Sometimes when we're in the grips of writing, aiming for quantity over quality, our fingers and minds betray us. Instead of deathless prose, we get something... else. Sometimes we don't notice it right away. Sometimes, soaked in coffee and lacking sleep, we can't stop laughing at the sheer absurdity. For example, this is an actual line yours truly wrote in the heat of the moment. "Can you hand me a glass of water? I can't see you properly."
I have no idea what I was trying to say, but this wasn't it.
Oh yay, NaNoIsms forum is back! I'm actually going to leave mine in this year, and put them up before I edit. Normally I pounce on them and delete them straight away.
Question: If Eunice is a girl and she has more than one husband then she is a polyandrist. A polygamist is a MAN with many WIVES. A polyandrist is a WOMAN with many HUSBANDS.
If Wikipedia is to be believed, Polygyny is the practice of a man having many wives, and polyandry is of a woman with many husbands. Polygamy, which essentially means "often married," covers both practices.
I love NaNoisms! Im 1790 words in, and so far my best one is a simple spelling mistake: "...all but leaped into his lap in sheep terror." I'm sure I'll get more as the month goes on. I actually have not fixed this one yet, I just keep looking back at it and giggling! NaNoisms make me happy!
I don't know if this can be considered a nonoism but... when I sat down to write today, this is what came out instread...
"She turned into the other tunnel AND found that she did not give a crap about the fact that if she did not write 3300 words today she would have to write many many more the next day, or just give up nanowrimo 2011 all toghether. She thought it was a very stupid thing to be doing when there was so much else going on in her life. She just wanted to watch tv or READ a good book. Shge could write one another time. It did not all have to happen in a month. She just wanted to throw something and watch it break, feel the floor and the walls hake o impact. If such a thing that wuld cause this effevct was not most likelly going to be expensive to replace, she would have already done it.
As soon as Sepia made the turn (she obviously had gotten her frustration out and decided to continue writing, as she knew she would be disappointed in herself if she did not) she saw the next turn she had to make that was almost immediatly..."
It depressed me when I looked back and saw my spelling errors...
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"Her dark hair glitters in the glittering sunlight that also glitters off the brown gold glittering grass." Oh, how I love major overkill on adjectives. enough with the glittering al ready.
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"Her long, wavy, shiny blue black hare was tied back in a low pony tale at the nape of her neck." I just made some random typos, but they are absolutely hillarious. Going to fix them right about now...
I've been collecting these as I reread what I've written the day before to catch myself back up on my character's lives. It seems they always just have a mind of their own.. But hey, it helps to find some gems :)
""I don’t supposed you have a way to carry this stuff, do you?” He asked hopefully. " -...or we could live in the present tense.
"A bored looked blonde looked up from cleaning under her fingernails with a plastic fork prong and pointed towards a door at the other side of the room..." -besides the fact that this is just silly, I'm pretty sure she was bored looking.
""Don't think that this in any way means I like you fools." He said. "I'm only doing this to keep the story moving along. NOW GET TO IT!"" -....right, fourth wall? I apparently ran into you. My bad.
"Suddenly he frowned, his hand going to his throat in panic. “Bianca!” He wailed. Bianca frowned at his worried town, looking at him intently to see what was wrong." -..gee, department of redundancy here. Think they might have been unhappy about something?
“Cursed ugly thing,” Bianca muttered. “Well, hopefully it wasn’t all that important. I hesitate to thing where that hole spit it out. And unless you feel the need to dive in after it and take those chances, I say we leave it. Useful things have a way or turning up… or not… around here, you know.” -... Riiiiight. I'm pretty sure we were hesitating to think there, not thing. But besides that... What?
"Braden shook his head as if to clear it, and pointed to the poster Octavia had just posted." - Really? She posted a poster? Shocking.
"Braden was holding a tall, thin class filled with a foamy blue liquid." -Wow, it appears my character is mighty strong, all holding classes up and stuff.
"An empty sign holder swung lazily above the doorway, but it held no marker." -Really? the empty sign holder held no marker? brilliant.
"“So, the last time I saw this necklace, I was wearing it right?” He began, meeting each other their eyes." -Wow. I'm glad eyes get to meet each other too. It's nice and friendly that way.
