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NaNoWriMo!

Discussion in 'Creativity Surge' started by Aikanaro, Sep 30, 2004.

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    [​IMG] W00T! NaNo is but a month away! Let us all join in and write works of exceedingly bad fiction together!

    Basic idea - Write 50000 words in one month. Which is 1667 words per day. That month would be November, for those who are numerically challenged. :)

    So, what SPers do we have joining the random insanity this year?

    www.nanowrimo.org

    (Forums open tomorrow)
     
    Aikanaro, Sep 30, 2004
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    Hmmmmm, sounds like just the motivation I need to transfer that short story I wrote into a full fledged novel. I'm on it!
     
    Kam, Sep 30, 2004
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    I did it last year, and got hooked.

    This year i will write a srequel; a sequel filled with flashbacks, making it half-prequel :p

    Then agaiun, last year's work is stuck at 72K of words and I feel physically ill at even thingk about it.

    *sigh*

    Can't wait. I prolly end up pulling the "plot" out of my backside on October 31st...
     
    Arabwel, Oct 1, 2004
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    Rotku's decided to give it a shot this year. And waht's more, I've convinced my dad, who's always wanted to write a book, to try as well.

    Should be a lot of fun :)
     
    Rotku, Oct 3, 2004
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    Im gonna do for a laugh even if i suck
     
    Lawless, Oct 3, 2004
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    I would, but to be honest, I can't be bothered ;) .
     
    The Kilted Crusader, Oct 4, 2004
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    Arabwel Screaming towards Apotheosis Veteran

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    I suffer from a strange urge to write about gunslinging guitarikists and people who have had their eyes ripped out...

    I suck.

    i am also already panicking :D
     
    Arabwel, Oct 5, 2004
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    School ends for me on the 26th of November - lots of exams, then four days to try make up for time spend doing useful stuff. Hmm...

    Meh. All shall be well. And if not, it doesn't matter :)
     
    Aikanaro, Oct 6, 2004
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    Arabwel Screaming towards Apotheosis Veteran

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    Last year, I pretended to be sick for over a week to get more writing time :D

    I also procastrinated like crazy :p

    Now, I just wonder if I can keep myself from plagiarizing Once Upon a Time In Mexico too much?

    Edit: This is way, WAY too freaky: Tjhere's another NaNo participant in my hometown! :eek:
     
    Arabwel, Oct 6, 2004
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    There's at least one NaNo particpant on the other board I read. Wish I had the time to play along... :(
     
    Rallymama, Oct 8, 2004
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    One day, you will :)

    I am angstiung, since I am actually curently planning to write mainstream fantasy with characters that look suspiciously like Antonio Banderas...

    Someone kill me now?
     
    Arabwel, Oct 8, 2004
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    /me kills Ara.

    I am tempted...but still can't be bothered ;)
     
    The Kilted Crusader, Oct 9, 2004
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    Arabwel Screaming towards Apotheosis Veteran

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    Come on, why not?

    It's easuer for you who write in English! Here's an example:

    "He killed the orc with his sword"

    "Hän tappoi örkin miekallaan"

    Seee? You get more words 'cause you have prepositions, we have suffixes! It's not fair!

    Yes, i suffer from PNS: So sue me.
     
    Arabwel, Oct 11, 2004
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    Say! We should create a language that needs to have lots and lots of extra words to make any kind of sense, and write in that. Or maybe have spaces in between words which mean something depending on the space length or whatever :)
     
    Aikanaro, Oct 12, 2004
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    Chicken.
     
    Deathmage, Oct 12, 2004
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    Er ... what?
     
    Aikanaro, Oct 12, 2004
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    I think he meant "That is why there are beanpoles."

    He used that language of your, Aik :p

    *shudder*

    I think that my stuppid mix of Arabic and Scandinavian/Lapland mythologyy will bite me in the backside before even October is over...
     
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    I meant that you shouldn't invent a language purely for the purposes of spamming up your word count, but instead write actual stuff with meaning...
     
    Deathmage, Oct 14, 2004
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    To misquote a whiny brat, "That's cheating!"

    And if you quote back, I shall flay you, pirate or not :p

    RIght now, I seem to be unable to prgress in plotting my plot beyond chapter 6: The Sea Voyage

    Just how am I supposed to keep the Northmen from figuring out that Twyla is related to their Elderking? And that she is carrying the Sword of Wulfdane?

    Not to mention the river. How the hell are there going to be river-barrge-type people ont he other side of the fricking mountains int he stupid empire-that-was-sacked-centuries-ago?

    I think I'll have to use elves...
     
    Arabwel, Oct 14, 2004
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    Who's saying it won't have content? It would just have very long winded content :)
    Anyway, it's not all that different from other padding techniques, just more creative. The point is to make 50 000 words after all, not to have meaning :p

    Not that I'm going to do that. Coming up with all the words would be painful - then I'd actually have to learn it.

    @ Ara: Er, maybe she can have a really big cloak and put it under that? :grin:

    And invent some crap about how they're the last remains of some random empire - or use river sprites! Bwahahahaha
     
    Aikanaro, Oct 15, 2004
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