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Surprisingly, I let him

ladycat — Wed, 2 Dec 2009 17:06:13 -0500

Surprisingly, I let him live, though I was pretty cross with him at the time.

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"I want to live in Theory. Everything works there."

The cat or the laptop ?

ygor — Tue, 1 Dec 2009 17:10:49 -0500

I would expect the cat is running quite frantically

>^..^< meow !
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"I think the surest sign that there is intelligent life out there in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." (Calvin and Hobbes/Bill Waterson)

Sadly, I was unable to

ladycat — Tue, 1 Dec 2009 16:46:07 -0500

Sadly, I was unable to complete my novel, partly because on Thanksgiving, my laptop fell victim to an accident involving a cat and a glass of wine. :-(
Hopefully, we'll be able to get it running again before too long, so I can resume working on my book.

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"I want to live in Theory. Everything works there."

Made it to the end of NaNoWriMo

Katrina — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:29:53 -0500

Well, NaNoWriMo is finished here in Australia - not long and it'll be finished everywhere.

I made it and got to 50,000 words. Yay!

Now all I've got to do is to edit my 50,000 words into something that is readable. :D

;D

Tournevis — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:59:40 -0500

*smooch*

nano downunder

Katrina — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:25:01 -0500

Oh, that's what that weird tunnel is overhead. The gateway to Tournevis's story. :D

My draft is also woeful but it is just over 26,000 words.
Yay! Made it to half way by the 15th.

cheers
Katrina
in Australia

I can corroborate

Tournevis — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:28:25 -0500

All my first drafts suck so bad, you can see Australia at the other end. It's what first drafts do.

Yup

Friend of Pens — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:11:17 -0500

If it wasn't for crappy prose, I'd have no novel at all. ALL first drafts suck. Every one of them. NaNo just entitles you the chance to write something really, really bad in a short amount of time, rather than hand-wringing over a draft that takes years to write.

Don't sell yourself short, or raise other people's work up so high. Everything we're writing is 80% awful, but that just provides the fertilizer for the 20% good stuff that will grow and blossom into the second draft.

Also, the principle at the

Tournevis — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:34:58 -0500

Also, the principle at the heart of NaNoWriMo is that you have the right to suck.

You are fine

LisaPT — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:13:20 -0500

You don't suck. Writing fast doesn't work for everyone. If you read how different, famous writers create, every single on of them does their own thing in their own way. Figure out what works for you. Just don't give up. I often get sad about how many great novels the world might have missed because they never got written.

I suck

maddiehope — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:19:27 -0500

Only gotten around 2600 so far. I've decided I'm not meant to write so fast. I hate what I have, and I refuse to do a rewrite that isn't any better than the original.

So I've continued to work on the organizational manuscript and I'm counting my blurbs and notes and summaries from it (I know it won't verify, but I'm doing this for myself)once I get them typed up. When I get to where I'm ready, I'll try the writing again. Hoping I'll at least get half the count in actual novel text. We'll see.

I'm not giving up. It's just turned into a self-test as opposed to a verifiable test.

I've solved the problem. I

ladycat — Sun, 8 Nov 2009 20:56:25 -0500

I've solved the problem. I went back and made some changes to slow down the emotional progress, and moved the two scenes that really show that they're in love to the end. So I've kept my word count up, and I have two scenes written that I'll use later in the story.

Andrea
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"I want to live in Theory. Everything works there."

No, just throw some

SusanBeth — Sun, 8 Nov 2009 11:50:05 -0500

No, just throw some obstacles in the way. Like an old boyfriend of hers comes to town, and new boyfriend gets jealous.

Or new boyfriend has to go away to take care of something he doesn't want to explain (maybe his kid sister has gotten in with a the wrong gang, or something else embarrassing) and heroine assumes he's breaking up with her so she lets her friends set her up with a blind date.

Misunderstandings and lover's spats are what you need now. :D

I'm going to have to go back

ladycat — Sun, 8 Nov 2009 02:10:53 -0500

I'm going to have to go back and redo a lot of what I've written so far. I'm writing a love story story that was meant to take most of a month of story-time to develop, but my two main characters went and fell in love by day two! Now what are they going to do for the rest of their month? Nope, I need to go back and slow things down.

Andrea
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"I want to live in Theory. Everything works there."

I'm WAY behind : (

fairydustwings — Sat, 7 Nov 2009 16:40:50 -0500

I've only written 5090 words. It doesn't look like I am going to make it. I want that 50% off Scrivener code so badly. Maybe if I pull one all nighter I could catch up. I find it hard to write when my kids are up, I have an itty bitty one that's just learned to crawl and he keeps me busy.

NaNoWriMo 2009: Once More Into the Breach Good Friends

innowen — Wed, 7 Oct 2009 18:20:46 -0400

It’s October and that means only one thing. The NaNoWriMo site relaunched and the forum boards opened to a flood of new ideas and discussions. It’s time to sign-up and explore the depths of your inner writer. Those familiar with this site and my column know that I am a 100% rabid devotee of NaNoWriMo. I’ve been participating in this madcap writing adventure for eight years now. As of this post, I have no idea what I’ll be writing about. But I’m confident that when the clock strikes midnight, signaling the beginning of November 2009, that I will be off and running, and writing until I reach 50,000 words.

Usually, I’d spend this post sharing some tidbit of wisdom or knowledge to help those who have joined in the fun learn how to be triumphant in this challenge. However, I’ve become insanely busy this year; so instead this post sounds more like a NaNoWri-cap or "best of" listing, rather than me sharing something new. Let the list of links below refresh your memory and spark new ideas for this year’s crop of noveling insanity.

NaNoWriMo 2008 Last year’s post talked about how I went analog and gave you all some ideas on how to join in on the fun with me.
NaNoWriMo 2007 Advice from a first time participant on what helped them achieve greatness.
NaNoWriMo 2006 The power of brainstorming and how it can help you uncover plot ideas and generate outlines.
NaNoWriMo 2005 Using D*I*Y Compact Planner Story forms to plot your way to victory.
Review: No Plot? No Problem! A review of the NaNoWriMo companion book written Chris Baty, the founder of NaNoWriMo.
Cheer Me On: Writing Buddies How you and your friends can cheer each other on as you write, write, write all through November.

If you’re gunning for novelizing glory come join us! Add me and the other members from D*I*Y Planner who take on this challenge to your buddy list. To all the official (and un-official) NaNoWriMo 2009 participants, good luck and I hope your muses bless you with many, many words.

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