Serendipitous, humorous, prolific, erroneous verbosity, NaNoWriMo Style!
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Oct 2, 2009 - 02 12
Excellent pre-emptive stickiness, Heather.
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50,329 / 50,000
Oct 2, 2009 - 06 22
What? What's this?
A-Am I going to be the first post showing off failure?
YAY FAILURE!
klol some of my best (or worst) from NaNo '08 are as follows:
"I'll expalin when you get back."
And for all those Joe Six-Packs out there playin' a drinkin' game, MAVERICK! [/saturdaynightlive]
I was quite happy with my happy.
I'm glad you feel this way, Calypsan! :D
But what about your hair? Are you happy with *it*?
The contents of it weren't mentioned, just an eyeliner pencil, brush and it's matching applicator, and some lipgloss
IF YOU NAME EVERYTHING THAT'S IN THERE, THEN THE CONTENTS ARE MENTIONED.
*cough*
That was supposed to me much, actually.
Wait. Brush and it's matching applicator? BLUSH and it's matching applicator! ffffffffffffff
"So, you're a slider, huh?" asked Gay.
I had literally *just* created Jay, and Mercado makes him gay.
It has since been a joke that if he didn't like the girl that I put him with, then he should change his name to Gay.
"I feel in love with her."
...close enough. XD (It was supposed to be "fell")
Almost all the couples made it to the dance floor and began grooving to the door.
No, the SONG.
He shrugged at me, smiling a slight, sly smile.
Uhm...Department of Redundancy Department?
Jay is smiling a smile. HELP.
Jay shouted happily, holding his arms out as if he was going to give her a hug today.
Because Jay doesn't want to hug her next week!
...seriously, I have no idea in hell what I meant to say.
EDIT - After a failed attempt of me changing my status on Subeta to "NANOWRIMOOOOO," NaNo is now known as NANANA.
----------OH MAA GAA NANO COOKBOOK
51,011 / 50,000
Oct 2, 2009 - 06 32
IF YOU NAME EVERYTHING THAT'S IN THERE, THEN THE CONTENTS ARE MENTIONED.
*cough*
That was supposed to me much, actually.
Wait. Brush and it's matching applicator? BLUSH and it's matching applicator! ffffffffffffff
Blush and it is matching applicator? (Sorry, that's one of my pet peeves, grammar-wise...)
Also, I think that was supposed to be much...
----------06 - Painted Wings and Giants' Rings - FAIL
07 - Sing Me a Riddle - FAIL
08 - Laugh, Kookaburra, Laugh - WON! 50,019
09 - May Day - WON! 51,011
85,272 / 50,000
Oct 2, 2009 - 06 56
From 2007. Since it was Nano, when I realized I had written something stupid, I didn't go back and change it, just added more words to work it into the story:
“I would like to ask… Might I be allowed to speak with the prisoners, before their execution?” Silently I cursed my nervous inanity. I could hardly speak with them after their execution, could I?
----------Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten.
50,181 / 50,000
Oct 2, 2009 - 07 46
Perma-perfume bottles for the shiny, new thread!
I've been plagued with verbalisms over the past few months, and my handwritten outline for this year has been a hoot to reread.
Last night a friend and I were discussing the effect having 5 suns would have on a planet.
I meant to say:
What I said instead was:
I've also stopped conjugating verbs:
From my outline:
In my defense, it was right after I'd just had a plot epiphany. I was sitting in a Starbucks and didn't think it appropriate to squeal out loud...
----------NaNo '07: The Devil's Advocate (fail)
NaNo '08: Dangerous Attraction (WON! 50,017)
NaNo '09: Back Again (sci-fi)
55,460 / 50,000
Oct 2, 2009 - 08 10
I don't have any written nanoisms at hand, but there was a verbal last night.
"My brother in law does a lot of bikeling."
Which is what happens when the brain can't decide between biking and cycling... (to this my husband grinned and said "Oh look, she's made up a new word again. Aww.")
