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]

Blockie, you flatter me. It's mostly technobabble if you look at it closely. Though I am rather proud of my cooling function. For as far as I know, no one ever brought forth the issue of heat generation in all the ultra-performance implants. And yeah, I've been craving for some sci-fi for a while now. In fact, I'm up at 11.756 words right now and have just introduced my first giant mecha! Ok, not giant. It's only about half as tall as a Gundam.

Right now, Emmy is going to take it for a test flight. Don't worry, the AI will prevent crashlandings and mere tripping. And if you're wondering just what her breakfast was. It was fried cockroach with spiced meat inside. I've heard that bugs are quite tasty actually.

Minque, it's too bad to hear, but I understand. This is indeed a lot harder than it sounded at the start of the month. Oh well, at least you can say you tried, right?


Oh, and who among us is going to post his or her work here at the end of the week? I'm pretty sure that I'm going to do it. Escalation has become a project I want to see through to its end. But I'll also return to Oasis 2 and Corrupted Hearth in December.

This post has been edited by jack cloudy: Nov 11 2007, 09:03 PM