"And short of someone climbing out and turning this upside town like Bianca did that first time, I’m not sure how we’d go back up.”" -Perhaps we meant turning this upside down. That makes it make marginally more sense.
I'm sure there are many many more, both those are the ones that caught my eye. Ahhhh fingers, why must you be so finnicky?
Ahh, my favorite forum. Somehow, come December 1, I realize my entire NaNo script is almost entirely composed of NaNoisms. But I suppose that's all part of the fun, yes?
I've been rereading last year's novel, and am rather annoyed to find that ninety percent of it is composed of notes to myself. The remaining ten percent is composed of bizarre sentences, unintended double entendres, and failures to describe.
Most egregious is the NaNo Dance.
Quote: Put Your Left Typing Hand In, Put Your Left Typing Hand Out, Put Your Left Typing Hand In, And You Shake It All About, Do The NaNoWriMo Dance And You Bang Your Head on the Keyboard Ceremonially, That’s What It’s All About. Yeah. Put Your Inner Editor In, Do Not Take Your Inner Editor Out, Do Not Pass Go, And You Shake It All About, Do The NaNoWriMo Dance And You Consume Large Amounts of Junk Food and Whine About Plot Bunnies, That’s What It’s All About. Yeah!
Wise words, past me. That is indeed what it's all about.
That is amazing! I'm tempted to print it out and keep it with all my notes for this year.
I'm so glad this thread is back, I'll definitely have to not delete anything this year, just in case. I may have to go through last years Nano's and go looking for them. Thanks goodness I made comments on each weird thing that I wrote when I was doing a reread.
I just need someone to sing this and then make it my ringtone so that every time someone calls I will remember not to pick up because I should actually be writing...
I've been rereading last year's novel, and am rather annoyed to find that ninety percent of it is composed of notes to myself. The remaining ten percent is composed of bizarre sentences, unintended double entendres, and failures to describe.
Most egregious is the NaNo Dance.
Quote: Put Your Left Typing Hand In, Put Your Left Typing Hand Out, Put Your Left Typing Hand In, And You Shake It All About, Do The NaNoWriMo Dance And You Bang Your Head on the Keyboard Ceremonially, That’s What It’s All About. Yeah. Put Your Inner Editor In, Do Not Take Your Inner Editor Out, Do Not Pass Go, And You Shake It All About, Do The NaNoWriMo Dance And You Consume Large Amounts of Junk Food and Whine About Plot Bunnies, That’s What It’s All About. Yeah!
Wise words, past me. That is indeed what it's all about.
This is my favorite thread of the year! It's always nice to know you're not the only one who accidentally write something that makes no sense.
Since it's not November yet, perhaps we can share some from previous years? I know I had this one from last year:
"Aine craned her neck around a bookcase and in the distance, she could make out a brown dot in the distance, a tiny dot against a plain blue sky. [Really? was it a dot? was it in the distance? I think you should make that more a little more clear XD]" Department of Redundancy Department, lol
• I wondered if it was some kind of quote or if it was just the way he knocked on doors. Erm...code, darling, code.
• It was strange, in a way, to see me throw his eyes for the first time. Yeah, that would be strange.
• When Dr. Ryan came back and deemed Carter wealthy enough – with a heavy warning about taking it easy – the whole house breathed a sigh of relief. Now that you're plenty rich, all's well.
• Everything had changed now – thing included. I don't even know.
• With Carter’s reclusion, the subject didn’t even come up, and they both seemed content to let the ideas stir in the pot for a while, before going back into action. Stir in the pot? The ideas are going to stir in the pot? What?
NeverBefore wrote: • When Dr. Ryan came back and deemed Carter wealthy enough – with a heavy warning about taking it easy – the whole house breathed a sigh of relief.
I actually didn't understand what was wrong with this one until I read your note. I just sat there going, "well, health insurance is pretty expensive these days."
:) my novel shall be full of nanoisms this year :) When I write late at night I usually end up with little notes to self, or snippets of conversations between my brother and his friends :) They amuse me... But I usually never keep them long enough, I delete them the minute I write them. But last year at one of the crucial parts of the novel it went something like this
"The cold, sweet embrace of death, it would be so easy, so simple, remember to eat tomorrow morning, but yet she couldn't."
