NaNoWriMo 2007: If you don't do it, you're a wussie!

Kris X · Post by **Kris X** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 7:37 am

I'll probably do it, but I'm not sure I want to submit my writing to them. So maybe I'll just participate on my own and see if I can do it by myself without registering. Y'know, run along side and follow the rules, but no registration. e.e

Jim North · Post by **Jim North** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 9:12 am

rkolter wrote:
prettydragoon wrote:B-b-but... but I don't even *know* 50,000 words!
You're allowed to repeat some words.

I shall have an obsessive-compulsive character who stammers every word he says fifty times!

But truthfully, I'm not even going to try to enter this year. I didn't get a single word done last year because, like so many other people, real life got in the way. And this year, things keep getting exponentially more cluttered and distracting.

Good luck to the rest of y'all, tho'!

Sput · Post by **Sput** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 1:43 pm

Kris X wrote:I'll probably do it, but I'm not sure I want to submit my writing to them. So maybe I'll just participate on my own and see if I can do it by myself without registering. Y'know, run along side and follow the rules, but no registration. e.e

you doooooo know that no one reads it? like, at all? all it does is a word count electronically, and then it's deleted. no human ever sees it. O_o

Doombug · Post by **Doombug** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 2:05 pm

Since I'm literate and all, I guess I might as well try.
That's a lot of words...

K-Dawg · Post by **K-Dawg** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 2:17 pm

As long as I can write "screw flanders" over and over again I'm good.

Rickford · Post by **Rickford** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 2:34 pm

I... am in a mood. I have moods now and again. I'll get the idea into my head that I should be writing an album, and that it will be the greatest thing anyone has ever heard. Or the idea that I should be writing a script for an awesome sitcom I've been thinking about, that would rock the socks off the entire world. Or I'll think to myself that I should be painting something that will make the most cold-hearted of people weep.

Currently I am thinking that I should participate in this, and then I will get the book published and live off the proceeds.

... give it five minutes and the mood will pass, and I'll go back to trying to eat cereal from a plate.

Pimpette · Post by **Pimpette** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 7:36 pm

Tim wrote:
Pimpette wrote:DAMN YOU NANOWRIMO
Always picking inopportune times.
Yeah! How dare they pick the same month every year!

Hush you. >_>

Vorticus · Post by **Vorticus** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 7:44 pm

They keep picking bad times to have this. We'll see if I try at all as I have about time for one creative project in my head at a time and last year when I had a comic going I didn't get a single word written.

Kris X · Post by **Kris X** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 8:33 pm

sput wrote:
Kris X wrote:I'll probably do it, but I'm not sure I want to submit my writing to them. So maybe I'll just participate on my own and see if I can do it by myself without registering. Y'know, run along side and follow the rules, but no registration. e.e
you doooooo know that no one reads it? like, at all? all it does is a word count electronically, and then it's deleted. no human ever sees it. O_o

And I'm a paranoid freakazoid... So yeah, I'll not register.

Sput · Post by **Sput** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 9:12 pm

Kris X wrote:
sput wrote:
Kris X wrote:I'll probably do it, but I'm not sure I want to submit my writing to them. So maybe I'll just participate on my own and see if I can do it by myself without registering. Y'know, run along side and follow the rules, but no registration. e.e
you doooooo know that no one reads it? like, at all? all it does is a word count electronically, and then it's deleted. no human ever sees it. O_o
And I'm a paranoid freakazoid... So yeah, I'll not register.

i'm a paranoid freakazoid, but that tends to go away when i know the actual process on how it works. you can also register and not send anything to them. the profiles have a place where you input the number of words you have, or at least it's been like that for the past three years.

just sayin. XD

K-Dawg · Post by **K-Dawg** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 6:47 am

I'm gonna do it, this will give me an excuse to write out the super secret mysterious comic project I'm working out.

Doombug · Post by **Doombug** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 3:10 pm

Kris X wrote:And I'm a paranoid freakazoid... So yeah, I'll not register.

I never register on any site without extreme prior deliberation.
Because the internet is only out there to steal my revolutionary ideas!

Dr Legostar · Post by **Dr Legostar** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 6:14 pm

Doombug wrote:
Kris X wrote:And I'm a paranoid freakazoid... So yeah, I'll not register.
I never register on any site without extreme prior deliberation.
Because the internet is only out there to steal my revolutionary ideas!

i think it'd be best if someone did steal them, cause you're not really doing anything with them.

BrownEyedCat · Post by **BrownEyedCat** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 11:06 pm

Hmm. I'll have to check my schedule . . .

*opens planner, which has 'unemployed' written across every page*

. . . I think I can squeeze it in!

It will give me a chance to work out that one project which seems to refuse to work in comic form. Maybe novel is a better idea for it . . .

Oh, and with the submitting thing. They suggest, if you want to be super sure no one will read it, that you find-and-replace all the letters so it turns to gibberish. Gibberish - but with the same word count!

DarkDancer · Post by **DarkDancer** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 5:42 am

I'm in, again, for year four. Maybe this year I'll get past 10,000 words. Not making any promises, what with graduation in December and all that.

Black Sparrow · Post by **Black Sparrow** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 7:25 am

BrownEyedCat wrote:Oh, and with the submitting thing. They suggest, if you want to be super sure no one will read it, that you find-and-replace all the letters so it turns to gibberish. Gibberish - but with the same word count!

Sounds like the world's biggest Cryptogram!

Fishies · Post by **Fishies** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 10:19 am

I've done it before (many many years ago... oh man did those stories suck) But this year I have too many papers due in November. Alas.

Sput · Post by **Sput** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 9:52 pm

necroing for great justice at 3k words~

Dr Legostar · Post by **Dr Legostar** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 9:55 pm

2k for me so far, but i didn't have much time to write today.

Black Sparrow · Post by **Black Sparrow** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 10:14 pm

Ahaha. You two read my mind.

I threw together a quick wiki page to keep track of progress. I'll link it in the first post. Prettyfy it how you like.