LitWridoNaNoWriMo 2004 - The Support Thread

[Alex De Kok]

Does this count?

You might remember, I blazed away at my first attempt, but the story lost its way and I started again. I added a few words to the first attempt, and it's now at 22404, but needs a good looking-at.

My second attempt, a fantasy, provisionally 'Orb of Asala' (nice goddess, Asala, I like her) crawled to 27710 today. This does of course mean that I've managed 50k words, but does it count, in two different novels? I need to turn away for a while, as I've three OU assignments to complete by December 10.

Alex

 

[English Lady]

Alex -I'm pretty certain I've seen posts with people saying they're ocmbining words form different places. I reckon as long as you've written it in November and its a story type thing it counts!

 

[Guest]

Re: Does this count?

You might remember, I blazed away at my first attempt, but the story lost its way and I started again. I added a few words to the first attempt, and it's now at 22404, but needs a good looking-at.

My second attempt, a fantasy, provisionally 'Orb of Asala' (nice goddess, Asala, I like her) crawled to 27710 today. This does of course mean that I've managed 50k words, but does it count, in two different novels? I need to turn away for a while, as I've three OU assignments to complete by December 10.

Alex

Yep! If I remember rightly, I said as much to you in a PM. Ok, so both chunks of words are not part of the same novel, but bloody hell! You've written them all during November!

It's just like many others I have seen (including Og, last year) who wrote a series of shorts as their novels.

For NaNo, I have written part of one novel (not two), but it is still only part, I'll be finishing off after November.

Upload the file, Alex, you're a winner!!!

Lou

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Grats Alex

*HUGS*

 

[pop_54]

well done U4ea!


wow Pops you're like the energizer bunny aren't you love?*L*

So I've been told dear Cept I aint battery operated

 

[Alex De Kok]

Okay ladies, I've taken your kidding. Achieved word count, 50944, according to Open Office word count (I wrote a few more before verifying!)

Now for my assignments!

Alex

 

[Guest]

Okay ladies, I've taken your kidding. Achieved word count, 50944, according to Open Office word count (I wrote a few more before verifying!)

Now for my assignments!

Alex

WOOHOO!!!!

Congrats!

Lou

 

[Black Tulip]

Ok, it will be a close call but I will count my Winter Contest story as well. It was written in November after all.

All together my word count now is: 42832

Crossing my fingers I will find the time to finish the last 7000 or so words.

High time to take a nap, it's past two in the morning right now.



Hugs for all of you who have made it.

 

[pop_54]

Okay ladies, I've taken your kidding. Achieved word count, 50944, according to Open Office word count (I wrote a few more before verifying!)

Now for my assignments!

Alex

Yea get on with some real boring work now mate Nice one Alex, another Lit champion.


Come on Boss Lou, never mind flirting on here, get that word count up You're on the home straight darling

Hey Tulip darling, you'll do it easily, I have confidence in you

 

[sweetnpetite]

Can i count my posts? (after all I wrote them in November)


Gee, all this cheating- and I was worried about using a story that I had already started and writing 50,000 words more w/in the month.

 

[English Lady]

woo hoo! congrats Alex!


Black Tulip I know you'll make it!


Pops...so glad to hear you're not battery operated..if you were the mind boggles at where you'd have to shove 'em!

 

[Guest]

Yea get on with some real boring work now mate Nice one Alex, another Lit champion.


Come on Boss Lou, never mind flirting on here, get that word count up You're on the home straight darling

Hey Tulip darling, you'll do it easily, I have confidence in you

LOL! Me, flirt? Never!

Went well past flirting months and months ago...

Hanyway! My Mum's got the girls for the afternoon, so I'm gonna sit here and write for the next few hours.

Finishing line, here I come...

Lou

 

[Colleen Thomas]

LOL! Me, flirt? Never!

Went well past flirting months and months ago...

Hanyway! My Mum's got the girls for the afternoon, so I'm gonna sit here and write for the next few hours.

Finishing line, here I come...

Lou

Best of luck Lou Lou

 

[Liar]

Re: Does this count?

You might remember, I blazed away at my first attempt, but the story lost its way and I started again. I added a few words to the first attempt, and it's now at 22404, but needs a good looking-at.

My second attempt, a fantasy, provisionally 'Orb of Asala' (nice goddess, Asala, I like her) crawled to 27710 today. This does of course mean that I've managed 50k words, but does it count, in two different novels? I need to turn away for a while, as I've three OU assignments to complete by December 10.

Alex

Do just do a little opening line to your fantasy story that says "Meanwhile, in a parallell universe..."

That way you get another 4 words, AND you please any paragraph warrior.

But for me, I say you already made it. Congrats!