I talk to myself... and then I write down what I hear... I cannot multi-task apparently.
PhoenixSempai wrote: Someone should collect all of these into a book.
Oh my goodness. YES.
Request permission to start collecting? (Seriously, who would I need to talk to for something like that? It's too good an idea to ignore...)
Please, please do this. Please? This would be so awesome. =D This book could be used both to cheer Wrimos worldwide and to cause an unbelievable amount of hushed snickering and outright laughter in the most inappropriate of places. XD I'm not sure who you would need to talk to, though. =/
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LOL *dies laughing* luckily no one is arround to witness this. okay blame my bac speelong and mayn typow on nano. AHHHH!!!! that was not i reapeant not intentional.
I'm laughing so hard tears are running down my face. I tried to tell my mom, who's sitting right next to me about that one, but I was laughing to hard. I just got a strange expression as a response <.<
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Yay! The best thread. The BEST thread. I don't know why, but NaNoisms are one of those things that just tickle my funny bone so perfectly. Keep posting, people! I've got exams up the wazoo and can seriously use the laughs...
I remember staying up SO late last year, and laughing my head off and waking my mom up :P. That won't be the case this year, I hope, since I have school late at night and am tired all the time, PLUS I want to work on my novel every minute I'm awake BECAUSE of school. But I love this thread SO much, and will spend a lot of my procrastination time here :D.
I think it's like "uphill both ways." I suck at geography, but I imagine it's possible for a country to have a section that sort of interlocks with its neighbor.
Reading through last year's novel, I'm not finding too many interesting ones; just nonsensical sentences and regular typos. I did like this one, though.
Quote:Charlotte clanged her jaw and stalked off toward the gardens.
I think I was going for "clenched," but the idea of her jaw clanging like a brass gong is kind of funny.
Hi, NaNoism lady in waiting. I think mine kind of disappointed last year. I'll make it a point to add extra fail. This thread is my home lol. Have fun everyone.
A few times this year, while either working on my novel or coming up with ideas for my children's book I'm doing for a uni project, I've woken up in the morning and found a piece of paper beside the bed with a strange phrase scrawled in my handwriting, though I have no recollection of writing it or of what idea/thought inspired it. These aren't technically NaNoIsms since they didn't occur during November, but they still inspire a bit of a "What the?" response when I read them...
"sunshine death butterflies" "magic puppy garden toybox" "rainbow goblin dragon"
The funniest part is, after staring at them for a while, I did eventually work out what I'd been trying to say and was then able to use it in my story. Don't know what that says about my weird little brain :|
NaNoisms 2011
Sometimes when we're in the grips of writing, aiming for quantity over quality, our fingers and minds betray us. Instead of deathless prose, we get something... else. Sometimes we don't notice it right away. Sometimes, soaked in coffee and lacking sleep, we can't stop laughing at the sheer absurdity.
For example, this is an actual line yours truly wrote in the heat of the moment. "Can you hand me a glass of water? I can't see you properly."
I have no idea what I was trying to say, but this wasn't it.
That, my friends, is a Nanoism.
Serendipitous, humorous, prolific, erroneous verbosity, NaNoWriMo Style!
Share them here... and prepare for anything!
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Oh yay, NaNoIsms forum is back! I'm actually going to leave mine in this year, and put them up before I edit. Normally I pounce on them and delete them straight away.
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600 words in and already I have a few. This is going to be fun.
As her husbands footsteps tromped up the stairs
Yes, because Eunice is a polygamist. There should be an apostraphe in there somewhere.
Also, if I change a letter accidentally, my iPad will autocorrect. I've had to change Baganda back to began several times already.
*facepalm*
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I love your nanoism!
Question: If Eunice is a girl and she has more than one husband then she is a polyandrist. A polygamist is a MAN with many WIVES. A polyandrist is a WOMAN with many HUSBANDS.
Unless I misunderstood. Then sorry!
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If Wikipedia is to be believed, Polygyny is the practice of a man having many wives, and polyandry is of a woman with many husbands.
Polygamy, which essentially means "often married," covers both practices.
