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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2007 17:14:02 GMT -5
Whoo people it's almost that time of year again! The time where wrists ache and swell and keys pop out of keyboards because of overuse. The time of year when you consume more than the legal amount of caffeine. The time when you go into work/school dead on your feet because you were up until three am upping your wordcount.
Yes, it's Nano season, and this Nano season is beginning as every other Nano season as begun for me: Happiness, joyfulness, on top of the world. 50,000 in a month? Psh, I can SO do this.
Then the second week hits and I bang my head into hard objects. What the hell, Eri? Why are you doing this? Why on earth are you putting yourself this misery again? You have school to be thinking about, do you even comprehend how much homework you have, not to mention the amount of studying? And track season is just starting, you have work outs to do you idiot and -
- third week hits. Hey, I think I just hit 30k. I'm over halfway there. I think I can do this! I'm so close! I'm almost there! My novel is resembling something!
Then something bad always happens. I break fingers, computer crashes, temporary blindness, etc. I take it out on my characters. Plague. Lightning. Famine. No one survives. All will perish under my -
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HOMG I JUST HIT 50K.
*death by exhaustion*
^^ So yeah, I'm pumped. I've being doing Nano since 2004, so this is my fourth attempt. Every year it's been something different; some years have been more traumatic than others, but every year has been FUN.
Here's to some great novels in 2007!
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Post by Tashni on Oct 1, 2007 18:20:51 GMT -5
ROFL That is SOOOO how I am during NaNo!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2007 19:43:03 GMT -5
So what's my plan for this years Nano? Right now, I have a very tentative idea of doing a prequel to my '06 Nano, which was about a brother and sister going on a cross country road trip after losing their father. Even though I mocked it mercilessly all through out November last year, I've reread it a couple times and, truth be told, I've grown quite attached to Holly and Dustin. XD; Last year my Nano spiraled into some kind of modern-day Titanic except with no sinking ship and, unfortunately, no Leonardo DiCaprio.  However, that story did grow on me, and I started to think a lot about what had happened and how much more I could pull from it. Then I was listening to the radio, and that "do you feel like a man when you push her around falling to the ground face down in the dirt this doesn't hurt she's finally had enough" song came on, which suddenly brought an idea about abusive relationships into play and I couldn't stop myself, my sadistic brain was writing up an angsty little story. So YAY. More Dustin, Holly, Jensen, and Marley coming your way this September! >D! *cannot write a story without torturing her characters ^^;* |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2007 18:07:11 GMT -5
October FLEW by! I was taking a history test today and writing the date on my scantron and I was like, "Oh, lookie there, November 1st, survived another whole month...wait a minute, NOVEMBER? FIRST?"
And then I abandoned all work today and wrote in my English binder all day! I actually got the tricklings of a good beginning. I'm still not sold on my plot, but I love my stupid characters so so much so I can't quit on them now. XD
Good luck to everyone starting out today! =D
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2007 21:39:22 GMT -5
Wheee! Eri, I'm exited to hear about your NaNo.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2007 15:40:03 GMT -5
So my first day started off very slow. And I'm not talking your average slow - I'm talking about record slow here. Like, I sat and started at a blank document for about ten minutes before I finally went "screw it."
So I must lay my last years characters to rest. =( Although it was fun toying with the idea of writing another story about them, it just refused to work.
So of course then I started to panic because I did not have a plot. I flopped back and turned on my iPod. What song comes up on my shuffle but "Mockingbird" by Eminem.
And I sat back up, cracked my fingers, and started to write.
So now I have a novel loosely based on "Mockingbird." Haha. I'm pleased so far though, and it's very fun for me to write, so it was fairly easy to punch out my 1667 yesterday. Although I will admit, around 1000 I was starting to whimper - I've been writing nothing but "drabble" fanfiction since last November, so I'm a tad out of practice, hahaha. But I think overall we're going to have a very fun November. ^^
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Post by Avery on Nov 2, 2007 15:44:58 GMT -5
Yay Eri! =D
I know how that is about old characters. I love my MC from from 2005's Nano, but writing about him again-- ikch. I can't even think of it. xD
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2007 15:52:48 GMT -5
OHMIGOD, I just finally got onto the NaNo forums without having the page "time out" or whatever and I might cry, there's all these people with 6k+ that depress me. XDD Stupid overachievers... EDIT: *just realizes that Carrie is one of such overachievers* *crosses wrists in hex sign* STAY AWAY, YOU WORD GODDESS YOU!  |
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Post by Avery on Nov 2, 2007 16:05:43 GMT -5
OHMIGOD, I just finally got onto the NaNo forums without having the page "time out" or whatever and I might cry, there's all these people with 6k+ that depress me. XDD Stupid overachievers... EDIT: *just realizes that Carrie is one of such overachievers* *crosses wrists in hex sign* STAY AWAY, YOU WORD GODDESS YOU! Eri, if it's any consolation, I stayed up until 3am November 1 and then collapsed when I had to wake up the next day. =D |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2007 16:24:36 GMT -5
