I go to highschool and I just wanted to see if I could meet any other highschool NaNoWrimers from New Orleans. I did NaNoWriMo 2007 but I never met anyone so I never went to any WordWars or anything. Let me know if anyone else is interested or is just thinking about doing NaNoWriMo this year and is in highschool.
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Oct 15, 2008 - 19 06
I won last year and am participating again this year... Abandon homework or abandon hope. -.o
And you don't need to know anyone doing NaNo IRL to do word wars. I did all of mine via another forum last year; just offer a time (we found just posting minutes worked well, as it eliminated time zone issues) and wait for someone to accept.
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Oct 25, 2008 - 18 44
The Elsewheres and Baton Rouges have a word war every Sunday afternoon via both the net and some BRs meeting together. Feel free to drop in. The bad-mouthing about who will win has started - http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/3038024 .
Gail
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I live in Elsewhere, LA!
http://www.tangischools.org/schools/nes/gail/home.html
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Oct 31, 2008 - 19 40
hey just checking in
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Nov 8, 2008 - 11 59
This is my first NaNoWriMo, and I lived in New Orleans until I got cast in a musical...... BUt my soul still lives in New Orleans. Does that count?
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Nov 9, 2008 - 19 17
yeah so you're in highschool? a musical? really? i'm doing NaNo this year but i had to lower my goal to 30,000 words because i have my highschool play in two weeks. sounds like we have some things in common. i live for musical theatre. so what's your story?
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Nov 12, 2008 - 12 04
Yeah, I had quit MT after Katrina but then my friend tricked me into going to the Angels Cast Call (It's a long story, but I would reccomend the musical to everyone!!!!) And a few weeks later I got called by a different casting director (Alot of C.Ds share files and resumes.) for a different project and got it!!! It's alot of work but still amazing!!! We're only in rehearsals as of right now. But anyway, what play are you doing? I am going to be in town for Thanksgiving to see my parents (I'm shacking up with my aunt and her family here in NYC) and I would love to come and see it!!
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Nov 12, 2008 - 15 34
Good luck. I just have to say that my first year doing NaNo, I was stage managing a high school show. That opened right in the middle of the month. With crazy hectic tech week, where I didn't get home from school until eleven every night.
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Nov 18, 2008 - 19 26
wow really? i was just sitting here staring at my computer screen thinking about giving up and i decided to check my email. i have a term paper to write and rehearsals were terrible today.
have you ever had been in a play where no one knows their lines, scenes are being messed up daily, people are missing their cues, programs and posters aren't made, costumes and props are missing, crew heads are storming off screaming, and the director was doing nothing but ask you why you've been pissed off lately? and all with two days until opening night...?
i haven't checked my email in weeks so i just now saw this message. i've actually been telling my friends who i once begged to come see the play just not to bother coming but if you want to see a comedy that is a comedy in and of itself then it's at Cabrini High School in New Orleans. It's not quite during Thanksgiving thought because it's this thursday through saturday. It's an original play centered in New Orleans that we wrote ourselves and that is pretty much the reason why we're so bad off. The script is amazing but if the cast can't learn their lines then the audience will never be able to hear it...
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Nov 22, 2008 - 13 59
It's funny you should ask if I've ever been in a show like that. I actually just closed a project like that. The only difference was that no one knew their lines because they were being rewritten everyday. And our stage manager walked out on opening night and one of our amazing ensemble members had to try to take his place. Oh! And the day of opening night they gave me an entirely new song to learn just five hours before curtain. They eventually had to put a cheat sheet for me in the orchestra pit. ;). Don't let it get you down, shows like that will always happen.