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11-06-2008, 04:20 AM
|  | Phil Goff | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Westport, New Zealand
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| | | National Novel Writing Month
Is anyone else doing this? You should. It's easy. Quantity over quality? I'm there. National Novel Writing Month
I started just now, five days late, and I got through 622 words in 25 minutes. I am SO SET. It's utter tripe, but I'm proud of myself. I'm racing so fast that until I'm done, I may have to cut kitty time down to 30 minutes a day. Sample bullshit written on the fly [note, I am not deleting ANYTHING]: brushed them off. I read their online diaries though. I knew what they were up to. It was a whole lot less energetic than writing back to them about their lives, or even about mine. See how postmodern I can be? Stream of consciousness bullshit. Now I am coming back on-stream. It was an hour into the walk and slightly tired and the light was fading in late October and I saw in the distance, down a side street off the main road I was walking down, which was a straggly sort of semi-commercial runway with streetlights recently flickered into
That took about 90 seconds. I am going to win, and I'm kind of proud of this. A mad student at my school is writing her novel on paper, and then will type it out. That's a big old mess of work, but I hope she makes it in the end.
My sentences are too long.
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11-06-2008, 04:29 AM
|  | in the end they all tried | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Ireland
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| | | Your novel sounds interesting. What's it about? Synopsis?
I would try it but I've got exams. Next month, damnit! |
11-06-2008, 04:43 AM
|  | slow refrain | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: a farm.
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| | | i have tried this every year and inevitably give up. i don't think it's for me.
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Originally Posted by DoloresHaze  I did not miss the point, I just had a moment where Marilyn's tragedy overwhelmed me. Such a pure creature, she was just light gone too soon. | |
11-06-2008, 09:10 AM
|  | for beauty douglas | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: i am the cheese
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| | | in principle i agree with writing crap approach, just to get something down, then good work is done when deciding what you throw away and in polishing what remains. but unless the first draught is something i'm at least half interested in i can't be arsed with improving it.
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11-06-2008, 10:01 AM
|  | bluebirds | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: at the tragedy sale
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| | | The idea of this gives me pretty mixed feelings. On one hand, it seems like a great idea to get people inspired about writing and self-expression. On the other, it seems like it's encouraging bad writing habits, but by that I probably just mean habits different to my own. I like to structure obsessively, it takes me days to perfect a page. Doesn't bode well for the essay I'm writing at the moment, 1500 words about Marx down, 1500 left to go! |
11-06-2008, 10:03 AM
|  | Inventor of the Rapedar | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: nTown, UK
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| | | Yeah, like every other fucker on the planet I've been trying to write a novel forever. I suck at it because I have only vague plots in mind. I can write well, just can't stick to a subject for any length of time and get pissed off with what I've written almost immediately.
I dunno, I'd probably give it a shot but I know that whatever I came up with WOULD be a load of insufferable wank. Aren't there enough ill-conceived novels out there already?
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11-06-2008, 10:06 AM
| | Inventor of the Rapedar | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: nTown, UK
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| | | Can we make it a rule that anyone from KR making a submission has to include Ramon as a semi-major character? I just want to confuse the shit out of the judges.
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11-06-2008, 10:28 AM
|  | fizzy lifting drinks | | Join Date: Jan 2007
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| | | shit i should do this. i'm such an unmotivated old fucker, though. |
11-06-2008, 10:31 AM
| | Inventor of the Rapedar | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: nTown, UK
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| | | I've now checked the link and realised I don't get it at all. However, if bort wants me to co-write his novel with him to make up for lost time, I'd be down with that.
