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November is National Novel Writing Month
« 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

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Re: November is National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #1 on: October 22, 2007, 05:59:07 AM »
Awesome!  I attempted that in 2005 and neglected BMS for about a week to write this other story, which has never seen the light of day and never will.  I worked on it for a week, then stopped and never went back to it.  But it gave me the break I needed to keep plugging away at BMS LOL.
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Re: November is National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #2 on: October 22, 2007, 08:53:53 AM »
I did it last year, but I ended up completely ignoring my fanfic duties for that whole month, which then spiraled out of control lol
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Re: November is National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #3 on: October 22, 2007, 11:26:47 AM »
I really like the idea, but don't think I'll be able to totally commit myself to it..
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Re: November is National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #4 on: October 22, 2007, 11:53:56 AM »
By the way, did any of you earlier participants write fan fic (based) stories last year (or the years before)?
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Re: November is National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #5 on: October 22, 2007, 12:31:39 PM »
Alright, I couldn't resist.. I joined, but I'm not sure I can manage to start or even finish a story..

Honey, this is my profile > http://www.nanowrimo.org/user/221786

I can't find a way to find you on nanowrimo.. :s
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Re: November is National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #6 on: October 22, 2007, 01:13:15 PM »
Yay! Nijntje's gonna try it too! Don't stress hun! It's only 1666.67 words a day. lol. I'm starting to sweat already. But I do have an idea I'm really excited about so hopefully that will help.

I added you as a friend.  ;D  Are you going to write fan fiction? Or a real novel? I've decided that this is how I'm going to motivate myself to do some original fiction.  I'm working out the fine details for my novel so that I ill be ready to start November 1st.

I'm going to write a children's fantasy. Sort of like Harry Potter or Narnia. (only no where near as imaginative and good haha.) But I think I'm going to post my progress on AC as I go so that people see I haven't just disappeared. Thou I doubt it will be read cause it's original fiction.
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Re: November is National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #7 on: October 22, 2007, 01:28:43 PM »
Quote from: Nijntje on October 22, 2007, 12:31:39 PM
Alright, I couldn't resist.. I joined, but I'm not sure I can manage to start or even finish a story..

Honey, this is my profile > http://www.nanowrimo.org/user/221786

I can't find a way to find you on nanowrimo.. :s


I added you! I'm dangerzone91 -- http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/154771

I usually always write fanfic for NaNoWriMo... last year Hawk and a Handsaw was started as my piece for NaNo... obviously I didn't make it lol
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Re: November is National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #8 on: October 22, 2007, 01:34:20 PM »
Gee thanks honey for making crystal clear how many words a day that is.. ;D

I think I'm gonna go with fan fiction that can be transformed into just fiction.. But I'm not no way sure yet lol.. I'll try to come up with at least an idea..

Thanks for the add, you two!
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Re: November is National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #9 on: October 22, 2007, 02:04:24 PM »
I don't really understand this thing. lol

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Re: November is National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #10 on: October 22, 2007, 02:39:58 PM »
The website is a little confusing, it took me a while to figure it out, but I had a friend tell me about it. Basically the goal is to write a 50,000 word novel in the month of November. You can plan it but you can't start writing until Nov. 1st and hopefully you have a novel by the 30th... It's kind of cool, there are so many people that do it. In my area there are tons of participants and they get together to discuss stuff. There's even coffee houses and bookstores that hold write-ins  and stuff. We'll see how it goes.
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Re: November is National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #11 on: October 22, 2007, 02:43:38 PM »
ooh lol okay. A novel in one month huh?
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Re: November is National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #12 on: October 22, 2007, 06:27:19 PM »
It's all about quantity over quality - they say it doesn't matter what kind of crap writing you churn out; the goal is just to start and finish a novel in a month, and then you can say you've written a novel LOL.  It's a nice break from slaving over your regular stuff.
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Re: November is National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #13 on: October 22, 2007, 09:23:54 PM »
ooh lol okay I think i'll pass then.
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Re: November is National Novel Writing Month
« Reply #14 on: October 22, 2007, 09:26:38 PM »
Hehe.  If I was better at coming up with ideas and just going for it, I would try it again... but I'm too anal; I have to take time to fill plot holes and research.
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