54,184 / 50,000
Oct 2, 2009 - 08 29
*Giggles* Thanks. I'm so proud of my tagline for this thread, I had to abuse my powers to add it as a sticky first thing. :)
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50,329 / 50,000
Oct 2, 2009 - 08 58
Also, I think that was supposed to be much...
ah crap
----------I'm at it again. :|
and actually i never noticed that. FAAAIIILLLL.
OH MAA GAA NANO COOKBOOK
47,632 / 50,000
Oct 2, 2009 - 11 27
May I give my permapinasions (not sure how that one came out...) before I add any nanoisms?
----------The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words. - Ursula K. Le Guin
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Oct 2, 2009 - 11 40
But of course. :) For those unaware, "perma-permissions" is saying that you're okay with all NaNoisms you post from that point forward being used in other media - particularly if we ever get a book together again, which I'd very much like to do, but time and real life have been beating down any attempts for awhile now. Still, hope springs eternal, aye?
Although do wonder how we got to "perfume bottles." Persimmons I understood, but...x)
----------Black Friday 10k Challenge
50,181 / 50,000
Oct 2, 2009 - 12 09
Lol, I had fully intended to use persimmons or the like, but perfume just came out as soon as I started typing "per"... and bottles seemed to be the only logical conclusion.
NaNo '07: The Devil's Advocate (fail)
----------NaNo '08: Dangerous Attraction (WON! 50,017)
NaNo '09: Back Again (sci-fi)
NaNo '07: The Devil's Advocate (fail)
NaNo '08: Dangerous Attraction (WON! 50,017)
NaNo '09: Back Again (sci-fi)
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Oct 2, 2009 - 12 48
I had one of these the other day and literally thought of this thread. :D
Anyway, what I wrote, after several attempts, and best of all, I thought I had gotten it right...
Yes, because she definitely wasn't drawing her short sword. No, not at all.
----------.Kate
when i was all messed up and i heard opera in my head
your love was a lightbulb hanging over my head.
2007: 68K
2008: 64K
2009: 100K in Nov.
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Oct 2, 2009 - 14 17
Good to see this thread again. :) Hopefully I'll stick around for longer this year.
And hey, I actually have one! From a heading in my class notes the other day:
*facepalm*
PUBLIC.
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(Also, I wrote "faceplam" at first...dammit.)
EDIT: Permanent permission, of course. :)
50,256 / 50,000
Oct 2, 2009 - 13 17
I remember him, his smiling face, the frown that seemed permamently on his brow
Because people smile and frown at the same time...
And a verbal one my firend said when she was trying to guess my middle name:
----------Do you even have a surname?
Saying No Comment tells me everything I need to know
2009: To Be Honest
50,003 / 50,000
Oct 2, 2009 - 13 42
Purple Perma-popsicles for the nano-ers.
From a daily word challenge the other day:
It had to be a code. What else could the numbers mean? There was no way they could be anything but a code. There was no mathematical formula or scientific reasoning to explain the numbers away.
6. 2. 5. 0.
I stared at the scrap of paper in my hand, at those 4 digits whose meaning eluded me. And if it really was a code, what to? A vault? A computer program? A secret lab buried 50 stories below ground level?
If I had laser vision like Super Man, I would’ve burned that slip of paper to a crisp.
6. 2. 5. 0.
A four digit code would be easy to break. Were there other digits out there somewhere? Written down but lost, or at least forgotten?
Six. Two. Five. Zero.
Perhaps the code was in the number themselves. A common letter or spelling between them? Or maybe not, since these numbers could be spelled any number of ways depending on the language. But the digits were the same in all languages.
Methinks the Department of Redundancy Department was typing over my shoulders.
----------Nano 05: LifeBlood (Winner)
Nano 06: Child of Science (Loser)
Nano 07: Untitled (Loser)
Nano 08: Where Worlds Meet(Loser)
Nano 09: The Looking Glass (and other Stories) (Winner! Yay!)
