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kingryan
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Hi All!

Just reminding you all that NaNiWriMo is on once again, head here

If you haven't heard of it before, the idea is that you write a 50,000 word novel in the month of November.

I tried last year and epically failed, but I know that some other people from this Forum completed it (I hope...)

Annnnd...I'm not going to do it this year because it would be too much effort and November is going to be realllly busy for me.

Enjoy!

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Cenere
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But it needs organising... And now I will wonder why my hand bleeds.

Cenere
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Bloooody...... = =... Someone, anyone... How do you manage to write 10k on 12 hours... Please do tell me....

Gantic
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Bloooody...... = =... Someone, anyone... How do you manage to write 10k on 12 hours... Please do tell me....


Only if you have a 10-page paper due tomorrow and slop everything together says the guy who should get back to his 10-page paper due in some days. Otherwise the brain doesn't work that way.

Or write a load of bs like this. There is nothing for which human ingenuity cannot compensate, especially in the face of insurmountable odds if one disregards all humiliation, correctness, and propriety and leaps off the cliff almost hoping to crash violently upon the ground spread-eagle with confidence that that all eyes lay upon his brazened dash rather than his spectacular failure. If he should fail in this apparently futile task, then he has lost nothing than what may have fallen out of his unsecured pockets where he tucks his most frequent thoughts. But if, by kismet, by some already written story, he succeeds, the he has won nothing than what he may have thought was up his sleeves, as sometimes, in haste, he may have dropped there a piece of chicken wing that by barbecue and viscosity stuck fast to his cotton dress shirt. Then, and only then, should he reflect upon the results, realize that if a woman was wearing a sleeveless dress, what would she have lost or gained, especially if she most definitely does not eat honey barbecue chicken wings?

Yes, bs is easy to write. Bad writing is easier to write, but that is more a question of whether or not you could live with the self-shame.
Zophia
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I think you broke my brain, Gantic.

On another note, I'm trying to refind my motivation. I can write 45000 words in a week, right? Right? Not without the motivation :<

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Yeah well I'm on thanksgiving break. So no problema for me. Except i might need to get some physical education.

Gantic
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I think you broke my brain, Gantic.


Positively propitious! (That is one of my favorite exclamations. One might even have a presumption as to my propensity for propitious. I also wish that propition was an actual word because that sounds better than propitiousness.) Then you haven't a clue that what I wrote does not wholly follow from beginning to end! :P And Kevin Costner's character was obviously trying to die at the beginning of Dances with Wolves but all eyes lay upon his brazened dash.

I hope you and Cenere wrote your NaNo novels in Danish instead of English. (I don't think you two never specified which language you were writing in.)
Cenere
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Horribly, horribly English. Because I feel better writing in English > >... Yes, I will go get my head checked. Also.
22:14 (10.14 pm) I miss 2778 words to get to the 50k. I am tired, but I am going to run for it.

Zophia
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I hope you and Cenere wrote your NaNo novels in Danish instead of English. (I don't think you two never specified which language you were writing in.)
I hate writing in Danish, and I find it very odd to read. ._. So English. Maybe less colourful choice of words, but I do feel more comfortable with that language.

Not that it's awfully relevant what I wrote my 4350 words in... *cough* I wrote 100 words today... *waves sad little flag because it's a whole lot more than the previous days*

I don't think you two never specified
Wait, what.
Cenere
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I'll just go hyper over tired ecstasy before I go back to notepad.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!
Okay, done now.
Well, yeah, I usually write fiction in English, maybe to try and differ from the reports I am making otherwise. And, well, I write English here a lot as well. I think many Danes does that, though I have seen one writing in German > >

And let's all celebrate Zophia's 100 words. And collect some motivashun for her.

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WOO ZOPH, MOVIN' UP INTO THREE DIGIT INTEGERS OF WORDS A DAY!

RAH-RAH-RAH!

*high-fives*

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Cenere
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And Cen goes 'wee, I am done, hurrah' before falling asleep.

And well, I would say something, but I think I have said what you hated to hear, Zophia.

Zophia
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Allow me to highlight:

with current pace, expected to finish in 233 days.


But seriously CONGRATULATIONS *confetti*, and darn good job on getting it finished, Cen!
Gantic
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WILL NO ONE WRITE THEIR NANO NOVEL IN FOOD?!?!?!

English is just so clumsy.

I hate writing in Danish, and I find it very odd to read. ._.


Hans Christian Anderson is rolling in his grave right now. Actually, I think that might be a bit of Disney's fault. (If Danish were closer related to German, I'd write that in Danish by winging it like I wing German... wait I think drej is related to drehen. OMG a breakthrough!)

[quote]I don't think you two never specified


Wait, what.[/quote]

I am so certain of my English that I can get away with double negatives, repeated words, missing words, and sentences that don't make any sense because I went back to correct them but not correct them fully. Also, I read things correctly in my mind sometimes if I bother to proofread at all.
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What I never really?

I acidentally the whole comment!

Ease up Gantic, you're scaring the NESBs :P

Also, congratulations to Cenere on 50k. I know at least one other person here's shooting to finish (yes, KR, I'm looking at you), so make a break for it!

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