Hello, vlogbrotherlovers! I know there are a lot of us who are NaNoWriMoing this year - there have to be.
So step up and say hi.
Express your nerdiness.
Discuss your novels.
Discuss the Ning. (Not that you have to visit the Ning to be a nerdfighter...I haven't stopped by there in approximately a year and a half.)
I'm trying to follow the N theme, here, but nothing more is coming to me.
<3
Elithia
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2008: Breleth, 95k completed
2009: The Heliand Train
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Oct 2, 2009 - 08 26
I was hoping I wouldn't have to start this thread!
I'm the Co-ML for my region, and I am so totally a NerdFighter! At least one of my wrimos is a NerdFighter as well, and hopfully i can poke him into posting here as well.
Last night, I was waiting for the site to relaunch, I started at the beginning of the vlogbrothers videos and watched them in order. I got up to about may before I gave up (Apparently right after I went to sleep, the site came back up. It was just like santa, you wait forever to catch him and as soon as you close your eyes and drift off to lalaland, thats when he comes down your chimney).
----------Follow Halifax's NaNo twitter @ www.twitter.com/hanowrimons
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Oct 2, 2009 - 08 40
Hoo Ha! Nerdfighters!
----------Yes! I love Nerfighter Wrimos.
I've been a vlobrother lover since Jan. 0f '08.
I'm on the ning, but don't go on that often.
I have a puppy-sized-elephant doll that will comfort me during my writing woes.
DFTBA
"Write what you like, there is no other rule." -O. Henry
"I got caught up in between my pride and my promise, between my lies and how the truth gets in the way." -In Between
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Oct 2, 2009 - 09 05
Yes! I love Nerfighter Wrimos.
I've been a vlobrother lover since Jan. 0f '08.
I'm on the ning, but don't go on that often.
I have a puppy-sized-elephant doll that will comfort me during my writing woes.
DFTBA
Sounds like we've been watching the Vlogbrothers for about the same amount of time, then! I was very sad to learn that I'd come in just after it stopped being an everyday event.
I'm a college student at Whitman, in southeastern Washington State...don't think there are too many fellow Nerdfighters out thisaway. :)
----------2008: Breleth, 95k completed
2009: The Heliand Train
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Oct 2, 2009 - 09 48
I started watching sometime in 2008. I ended up watching the fiveawesomeguys vids, then the fiveawesomegirls vids, and THEN I watched all the vlogbrothers vids. Actually, if I'm not mistaken, Nerimon was the reason I did NaNoWriMo last year
----------Follow Halifax's NaNo twitter @ www.twitter.com/hanowrimons
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Oct 2, 2009 - 11 41
Hi!
I haven't watched the videos consistently for a while now, there seem to be too many other things going on in my life, but I still consider myself a nerdfighter, if only due to extensive nerdiness.
*waves shyly*
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Oct 2, 2009 - 14 24
Hello!
I'm proud to say that I'm a nerdfighter. Got into the videos a little late, around this time last year, but I've seen every single one! :)
Also have been to two nerdfighter gatherings, the Paper Towns release party and LeakyCon!
I can't wait to do NaNo this year. I've been excited for it since I finished last year.
Also, John tweeted like two hours ago that he might be doing NaNo too. Wouldn't that be fun?
----------2008 - Blood Blue - Winner!
2009 - Watch Out For Owen Clark - hopefully?
"Why do writers write? Because it isn't there." -Thomas Berger
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Oct 2, 2009 - 15 13
Aw, yay. This thread makes me unbelievably happy.
Nerdfighter WriMos are my favorite kind of Nerdfighters. [:
Only slightly biased, you know.
----------http://erinfoster.webs.com
Purchase the AugNo 2009 Anthology or my 2007 NaNo
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Oct 2, 2009 - 15 41
Oh. Em. Gee.
That would be so exciting.
I got into NaNoWriMo through the Giant in the Playground forums, which are my favorite geeky hangout place (I've been an active participant since before the vlogbrothers started vlogging...so not that Nerdfighteria's not great, just the Playground got to me first ;) ). But the Nerdfighters are pretty amazing tooo....
----------2008: Breleth, 95k completed
2009: The Heliand Train
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Oct 3, 2009 - 06 11
Haven't joined the Ning yet... I want to be able to say I've watched every video first. I'm approaching the end of 2008 at the moment. 'Tis great fun, and procrastination fodder.
HOLY CRAP. THAT WOULD BE THE BEST THING EVER.
----------And after thirty days and thirty nights slowly losing sanity in the dense and unchartable literary jungle of plot twists and discoveries, the novelist emerges triumphant!