#L

 

[Svenskaflicka]

38.610. I'm half-dead.

I'm at my parents' place, and grandma is visiting. It's all very nice, but it's Sudden Death for NaNo-writing. Lift this. Bring that. Lunch. Could you walk the dogs? What are you doing in here? Help me carry this! Are you sleeping?

Finally, I hid inside mum's sewing room. It was cold as hell, but it gave me 6.000 words!

*off to put more fire in the stove*

 

[oggbashan]

Reminder

It doesn't matter WHAT you write for NaNoWriMo and it certainly doesn't have to be coherent or make sense. All that is necessary is that the words were written in November.

All you have to do is write 50,000 words about anything and put it through their word count programme. Two stories, three stories, a pile of useless garbage - it all counts. You can revise it, edit it, treat it as a resource for excavating AFTER November.

By the end of November I will have reached about 35,000 words, some of them my Winter Holiday entries, some additions to ongoing stories not yet completed, and some the start of my NaNo novel that stalled. If I were to add on real life letters, reports etc. I'd be in sight of the 50k but that isn't really the aim.

Of course, if you are a maschocist you can set yourself harder targets. Last year I intended to write the whole 50,000 words, edit them and get them posted on Lit before the end of November. I achieved that but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone trying NaNo for the first time. Just completing 50,000 words is a magnificient achievement.

Even if you don't complete the 50K, the experience of writing to a deadline is worthwhile. Maybe next year?

Congratulations to all those who are finishing and congratulations to those who tried and are still writing.

Og

Edited for PS: The only person who really knows that you properly completed NaNoWriMo is yourself. It is very easy to cheat by including words written before November. Only YOU know what you have done. The winner's certificate is only proof that you put 50k+ words through their word count. The contest is not you against others but you against the other pressures in your life. Even if you only managed 5,000 words, if those 5,000 were written with great difficulty, then you have succeeded.

 

[Guest]

Best of luck Lou Lou

Thanks, Colly.

I'm getting there, but I'm not sure having Kill Bill on in the background is doing much for either my concentration, or the general sanity of what I'm writing. I didn't mean to put as much blood and gore in it, I swear. I'm enjoying it, though, so I guess that's what matters.

Lou

 

[English Lady]

Yay go Lou and go Svenskaflicka! I know you'll both do it!!!

Liar...i love the way you think! I'll remember that "meanwhile in a parallel universe" line for future useage!

Og -considering how busy you are 35 thou is brill!

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Thanks, Colly.

I'm getting there, but I'm not sure having Kill Bill on in the background is doing much for either my concentration, or the general sanity of what I'm writing. I didn't mean to put as much blood and gore in it, I swear. I'm enjoying it, though, so I guess that's what matters.

Lou

LOL,

blood and gore are to Eh what the cum shot is to modern porn. Ya gotta have it to succeed

I know you'll finish, have total faith in you

 

[Guest]

LOL,

blood and gore are to Eh what the cum shot is to modern porn. Ya gotta have it to succeed

I know you'll finish, have total faith in you

LOL! Thanks, babe. Got some good cum shots in there, too.


Quick question, for anyone... Does anyone know what the knobbly bit at the end of a bannister is called? This guy is just about to walk up a flight of stairs and 'He placed his hand on the knobbly bit' doesn't really work. LOL

Does it even have a name?

Lou

 

[Sabledrake]

Well, I went ahead and submitted it for verification. And I think I broke through the wall. Maybe not "broke down the wall," but I at least got a hole in the bricks I can peek through.

My strategy for this is always simple ... I put on some trashy action adventure, disaster or monster movie that I've seen a bajillion times, and make notes on a pad of paper while it's playing. For some reason I can't just make notes (writing or game-related) on my own without having that backdrop of screams and explosions.

So I put in DEEP RISING and scribbled three pages and now know where my story's going. Huzzah!

Hey, Colly! After the holidays, I'm planning to try once more to land me an agent (I should have my other manuscript revised and ready by then). Wanna be misery-buddies? We could compare rejection slips and stuff.

Sabledrake

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Just wanting to stop by and let you guys and gals know how I was doing. Back to writing now. Though I don't know HOW I'm gonna make the last few measly scenes last for 11.000 words...



I might have to make a crazy person crash the stage and babble on incoherently for 10 pages...

 

[Sabledrake]

Quick question, for anyone... Does anyone know what the knobbly bit at the end of a bannister is called? This guy is just about to walk up a flight of stairs and 'He placed his hand on the knobbly bit' doesn't really work. LOL

Does it even have a name?

Lou -- I think it's "newel post."

But I like the line about the knobbly bit ...

-- S.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

*passing 40K*

I think I can, I think I can...

 

[Guest]

*passing 40K*

I think I can, I think I can...

You will, you will, you will!!!

Perdita