared to other people is not a valid excuse in my opinion :3 I don't claim to be a writer at all, neither does Craig, but he and I are both planning on posting our progress. Why? Because there are few motivators stronger than knowing someone out there might actually be reading the words you spent hours spewing out into a Word document, and maybe if we're lucky, someone will actually go out of their way to say some kind things about our hard work. And I will definitely say kind words to anyone who posts. :) So, does anybody have a title, plot, characters, or anything in between yet? ~Shadowed Spirit Sage
Rapidfire the Hedgehog		#18	[-]
Posts: 1233 (10/28/2009 9:30 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I have a title, characters, and idea of whither the story is going to go. It doesn't, per se, have a plot, though. Rather, it's a little like a sitcom narrative, if I had to give it some kind of classification. If it isn't clear, you'll see once I get into it. I don't want to give anything serious away yet, so I'll leave it at that for the time being. Oh yeah, should anybody be possessed by some unruly, burning passion to see whatever it is I'm up to on a quotidian basis, my NaNoWriMo username is Rapidfire, so you can become my friend and meticulously scrutinise my literary movements.
Swanson		#19	[-]
Posts: 541 (10/28/2009 9:53 PM) Herald of Galactus Spam Protection Agent Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I've got an set beginning and a set ending, some characters and a little bit of a plot. I'd say that's good enough to work on. EDIT: Also if you want to track my progress my username is Jesse Swanson. Come on over to the mighiest forum alive Earths Mightiest and take part in the greatest adventure ever. Last Edited By: Swanson 10/28/2009 10:04 PM. Edited 1 times.
NelStone		#20	[-]
Posts: 775 (10/28/2009 10:12 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I think I might just start writing with no actual plot in mind. I've never done that with stories before, but it might be fun to just meander around and see if I can form a coherent plot out of nothing.

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