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11-06-2008, 11:03 AM
|  | Mysterious World | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: the business end
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Originally Posted by Ophiel Can we make it a rule that anyone from KR making a submission has to include Ramon as a semi-major character? I just want to confuse the shit out of the judges. | this thread reminded me of the the bulwer-lytton fiction contest, so I decided to have a gander again, and low and behold. "She resolved to end the love affair with Ramon tonight . . . summarily, like Martha Stewart ripping the sand vein out of a shrimp's tail . . . though the term "love affair" now struck her as a ridiculous euphemism . . . not unlike "sand vein," which is after all an intestine, not a vein . . . and that tarry substance inside certainly isn't sand . . . and that brought her back to Ramon. "
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11-06-2008, 11:17 AM
| | Inventor of the Rapedar | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: nTown, UK
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| | | Are we still allowed to have "story threads"? I'm thinking if you did them in the writers' forum and if you set a couple of rules (like "any addition which is just obviously fucking stupid can be ignored by the next contributor") they might not tard up instantaneously. It might even be kind of interesting to start two or three threads the same and see how they end up.
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11-06-2008, 01:02 PM
|  | die kleine daumenlutscher | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Socialist Republic of Wales
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| | | I want a continuous story thread! Start one!
& I'm not doing NaNoWriMo this year, once again, because I have essays with wordcounts that I SHOULD be doing instead.
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11-06-2008, 01:03 PM
| | bluebirds | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: at the tragedy sale
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Originally Posted by Ophiel Aren't there enough ill-conceived novels out there already? | Yeah, but in terms of the literary market it may as well be your ill-conceived novel bringing in the bucks. And if you keep it to yourself I don't see what harm it can do; like sexual perversions, people's novel-writing habits can be tolerated if they're indulged behind closed doors or with other consenting adults.
Please let's start a fiction thread. We could have a Bulwer-Lytton novel and a McGonagall poem being written simultaenously and collectively. If they were really good we could enter them for a competition and if we won it'd be a new internet phenomenon that pretentious columnists would be wanking over for months. Maybe I'm getting ahead of myself here |
11-06-2008, 01:10 PM
| | Inventor of the Rapedar | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: nTown, UK
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Originally Posted by Amity I want a continuous story thread! Start one!
& I'm not doing NaNoWriMo this year, once again, because I have essays with wordcounts that I SHOULD be doing instead. | I've asked HK to do it for me because I can't post fucking threads.
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11-06-2008, 01:12 PM
| | Inventor of the Rapedar | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: nTown, UK
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Originally Posted by sssh Yeah, but in terms of the literary market it may as well be your ill-conceived novel bringing in the bucks. And if you keep it to yourself I don't see what harm it can do; like sexual perversions, people's novel-writing habits can be tolerated if they're indulged behind closed doors or with other consenting adults. | As long as it's not a blog. Quote:
Originally Posted by sssh Please let's start a fiction thread. We could have a Bulwer-Lytton novel and a McGonagall poem being written simultaenously and collectively. If they were really good we could enter them for a competition and if we won it'd be a new internet phenomenon that pretentious columnists would be wanking over for months. Maybe I'm getting ahead of myself here | Fuck competitions, I say write the novel, then get a really decent first chapter written to submit to a publisher and start raking in the megabucks, all proceeds go to buying Ramon some shotgun orthodontic work.
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11-06-2008, 01:16 PM
| | bluebirds | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: at the tragedy sale
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Originally Posted by Ophiel As long as it's not a blog. | 
That's a no, if you hadn't guessed already. Quote: |
Fuck competitions, I say write the novel, then get a really decent first chapter written to submit to a publisher and start raking in the megabucks, all proceeds go to buying Ramon some shotgun orthodontic work.
| I admit it, I don't really know who Ramon is. Even though I've been here a while. Feeling a bit out of the loop with the jokes about him on this thread. |
11-06-2008, 01:22 PM
| | die kleine daumenlutscher | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Socialist Republic of Wales
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| | | Ramon is HCH/DoloresHaze
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11-06-2008, 01:39 PM
| | Mysterious World | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: the business end
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| | | the thing about this is do random squibbles of nonoplegic and questionably incoroporatic words intermigate a calciate word count?
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11-06-2008, 01:49 PM
| | Inventor of the Rapedar | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: nTown, UK
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Originally Posted by RomanNoseJob the thing about this is do random squibbles of nonoplegic and questionably incoroporatic words intermigate a calciate word count? |
See, in this case, you're using one word instead of ten. Do footnotes/glossaries count towards word count? If so, irksome Pratchettesque sci-fi would probably be the way to go.
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