If Wikipedia is to be believed.
But I digress.
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Wikipedia is correct in this case.
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Oh I get it!
Sorry for the wrong info.
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I wish this was Reddit so I could up vote you for polymory!
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I love NaNoisms! Im 1790 words in, and so far my best one is a simple spelling mistake: "...all but leaped into his lap in sheep terror." I'm sure I'll get more as the month goes on. I actually have not fixed this one yet, I just keep looking back at it and giggling! NaNoisms make me happy!
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Ahahahah
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Oh that's beautiful. XD I love that!
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Love. Your. Icon.
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Moths: the hot new communication method! *headdesk*
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hahhahahah this is great!
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This is *awesome*!
Think what a great story that could be built around this.
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"Cooper put his gun back together, having finished eating it."
No, Cooper, guns are not for eating. That usually ends badly. Try cleaning it, then eating something of the edible persuasion.
Permapersimmons.
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*dies laughing*
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NaNoism of the day from yesterday:
"The house sat at the top of three marble stares."
Yes, I'm sure the marble looked very hard at all its visitors. But that's another story!
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i loved your nanoism!
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I don't know if this can be considered a nonoism but... when I sat down to write today, this is what came out instread...
"She turned into the other tunnel AND found that she did not give a crap about the fact that if she did not write 3300 words today she would have to write many many more the next day, or just give up nanowrimo 2011 all toghether. She thought it was a very stupid thing to be doing when there was so much else going on in her life. She just wanted to watch tv or READ a good book. Shge could write one another time. It did not all have to happen in a month. She just wanted to throw something and watch it break, feel the floor and the walls hake o impact. If such a thing that wuld cause this effevct was not most likelly going to be expensive to replace, she would have already done it.
As soon as Sepia made the turn (she obviously had gotten her frustration out and decided to continue writing, as she knew she would be disappointed in herself if she did not) she saw the next turn she had to make that was almost immediatly..."
It depressed me when I looked back and saw my spelling errors...
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I'm not totally sure if this is a NaNoism but instead of "the Merciful Moon Lady," I wrote, "the Merciful Monn Lfday." I fail.
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"Her dark hair glitters in the glittering sunlight that also glitters off the brown gold glittering grass." Oh, how I love major overkill on adjectives. enough with the glittering al ready.
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"He was homesick and he wanted to go home." So redundant. *facepalm*
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"Her long, wavy, shiny blue black hare was tied back in a low pony tale at the nape of her neck." I just made some random typos, but they are absolutely hillarious. Going to fix them right about now...
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"I look like the dancers of the stares, and I feel their stars as I walk through the village to my own home." reverse stares and stars.
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I've been collecting these as I reread what I've written the day before to catch myself back up on my character's lives. It seems they always just have a mind of their own.. But hey, it helps to find some gems :)
""I don’t supposed you have a way to carry this stuff, do you?” He asked hopefully. "
-...or we could live in the present tense.
"A bored looked blonde looked up from cleaning under her fingernails with a plastic fork prong and pointed towards a door at the other side of the room..."
-besides the fact that this is just silly, I'm pretty sure she was bored looking.
""Don't think that this in any way means I like you fools." He said. "I'm only doing this to keep the story moving along. NOW GET TO IT!""
-....right, fourth wall? I apparently ran into you. My bad.
"Suddenly he frowned, his hand going to his throat in panic. “Bianca!” He wailed. Bianca frowned at his worried town, looking at him intently to see what was wrong."
-..gee, department of redundancy here. Think they might have been unhappy about something?
“Cursed ugly thing,” Bianca muttered. “Well, hopefully it wasn’t all that important. I hesitate to thing where that hole spit it out. And unless you feel the need to dive in after it and take those chances, I say we leave it. Useful things have a way or turning up… or not… around here, you know.”
-... Riiiiight. I'm pretty sure we were hesitating to think there, not thing. But besides that... What?
"Braden shook his head as if to clear it, and pointed to the poster Octavia had just posted."
- Really? She posted a poster? Shocking.
"Braden was holding a tall, thin class filled with a foamy blue liquid."
-Wow, it appears my character is mighty strong, all holding classes up and stuff.
