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| menglishman | ready. |
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Oct 2, 2009 - 21 03
Ready as I'll ever be...
Jeanne Marie;-)
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Oct 4, 2009 - 05 47
No. :( I think this is going to be a tough year. I only have a vague idea of what I want to write, and I have no idea how i'm going to stay focused when there are always things going on in my house that are more interesting than holing myself up in my room to write. But I'm sure I'll figure it out, somehow.
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Oct 4, 2009 - 06 26
I think so. My idea is on infinite parallel universes, so I *should* have infinite ideas. Ha, ha, watch me run out of steam on day three.
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Oct 7, 2009 - 20 35
Yes. Is it November yet? (serves me right for picking something I don't really want to wait to start.)
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Oct 9, 2009 - 10 42
This will be my fifth nano... and no, I'm not ready. My little brother isn't participating this year and I'm feeling a little lost.
Feh.
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Oct 11, 2009 - 09 10
Hey!
So this is my fourth year doing NaNo and I've never felt so unready and so busy in my life.
Let me fill you guys in on my life in November:
Mondays-driver's Ed
Tuesdays-soccer/basketball (season change)
Wednesdays-Dance
Thursdays-choir
Weekends:
Oct. 29-Nov. 1--college visiting in the middle of nowhere
Nov. 7-8--SAT IIs and then program
Nov. 14-16--Weekend/program (that literally runs from 7am to 12 at night for all three days--last year I tried to write during this program and managed THREE words, lol)
Nov. 21-22--Weekend/program (debate)
Yay for me, I have the last weekend of November off!!
Um yeah, but I'm still feeling really unprepared, and keep in mind there's still college apps...
So I need some severe mental support this year. I think I'm going to wake up every morning at 5 am. No joke.
I've never been to a regional meeting/event, and I'd love to this year...I can probably manage a mid-late afternoon meeting on November 1st if anyone can make it. I'm in the Springfield/Longmeadow area and there is a community center and a park nearby....
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NaNoWriMo '06- When the First Snowflakes Fall (100k)- WIN
NaNoWriMo '07- The Finders (50k+)- WIN
NaNoWriMo '08- The Finders (50k+)- WIN
NaNoWriMo '09- ??
Remember, writing is an accepted form of schizophrenia.
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Oct 11, 2009 - 18 53
Feh.
Don't despair, Neddiheht, you still have your NaNo buddies to cheer you on! Will he at least loan you the orange starfish for inspiration?
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Oct 12, 2009 - 07 46
I think the one year old might have the starfish... but I will come up with something to use. I'm still planning on trying to do a 1/week nano gathering at Panera in Hadley. We'll see how it goes. I just need to get myself psyched up, and that's proving harder than usual this year.
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Oct 13, 2009 - 15 16
This is my first NaNo and I'm actually wicked ready. I didn't think that I was going to be, but I just got this really great burst of inspiration that helped me get everything organized. I'm trying to get my friends who write to join me and do a writing meet up at Barnes and Noble in Holyoke once a week, but most of them claim that school is claiming their souls over the next few months. Oh well!
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Oct 13, 2009 - 15 23
Not ready yet, but things are as they should be. There's still more than 2 weeks left! This is my 4th year, and I'm doing less planning this time around: no outline, a short cast of characters, and only the major plot line. Everything else will have to take care of itself once the writing starts.
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Oct 23, 2009 - 05 47
What advice would you give a new participant to help him get ready?
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Oct 23, 2009 - 05 51
I would recommend writing as much as you can (duh) and when you do, don't think, just write. This is an experiment in getting the writing out of you. Purge your story from you, get it onto the computer. You can go back and edit and rewrite later. And don't read where you left off the previous day/session. See where your mind takes you.
A really helpful website that I used last year (heard about it here) is: http://lab.drwicked.com/writeordie.html
You set a timer for how long you want to write, and you keep writing. If you stop for more than a few seconds terrible music (Hanson's "Mmm Bop"!) plays. It really pushes you to keep going. it did with me, and I won last year, my first year doing this. good luck!!
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Oct 23, 2009 - 06 41
I found that it helped me a lot in 2006 to have an outline ahead of time. I'm not doing that this year, because while the outline forced me to write 1667 words a day on the topics I'd already identified, it also led me to write a lot of extraneous material on those topics -- I had two days of writing from the perspective of a character stomping through a snowy field to a farmhouse, much of it a sort of sing-song doggerel that he had flowing through his mind, stream-of-consciousness style. However, in terms of simply executing 1667 words a day, an outline is a good tool.
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Oct 24, 2009 - 03 01
I'm stoked with the enthusiasm that only comes from having no idea what they're about to get into :)
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Oct 25, 2009 - 06 34
I now have an idea, so the challenge is to keep from writing while preserving my enthusiasm for the idea until Nov 1
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