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casey's moon
Joined: 14 Sep 2004
Location: Daejeon
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 Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 6:46 pm Post subject: Write a novel in November |
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Anyone interested? It's almost National Novel Writing Month (should be called "international" really)
http://www.nanowrimo.org/ |
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waterbaby
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
Location: Baking Gord a Cheescake pie
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| Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 10:26 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm in - crazy or what!?! |
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guangho
Joined: 19 Jan 2005
Location: a spot full of deception, stupidity, and public micturation and thus unfit for longterm residency
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| Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 4:41 am Post subject: |
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| You had me at "write..." |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 7:23 am Post subject: |
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It sounds easy compared to the original International 3-day Novel Writing Contest entering its 29th year in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. http://www.3daynovel.com/
Yet,... to write the requisite 50,000 words in a month while holding down a Monday to Friday job requires 250 words an hour (a page) every hour, six hours each week day and 12 hours a day on weekends, without a day away for 30 days. 
With a three-quarters finished novel stalemating me, I'm up to putting it aside and going somewhere I've never gone before: into the world of sci-fi, less action and more prophesy. Ideas are swirling around and they're too silly to survive the editing process... this sounds like a way to get it out. And collect enough coupons for a free Domino's pizza or two. 
Let's do it. guangho, waterbaby, VanIslander and assuming the op casey's moon too. Anyone else got the rigor?
A wrap-up book reading party in December is de rigueur after a week's catch-up of sleep. |
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SuperHero
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
Location: Superhero Hideout
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| Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 2:10 pm Post subject: |
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| I got my email notification yesterday that registration was open. However, I am again busier than ever and won't have the time to devote that is necessary. |
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waterbaby
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
Location: Baking Gord a Cheescake pie
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| Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 2:14 pm Post subject: |
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| SuperHero wrote: |
| I got my email notification yesterday that registration was open. However, I am again busier than ever and won't have the time to devote that is necessary. |
Aw c'mon SuperHero! Even if you squeeze out 10,000 words, that's 10,000 words more than you'd do otherwise.
What closed the deal for me was this:
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| It's not about the quality, it's about the quantity |
For just once in my life I'd like to not be hung up on creating the perfect sentence, creating memorable characters, and having the perfect plot ... I'm gonna just run with a crazy half arsed idea and see where it takes me 
1667 words per day... that doesn't sound so bad, does it? |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 2:28 pm Post subject: |
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| waterbaby wrote: |
| Aw c'mon SuperHero! Even if you squeeze out 10,000 words, that's 10,000 words more than you'd do otherwise. |
We need 50,000 words!
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| For just once in my life I'd like to not be hung up on creating the perfect sentence, creating memorable characters, and having the perfect plot ... I'm gonna just run with a crazy half arsed idea and see where it takes me |
Yeah.
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| 1667 words per day... that doesn't sound so bad, does it? |
At 250 words per page (less where there's dialogue) that's over 6 pages a day, every day. Let's just say, at my average typing speed, if I don't stop typing at all, it'd still take a couple of hours each day. That's high tempo stream of consciousness!
Let's be clear: It is a total commitment. There's no way one can do much else that month if one also has a 30-hour a week job and good night sleeps.
42,000 people registered last tear and 6000 finished. That's one in seven. Statistically, none of the four of us will finish. I think we'll beat the odds.
I just saw that 15 people in Korea took part last year! several more people before that. The link is here: http://www.nanowrimo.org/modules/xoopsmembers/index.php?op=submit&matchfield=user_from&matchcontent=korea&sortfield=user_regdate&sortdirection=ASC&exclude=&submit=Go |
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casey's moon
Joined: 14 Sep 2004
Location: Daejeon
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| Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 11:56 pm Post subject: |
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| I needed some convincing (thanks waterbaby), but I'm in! Glad to hear that there is some interest on this board. I'd love to meet up with those of us on the peninsula after it's all done-- great idea VanIslander! |
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waterbaby
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
Location: Baking Gord a Cheescake pie
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| Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 12:07 am Post subject: |
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VI - I've just finished a project where I churned out 2 or 3 x 800 words articles per day and each required a fair amount of research... when I put my head down, they me about 2 to 2.5 hours each. I reckon I will knock out 1667 words of fiction easily within 2 hours. I already write for about 30 mins a day (non work stuff). So I feel like I've been training already 
I know you need 50,000 words to succesfully complete Nano, but even if you don't think you'll get there due to other work/study/life committments, just being part of it will be a lot of fun and will get you closer to your goal of writing a novel than if you don't participate. That's all I was trying to say to SuperHero.
Cheers,
wb |
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guangho
Joined: 19 Jan 2005
Location: a spot full of deception, stupidity, and public micturation and thus unfit for longterm residency
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| Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 6:46 am Post subject: |
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Come on people....less yakking more writing.
Once upon a midnight dreary, I "taught" English with Denis Leary.... |
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captain kirk
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 7:57 am Post subject: |
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| I read their promo and signed up, too. I'll be writing some sci-fi stuff bali bali stream of consciousness (give me more coffee) hyperblather. Oh, and I don't have a plot. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 12:55 pm Post subject: |
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| guangho wrote: |
| Come on people....less yakking more writing. |
Hey, writing is writing. And we're not to start for a few weeks anyways, so spinning our wheels on chat boards is copasetic.
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| Once upon a midnight dreary, I "taught" English with Denis Leary.... |
A book of poems?
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| I read their promo and signed up, too. I'll be writing some sci-fi stuff bali bali stream of consciousness (give me more coffee) hyperblather. Oh, and I don't have a plot. |
Alright my friend! BTW, your hamster might end up in my story. He had character. If so, I'll make those some of the pages I bring to the end-of-it-all get-together we'll have in early December. What a hoot! Us reading excerpts of it afterwards, the funniest parts. Writing without editing. Oh, this is gonna be fun! |
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SuperHero
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
Location: Superhero Hideout
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| Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 2:48 pm Post subject: |
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| VanIslander wrote: |
| Hey, writing is writing. And we're not to start for a few weeks anyways, so spinning our wheels on chat boards is copasetic. |
according to the rules you can have your plot and character sketches all predetermined - just no writing in advance. Though I can't see how it is possible to enforce that. |
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waterbaby
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
Location: Baking Gord a Cheescake pie
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| Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 4:08 pm Post subject: |
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No, it's not possible to enforce - it's all based on honesty. Anyway, you'd only be cheating yourself.
The same thing with your word count... you could send in "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" copied 5000 times to make your 50,000 words and submit that - but where's the fun in that?
I'll be writing young adult fiction. Don't have my plotted sussed out yet. Haven't given much thought to characters yet, but do have a very vague notion of what I'll be writing about... and I do mean vague 
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Zyzyfer
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: who, what, where, when, why, how?
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| Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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I think I might give it a try. Need some reminding, though. Whatever I write, it's going to be crap, muhwahahahah.
Are we signing up for this contest, or just doing it for fun on our own? |
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