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Rydain
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Trapster, I sent the draft to you, too.

Originally posted by Mari0mega
Hey Rydain. I too participated and won nanowrimo. For being 15 and having other homework to do as well it's quite an accomplishment! My rough draft is in my sig. Just as an FYI, I don't have an actual website... yet. Only the novel's up. Anyway, hopefully I'll be doing this again next year, and maybe mine will be more exciting then.
Congratulations! That is an accomplishment...I don't know how well I would have done if I had been busy with schoolwork. Thanks for sharing your novel. I'm interested to read what you have come up with.
jordan_mega_gamer
Posts: 14/41
Hey Rydain. I too participated and won nanowrimo. For being 15 and having other homework to do as well it's quite an accomplishment! My rough draft is in my sig. Just as an FYI, I don't have an actual website... yet. Only the novel's up. Anyway, hopefully I'll be doing this again next year, and maybe mine will be more exciting then.
Ziff
Posts: 105/1800
You know what's funny, I could've EASILY submitted that if it were homework for university. I've been churning out a minimum of 10'000 words a week in essays And 10'000 is on REALLY light weeks.
Trapster
Posts: 393/3604
It might be an interesting read. Send me one too, Rydain.

I´ll read it when I´ve time.
Rydain
Posts: 32/633
Now that's scary. I thought they just sent the Internet Police after you. Somebody's been lying to me about those NaNo folks.
Cynthia
Posts: 294/5814
Could have cheated and submitted that to win. XD

But then again, if they found out you cheated... NaNoWriMo people take the competition seriously. They'll send Guido down to have a chat with you.
Rydain
Posts: 31/633
Dudette - It was just over 50K. As in, just barely enough to make the deadline.

On a more general note - I will be happy to email my first draft to those of you who would like to read it. Please don't think I'm pressuring you to write some giant detailed critique, but I would appreciate any comments that you may have. I don't want to just link it somewhere because I don't want anyone coming across it out of context and going all "ZOMG tat Rydian sux0rz at riting lol". Dark Vampriel and Zem, I've sent the story to your email addresses listed in your profiles. Anybody else who would like to read it can reply to the thread, PM me, or shoot me an email, and I'll share it with you as well.
Hiryuu
Posts: 189/2480
Nope.

Sides, I already have a 50,000+ solo write on my comp that isn't even close to being finished yet...
Dudette
Posts: 13/149
This sounds like it would be fun to do. I wouldn't mind doing something like this but I don't think a month will be long enough for me.

Do you know roughly how many words you wrote?
Zem
Posts: 88/1097
Originally posted by Ran-chan
So you beat...wait, what do you mean with "they guy at the end"?

laolol internets

I bet it's badass. I hope you're not too modest to let us see your work?
Trapster
Posts: 361/3604
I recognized NaNoWriMo but I didn´t remember what it was.

So you beat...wait, what do you mean with "they guy at the end"?
Iori Yagami
Posts: 52/570
50,000 words?!?!?!? I couldn't stand to do that no matter what. I'd like to read that story though that you created.
Rydain
Posts: 29/633
The guy at the end was hard.

If you don't know what the heck I'm talking about...click here and be enlightened. NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month, in which the goal is to finish a 50,000 word novella rough draft during the month. I started late because I didn't know what it was until November 6, at which point I realized it would be fun to try to push along a story I'd had stuck in my head for a while. I wanted to write a creepy tale about a young woman who gets lost on a rural Pennsylvania road late at night and wanders into someone else's nightmare (can we tell I'm a Silent Hill fan?), and I knew the opening scene and the backstory behind the creepy shit that was to ensue, but I could never figure out how to get her out of the car and make strangeness happen.

And now I have a rough draft that's far better than I thought it would be. For bullshit I pulled out of my arse as I went along, it wound up being surprisingly cohesive. I think it can be revised into a pretty decent novella. I'm going to let it sit for a while so I can reread it with fresh eyes.

Did anyone else here participate in NaNo this year? Are you done? Anyone thinking of trying it out next year? I have another story idea, so I'll definitely be giving it a shot in 2006.
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