Anybody interested in a little NaNoWriMo this year?

Christwriter · Post by **Christwriter** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 10:59 am

Well, it's almost September again, and I was brushing the dust off the NaNoWriMo forums and trying to narrow down the half dozen ideas I usually have floating around in my head to the one I'm gonna do this year, and I figured it was time to start plugging it to see if any of ya'll wanted to attempt insanity this year.

For those of you not in the know, NaNoWriMo is the acronym for National Novel Writing Month. Insane writers from all over the globe get together online to attempt a 50,000 word novel (hereby shortened to 50k in full NaNo tradition) in thirty days because we know that with the threat of an insane deadline looming, we WILL write more than we ever did in the other eleven months of the year.

What: Write 50,000 words (50k) in thirty days. Duh.

When: November 2005

What do you need?: Insanity, word program and high tollererance for caffine and insanity.

Why...the heck would anybody do this to themselves?: FOR GLORY!!! and a really cheesy print-out certificate.

And to have a finished first draft of whatever novel idea's been knocking around your head for years. Seriously, this is the one time of year when I can sit down and write and have it all just come. Something about that insane deadline (Which I'm upping to 125k because fifty just ain't enough no more) makes me more creative than in the other 11 months of the year. What you'll get won't be really coherant (that's what NaNoEDmo is for) and it won't be worth sending to an editor or a publisher--unless you're really, really stupid and LIKE public humiliation--but it'll exist.

So...any takers?

http://www.nanowrimo.com

CW

Shinyhugh · Post by **Shinyhugh** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 11:06 am

I'm thinkin of going in for it, as is my sister (who is in school - I figure it'll be amusing to see her burn out

) - I'll definitely do it if I get my cheap laptop from college (

Noxmeansxno · Post by **Noxmeansxno** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 11:06 am

I might just dare to do this this year. Marching Band season ends in the beginning of November, so I might take a stab at it.

DJMayhem · Post by **DJMayhem** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 11:29 am

I was thinking heavily about doing it, but I don't know if my family would appreciate me turning into a insomniac. Maybe when I go off to college, but not now.

Rianeva · Post by **Rianeva** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 12:21 pm

I did it last year (and failed horribly =p). I'm taking three English classes fall quarter, though, and getting a job. I don't know if I'll have enough time to do it this year, though I'd like to.

Kris X · Post by **Kris X** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 12:38 pm

30 days? Psh. Give me 10 and a gallon of coffee.

LibertyCabbage · Post by **LibertyCabbage** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 12:52 pm

MAYBE not now is not the proper time for me to decide this.

Nightgaunt · Post by **Nightgaunt** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 1:21 pm

Hmmm... so vey tempting... it would be difficult for me since I haven't written prose in a long time, but I'd like to think I'd give it a try though I probably won't. Unless I can convince myself to write one of the stories I've been wanting to do for my comic for a long time now,

Kirb · Post by **Kirb** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 2:21 pm

I would totally do it again this year, but with three english and humanity classes this semester, I don't think I'll have much time to even consider it.

Sput · Post by **Sput** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 3:19 pm

3rd year in a row, CW. :)

ManyWorlds · Post by **ManyWorlds** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 3:32 pm

*cracks knuckles*
*straps on flying goggles*
Ook.

*If you get the reference, you probably need to get out more.

Warren · Post by **Warren** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 3:33 pm

Tried and failed last year. This year I'll be so busy with school and work I don't even know what I'll be doing webcomic-wise.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 4:42 pm

No time and no talent for writing fiction.

I wrote a few scripts lately, it took me days to transfer them on comp from my scrabbly handwriting and sketches, and I still am not finished. And I still got the most complicated task, which is writing the next chapter of LWK.
Yap, lost of things to do.

Christwriter · Post by **Christwriter** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 6:19 pm

Talent?

It requires...talent???

Where?

*checks site*

No mention of talent.

CW

Sput · Post by **Sput** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 6:43 pm

christwriter wrote:Talent?

It requires...talent???

Where?

*checks site*

No mention of talent.

CW

truth :D

Vorticus · Post by **Vorticus** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 7:24 pm

Given that I'm scheduled to be unemployed in November, I might just try this.

Leko · Post by **Leko** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 10:46 pm

I am so ready, CW. I'm buffered to January, I've got my story idea, the calculations are done (1667 words per day, which is a little less than four pages, depending) and this NaNo is in the BAG.

We'll see who finishes first. Muahahahahahah.

Faub · Post by **Faub** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 11:08 pm

My buffer is one week and I intends to keep it!

Sorry, no nano for me.

Blackaby · Post by **Blackaby** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 1:21 am

Tried and failed already. Not my kind of deal.

Malediction · Post by **Malediction** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 4:25 am

Heard about this a few months ago. I'm going to take a shot at it.