Na-No-Wri-Mo 2009! The year I win!

[Anling]

I'm writing. But my computer died, so I'm doing it by hand. I've got a couple thousand words I think. Writing by hand helps because I don't write in a linear way, random scenes that will eventually be stitched together. I'm having fun so far anyway.

 

[Zero]

*stabs sagewolf for answering for Melkor*

Don't even start that *beep* I got chased out of a writing group not long ago filled with a bunch of Fs and they did that... It annoyed the *beep* out of me. And it makes me nervous. It's like... a fat squirrel staring you down on the sidewalk and you can't tell if it'll attack you or not if you pass it.

On another note, Fantasy is bomb, so is Sci-fi. But sometimes Sci-fi it makes sense to use Earth and thus... With sci-fi there's a settle revenge on humanity, considering you can blow them up or end Earth however you want.

 

[Melkor]

Zero, if you beleive I'm a whaaa ENTJ(?), then you probably need therapy.


And if it's despair you want, I *shall* provide.

*Traps Zero in a spindly web of blood red sigils, before calling on the fallen angels of lore to wipe her smutty smirk from sentience*

I'm done ruining this thread.

*hides*

 

[Zero]

I come and go as I please, which means I tend to be gone for long hiatuses though.

I could've sworn when I first saw you around here you said you were an ENTJ. Did you change your mind or something? I could've sworn you were going around saying "Submit to me! I'm a great Leader!"

Was it all a ploy?

WTF is "smutty smirk"? Are you drunk ?


Anyway, about the thread. Where are we suppose to be now? WC?

 

[Reverse Transcriptase]

We should be at 25k by Sunday.
*Is dreading the deadline*
I'm going to seriously apply myself.

 

[sagewolf]

I'm at 28k now. Just put in some time and you'll do fine. Or write crap, like this, to break a writer's block:

Then they all shut up because there were suddenly some zombies in the room somehow so the author could finally get Derek infected and force the scientist guy to chop his arm off so they would have to go to the other scientist guy finally because I have no idea how to move this plot forward anymore and that's what's on my next scene-note-index card.

Bye bye fourth wall. You were nice while you lasted.

Well, anyway, there are zombies in the room now, and they're going after everyone. Re-establishing standard third-person past narrative style that has graced the virtual pages of this google documents file up until now.

Only it's going to be outside now.
And I'm going to skip the fight because it is likely to be boring.

The fight is now over and Derek got bitten on the arm. Resume actual narrative if my brain would like to fscking cooperate for once. And no, brain, you do not need to grace the forums with this. If I don't see a big 30,000 word+ word count in my participant bar before the end of tonight, you do not get to post this.

I feel bad for not intending to delete that. But it's words and it works, so I will simply edit it out in December/January/the plane ride to Ireland or whenever I get the time to do that stuff.

Onward.

I broke it pretty well, actually: I wrote about 2.5k that night. Now I'm stuck again and I
ll likely do the same thing: just skip whatever boring thing I didn't want to write and get to the interesting part I do want to. There's an awkward scene coming up and think I'm aboiding writing it at all.

 

[Zero]

Okay, thanks. I'm barely in the margin. I'll write more today.


*I joined the site, I thought it was just something casual. Now I kind of feel nervous about it.

 

[saffyangelis]

http://picpaste.com/pics/50k.1258249794.png

So am I the first to win then? =P (Screenshot of word count in spoiler tags)

For the record though, my book is hideous =/

Edit: Screenshot not working, so there's just a link instead

 

[sagewolf]

Is it just me, or is that not showing anything?

Congratulations, though! (And did you see what I posted? The actual plot that follows it actually managed to be worse! Somehow.)

 

[saffyangelis]

My sentences are all written at various times around midnight, so I read back a bit, and I've managed to forget what I was typing mid-sentence and not notice =/
I'm going to finish the plot, then edit like mad at the end of the month. Any spare days, and I can re-write scenes etc I think

 

[sagewolf]

Good plan. I'll start re-writing in January, I think, and spend December working on drawing one comic (the one I'm scripting and laying out now) and scripting/laying out another one. That book just needs to rest for a while... There are so many plotholes.

 

[Zero]

saffy, I think you are the first. Congrats.

Are you doing the whole thing, like with NaNoWriMo?

I guess most people doing have probably signed up.

 

[Zero]

I'm falling behind now. I only have 31200 we're suppose to be at 36+. I'll probably write a bit during the Thanks Giving break. I won't be at my usual computer, thus no games.

 

[Ashenstar]

Any other updates?

*looks directly at RT since he was the one who started the whole thing*

 

[saffyangelis]

November 30th.

Who's won/on track to win by midnight?

