What's in your NaNoWriMo survival kit this year?
Mine contains....
My manuscript book and trusty waterman, ink refills.
A gold pen for noting word counts (I'm handwriting btw and it ROCKS!). A purple pen for writing notes as I go along.
I Ching balls for massaging aching hand
A calculator for calculating said word count
An Excel spreadsheet because I like to see said word count in all its colourful 3D graphy goodness
Notebooks each for character, regional, and cultural notes
The map of my world so I know where everyone is, or will be.
Tarot cards for giving me random plot direction that sometimes works
"No Plot? No Problem!" by Chris Baty because he tells me what I should be feeling
Some early music and celtic harp music for setting the mood.
Tea. Lots and Lots of tea. And water. Hydrate your brain, people!
The Nano web page and chat room for procrastinating
Twitter for exchanging trash talk with Uxintro during our month long word war.
What about you?
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"Find the next word. Write it down. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat." - Neil Gaiman
27,350 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 19 16
My kit:
+ My laptop, a Compaq Presario C774TU named Safire, loaded with Windows Vista Basic. This is her second NaNo.
----------+ Surge protector for my laptop.
+ My shiny silver 80GB iPod Classic, Taylor, plus earphones. Second NaNo for that one as well.
+ A nice and thick 5-subject notebook with coloured dividers.
+ 10-pack of Papermate 1.2 ballpoint pens.
+ My black Papermate Frixion pen.
+ External hard drive.
+ USB flash drive.
+ Junk food.
+ My brand new Fission digital notetaking pen.
+ My Nintendo DS, which I'll be letting myself play only when I meet each day's target WC.
34,189 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 19 48
My Kit:
Jumbo pack of NoDoz
A month supply of Coke
My trusty several years old but still loves me desktop PC
My Acer Laptop
My Creative Zen music player
13 bags of mini candy canes
Brita Water Filter Drink Bottle
A lock for my door
A Visual Arts sketchpad
twenty two coloured pencils
and...
My Wolverine Origins Special Edition 2 Disk DVD [which is to reward me when I finish 37.5 k words tonight.
----------Meals Missed: 5
Coke Consumed: 6 litres
Tv Shows Missed: 12
Characters Killed: 29.5
Assassination Attempts: 2
6,689 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 20 51
My kit:
My trusty EeePC Netbook called Minnie, with yWriter installed to keep track of word counts, characters, locations etc.
Hot pink iPod Shuffle 1GB, plus earphones
Case of imported Mountain Dew
Handful of previously unused binder exercise books
Uni-ball needlepoint pens of varying colours
Page reference tabs
Mechanical pencil
Pile of blank A4 paper
Looseleaf folder
Thesaurus
Fresh fruit/veg nibbles (plus junk food)
Murphy's Law poster for story inspiration
45,472 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 21 32
My favourite drink is tea. I splurged on a jar of honey to kick start the brain a bit this month. And water, of course. We'd all die without it. But, as an added survival factor I've added two cases of red wine to my kit for my first wrimo. It's an experiment to see what really is lurking in the depths.
I don't usually drink and type. It can be a deadly combination. But, there is always the delete button to be used in December.
As well as:
My rough outline of the plot - very rough - but it's funner.
No plot? No problem is on my shelf in front of me and has been read, but I think I can do this all by myself now.
The novels I've read as research with all their margin notes and highlights.
Internet research printouts.
Notebook with very brief notes on chapters and days and word tally columns that I tick with a big red felt pen as I finish each day.
My little dog, Jesse, Gorgeous for short, who has nothing but praise and adoration for anything I do, no matter how bad it is.
( Is there a brag board anywhere here? Whoo hooo. I got a letter last week telling me that I won an award in the Todhunter Literary Award short story competition ... and I wasn't even using my survival kit. )
----------"Why is a raven like a writing desk?"
"Come, we shall have some fun now!" thought Alice. "I'm glad they've begun asking riddles. I believe I can guess that," she added aloud. - L. Carroll
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Nov 1, 2009 - 21 35
My big squashy over-the-ear headphones and my iPod
My tin egg timer
A bottle of water
My GF writing beside me on the sofa
Oh, and "No Plot, No Problem", open to the page with the button for banishing your inner editor, in case it comes creeping back. Which it does tend to do in the first week.
----------2009: Brainstorm (fingers crossed!)
2008: The Bearbrass Inmate (won!)
2007: The Birds' Almanac (won!)
(Why do they all start with 'B'?)
36,058 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 23 19
My kit includes;
My Laptop- A 2000 model DELL Latitude C600, with a PENTIUM 3 processor. Windows XP with a Vista transformation pack.
Microsoft Office Worg 2007
My 20GB HDD in my laptop
My Toshiba 1GB thumbdrive, for the back up copy of my story in a Word 97-2003 document so i can take it anywhere and it will work.
Windows Media Player 11, on my laptop. Includes all of my music, and my story writing songs.
