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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

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 (

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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,

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.

3rd year in a row, CW. :)

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

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

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.

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.

Talent?

It requires...talent???

Where?

*checks site*

No mention of talent.

CW

christwriter wrote:Talent?

It requires...talent???

Where?

*checks site*

No mention of talent.

CW

truth :D

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

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.

My buffer is one week and I intends to keep it!
Sorry, no nano for me.

Tried and failed already. Not my kind of deal.

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