2009: Double Vision - WON at 50,534 - Finishing, currently at 51,034
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Oct 3, 2009 - 08 02
Nerdfighters FTW! :) I started watching the fiveawesomegirls last February, and discovered the vlogbrothers' videos from there. I'm a huge reading/writing/literature/grammar nerd, and I am super excited for NaNoWriMo this year. :]
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Oct 3, 2009 - 16 28
I'm following John now on twitter, and it's looking like it'll be likely that he's going to be NaNoing along with the rest of us this year!
----------Follow Halifax's NaNo twitter @ www.twitter.com/hanowrimons
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Oct 4, 2009 - 05 38
Hey everyone! :D
----------I'm glad this thread is already alive and kickin'. I'm about to post a link to it on the NaNoWriMo group on the ning (http://nerdfighters.ning.com/group/nanowrimo).
See you around the forums! :]]
Best, Ashley
ML for Lynchburg, VA
2008: To Want Thy Light (64k)
2009: Set Me Free (17k)
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Oct 6, 2009 - 16 31
DFTBA, guys!
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I wonder if we could get him to share it afterwards, or at least bits and pieces like he did with Thisisnottom?
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Oct 7, 2009 - 18 23
Hey all!
I am a long-time vlogbrotherlover, and a first time wrimo. I actually decided to do this about 10 minutes ago, but I think it sounds like an amazing challenge. I am on the ning under this same name, but I am hardly ever there.
More info about me- I am a 21 year old female from Texas who is taking some time off of school right now to figure out what I want to be when I grow up. Luckily, this means that all I will have going on during November is work. Oh, and wrockstock!!
<3
Sarah
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Oct 8, 2009 - 15 38
Oh man, I am SO excited to see this group!
The name's Katie. I've been a Nerdfighter for about a year now (yay!), and I'm also a MASSIVE Harry Potter fan. (Hufflepuff, kthx.) This is my first time doing NaNoWriMo, and I have a feeling having Nerdfighters there with me will make a huge difference. I'm sooo excited to get started. 8DD
Also bluebonnet21, I'm pretty sure we're friends on Skype! You know Esther and Arka and all them, yeah?
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Oct 11, 2009 - 20 23
I died of happiness inside when I saw this thread. Like, it exploded inside my mind and body and soul in nerdy joy.
----------HI! 8D
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Oct 12, 2009 - 20 02
I am a very new Nerdfighter but an oldschool Nano-er (well going back to 2005).
I don't know where I found my first vlogbrothers video but my university went on strike around this time last year (awesome for nano) and by January when the strike was still going on I started spending too much time on youtube which led me to the vlogbrothers where I then proceeded to watch all the videos in order.
:)
Happy noveling all.
(and even if John doesn't nano Maureen is cheerleading and that's almost as good)
Finding Maureen Johnson's blog and twitter feed is my favourite part of becoming a nerdfighter. That and Hank's songs. And John's political rants. God I love his rants.
Anyways.
Happy novelling.
----------"There is fiction in the space between."
Tracy Chapman
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Oct 13, 2009 - 13 41
Also, John tweeted like two hours ago that he might be doing NaNo too. Wouldn't that be fun?
HOLY CRAP. THAT WOULD BE THE BEST THING EVER.
Full of awesome. Seriously, like, OVERFLOWING with awesome.
My name is Kate, and I'm a Nerdfighter.
(Hi, Kate.)
I'm a band NF, a book NF, a WriMo NF, and... well, several other varieties, actually. I'm also a high school English teacher. And I'm trying to subliminally indoctrinate my students into Nerdfighteria. Over my door is a big DFTBA in pink letters, and while some teachers excuse their classes by saying "Stay out of trouble" or "Have a great afternoon," I close my class by saying "Don't forget to be awesome." Makes me smile every single time.
Oh, and did I mention that some of the teachers performed the "Crank Dat/Soulja Boy" dance at a talent show, and we couldn't throw real gang signs, but we got approval to throw the Nerdfighter sign? I'm probably the only person who knew what it was, but still. Win. :)
----------The NaNoWriMo Formula: competition + deadline + community = novel!
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Oct 13, 2009 - 16 27
YES! YES! YES! NERDFIGHTERS!!
I've been a nerdfighter for about...oh, two or three years now, I think. I met John and Hank during the Tour de Nerdfighting. :D I really need to catch up on the old brotherhood videos; I've seen some, but definately not all. I'm more familiar with the videos they've posted in the past year.
Anyway, I'm a member of the Ning, though I don't go there all that often. I'm a Harry Potter nerdfighter, a NaNoWriMo nerdfighter, a Mortal Instruments nerdfighter, and a Twilight (DO NOT JUDGE!!) nerdfighter.
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Oct 14, 2009 - 16 57
I love that.
I teach afterschool programs (science club and chess club .... nerdfighters!) anyways, I should totally start having "Don't forget to be awesome" as my end of class line when I send them all home. I like that it's sort of an all-purpose 'inspiring' type thing to say even if none of the kids get it.
Totally borrowing your idea.