My massive stereo headphones.
A power pack for the Laptop and the headphones.
A BIC 4 colour pen. Four colours for importancy of notes.
My Dog & Lemon Guide 1988-2008, so that i can look up stuff on the cars i put into it. (eg, who the hell knows what could cause a Lancia Thema to break down?)
My new, green Colourhide spiral notebook, for idead and names and words and stuff.
My Mum's netbook, so i can type what i am now up (She has a DELL Inspiron 910 in white).
A few books to read.
The Sims on my laptop for modeling characters. (Very broadly though)
My camera (Kodak C813 8.2 MP) for the cover arts on my other stories. And maybe this one, we'll see.
Lots of food and drink, not all of it so good either.
33,500 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 01 27
Mine consists of:
-My beautiful mac lappy whom I love so very, very much.
-An exersize book left over from the beginning of the school year
-An odd assortment of pens (I dont buy them, I just collect them)
-My iPod/iTunes and headphones
-Shady, my twin/best friend
-A stack of novels in French to read as rewards which will make me want to go BACK to writing.
68,670 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 16 35
( Is there a brag board anywhere here? Whoo hooo. I got a letter last week telling me that I won an award in the Todhunter Literary Award short story competition ... and I wasn't even using my survival kit. )
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! That's Great! Best part is that you can now officially go around and call yourself an award winning writer. Well Done. :D
----------"Find the next word. Write it down. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat." - Neil Gaiman
19,611 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 19 32
Oh no, I never thought to put one together. Will have to rectify that, I might get stranded,
----------2007 - just over 50k - win
62,033 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 19 58
My kit includes
----------My trusty, no batteries required mark one laptop (OK - a notepad and pens for when thoughts strike when away from computer - no actual laptop yet, maybe when I’m published and rich - no serioulsy)
Data key to carry the story between the backup copies on the home and work computers
Bananas
My Goons CDs, Dr Who soundtracks and A Very Scary Solstice CD (Cthulhu Christmas carols - oddly uplifting and inspiring)
My trusty official NaNoWriMo caffeine dispenser (labelled Author for my ego) to drink Pepsi Max from
Prominently displayed acceptance letters and writing diplomas (again for the ego boosts)
Vast quantities of Pepsi Max because I can't find caf-pow
One dog to look up on his master with awe and wonder (ego again) and to remind daddy that going outside occasionally has its benefits (no seriously)
microwave for frozen meals (can't waste time cooking real food), phone (very handy cooking utensil)
Friends, family, workmates to... I'm sure they're there for something more than eating into valuable writing time and telling me I need to sleep
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*God is a writer*
19,000 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2009 - 22 30
For most writing:
- My laptop. Toshiba M750e with Windows Vista Office, that my school requires I have. It's got a touch screen, which I can use the pen or my fingers as mice, as well as the touch pad. It makes me feel like a spy, which is very good for my story.
- My laptop charger. It has an okay batter life, but I tend to be on it for hours so I need to be able to charge it regularly.
- A tab of IE with Write or Die opened. Great when I want to churn out crap in as little time as possible.
- My story opened with about 100 words of planning/character details at the bottom. So I can stay organised.
For school:
- A page torn out of the centre of an exercice book, so it's two A4 pages. Folded to fit into my pocked easily. Four pages of writeable goodness. I'm on my second sheet now (I write extremely small, which is why I'm typing.)
- A pen. For writing. Obviously.
For my brain and body and sanity:
- Water. Hydration ;D
- Coffee. I have latte sachets, because they're sugary goodness and not caffeinated to a crazy extent, which wouldn't be good for me.
- Milo. For when I need to write but I've got school the next day so I can't drink coffee late at night.
- Tim Tams. For rewards and Tim Tam Slams. Look up that goodness, it is AMAZING.
- Two stress balls - one for each hand. One is a thumbs-up that I got from La Porchetta. The other is an extremely inaccurate model of the world, with "Weltsprache Deutsch" (the world speaks German) written on it. Won that one in German.
- My cat, Sunny. He's my huggable stress reliever.
- Twitter. For tweeting word counts and procrastinating.
That's about it. I think.
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Nov 7, 2009 - 02 04
- HP laptop
- 240 page notebook
- A red, black and blue BIC ballpoint pen
- Hundreds of scattered blank sheets
- A few cans of bourbon
- Coke
- The internet
- GaiaOnline's NaNoWriMo guild
- Several books on witches
- Possibly Pirates role play reference
- My hard drive and USB
- Photoshop and business photo's to finish processing for procastinating
228,480 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 03 41
My Nano survival kit? Well, le'see wots in here:
My Homer Simpson 1gig thumb drive;
----------Acer Aspire 5313 laptop (upgraded);
Sunbeam Espresso Coffee Maker;
Internet - for immediate research;
Fox Sports or ESPN for background noise;
and that's it.... for Nano.
Do or do not; there is no try. Yoda
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