"An empty sign holder swung lazily above the doorway, but it held no marker."
-Really? the empty sign holder held no marker? brilliant.
"“So, the last time I saw this necklace, I was wearing it right?” He began, meeting each other their eyes."
-Wow. I'm glad eyes get to meet each other too. It's nice and friendly that way.
"And short of someone climbing out and turning this upside town like Bianca did that first time, I’m not sure how we’d go back up.”"
-Perhaps we meant turning this upside down. That makes it make marginally more sense.
I'm sure there are many many more, both those are the ones that caught my eye. Ahhhh fingers, why must you be so finnicky?
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"Kierra folded the map again once more."
*facepalm* I have nothing to add.
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Ahh, my favorite forum. Somehow, come December 1, I realize my entire NaNo script is almost entirely composed of NaNoisms. But I suppose that's all part of the fun, yes?
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Quite.
I've been rereading last year's novel, and am rather annoyed to find that ninety percent of it is composed of notes to myself. The remaining ten percent is composed of bizarre sentences, unintended double entendres, and failures to describe.
Most egregious is the NaNo Dance.
Wise words, past me. That is indeed what it's all about.
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That song is beautiful.
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That is amazing. I feel like I should print that out. And maybe illustrate it. :'D
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I second that. :D
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Thirded.
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LMAO! That's awesome. And yes that really is what Nano is all about.
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I think that needs to be NaNo's official song.
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^This.
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This is the best thing I've seen all day.
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That is amazing! I'm tempted to print it out and keep it with all my notes for this year.
I'm so glad this thread is back, I'll definitely have to not delete anything this year, just in case. I may have to go through last years Nano's and go looking for them. Thanks goodness I made comments on each weird thing that I wrote when I was doing a reread.
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That is THE PERFECT NaNo song! =D *loves it to pieces*
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This should be on everyone's MP3 player.
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Beautiful song. I want to see it part of Nano for everyone! :D
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I love this. Thank you.
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XD XD XD
Two words: Epic win.
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Love your NaNo song!!! TOO AWESOME!
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That is the most amazing song I have ever heard! That NEEDS to be the NaNo Anthem or something... ;)
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words of wisdom, my friend. You deserve a lollipop or something. =D
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agreed. hand the lollipop over my friend. :P
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hey winter. u copier.
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I just need someone to sing this and then make it my ringtone so that every time someone calls I will remember not to pick up because I should actually be writing...
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that is so amazingly awesome! :D
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*applaudes*
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I LOVE your profile picture!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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This should be part of a pep talk, or something XD
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adore. I am going to hum that to myself all month.
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That is the most beautiful thing I've seen all day.
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Perfect!!! I didn't even think to do that,
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That song made me laugh until I cried.
Thank you, sir.
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OMG I can't stop laughing. Giggling uncontrollably and getting odd looks from the ppl I live with.
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that is hillarious!
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I adore that. Where may I get a recording? ;)
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*dies laughing* that is EPIC!!! May I please have a recording of it???? Pretty please??? With marshmallows on top???
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That's great, that song is awesome!
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AWESOME
I... what ever number it is-d making a song of it, and a desktop wallpaper.
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no nanoisms yet as NaNo has to start, but I'm really looking forward to reading this thread again!
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This is my favorite thread of the year! It's always nice to know you're not the only one who accidentally write something that makes no sense.
Since it's not November yet, perhaps we can share some from previous years?
I know I had this one from last year:
"Aine craned her neck around a bookcase and in the distance, she could make out a brown dot in the distance, a tiny dot against a plain blue sky. [Really? was it a dot? was it in the distance? I think you should make that more a little more clear XD]"
Department of Redundancy Department, lol
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LOL!
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From last year (just started editing):
• I wondered if it was some kind of quote or if it was just the way he knocked on doors.
Erm...code, darling, code.
• It was strange, in a way, to see me throw his eyes for the first time.
Yeah, that would be strange.
• When Dr. Ryan came back and deemed Carter wealthy enough – with a heavy warning about taking it easy – the whole house breathed a sigh of relief.
Now that you're plenty rich, all's well.
• Everything had changed now – thing included.
I don't even know.
