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November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), and I can actually participate this year! Last year I was working on CA and this year I am working on BotB have no current writing projects! The challenge is to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days. I'll be honest, the best quota I've ever met on an extended period was 1,000 a day, and I only did that once (and have yet to do so since) This calls for 1,666 words a day (approximately) Madness! Pure madness experienced only by the most insane of writers. A true test of insanity!

Anyone else want to join me in this 50,000 word endeavor = D? The idea of this isn't so much quality as it is quantity. A lot of writers struggle too much on the little details, making everything perfect; so much so they never make progress. So the objective here is solely progress; being able to finish, going the long distance, and so forth. It's certainly not for the undedicated, but it's worth a try. To put 50,000 words into perspective, that's about 200 standard book print pages. In a month. And to make it better, November 30th, the final day, is my Birthday. Cuss yeah.

More info on that here: [link] If you end up joining the forum (lot of interesting stuff there, go ahead and join) my username is Songdog. Tell me your user and I'll add you as my 'Writing Buddy'.

And now for more! Actually I didn't have much more. But I will because otherwise the title would be a lie.


Challenge for commenters/watchers: Post a list of your obsessions in writing or drawing (for example, if you have a habit of always including a random crow in your writing, add that to the list) Was a fun exercise we did in class awhile back. Just for fun and self introspection :tea:

Clan of the NaNoWriMo
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(Friends and comrades participating for 2010 so far)


Current Word Count: 1,960 words (Day 1)
  • Mood: b0x0rz-less
  • Listening to: HelloGoodbye
  • Reading: More textbooks
  • Watching: Venture Brothers
  • Playing: LeafGreen
  • Eating: TicTacs (Melon Mango)
  • Drinking: Water

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:iconmasterofgeckos:
My teacher demanded I do this, and now after seeing all these people I'm beginning to think it's a sign.

All right, I'm starting. Here I go.

...if I fail to finish, as I'm sure I will, no harm is done.
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*Songdog-StrayFang Nov 1, 2010  Student Writer
Huzzah! That's the spirit comrade. Added you to the list.

I overshot my quota for the day ^^ These next couple days are gonna kill me though.
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:iconmasterofgeckos:
Yay!
I've got such great ideas, and even if they don't entirely fit with each other I think I'm going to write one big conglomeration of stuff. In the leastm it will be useful for my ideas.
Good for you! Haha, I just wrote 1700 words for today, but I'll probably be super busy these next days too. I'll really have to focus on it on the weekends.
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*Songdog-StrayFang Nov 2, 2010  Student Writer
You've got nothing to lose after all. Doesn't matter if it makes sense of not, just go for it! If nothing else it'll make for good experimenting and experience.

Together we shall conquer November!
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:iconmasterofgeckos:
Huzzah! That's completely true!
Onward!!!
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*AlfaFilly Oct 25, 2010  Hobbyist Digital Artist
This shall be a most intriguing experience~
I WILL TRY MY BEST. :salute:

I have noticed a few big obsessions I include. I probably have a lot of smaller ones but have yet to notice them:

1.) I pretty much always include in all my stories, written or comic, one extremely girly/preppy/whore-ish girl character. :P Usually they are not an important character but a few are actually main antagonists.

2.) At one point in time, I used to have every story's main characters be a female and male, the female was the main character and the male the second, all of which they end up together at the end. Re-writes of those stories ended with only a couple actually ending in some sort of coupling, mostly because I don't like romance much anymore and it started appearing like some obnoxious story template.

3.) The majority of my stories involve a moderately large cast of characters that are friends with the main character. This was originally due to the fact I used to make a character for each of my friends (note this was back when I did writing without much plot planning). So each story has at least 4+ side characters accompanying the main character, a couple of which have 6 or 8 or more.
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*Songdog-StrayFang Oct 28, 2010  Student Writer
Well cuss, you're the first one to actually make a list. Give yourself a cookie or a healthy alternative.

Clan of the NaNoWriMo welcomes you!
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*AlfaFilly Oct 31, 2010  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Because I am awesome.
Yaaaaay! *nom*
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:iconchocobo591:
...actually... I did not wanted to join...but I got the idea for a backstory of one of my characters...so I said...why the heck not....hahaha...I may regret it, but it will be a nice practice in english~
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*Songdog-StrayFang Oct 25, 2010  Student Writer
Welcome to the clan then! We shall suffer the insanity together.
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