As the title suggests, there are going to be writers in the back room of Frontier around 6pm today. These writers being me, violette812, and lolipop2.0 so far. If anyone else joins us, that'd be perfectly cool.
The only thing is, one of us HAS to be plugged in, because her computer will die instantly otherwise, so we'd have to fight over other plugs or someone would have to bring a powerstrip (sadly I forgot my obnoxious purple one at home, on the west side, soooooo).
So yeah, open write in for anyone. We really need the word count, so we'll definitely all be there.
Happy Writing,
~kysis
(and if you wonder who we are, it'll be a redhead with a little red laptop, a guy with a big dell and a Minus the Bear hoodie, and a Hawaiian with a big green laptop that's plugged in. I'll probably write NaNoWriMo on a piece of paper or something. Depends on how lazy I'm feeling... same place as the kick off was.)
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NaNoWriMo '08: Ashes of an Empire (win)
ScriptFrenzy '09: Mikara Falling (win)
NaNoWriMo '09: Missing
43,128 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2009 - 13 57
I just might be there. I'm the one with a gargantuan laptop with an Etchells (type of sailboat) logo sticker on it (Stylized E with silhouette of sails).
I've got 4 hours of battery life, so I won't need a plug-in unless the meeting runs longer than that. (Or I might be able to dig up a power strip, too.)
----------Carol Anne
04: The Magnificent What?
05: Murder at the Community College
06: Murder at the Yacht Club
07: Murder at the Family Reunion
08: Murder at the Little Theater
09: Murder on the Sports Desk
8,925 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2009 - 15 23
where is this place? albuquerque? XD if so i cannot go. XD
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Nov 6, 2009 - 15 44
I should be able to swing by, I'll be sporting my usual metallica shirt and looking dazed and confused.
43,128 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2009 - 20 15
I really got a lot out of the write-in this evening, amazingly enough. While everybody else was shouting about something or other having to do with RPGs I've never heard of (which probably includes anything created after 1980), I was happily cranking out 2000 words or so, including a nicely steamy bedroom scene.
It rather reminded me of the scene in "The Trouble with Tribbles" when the Klingons and the Enterprise crew are brawling in the bar, while Cyrano Jones quietly slips around, consuming all of the unconsumed drinks. Sometimes being quietly unnoticed can be a good thing. (Yes, I do have the entire original series of Star Trek, the deluxe edition produced for the SciFi Channel, with the added commentary and interviews to extend each hour episode to 90 minutes.)
I still need to get to where the dead bodies start showing up, though.
----------Carol Anne
04: The Magnificent What?
05: Murder at the Community College
06: Murder at the Yacht Club
07: Murder at the Family Reunion
08: Murder at the Little Theater
09: Murder on the Sports Desk
7,041 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2009 - 20 34
hah! this is why i do not attend write-ins. i find the idea of meeting with other people while completing a quiet, self-contained task to be a ludicrous notion. i can't imagine this group of people being any different than any other group of people that has ever decided to congregate around an intellectual or academic goal and violating the tenets of basic social gatherings by having long-sustained silence. it's just not in the human of us.
write-ins? no thank you. i'm behind enough as it is.
furthermore, i receive the albuquerque forum posts on my phone, and i must say. for folks who are working toward a steep goal of counted-words writing, there sure is a lot of chattering going on in here from about 7AM - 3AM daily. why mince words here when they could count elsewhere?
22,563 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2009 - 21 02
I'm sorry I missed it! I was planning on swinging by but got caught up in work.
FWIW I think people write productively in different environments depending on their style. And the conversation on the forums has to do with providing support and trading stories and information. I for one do not "count" the words any more than I count conversations I have IRL with others.
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Nov 7, 2009 - 07 42
I did get some out of the write-in, though I was sadly late, and thus could not really get into the flow of it. The random little breaks, which melded into conversation about random RPGs, was nice, as I can't just write in a long stint without getting up for a breather, or doing something else for a while.
Sadly, it was very busy. And there was a youth group sitting behind us. With kids who kept knocking into my friend's chair. Constantly. It was pissing me off, but I managed to concentrate.
Note to self: Friday night around dinner time at Frontier = too busy.
As for chatter on the forums: discussion about writing problems, how we're doing, write-ins, etc, actually helps some writers with their creative process. If you don't like all of the "wasted words", I suggest turning off your post forwarding. >.<
----------NaNoWriMo '08: Ashes of an Empire (win)
ScriptFrenzy '09: Mikara Falling (win)
NaNoWriMo '09: Missing
36,653 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 16 07
I eventually met quota that night.
I like write-ins, not because I'm more productive, because I'm not. The idea is that I'm trying to find people to exchange ideas with, using writing as the filter. The very spirit of Nanowrimo is that you are writing, in a vague, tenuous way, as a massive group, 100,000 strong - a group of hopeless aspiring writers.
I will concede that ultimately, no one will write your story and that it is a solitary act - however, what comes without comes within, and that is the biggest reason I seek the company of fellow writers, even as it drives me to distraction.
As for the chatter - what Kysis said.