• With Carter’s reclusion, the subject didn’t even come up, and they both seemed content to let the ideas stir in the pot for a while, before going back into action.
Stir in the pot? The ideas are going to stir in the pot? What?
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I actually laughed out loud at some of these and I don't do that often, so thanks :D
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*snort* These are hilarious!
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I now have an image in my head of a girl throwing a pair of eyes and yelling "Go get it! Go get it! :D"
I can never get rid of that. xD
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IT CANNOT BE UNSEEN.
Oh gosh I can't stop laughing now. XDDDDD
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That is brilliant XD Thank you for nearly making me inhale honey and lemon tea - it worth worth it for the laugh hahaha
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Oh wow, all my lolz. :D
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I actually didn't understand what was wrong with this one until I read your note. I just sat there going, "well, health insurance is pretty expensive these days."
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"• It was strange, in a way, to see me throw his eyes for the first time.
Yeah, that would be strange."
Oh goodness, I laughed so much.
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:) my novel shall be full of nanoisms this year :) When I write late at night I usually end up with little notes to self, or snippets of conversations between my brother and his friends :) They amuse me... But I usually never keep them long enough, I delete them the minute I write them. But last year at one of the crucial parts of the novel it went something like this
"The cold, sweet embrace of death, it would be so easy, so simple, remember to eat tomorrow morning, but yet she couldn't."
I talk to myself... and then I write down what I hear... I cannot multi-task apparently.
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that is so wrong, but also so hilarious
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made my day. now remember to eat tomorrow. ...=)
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As I sit here, "studying for my Business Computing exam"... my stifled laughter is scaring the other diligent studiers...
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I found some more:
"The top hat looked like a top hat"
There was supposed to be an ordinary in there somewhere......
"NJ smirked, and Caleb didn't do anything because the author conveniently forgot about him because he's a terrible character and no one likes him"
Way to break the 4th wall....
"She was hungry, so so hungry, she was so hungry, that with her hunger she could eat a horse because she was so hungry"
Yes, she was verrrry hungry apparently
"God she loved him, he was so beautiful, like an angel, but not like an angel, because he was dark and ugly,"
Uhhhhh.... contradiction much??
"She wore ninja clothes and ninja boots,"
uhm..... yeah
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I'm just sitting here about to cry... These are amazing!! Haha!
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Those are just.. amazing.
Literally made my wekk.. cant stop laughing!!
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Possibly the greatest thing i have read all day...'the top hat looked like a top hat' brilliant!
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Literally made me LOL.
I love these.
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love them. <3
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Tears streaming down my face. Also, that laughing fit almost sent me into an asthma attack. Genius.
Someone should collect all of these into a book.
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Oh my goodness. YES.
Request permission to start collecting? (Seriously, who would I need to talk to for something like that? It's too good an idea to ignore...)
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Please, please do this. Please? This would be so awesome. =D This book could be used both to cheer Wrimos worldwide and to cause an unbelievable amount of hushed snickering and outright laughter in the most inappropriate of places. XD I'm not sure who you would need to talk to, though. =/
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I guess either Chris Baty or the other people at the OLL or one of the mods/MLs that can get in touch with them. Not completely sure though.
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Brilliant. Tears are streaming down my face. I needed a good laugh today as I battle the Week 2 Blues, and this just hit the spot! :-D
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LOL *dies laughing* luckily no one is arround to witness this. okay blame my bac speelong and mayn typow on nano. AHHHH!!!! that was not i reapeant not intentional.
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oh god, this is my favorite by far hahaha
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*gasp* Merlin!! I love that show <3
These were hilarious, btw :D
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I might have snorted at this. x]
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Not saying this in a demeaning way, but I really wanna start doing that with my sentences now.
"He was so shy, and so secluded from the outside world, but Yuan knew, why is there a fly in here, he was brave on the inside."
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I'm laughing so hard tears are running down my face. I tried to tell my mom, who's sitting right next to me about that one, but I was laughing to hard. I just got a strange expression as a response <.<
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Yay! The best thread. The BEST thread. I don't know why, but NaNoisms are one of those things that just tickle my funny bone so perfectly. Keep posting, people! I've got exams up the wazoo and can seriously use the laughs...
