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Re: November is National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #15 on: October 22, 2007, 09:33:05 PM »
LOL with how badly i've been procrastinatin g lately I can't see me being very successful.
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Re: November is National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #16 on: October 22, 2007, 09:43:18 PM »
Hehe, me neither.  I wrote a whole page over the weekend... whoo hoo.
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Re: November is National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #17 on: October 22, 2007, 09:44:23 PM »
lmao woot!
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Re: November is National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #18 on: October 22, 2007, 10:12:25 PM »
Laura wanted me to do it with her, but I don't have any sort of idea right now. :(

So, maybe next year?

My schedule could lighten up by then. :)
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Re: November is National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #19 on: October 22, 2007, 10:19:29 PM »
I would love to do this, but I'm with ya Julie. I'd get all caught up in every little plothole and end up screwing myself up.

I guess I could make a vow to finish Proving Them Wrong during the month of November. It has anywhere from 5 to 10 chapters left, depending on how much I want to stretch the drama out...Hmm, NaNoWriMo might just be the answer to my PTW problems!
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Re: November is National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #20 on: October 22, 2007, 10:49:01 PM »
I tried that last year for PBox. Epic fail. :D
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Re: November is National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #21 on: October 22, 2007, 10:53:02 PM »
lol. well we'll see how this goes. For me its really just about forcing myself to write my original fiction for a change. If I fail and go back to my super awesome new Brian stoy, then so be it. Maybe I'm only destined to be a fan fic writer. *there are worse things*  but I'm really gonna try hard not to get distracted by fanfic.  ;D
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Re: November is National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #22 on: October 29, 2007, 06:45:38 PM »
Quote from: honey on October 22, 2007, 01:36:44 AM
Hey guys! I was just wondering if anyone else here is going to participate? I just signed up at http://www.nanowrimo.org, so I have officially committed myself. lol. wish me luck. This is my first year participating and I'm afraid it's going to put my fan fic on hold next month, but I'm really excited about doing it. (I'm going to try and finish Mercy before then though.  Three/four chapters in a week and a half.  :P It'll be my warm up!)

Is anyone else an author over there?  I'm honey0023 and I need writing buddies.  :D



Hey Kelly! I signed up @ nanowrimo too! My penname is MonkeyAbu...wo w notice a coincidence? LoL. Add me as a writing buddy! We'll cheer each other on!
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Re: November is National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #23 on: October 30, 2007, 12:35:47 AM »
What team? WILDCATS!!!


oh wait, sorry. You said cheer... I think High School Musical. My daughter is an East High Cheerleader for Halloween this year. Its reall cute. Anyway... What I mean to say was...


Gooooooooooooo O  Ashley!!!!!  I'll go add you! What are you going to work on?
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Re: November is National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #24 on: December 01, 2007, 02:21:19 PM »
Ok, November is over and I fall into that bigger category of people who didn't write a whole novel. lol.  Oh well, I still got something out of it and learned a little something about myself, so it;s all good.

I actually wrote just over 40,000 of the 50,000 word goal which means if I hadn't spent a week really sick and a week on vacation I would have easily hit the mark, I just couldn't do it all in one story. Lol I don't think I'll ever be able to limit myself to only one.

When I gave myself an assignment it started to feel like homework and I actually got all stressed out about it and wanted to write anything but the story I was supposed to be writing. So after like the first week of forcing myself to work on something I wasn't in the mood for and staring at a blank page, I said screw it and just worked on whatever. After that I didn't seem to have a problem writing at all.

I also learned that if I tell myself I can't work more than one story, my brain retaliates by throwing idea after idea at me. I had the worst case of story ADD I've ever had in my life lol!

Anyway, I  had fun, but instead of another original fiction novel, I now have like the first act to four new stories. What's a girl to do?

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Re: November is National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #25 on: December 03, 2007, 02:01:37 AM »
Awww Kelly! Don't feel so bad! You did a heck of a lot better then I did, by quite a bit. And when I say quite a bit, I mean it literally. I had a decent idea worked out but got maybe half of the first chapter written and that's it. *cowers in shame* So I failed NanoWrimo major. Guess we didn't do so well with cheering each other on? LoL. Are you still going to continue writing Tori? Even if you didn't finish NanoWrimo, you should still finish the story because for a sort of kid's fic, it's great and I'd still like to see where you are going to take it! Hmmm...now that NanoWrimo is over I am all of a sudden doing my cheering duties...what is wrong with this picture? LoL.
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Re: November is National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #26 on: December 03, 2007, 02:24:27 AM »
Lol aww, I actually took Tori down because I'm kind of in the air. I think I will still occasionally work on it, but I think it will be a really slow process. I actually have the idea really well developed. I have pretty much the whole first novel completely structured and the basic story arcs for both the sequels and the prequel. (I see at least 4 books in the series) but my problem is, I am having the hardest time writing an eleven year old girl, and I'm not sure how much I'm in love with writing children's fantasy.(or how much I'm capable of pulling it off.) It's quite a genre jump for this little queen of fluff. SO, while I do like the challenge of it, and I am IN LOVE with the story itself, it's going to be very slow so I didn't want to keep it up. Maybe if I start making progress with it, I'll try to enlist you as a beta for me. =D Yay for the cheerleading squad though!! Thanks hun!
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Re: November is National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #27 on: December 03, 2007, 02:26:18 AM »
Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! *does a little giddy jump and claps hands* I wants to be Kelly beta reader!
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Re: November is National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #28 on: December 03, 2007, 02:37:16 AM »
haha I guess I might have to write it now huh?
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Re: November is National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #29 on: December 03, 2007, 02:42:39 AM »
Uh, lets think about this for a semi second...DUH!
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