Listen up, gents! We're all going to write a damn novel in November, and that means you too. As soon as they start allowing registration, I want to see you guys up and at 'em!
THE TALE OF DQN-KUN
"Registration"?
No, thanks.
Sorry.... orz
>>4
It was the registration that got you, not the "you have to write a 50,000 word novel in a month"?
>>5
Yup. Registrations just piss me off and I am not going to write someone else a novel with bugmenot!
>>6
You don't have to register, you can write a novel anyway. Registration is so they will have an accurate count of the number of writers.
>>7
Why is accurate count of writers important?
>>8
It's also so that they can verify word count of what you write and put you on the winners page if you make it to 50,000. Which is just icing on the cake, according to them. Also, since the project is apparently about building community through shared toil and suffering, I guess it makes sense to have a registered membership. And of course, it's nice to know how many people are participating any given year.
Our Goal:
$110,000
Current amount
$62
LOL. But seriously, what's stopping me from unveiling my 50,000 word novel I wrote before hand?
>>10
The idiocy of the idea of cheating at a contest with no discernable prize, especially when writing the novel beforehand defeats the entire benefit of participating, all while going to all the trouble of writing a 50,000 word novel anyway?
That said, it probably has been done in the past.
Right, how many of you guys are seriously, and i mean 'i'm gonna try my best'-seriously, serious about this?
ps. serious business
pps. if you're serious about this, what are your literary influences? what are you reading now? have you decided on a form/frame/style yet? have you written anything before? etc.
I failed miserably at this last year but I am planning to give it another try. Think I will fictionalize the Second Voyage of Bering (the one with Steller)- since there's little actual creative effort in that, it ought to be easier.
>>10
The number would be much higher, but the server crashed as you can read in the site news.
Currently I am planning to write an otaku version of the Canterbury Tales. It'll be awesome if I can pull it off. If that falls through and I have the time to start over, I'll write some lousy netrunner story instead.
>>5
Considering where you are, should this surprise you?
Maybe I should finally give this a shot this year. Guess I have a couple of weeks to start thinking of ideas.
I want so see someone "seriously" do >>2.
If you can't work with that, you don't belong near a pen.
I just saw that it was "National" - so it's for US residents only?
>>18
It's definitely world-wide, I think it's just outgrown its own name. Check the forums, they've got specific boards for all sorts of foreign countries.
BUMP
>>20 should've did something clever yet overused, so that I could've responded with "I SEE YOU!"
You fucked up.
I'm thinking about working on this. Who knows what I'll write, it'll probably be something weird involving video games.
I'm going to write some sick shit.
High five!
it's coming!!
NaNoWriMo... I'm tempted. I might sit down and write some 'sick shit' too :D
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>>27
How's your sick shit coming along?
she doesnt look like she's 28
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It is now November. We had better get to work.
If you're starting now it's too late, unless if you have the next three weeks free.
I tried writing but failed at 1,000 words; I'm too busy this year. Better luck in 2006.
God, this nanowrimo shit's hard
How do people write a story? I narrated to myself the beginning of a fairly good story yesterday but I can't get it to paper no matter what!
What I find intimidating about writing is the amount of knowledge you need to have about your subject.
What I find intimidating about it is making believable characters
The way to write a story is to make yourself write, and write, and write, and just force it all out. Then, look at your output the way a reader would look at it. Prune and change things until, as a reader (NOT AS A WRITER!), you feel it is a story you like to read.
This can take years!
Oh and >>28, it is hard to shit out 2,000 words a day :(
Every year I am only able to write less and less for Nanowrimo, isn't that weird?
I'm gonna try to do this even though I have not started yet. If I fail, well, I'll just keep writing until December 9. Fair's fair.
Hi people. I've just poured a bowl of hot grits down my pants!
NaNoWriMo is over.. so, did anyone actually write anything??
I did, I wrote 5,000 words -_-
I wrote 1,000 words :(
I did it, finished on Nov 15