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I've got exams too, and this thread is going to keep me sane lol (hopefully >.>)
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I remember staying up SO late last year, and laughing my head off and waking my mom up :P. That won't be the case this year, I hope, since I have school late at night and am tired all the time, PLUS I want to work on my novel every minute I'm awake BECAUSE of school. But I love this thread SO much, and will spend a lot of my procrastination time here :D.
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In last year's NaNo I wrote that my main character lived "by the Southern border, in Northern France."
Now, how does that work?
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In Northern France, by the Southern border of Belgium?
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lol, good question. how does that work? (that sounds like something i would do)
i bet i will have a ton of these in mine since i will be writing late at night, and early in the morning.
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I think it's like "uphill both ways." I suck at geography, but I imagine it's possible for a country to have a section that sort of interlocks with its neighbor.
Ummm here is a picture, in all its MS Paint glory.
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(But maybe not France. Still, that's what I imagine, when I think about it.)
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From last years:
"I don't tip well, unfornntunatly, since i don't want to run out of cash"
That is me, during a writer's block session, using a particularly nasty combination of Write or Die.
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The only one I remember from last year: "He shrugged off his humanity like a coat, revealing a coat of white fur coating his new canine form."
Coats. Coats. That's not even a word anymore.
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So glad to see this thread again. It's been too long, NaNoisms.
Sure to have a ton this year, as college will necessitate that I type just a bit faster to get my wordcount in. It's gonna be a great year.
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NaNoisms always turns out to be my favorite thread. I don't have any yet, but I don't doubt that I'll contribute.
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Reading through last year's novel, I'm not finding too many interesting ones; just nonsensical sentences and regular typos. I did like this one, though.
I think I was going for "clenched," but the idea of her jaw clanging like a brass gong is kind of funny.
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That's hilarious.
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I read this first as "changed," too, and that was even funnier.
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I was working on a re-write this summer ... and this happened ...
"Michael stood shakily and leaned against the failing ..."
*sigh* I was having a hard time with that part.
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XDD! *laughs so hard at that one*
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"If you're only only to be stuborn..."
I don't even know what my MC was saying here.
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If you're only going to be stubborn?
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Hi, NaNoism lady in waiting. I think mine kind of disappointed last year. I'll make it a point to add extra fail.
This thread is my home lol. Have fun everyone.
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It's infectious. I was posting in another thread, and I invented a new word.
"Transportating"
It's the act of transporting your typing skills into the abyss, never to be seen again. How come I only invent words in and around November? :
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Or, a mix of teleportation and transportation, perhaps? ;)
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I've used "transteportating" before... Don't even ask where that came from...
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I have another fail, er, NaNoism for yall:
Astrid's weak voice croaked weakly, weakly reaching his ear.
Could you guess that she was, oh I don't know, weak?
Anyway I'm sure I'll have some more soon!
Write on!
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This needs to be added to Websters. I'm not kidding around.
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It's transporting a potato, obviously. XD
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I'm absolutely nerding out over your siggy right now. Pi!!!!!
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I love this thread :D
A few times this year, while either working on my novel or coming up with ideas for my children's book I'm doing for a uni project, I've woken up in the morning and found a piece of paper beside the bed with a strange phrase scrawled in my handwriting, though I have no recollection of writing it or of what idea/thought inspired it. These aren't technically NaNoIsms since they didn't occur during November, but they still inspire a bit of a "What the?" response when I read them...
"sunshine death butterflies"
"magic puppy garden toybox"
"rainbow goblin dragon"
The funniest part is, after staring at them for a while, I did eventually work out what I'd been trying to say and was then able to use it in my story. Don't know what that says about my weird little brain :|
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sunshine .... death ..... butterflies.
I love it because death is randomly thrown into all this happy stuff.
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Ahaha, wth? XD I laughed so hard at the first one. >:3
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Been in this thread 10 minutes and have already laughed hysterically once. It's gonna be a good November guys, I can feel it in my bones.
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so off topic but your halo is PERFECT. Or should I say purrrrfect.
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haha yeah it goes right around the little kitty's ear!!! that amuses me, for no reason at all. =)
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omg! that cat is soooo cute!