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The NaNoWriMo Thread
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Posted: 17th October 2005 08:09
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NaNoWriMo stands for National November Writing Month. People who enter it aim to write a short novel of 50,000 in the space of one month, which can either turn into a first draft, or you can continue it outside of the month (or write more within the month). It's a very good way to train yourself to write every day, even if you don't end up with gold by the end of the month.
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Posted: 17th October 2005 11:24
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I am. Especially when we consider my college course (HNC Professional Writing Skills) would probaby classify this as revision... Dunno how well I could do but meh, they allow outlines and plot notes. Oh, and more importantly, non-americans.
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Posted: 17th October 2005 15:24
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I've signed up for it the past two years, but I'm sitting this one out -- I'm still restoring lost vocabulary to my brain after using it all up this summer (wrote 42,000). I never managed to get much past 6K in NNWM anyways.
Good luck to all those goin' for it, though! -------------------- Some ghost of me might greet my son the day he is delivered. Eternal Sleep, Track 1-1: The Blue Planet |
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Posted: 17th October 2005 15:24
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I might just use this as motivation to start writing, weather not I stick to these certain rules is irrelevent, just to get me writing, y'know?
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Posted: 17th October 2005 17:40
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Eh...a fifty-thousand word novel of sorts seems like something I could definately reach, but my stamina comes in 2-3k spurts, so I'm afraid it would take me a decade or more to complete.
 Still, it's not so daunting if one is to divide the month up into daily quotas and all that...I may give it a shot (and hopefully not be the only one?) yet. -------------------- It's gonna be a glorious day I feel my luck can change |
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Posted: 17th October 2005 19:22
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I'm planning on participating again this year.
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Posted: 17th October 2005 19:48
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Posted: 18th October 2005 13:15
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I'm confused....
Is this for extra credit or something? Why would you do writing that teacher didn't assign? My head hurts.... -------------------- "That Light has bestowed upon me the greatest black magic!" |
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Posted: 18th October 2005 15:07
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Quote (The Ancient @ 18th October 2005 14:15) I'm confused.... Is this for extra credit or something? Why would you do writing that teacher didn't assign? My head hurts.... Simple. Four standard reasons: Fun, to get a message across, for money, or for the hell of it. This is one and four,maybe three, but probably just one and four. The fifth reason which is pretty much applicable here by default is practice. Of course, that may not be your cup of tea, what with doing writing in school and seemingly not enjoying it, but schoolwork has restraints. Even with restraints, I enjoyed it somewhat. You may not think it's your thing, but you could give it a whack. It can't hurt you. It can't hurt me either as my college course IS writing. So, it's not for extra credit, but it could help your writing skills out a little. -------------------- "Only the dead have seen the end of their quotes being misattributed to Plato." -George Santayana "The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here..." -Abraham Lincoln, prior to the discovery of Irony. |
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Posted: 18th October 2005 15:35
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Quote (The Ancient @ 18th October 2005 08:15) Is this for extra credit or something? Why would you do writing that teacher didn't assign? You're joking, though, right? -------------------- Some ghost of me might greet my son the day he is delivered. Eternal Sleep, Track 1-1: The Blue Planet |
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Posted: 18th October 2005 17:32
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Bladdy kids.
The Ancient, if that was tongue-in-cheek, we couldn't see it through the web of the internets. Some people write as a hobby, just like playing video games. -------------------- Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit. http://slightly-bitter.blog.co.uk |
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Posted: 19th October 2005 07:01
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I love writing but as of now I am into columns. I don't think I am ready to write a very long fiction.
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Posted: 19th October 2005 20:06
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Quote (BASSsic @ 18th October 2005 12:32) Some people write as a hobby, just like playing video games. You just blew my mind. I used to attepmt to....raaah-ite for fun but now I'm reduced to making tongue-in-cheek jokes on teh web of the internets. -------------------- "That Light has bestowed upon me the greatest black magic!" |
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