50,017 / 50,000
Oct 2, 2009 - 14 37
Wow, um, yeah, verbal NaNoism:
Supposed to be "Yeah, Emily's flipping out right now."
Actually said: "Yeah, Emily's flipping on now right."
If I may asked, what exactly is Emily flipping on? And now right? Really?
Hey, I'm gonna leave that NaNoism, but I said "If I may asked"...heehee
XD
Permapersimmons, permapinapples, permaperlollipops (XD) permaper...aw whatever you know what I mean. =]
----------"OH MY GOD A FLYING FISH! RUN AWAY!" -Me. ;)
"Kristi, what are you doing with your head in a box?!" -Me :P
50,407 / 50,000
Oct 2, 2009 - 14 40
I deleted last year's NaNo after December first - it was a piece of junk and really didn't deserve to ever have seen the light of day. Sort of the demoniac love child of my brain and enthusiasm. So, I have no NaNoisms from last year, but I will be more than willing to share both verbalisms that have happened this year, and some of the others I have caught from my other works :)
A few verbal NaNoisms:
Jack only knew what Jasper knew from Jasper Yes. I'm fairly certain it's very easy to know what Jasper knew from himself.
"It's like he's into beastiology or something!" Me trying to make a joke about bestiality (don't ask xD). And later my friend tried to burn me on this, and ended up calling it "beasticology". Needless to say, we now have definitions for such words.
One from a novel I wrote a few years ago:
Joshua sighed and ran a hand through his eye." OUCH. Hair, Joshua. Please run your fingers through your hair.
And the last one was fro my first year doing NaNo - after writing almost 16,000 in one day to finish before the deadline, I informed my fellow OKC WriMo's that my fingers were about to fall from my wrist. Sometimes I forget that I have a hand.
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Oct 2, 2009 - 15 37
I haven't done NaNo before but thought I should share this cautionary tale. Be careful with annotations done in your own shorthand. Last term I circled a few lines of a poem and wrote a note to remind me that it was an analogy of grief. It wasn't until I was sat in my seminar wondering why the girl next to me kept staring at my book that I noticed I had scrawled "ANAL GRIEF" in massive letters across the margin.
----------50,408 / 50,000
Oct 3, 2009 - 04 16
From today's word prompt:
I'm sure I'd be jolted back to alertness if someone's nose was that close to me. Also, I think I was on the verge of becoming Dickenesque if I had continued that sentence much longer.
My failed attempt at spelling Laura. This came out four times, and I made that mistake again just now. Instead, it appears I've turned her into an unknown Hawaiian object.
51,409 / 50,000
Oct 2, 2009 - 16 37
From last year:
"I had misunderestimated the length of the room."
More depressing is the length of time that it took me to realize the mistake. Thank you, Bush!
----------2008 - jonathan dark: a personal blog
2009 - Dirk Maverick and the Sky Pirates of Atlantis
52,153 / 50,000
Oct 2, 2009 - 17 53
So, I was going to my dorm today, when I saw a sign on the door.
"Health and Safety Ispenctions"
My smart-aleck response, which I wrote on the paper? "Yay for Coledge!"
Gotta love it... my parents are paying for my college, a college that, apparently, doesn't know how to run spellcheck before printing papers to put on my entire building...
----------51,199 / 50,000
Oct 2, 2009 - 18 22
My character's parents have just died:
1) Folded over into herself? What I meant was she was kneeling, then curled up into a fetal position from there. Which kind of looks like folding up. But that's a horrible description.
2) Burst in tears? I have an image in my head of Krys sitting in a tear and suddenly exploding.
Permaperssions. Which is now making me think of Persians with perms... my imagination needs to go away for a while.
EDIT: Continued writing. Found this. (Describing a new character)
Scarf. She had a scarf.
