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| Rydain Posts: 569/633 |
The site's going to be bogged down for the next few days. Don't worry about it...just get started.  You can sign up until late in the month (November 25th, I think), so create your account and begin updating your word count whenever the site will load for you. You can write the novel with anything that can save as .txt, which is what the NaNo automatic word counter requires. (You can update your word count manually, but being declared a winner requires you to submit your manuscript to the word counter on the site.) |
| cpubasic13 Posts: 900/1193 |
I would love to participate in this. I wanted to last year but couldn't.
However, the page won't load. 
 I'm going to get it to work... soon... |
| Rydain Posts: 568/633 |
I started at midnight yesterday, and I'm at ~2200 now. I'm stuck at the moment, but I don't really care. I'm way ahead of where I was last year at this time. 
Originally posted by Pvt. PrinnySure...as long as it's 50,000 words of a new project. You could always write a short story and add random tangents to parts of it just for fun (or as a writing exercise or whatever). Plus, if my experience revising last year's NaNo is at all typical, the manuscript might wind up in short story territory when you're done.  I do have a long part at the end left to redo, but I wouldn't be surprised if the second draft falls short of 50K. |
| Sinfjotle Posts: 1544/1697 |
If the page would load for me, hell yes.
I need to get the rules before I start writing. If I'm just supposed to do a short story, I can make it kick ass. |
| Ailure Posts: 2049/2602 |
I might go for it.
Becuse I had some stupid ideas for stories in my head lately. Probably have to wait until I finish thoose damn database labs though. |
| Hiryuu Posts: 1912/2480 |
I was talking to Kirbynite about this...because I have a solo write I've been working on for a couple of years now that's cleared the 50K word mark...but...
So... :\ |
| Xkeeper Posts: 4387/5653 |
I'll have to ask a friend from here what she thinks; I was pretty sure she was doing it last year, too, but last year is far longer than where my memory stops being trustworthy.
I would never do it myself, since I'm both uncreative, undescriptive, horrible at writing, and extremely genreic. (I'm also really good at excuses) |
| Yoronosuku Posts: 957/1239 |
I don't know if graphic novels count, but I one timne considered jotting down some concepts for a manga some time ago...eventual lack of motivation/time lead me to never go anywhere with it, it was probably a stupid idea anyway. Maybe I can write something down for this month, though. |
| Rydain Posts: 565/633 |
a.k.a. National Novel Writing Month. The goal is to write 50,000 words of a brand spanking new rough draft over the course of November. I found out about it on November 6 last year and figured it wasn't too late to try. A couple of years prior, I'd gotten an idea for a scary story, but I was never able to get it off the ground, so I forgot about it. I figured I'd give it another try and see what happened. I wound up finishing a 50K draft that, for something speedwritten with nothing to go on other than an opening scene and the beginnings of a disturbing back story, really wasn't bad, and I've been polishing it up into a much better second draft.
I'm doing it again this year, only I actually got a bit of planning done beforehand. Again, I have an opening scene (which is from a weird dream I had a while ago - it looked like the beginning of a horror game or movie) and some idea of what's going on, but that's it. Let's see where it goes from there. Any other NaNo participants? |
