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Re: Novel in a month
« Reply #90 on: October 31, 2003, 10:11:42 PM »
If I'm awake, I think I will.
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Re: Novel in a month
« Reply #91 on: October 31, 2003, 10:50:33 PM »
less than 2.25 hours left. I'm trying to decide if i can nap, wake up at midnight, adn write, since I work tomorrow (I keep hoping it'll be like tonight was, but I have no illusions that people weren't calling because they were out watching scarry movies or trick-or-treating with their kids). We'll see. I still need to choose that name.
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Re: Novel in a month
« Reply #92 on: November 01, 2003, 01:33:54 AM »
So I was thinking about the whole deal and all, and realized that I was going to be freewriting 50000 words.  And that in order to keep it from turning into a mutant ADHD hummingbird of a story, I'm going to have to consciously hold back plot developments.  I don't know how that's going to be.  

Oh, and I also refuse to get worked up about this.  If it's fun, it'll be fun.  If it's a royal pain in the tuckus and I begin to hate it, well...I'll just quit!  But only if I really really hate it for about a week.  No impulse quitting.
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Re: Novel in a month
« Reply #93 on: November 01, 2003, 01:37:29 AM »
I've decided that if (if?? ok, when) I get writer's block, I'll write a short story.  That will be my punishment for not working on the novel- having to write a whole short story.  So at the end of the month I may have a novella, and a couple short stories.  That should be fun.
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« Reply #94 on: November 01, 2003, 02:06:30 AM »
http://www.kleimo.com/random/name.cfm

That is the link to a random name generator.  It takes names from census info, and you can dictate how 'weird' you want the name to be.  It's not a bad idea for jogging the mind into a good name every now and then.
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Re: Novel in a month
« Reply #95 on: November 01, 2003, 02:23:34 AM »
I have to help stupid Mustard move tomorrow, so he and I likely won't get to start until afternoon or evening. I'd start tonight, but it doesn't feel right somehow. Anyway, by my clock here in MST some of you have already started, so good luck!
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Re: Novel in a month
« Reply #96 on: November 01, 2003, 08:20:10 AM »
I was going to start 7 hours ago, but after one game of Magic with JP I decided I was too tired to start and went to bed at 11pm. Then I didn't sleep well, so if anything, I"m more tired, and I'm going to work. This is an inauspicious start.
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Re: Novel in a month
« Reply #97 on: November 01, 2003, 12:00:07 PM »
Well, I fell asleep accidentily at 11, and I woke up around 4:30 am. Tried to start, got about 100 words down, then figured I should get a little more sleep and try again later. And here I am, at later ready to go at it.
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Re: Novel in a month
« Reply #98 on: November 01, 2003, 12:03:00 PM »
yeah, I'm at 200 words or so right now. Since it's coming up on noon, I should have closer to 800, but what ya gonna do?
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Re: Novel in a month
« Reply #99 on: November 01, 2003, 12:38:37 PM »
ugh. My first scene will need to be re-written. I have an 11 year old contemplating why he teases a girl, listing possibilities like social status jealousy and flirtation.
I guess we'll save that for NaNoReMo. National Novel Revision Month.
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Re: Novel in a month
« Reply #100 on: November 01, 2003, 02:19:06 PM »
Oh man... I can't do this. What the hell am I thinking. OMG OMG OMG, augh! They're all gonna laugh at me!
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Re: Novel in a month
« Reply #101 on: November 01, 2003, 03:11:37 PM »
Dude, we laugh at you anyway.

You can do it. I believe you can. Despite my later than hoped for start, and an inordinate amount of mail, I have about half my daily quota. You can do it lambchop!
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Re: Novel in a month
« Reply #102 on: November 01, 2003, 03:22:16 PM »
How many words a day do we have to do? 1500? I forget. I'm at 600+ and have rekindled my spirits by remember that this is not about quality. This is abour quantity and how much crap you can muster out of yourself before finding that that crap is actually a golden nugget of gold. And damned be it if it isn't! We will survive!
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Re: Novel in a month
« Reply #103 on: November 01, 2003, 03:57:01 PM »
see, there's the spirit. If you do the same amount every day, you need to do closer to 1700 than 1500. I'm shooting for closer to 2000 a day, which is what you need to do to miss a few days. Anything over that is great, because I'm sure I'll have off days and days I don't have time to sit and think, let alone right.
600 words is a great start, though. Congrats!
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Re: Novel in a month
« Reply #104 on: November 01, 2003, 04:01:15 PM »
Well right now I'm at 1360. Which means that I have the freaking power. I am He-Man! I'm starting to really feel this thing out, as though everything is just dancing in front of my eyes. (No I'm not tired.... yet.) This is just so freaking awesome. I'm gonna have a novel finished in a month, which is like the biggest thing I've ever done to myself (aside from nothing else). If I finish this I may just be ready to jump off that bridge everyone else is. Woot-to-no-mo Bay! Also, I interviewed Chris Baty, the director of NaNoWriMo this afternoon. And once I get everything put together, would the TWG want it? Since I'm doing it for my school newspaper. Woot woot woot!
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