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Oct 2, 2009 - 18 42
In the middle of an intensely emotional part of last year's NaNo:
He went to Tristan first, because Tristan was the easiest. YOUR MOM WAS THE EASIEST
Hee. Permapersimmionisms!
95,004 / 50,000
Oct 2, 2009 - 22 03
Permapermissions.
I've gone beyond inventing new words -- now I'm inventing new letters of the alphabet. I was ranting about the three R's of literary life to my mom -- being, reading, writing, and research. My mother is a smart aleck (I didn't get it from the ether), so I knew she'd point out 'writing' doesn't start with an R. I decided to do a preemptive strike and tell her, "I know 'writing' doesn't start with an R, but it has a strong R sound, so it counts." What I *actually* said was, "W starts with R." Realizing what I'd just said, I added a fourth R -- Revolutionizing the alphabet.
----------Won:
05 Lesbians, Pirates, and Skates, Oh My
06 Untitled
07A Letting Go And Holding On
08 Apocalypse How
09 Shattered Dreams
Lost 07B Case of The Hermit Headdesker (but finished)
50,142 / 50,000
Oct 2, 2009 - 22 16
Persimmons for all past present and future NaNoisms.
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07 - Angels from the Ashes
08 - saving His kat
09 - The Hand You're Dealt
I'm sorry. Did my sarcasm hurt your feelings? Get over it.
18,500 / 50,000
Oct 3, 2009 - 00 45
I have one very, very huge one from JulNo 09. I will simply post the link to save space. Lots of space.
http://divinewritings.webs.com/day31drivel.htm
EDIT: Have permapersimmons or missions or... whatever that is. I'm sure I will have far more to come at some point. I tend to be an idiot when it comes to writing/saying things properly.
----------Don't ever give up, no matter what happens. You just gotta push a little bit further. You gotta get to that cliff and be willing to jump off. Because it's always when you take that next step that actually the good stuff starts to happen.
~Eric Lochtefeld
109,379 / 50,000
Oct 3, 2009 - 00 31
Permapersimmons!
From last year's one - supposedly a nice emotional scene where Charlie (MC) and his best friend Jay are reflecting on what they'll be leaving behind when they leave for a Mars mission (yay sci fi):
And lo, from then on I shipped it. (It was supposed to be 'gaze'!)
...Best part is, Charlie IS gay.
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2005 - The Tank Project - 33,550
2006 - Icuruzi Three - 50,402 - WIN!
2007 - The Rift Walkers - 51,851 - WIN!!
2008 - The Red Planet - 51,231 - WIN!
2009 - The Stuff Of Legends - 58,389 - WIN!
2009 - The Sky Above, The Field Below - 50,990 - WIN!
50,329 / 50,000
Oct 3, 2009 - 06 46
So *you're* the reason my character Jay ended up gay!
----------also i forgot PERMAPERMISSIONS, PERSIMMONS, WHATEVER'S NEXT.
OH MAA GAA NANO COOKBOOK
50,017 / 50,000
Oct 3, 2009 - 07 42
IMing with my friend Emily:
Guess what Emyil? wait a sec...lemme try this again. emilky. no thats not right...Emily! There!
The worst part is...my name is Emily too.
----------"OH MY GOD A FLYING FISH! RUN AWAY!" -Me. ;)
"Kristi, what are you doing with your head in a box?!" -Me :P
50,017 / 50,000
Oct 3, 2009 - 09 56
I was talking to my friend Kristi and she was talking to my other friend Emily that I was talking about earlier, and Kristi said "Yea, you're staring at the screen with your eyes open!" She meant to say "Yea, you're staring at the computer screen with your mouth open."
Doesn't part of the description of staring mean EYES OPEN?? I lol'ed.
----------"OH MY GOD A FLYING FISH! RUN AWAY!" -Me. ;)
"Kristi, what are you doing with your head in a box?!" -Me :P