Nanowrimo 2006

[upsidedownwalrus]

I dunno if anyone else bothered requesting the NanoBook (a pdf document) which is full of tips and stuff, but quite a good quote from the interview with Chris Baty:

Vision: Do you see any particular genre as being more popular then others?

Chris Baty: Not so much. I know fantasy and scifi are very popular. Because I don't get to read anyone's novels apart from my friends', so I think I have a skewed notion of what people are writing. From my end, it looks like everyone is writing vaguely autobiographical, character-driven fiction about people who have just turned 30 and are still confused about what they want to be when they grow up.

So, my book, being a mixture of the 2, could well be the definitive nanonovel

 

[May Kasahara]

Scared? Why?

Because it would mean giving up sitting on my arse wishing I would start writing again and actually starting to write again, thereby removing my nice comfy 'don't try-don't fail' loser option and forcing me to confront the twin devils of hard work and size of talent.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Well, your username indicates good taste in choice of reading material

 

[May Kasahara]

I'm just a fool with a worn-out library card.

 

[Dead Cat Bounce]

I'll be lucky if I hit 25,000, still plugging away though. I've enjoyed it even though I won't make the finish line.

I thought that with all the time in the world at work I could breeze through but the office just doesn't motivate me at all, I think about fifty words were laid down at work. The tube, pubs and the empty flat If could write at - no problems.

Oh well , I'll finish it at some point during December

 

[marty21]

47240, just about timing it right, might finish tomorrow with a day to spare

i'll kind of miss it when it's over, even though the 50,000 word thing has been hanging over me all month, it's been cool, forcing myself to write

 

[marty21]

48041 - off to bed

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Cool. You should finish comfortably tonight

 

[onemonkey]

Well done RenegadeDog

 

[marty21]

50,007

with a day to spare

phew!!!!


2nd year in a row

so glad it's over, although strangely deflated as well

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Congratulations :Cool:

perhaps we can do a nanobook swap?

Thing is I need to finish mine still, and I've found I've run out of steam a bit. Sort of post-nano depression

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Well done RenegadeDog

Cheers. Did you get yours finished?

 

[marty21]

Congratulations :Cool:

perhaps we can do a nanobook swap?

Thing is I need to finish mine still, and I've found I've run out of steam a bit. Sort of post-nano depression

we could do that, it's a real mess at the moment, not in order, i kept shooting ahead and back in the story, i'm pleased with some of the dialogue, and the narrative has some strong points, but there's an awful lot of padding

onemonkey, any chance of getting across the finish line today?

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Same with mine, there were bits where I would just, say, throw in a 500 word 'reminiscence' about something from the past. It's the only way to get it done quickly.

I really need to try something in a totally different genre. Most of the writing I've done til now has basically been one style. A bit of fantasy, a bit of scfifi, a bit of personal stuff about travel etc. I'd like to give something like crime fiction a go.

 

[onemonkey]

sitting here with 31,301 words on the page.. unlikely that i will add to that before midnight.. so my second glorious failure.. that's three unfinished novels under my belt now.

2004 - 52,300 words which is about 85% of what i expect that novel to be (currently about 56000 or 90% done )
2005 - 12,500 words - (currently 20k and one with the most promise)
2006 - 31,300 words - i won't give up on it completely

I reckon if I work at 166.7 words a day for next 300 days i will have at least finished one of them before 2007 nano comes around

 

[onemonkey]

well done marty100k

good effort dead cat bounce


who's coming to the TFIO party?

Event: 'Thank God It's Over' Party
Date: Saturday, the 2nd of December
Start Time: 1pm

Venue: The Round Table, Leicester Square
We'll be in the upstairs room of the pub if it hasn't been claimed by anyone else.
The pub serves food, and is non-smoking upstairs until 4pm.

Directions: The pub is in St. Martins Court, just off Charing Cross Road - see map
(For those coming via Leicester Square Station: exit on to Charing Cross Road, turn left, and St. Martins Court is the first turning on your left after the big theatre.)

How to spot your fellow novelists: There will be a small cuddly meerkat, and possibly, if we're very, very lucky, some kind of sign.

 

[Dead Cat Bounce]

I'm still going...

Ninety minutes left and twenty five thousand to words to write

I'll try and make the party on Saturday.

 

[marty21]

glorious failures, that's also what nanowrimo is about

i'll try and get to the drink on saturday

 

[marty21]

I'm still going...

Ninety minutes left and twenty five thousand to words to write

I'll try and make the party on Saturday.

still plenty of time, 2 hours 14 mins by my clock

 

[Wookey]

Well done Marty21.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Well done Marty21.

*ahem*

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

So marty, how is your book going post nano?

I actually have been neglecting mine for about the last week, been distracted by another project (making a game on the sudslore adventure game maker)

need to get back to it

 

[marty21]

So marty, how is your book going post nano?

I actually have been neglecting mine for about the last week, been distracted by another project (making a game on the sudslore adventure game maker)

need to get back to it

haven't looked at it, it was the same last year, i've just sent last years and this years to a mate to have a look at, keep meaning to go back to them, i preferred last years tbh...maybe over the xmas break I'll have a look at both of them

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Yeah my impetus has really been lost since the end.

at self.