NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month discussion Options

[blockhead]

We've been starting to discuss NaNoWriMo on the coffee shop thread and it seems that it might be a good idea to give it its own thread. Wow, I haven't started a thread here in ages ... since the start of my Bloodmoon fanfic.

Essentially, from November 1st to Nov 30th one writes a novel of 50,000 words. This is about 1667 words per day (consider that November is only 30 days, not 31). Emphasis is on creation, not on editing. One must disable ones "inner editor" for a month.

Rather then me blather on longer (and perhaps get it wrong) here is the site: http://www.nanowrimo.org/ and here is the FAQ section: http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/basics

So I'm signed up on that site as lokken. Good luck everyone.

(I spent 16+ bucks for the "No Plot No Problem" book (yikes) , so I have to finish this now!)

For myself, I hope that this gives me the needed kick in the behind to write an original story.

[jack cloudy]

Err, who is Samuel Clemens? The guy who wrote as Mark Twain? If so, why shouldn't I add him?

And dang, over 15000 words?! Man, I'm seriously running behind. I've just past 8500. I also added yet another excerpt. Hmm, this story isn't going to remain pg-13 at this rate. I mean seriously, taking a video+audio phone call while under a shower? A phone call from a pervert? Well, he did bash on Emmy for a bit but you've gotta admit, the girl was asking for it.

[blockhead]

Err, who is Samuel Clemens? The guy who wrote as Mark Twain? If so, why shouldn't I add him?

Yes. He is a major character in The Riverworld novels. As they have a similar premise to your story, it would be just too much similarity if you were to also include him.

And dang, over 15000 words?! Man, I'm seriously running behind. I've just past 8500.

I didn't write at all yesterday. Dealing witha major hard drive problem: data recovery. Grrr. At least the nano story files were not lost: they were safe on their ext3 partition (the fat32 partition is the one that failed). In addition that problem, I'm getting really tired of this story. I'm just throwing random stuff at our characters to keep the moving and there's no plot or anything emerging. Feh. I'm only pressing on out of a Rashelle-like commitment to finish it.

I also added yet another excerpt. Hmm, this story isn't going to remain pg-13 at this rate. I mean seriously, taking a video+audio phone call while under a shower? A phone call from a pervert? Well, he did bash on Emmy for a bit but you've gotta admit, the girl was asking for it.

Err? Well, since it's the future, maybe the vid-phone automatically edits the outgoing video in real time to mask out the "naughty parts" so it's safe/convenient to take a call in the shower????