Unless this causes you to be sad. In which case I can restrain myself.
:)
(fun fact, my name isn't Kate but it is Caitlin)
----------"There is fiction in the space between."
Tracy Chapman
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Oct 14, 2009 - 19 47
Well, I am too new to be an official NerdFighter. I only found the Vlogbrothers about a week ago. I guess that makes me a noobfighter. Anywho, I Absolutely love the episodes that I have seen of the Vlogbrothers and plan to spend more of my free time catching up from the beginning. I just saw this thread and went, "Holy Crap, I know what that is, well sort of, in a very loosely connected way."
So yeah..
----------Its bleeding, that means it was alive when they killed it.
Shoot, I was hopin it was a Zombie.
2006: Wishing Wells *Won* (in process of editing)
2009: Life of a dungeon keeper
2010: Ghost Memoirs (planned)
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Oct 14, 2009 - 21 11
So yeah..
StealthBlue, if you're made of awesome, you're a nerdfighter! Congratulations!
No need to wory about not having been one long enough...chances are, you've been one all your life!
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Oct 15, 2009 - 04 33
Thanks. I appreciate it. Though I am not sure what Kind of Nerdfighter I would be. Either way. My real name is Stephen Bartholomew, (hmm, same initials as my username.) I'm not a member of the Ning but I did check it out just briefly. Looks like there is a Ton of good things to look through and investigate. Once I have a few moments of free time, I'll look more into it.
As far as my novel goes. This is copied directly from the post I left in the Satire board.
My project name: Journal entries of the Dungeon Keeper
Brief insight into the telling: You know how the bad guy always seems to have a Dungeon handy in which to throw his nemesis, the good guy. And that dungeon is always well furnished with traps and monsters always poised right around the next corner to maim, maul, burn, tear, and or otherwise mutilate said nemesis. How have these monsters kept from starving? What if a trap misfires, who reset's it? This book reveals the secrets behind the Dungeons. The secrets all lie with the men known as the Dungeon Keepers. (end of copy and paste from novel info) It is a satire on the business world, watch as our dungeon keeper battles through government red tape, drowns in the endless mounds of paperwork, ducks through the grueling course of marketing, goes to dungeon keeper conferences, buys monsters at auctions etc..
What other styles does it emulate? Fantasy ish...
What th' 'eck er we gonna laugh our pants off at: Watch as our diligent Dungeon Keeper faces off with the dreadful organization of PETM (People for the ethical treatment of Monsters)
I am excited to write this story, it has been simmering on the back burner of my brain for at least two years now. Woot.
----------Its bleeding, that means it was alive when they killed it.
Shoot, I was hopin it was a Zombie.
2006: Wishing Wells *Won* (in process of editing)
2009: Life of a dungeon keeper
2010: Ghost Memoirs (planned)
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Oct 15, 2009 - 11 31
I got ridiculously excited when I saw this! Nerdfighters ftw!
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Oct 16, 2009 - 11 33
This does not make me sad; it fills me with awesome. :)
----------What do you do with a BA in English?
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Oct 17, 2009 - 19 54
AVENUE Q REFERENCE!!!!!!!!! CALL IT!!!!!!!!!
Haha... I'm an english/theatre/linguistics nerdfighter, and spent my summer watching every singel B20 video in reverse order. Good times.
I'm very happy to see this thread... nerdfighters were sort of abstract for me, until very recently when I found out that one of my new best friends is a nerdfighter. YES!!!
And Kate, I wish you were my English teacher. That would be so epic. I would be your favorite. :D
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Oct 18, 2009 - 15 00
Yay, DFTBA!
I hope John does NaNo. I think we need to ban together and really convince him...
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Oct 18, 2009 - 21 05
I'm also a high school English teacher. And I'm trying to subliminally indoctrinate my students into Nerdfighteria. Over my door is a big DFTBA in pink letters, and while some teachers excuse their classes by saying "Stay out of trouble" or "Have a great afternoon," I close my class by saying "Don't forget to be awesome." Makes me smile every single time.
That is SO COOL! I'm a junior in college and I'm studying to be an English teacher... I am SO going to do that. And maybe show some vlogbrothers videos that apply to our units? I will absolutely be showing the Shakespearean insult video if I ever have to teach anything that even remotely relates to Shakespeare :)
Also, to StealthBlue, I believe you are what we call a NIT: Nerdfighter in Training.
-----------Allison
DFTBA!
www.nerdfighters.com
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Oct 19, 2009 - 09 34
I don't really know if it's been announced in this thread yet (class is about to get out and I don't have time to check) but John IS officially doing NaNoWriMo this year. I actually pestered Maureen about it over Twitter, and after a squee-enducing @reply, I saw she tweeted again that John agreed to join in on the fun this year. >:D
Maybe we can lure him over to this thread! 8D
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