 

[sagewolf]

On track, with two hours/~1500 words to go (I use Openoffice, which is more generous with its word counts than NaNo's validator is, so I overshoot from the perspective I have right now.

And to think, when I woke up yesterday I only had 35k written. Woot!

EDIT: Look down. We have no suitably celebratory smilies. How about one raising a glass of the blood of his vanquished enemies to his own victory? Or one wearing the head of another smilie as a party hat, sort or Belkar-style? Those would be good celebration smilies.

 

[Zero]

I got to 44k on the last night.

Did anyone win?

 

[Latro]

Saffy won like 2 weeks ago somehow...

 

[Zero]

Do you mean Saffy submitted and everything? So we do have one person who made it through. That's pretty cool. Is Saffy going to continue with the program?

If a book comes out of this... I may buy it.

 

[Latro]

I dunno if she submitted it, but she claims that the final product is terrible.

 

[Zero]

Heh, well that's rough drafts. She's probably being too hard on it anyway.

 

[saffyangelis]

I did submit it, yeah. If I hurry up and manage to turn it into a half-way decent second draft in under 6 months, I get a free copy of it ^_^ (That's why I remembered to submit it)

It /is/ hideous though, trust me. I wrote about 10k in about 4 hours on the first day and I'd hardly slept.. and it all went downhill from there.... I tend to stick with the 'if you don't know what to write, kill a character' approach.. I think out of the original three characters, one lived, and out of the three that wandered in by themselves, only another one lived... so two out of six made it.. and I only wanted a couple of deaths at the most >_<

I'm planning on trying to write the second draft over my christmas holidays though.. I think I prefer this one to last years.

And Sage, would a smiley cheering and then collapsing to fall asleep work too? =P

 

[sagewolf]

Oh yes, that would be a wonderful smilie for NaNo winners. That and a smilie with an intravenous drip containing pure caffeine, rocking back and forth on his heels singing nursery rhymes to himself, while plotbunnies slowly marinade his head in barbecue sauce.

I won too, Zero! Look at my sig! I kind of scraped it, though... after an entire week of procrastinating, I wound up having to write 15k in two days... one of which was a workday.

I tend to stick with the 'if you don't know what to write, kill a character' approach.. I think out of the original three characters, one lived, and out of the three that wandered in by themselves, only another one lived... so two out of six made it.. and I only wanted a couple of deaths at the most >_<

Niiiiice. Your characters must love you to death, Saffy. I didn't kill anyone, but I did have ont of the MCs be infected by a zombie bite, after which I decided to save him because he's the Only Sane Man and they... kind of need him bad. So I had them cut off his arm. And take him to a doctor who also specialised in cybernetics (don't ask what kind of post-apocalyptic future has dirt villages AND cybernetics, please: just don't). Then, and only then, does a little voice in my head pop up and say, "you do realise you've just landed yourself a time-skip, right? Because he's going to need rehab."

...

Oh, look, I can do characterisation scenes. Look, this one likes gardening! Isn't that weird? Yeah, this is going nowhere.

 

[saffyangelis]

Mine hate me, I think... or they should... I think half the reason I'm putting off my re-writes is so I don't have to go kill them all off again... I felt kinda bad killing of Vaheeth the first time, and now I know how bad Indra takes it =/ I can blame Leta though. It was her plan that killed most of 'em off, and Coin took care of the other plans. Even if Indra did most of the actual killing...

Your book sounds interesting though, Sage. *nags Sage to let her read it sometime*

And I vote for that smiley! Someone go find/make one please? *pokes people at random until someone makes that smiley*

 

[sagewolf]

When I get my real computer back, I will make the smiley. It'll be too much fun to resist. (This one crashes if I open a word processor; I don't want to set it on fire by trying to create an animated gif.)

*nags Sage to let her read it sometime*

When it's not horrible anymore, I will let you read it. No worries!

 

[Zero]

I saw your signature, sagewolf. You didn't say anything here about it, so I wasn't sure if you wanted people mentioning it or not.

Congrats to both of you.

So, you get a free copy of your book? I wasn't sure how the winnings worked. I guess I should've read it on NaNoWriMo. I thought you got a month to edit it? etc...?

I guess I thought NaNoWriMo had some kind of prize that would ultimately result in some kind form of publication. It doesn't seem that way though. I would've tried harder to finish it, had I realized that. Oh well, I procrastinated a lot.

When it seems like I'm running out of material and even when I'm not I tend to add characters. It's probably better to go the other way, because it gets really confusing when you have like five main characters and a loud of side characters to keep track of. One of my characters was a mind reader, but he was a side character. It was kind of hard to leave him behind when I had pretty much developed him. I'm not sure readers would understand that.

When both of you have your books edited, aren't you going to show us all?

You should show us now >u<