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Jack Scorpion

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zaika said:
HA!!!! lol that's failing miserably? oh dear. try not getting past 10,000 each year since 2003. sorry to laugh. it's just that i would be very proud of myself to finish the month at 47,000 words. you should too. that's a great accomplishment!

hope i didn't offend. ;)

The year before that I reached, I think, 7,000.

I called 47,000 miserable... because to get THAT close and not reach 50,000 was a serious knife wound in the gut. I think I wrote something like 13,000 words in the last 2 days.

On a similar note, when I completed the 50,000, I wrote the last 10,000 in one night, giving half-credit to a bottle of vodka. (And that was by hand. I think I have arthritis now.)

Yes, please do start a thread so that I may check up on the happenings. Who knows, if October turns to be as unproductive as the last 3 months, which odds are it will, I might force myself to retry the 50,000.
 

zaika

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Jack Scorpion said:
The year before that I reached, I think, 7,000.

I called 47,000 miserable... because to get THAT close and not reach 50,000 was a serious knife wound in the gut. I think I wrote something like 13,000 words in the last 2 days.

On a similar note, when I completed the 50,000, I wrote the last 10,000 in one night, giving half-credit to a bottle of vodka. (And that was by hand. I think I have arthritis now.)

Yes, please do start a thread so that I may check up on the happenings. Who knows, if October turns to be as unproductive as the last 3 months, which odds are it will, I might force myself to retry the 50,000.

i see...yes. to have the goal so close...i, too would be annoyed. ;)
oh, hey! a trick! i will have to have some hard liquor handy. i can imagine it now. a night of passionate writing and lots of booze. i love it! lol
if not this one, i will start a thread for the actual duration.
 

Jack Scorpion

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I JUST decided, despite the level of alcohol in my system, that I will participate in this year's NaNoWriMo. Let's keep this thread on the first page, y'all.
 

carter

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zaika said:
how? how did you do it? i sit down to write and nothing comes. nothing. ??? this year i'm going to attempt to just write anything down, even if it's utter rubbish.

In that case...can I publish an edited (how quite escapes me at the moment) version of WONK? lol :eek:

At the very least, the readers may develop quite a serious headache and a raging thirst. :D
 

zaika

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carter said:
In that case...can I publish an edited (how quite escapes me at the moment) version of WONK? lol :eek:

At the very least, the readers may develop quite a serious headache and a raging thirst. :D

for nanowrimo (not that anyone's really policing the things), you can't count works that are simply edited. you have to write 50,000 words from 11/1-30. but i'm sure you're re-write would be HYSTERICAL. i, for one, would love to read it. lol
 

zaika

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Jack Scorpion said:
I JUST decided, despite the level of alcohol in my system, that I will participate in this year's NaNoWriMo. Let's keep this thread on the first page, y'all.

:eusa_clap good luck to you jack!

i need some alcohol in my system...i might stock up just for november.

my liver will hate me.
 

Ada Veen

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I just joined too! My user name is Emmpanda. I didn't friend anyone cos I couldn't work out how to do it.:eusa_doh:
 

carter

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zaika said:
for nanowrimo (not that anyone's really policing the things), you can't count works that are simply edited. you have to write 50,000 words from 11/1-30. but i'm sure you're re-write would be HYSTERICAL. i, for one, would love to read it. lol

Perhaps I could rewrite it as 'A-work-within-a-work', much as Noises Off is a play-within-a-play. Hmmm...
 

Twitch

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Beside the couple hundred articles I've written, I also have 3 book length manuscripts. I write historical combat stuff mostly about WW II air combat. My articles have been published in now-defunct magazines and on a few websites of the same genre. The old search for a publisher for books is an arduous one and with my medical ailments I've about lost interest anyhow.

Self publishing is an alternative for some of you perhaps. I look at that but can't see any major plus for my situation. If nothing else you can say you did it for yourself.[huh]
 

nyx

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After much thought, I'm going to give it a try too. I realized if I spent as much time writing, as I did reading and posting in these forums, I'd have written at least 3 books by now :D My name is "nyxnemesis" on the website.
 

zaika

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Ladies and Gentlemen,
NaNoWriMo begins at midnight tonight. I wish you all luck.
Question...would you like me to start a new thread for daily/weekly check in's, questions, inspiration, venting? I wonder if we could start our own Fedora Lounge thread in the NaNoWriMo forums?
Let me know what you think...or if you care. lol
 

AeroDillo

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Never done it myself, but my girlfriend's been at it for years.

Last year, she decided it wasn't challenge enough and did NaNoWriWeek.

Then not long after, she did NaNoWriDay. :eek:
 

zaika

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Okay, so I started a thread in NaNoWriMo's forum under the room "Writing Groups and Clubs" if you want to hang out there as well. We can keep this thread going, too!
 

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