OHMIGOD, I just finally got onto the NaNo forums without having the page "time out" or whatever and I might cry, there's all these people with 6k+ that depress me. XDD Stupid overachievers... EDIT: *just realizes that Carrie is one of such overachievers* *crosses wrists in hex sign* STAY AWAY, YOU WORD GODDESS YOU! Eri, if it's any consolation, I stayed up until 3am November 1 and then collapsed when I had to wake up the next day. =D Collapsing is never good, haha. In all seriousness, good for you! I actually don't have any plans tonight, so I'm going to do a little word count boosting until the early morning hours myself. ^_^ |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2007 18:30:49 GMT -5
Woo, just broke 4,000! Now I can have some food and then sit back down and start writing the night away. How crazy is it to shoot to break 10k before I sleep? =O
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2007 20:38:13 GMT -5
*blinks* Wow...haven't updated this. >.> Anyway, my Nano was frustrating for a while. My plot was moving VERY slow, because I had to set everything up, so I felt like I didn't have any direction, and I was just kind of writing randomness. This story is finally starting to piece itself together, though, and I'm starting to enjoy writing it. ^_^ I wrote 2k today (my goal) and broke 14k (my goal that went hand in hand with writing 2k xD) so I'm about 5.5k ahead of schedule? I'd like to be a little bit more ahead and give myself a tad bit more of a cushion, but I don't want to burn out the first week, so I'm working at my own pace. ^_^ Luckily, I only have school tomorrow and Wednesday, and then a four day weekend to boost the word count! =D I'm sad the Nano site isn't working though... that's my favorite part of Nano, chatting with the other WriMos. I guess that means you'll all just have to deal with me more. >D *cackles* |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2007 21:27:13 GMT -5
URGH! I hate the nano site. It's awful. D:< But here, we've got our own little nano participant board going on. I think this is the most active group of nanoers we've ever had.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2007 9:30:25 GMT -5
Haha, I agree, Echo - I love how Nano has become such a big event on here, and all the support we can get. ^_^
So novel number one: dead. Dead as Marley in Dicken's A Christmas Carol. Truth be told, it was dead before it even began, before I wrote the first sentence, but I plunged forward with the enthusiasm of a Week One Nanoer, bloated on success, promising myself that it would work out just fine, no worries.
So here I am - I've wasted over a week on an empty novel. It's like digging a hole in the ground where you thought gold was and coming up with a stick of driftwood, or a toilet seat.
Last night I came to this realization, and scrapped attempt one. Then, of course, I started calculating - I'll need to write 2.5k a day to finish this on time. So, of course, I started to panic, because it's bad enough getting in 1667 a day between all of my homework and activities. Could I possibly get this done? Maybe my winning streak will finally end.
And then I came to my second realization of the evening: does it matter? Honestly? I'd rather write something I enjoy and get out only 10,000 or 30,000 or, heck, I'd rather write something I love and have fun with and get 49,999 words if it means I had a great time doing it.
So that's my plan. I'm going to stop worrying and stop freaking out about "finishing". Because, when you think about it, I think it's really just the icing on the cake.
Here's to twenty more crazy days of writing things we love!!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2007 10:52:40 GMT -5
((you know, i really should be catching up and not making little entries in here... >.>)) I have to analyze a poem for my english class. Of course, me being me, I needed to find the most straight forward poem possible; I have so much trouble reading between the lines of poems and figuring out hidden meanings and such. My paper is due tomorrow (so of course, I'm starting today ^^; ) and I just went through and re-read the poem that I found. I thought it speaks an awful lot about Nanoers and us "writers" as a whole. And even though when I originally read it, I thought it seemed straight forward and simple but now I can see that there is a LOT of "hidden" meaning in it. Enjoy! ^^ I surely did. so you want to be a writer?
by Charles Bukowski
if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it comes unasked out of your
heart and your mind and your mouth
and your gut,
don't do it.
if you have to sit for hours
staring at your computer screen
or hunched over your
typewriter
searching for words,
don't do it.
if you're doing it for money or
fame,
don't do it.
if you're doing it because you want
women in your bed,
don't do it.
if you have to sit there and
rewrite it again and again,
don't do it.
if it's hard work just thinking about doing it,
don't do it.
if you're trying to write like somebody
else,
forget about it.
if you have to wait for it to roar out of
you,
then wait patiently.
if it never does roar out of you,
do something else.
if you first have to read it to your wife
or your girlfriend or your boyfriend
or your parents or to anybody at all,
you're not ready.
don't be like so many writers,
don't be like so many thousands of
people who call themselves writers,
don't be dull and boring and
pretentious, don't be consumed with self-
love.
the libraries of the world have
yawned themselves to
sleep
over your kind.
don't add to that.
don't do it.
unless it comes out of
your soul like a rocket,
unless being still would
drive you to madness or
suicide or murder,
don't do it.
unless the sun inside you is
burning your gut,
don't do it.
when it is truly time,
and if you have been chosen,
it will do it by
itself and it will keep on doing it
until you die or it dies in you.
there is no other way.
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However, that story did grow on me, and I started to think a lot about what had happened and how much more I could pull from it. Then I was listening to the radio, and that "do you feel like a man when you push her around falling to the ground face down in the dirt this doesn't hurt she's finally had enough" song came on, which suddenly brought an idea about abusive relationships into play and I couldn't stop myself, my sadistic brain was writing up an angsty little story. 
