Mispronounciations of 'NaNoWriMo'

I taste it, and it tastes iron-y. ;)

Bad joke, I know, but the urge to say it was too strong.

My brother says NanoRhino on purpose. Over and over and over and over and over.....XD

Oh, one of my friends says NaNaWraMa as well.

I pronounce it "re" too. Na-no-re-mow

Angryman wrote:
Honestly, I've probably been mispronunciating NaNoWriMo's name. I've been pronunciating the Wri part as "re" (rewrite, reread, re-etc.). Is it "re" or "rye"?

Either is fine. :) We staff say "rye", but "ree" is fine too. We used to have a FAQ entry for that, but it got lost somewhere over the years.

Why would it be 're'? It's short for 'writing'--- so, 'rye' would be correct, no?

When WWE wrestlers write books...

Another fan of Bleach! Yay!

When ever I say NaNo, I tend to think nano, as in nanotechnology.

I suppose I should have realized that you were a Bleach fan when I saw Yoruichi as your avatar.

Ugh. I'm with you. My dad wanted to print my book and he suggested putting it in one of those plastic report covers.

Dad: How about this cool red report cover?
Me: Umm... Dad, the maximum that thing can hold is ten pages.
Dad: I'm sure it could hold a few more.
Me: My novel is two hundred and forty-six pages.
Dad: ...I guess that won't work.

What does he think I've been doing all this time if he thought my book was that short? Posting on Nano forums? Oh, I guess I do do a lot of that...

mhmm. My parents ask me what Nano is, what I get for finishing (even though I didn't hit the mark), maybe I can get extra credit, what I'm supposed to do with it now, etc. Every. Other. Day. Then when I tell them there's no prize, and there's nothing more to do (besides edit) they get mad because I "don't give them a straight answer."

...Sorry for that... They've just been rather irritating lately...

I feel your pain. I told my parents that I had won.
'Wow, that was fast - did they read all the novels already?'
'You're the winner out of all of those people?'
'So is it a publishing contract that you win?'
I tried to explain the whole 'self challenge, broadening your horizons and testing yourself' thing - they don't understand. I also tried to explain to them that hundreds of thousands of people do NaNo. Even if they DID read them all, it would take YEARS. The next questions are -
'Well what's the point then? I could write The fifty thousand times. How do they know you've written anything decent?'
Thanks for the vote of confidence, guys.

I'm lucky. My parent knows what NaNo is, and takes part in it, so I don't have to explain anything. In fact, she was the one who got me into it. Of course, she never expected me to write as much as I did...

Friends: nothing is better for free entertainment.

Ha! It sounds like a new take on the whole "virgin sacrifice thrown into a volcano".