NanoWrimo

[GodrictheGriffon]

I gave up too! I'm not one for deadlines and am not very inspired by this plot so I'll be writing this whenever I get bored.
By the way, Salem, I love Mulan too so there's no reason to be ashamed!

[choki]

how does the nanowrimo keep track of the word count? do we have to type the novel in their website or something (ie. no copy-n-paste function from normal word processor?)

otherwise how does they know when you started writing the novel? in a sense you could have start the writing ages ago and then put in the whole clunk to submit

[salemboy]

It's based completely on an honors system. In other words, they trust people to not be arrogant pigs. You write it in whatever, and you just punch in your word count on the website. You don't even have to use the verifyer. Of course, I don't lie about my word count.

[*Riley*]

My absence from the computer has provoked me to pull out.
Interesting story plots though, good luck to anyway who goes ahead with it!

[FawkesthePhoenix]

i just reached 10,000! woo! a fifth of the way there! and i just gave my main character some major phsychological problems!

[salemboy]

lol. I'm back to being three days behind. I'll probably go through a marathon tonight, then tomorrow I'll finish up the rest of my missing words, along with that day's load.

Psychological problems? I've done that with my other book. And I'm talking major psychological problems, like kill your best friend problems, see hallucinations problems, and scream out loud from pain that you don't know where it came from problems.

In this book, the guy doesn't have as many psychological problems, because the cause of the problems doesn't come about until the end of this book. The psychological problems he will probably face are being a hard-butted, stubborn, instigator. But that's closer to the end, like I said.

Riley, I will nag you to death next year, so that you remember.

[FawkesthePhoenix]

My character's phsychological problems are mostly because of her relationship with her father. her mother died, and her father got so eaten up from his grief that he estranged himself from his feelings, and his daughter, because she looks just like her mother. my character was seven when it happened, and she didn't understand what was going on, she just knew that Daddy wouldn't play with her anymore. So now she's all independent and has problems trusting people and letting herself care about them, etc.

[DucksRMagical]

Go Fawkes! I'm glad you stuck in some psych problems. I think your story needed that.

I've put in a bunch of psych issues into In Moonlight's Shadow, but not much into my NaNo. There's a little angst, but no blown out disorders or anything.

I'm up to 27,766 words!

[*Riley*]

Duckie, I'm pretty sure that's classified as a novella, good job!

Oh, and Salemboy, I will still atempt but don't you think I'm a bit late ? It's already the 10th of November, I've got 20 days to write 50,000 words.
That'd mean I'd have to write like over 2,000 words a day.
( I tried figuring the actual thing out but then couldn't be bothered (

[choki]

hahaha, good luck everyone.
writing 2000 words per day... hmmm, unless you have a complete plotline for the story, it shouldn't be that hard. All I have are just some plots here and there. Doubt I'll join the NanoWrimo. Hahaha, I should just write it as a leisure writing hobby ~ a story about a person who has 10 more days to live

[salemboy]

Hmmm, that sounds a lot like a book I've heard of from somewhere... Oh, well. It sounds good to me. 2000 words a day? Pshaw. That's nothing. Ok, it might be something, but still, imagine what those NanoWrimo administrators must be doing. Having to govern the website, write e-mails, and write their stories. I'm grateful that I only have to write my story.

[DucksRMagical]

I'm up to 31,470 words!

And I have put a bit of psychology into it. I figured it wouldn't take long for that to happen.

2000 words a day isn't bad. I do 2000 of my NaNo a day and then probably somewhere between 1000 and 2000 of my fan fics a day.

[salemboy]

Duckie, you are one of the rare few. I can barely manage 1700 a day. Now, I really should get back to writing my other newspaper article, but with video games going on in the room next door, I can barely concentrate. Grrr, must... concentrate... harder.

[choki]

ya i bet it sounds familiar, afterall, there r some movies/novels dealing with what to do with e remaining days of ur life. but i hope to add twists to e story
lol concentration- the power of will! one thing, would the stories submitted get published online?

[salemboy]

You can post excerpts, but no, they are in fact not published online. You would have to do that yourself, which is why I'm desperately trying to finish the editing process of my first book, and then publish it.