I remember a topic like this last year and it really helped me to get a lot of writing done. Basically someone posts write (x amount of words) if you (this can be anything from had coffee this morning to own a blue car). Then if you wrote because you did have coffee or own a blue car or whatever they put, you leave one for the next person.
For those of you writing now to get into the spirit, I will start the thread off.
Write 200 words if you logged into NANOWRIMO.org more than once today.
Anyone who writes 200 words because they did log into the site more than once should leave something for the next person!
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Oct 15, 2009 - 18 03
As Regina walked to the doctor’s office, a pregnant woman sat in a nearby indigo armchair, her swollen legs swinging, skimming the pattern less rug beneath them. Regina however hardly took notice of her protruding stomach or her limp, tired hair. She simply smiled and moved toward the daunting hallway before her.
Once out of the view of the others waiting for their doctors, she began to hum the song that had been playing in her car on the way there. Slowly, her volume increased and she was soon singing the words at full volume.
Nevertheless, she stopped instantly when she spotted the peeling floral wallpaper. Stopping to admire the violet pattern, she didn’t realize the man peering over her.
‘A connoisseur of wallpaper?’
Swearing under her breath and grasping at her ghostly pale chest, she turned around so quickly that her split ends impaled her chocolate eyes.
Apologizing for scaring her, the man proceeded to introduce himself.
‘Sorry to frighten you. I’m Trenton,’ he said with a sheepish grin. ‘I just noticed you were wearing a Neutral Milk Hotel shirt. They’re genius.’
‘Right,’ Regina stuttered. ‘Of course. Thanks.’
Leaving him there, obviously dejected, she shuffled toward her doctor’s office.
Exactly 200 words. :D
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Oct 16, 2009 - 13 25
Write 200 words if you logged into NANOWRIMO.org more than once today.
The site remembers me so I don't have to log in. This of course means I'm doubly lazy for not wanting to log in and not wanting to write anything. :D
And since MadisonHelen didn't leave anything, I give you:
Write 400 words if you've been outside today.
----------Dare Points: 3
Number of Times Plot Changed: 6
A Wrimo is never behind, nor is he ahead. He is precisely where he means to be.
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Oct 16, 2009 - 15 01
This scene is SO retarded! But amusing. I'm so mean, teehee. 604 words, 15 minutes
LeFou and Sybil were arm wrestling, as per usual. Any time a challenge was posed by the arrogant, supposedly metrosexual man in his low-riding pinstriped pants to the lavender-haired spunk, it was always called. They were hunched over one of the tables in the Inn, backs arched, beads of sweat rolling down their foreheads as their eyes were locked. LeFou's irridescent opal eyes flashed with intensity as they bore into the violet irises of the girl before him, who was not showing many signs of duress. He needed to find a way to redeem himself.
After a moment a grin curled his lips, slithering across his face where the skeleton's mask was painted upon his skin. Sybil's brow arched, tilting her head just slightly, although it caused her beloved hat to tip just a bit too far, nearly falling to the floor. Just in time with a yelp she jerked it back into place, biceps bulging delicately as she locked gazes with her opponent yet again. "Whatcha thinkin?"
LeFou's lips parted over his pearly teeth, the gleam white and polished as ever. "Oh. Nothing in particular. That's all."
"Bullshit," Sybil said, giving a sudden surge with her arm to try and shove his back. He only yielded for a moment and then retaliated with an equally sudden shove, using some of his upper body to force her back. Pathetic. SO horridly pathetic. He had to remedy this... And already he could see his cheshire grin was getting to her, causing just enough self-doubt to give him a slight edge over her present advantage.
"You may think that, dear Sybil, but it's only a matter of time...." He narrowed his eyes with deliciously wicked glee, cackling low in his throat mixed with a sound nearly comparable to a purrrr.
She narrowed her eyes back and shoved again, locking her elbow against the table as she decreased the angle his elbow created with the table. She was gritting her teeth but at least she was winning. "Your bluffs are getting worse."
Are they? LeFou thought to himself, allowing a small brow perk at her statement. Perhaps they are, perhaps, he continued to ponder, But I've got her wondering just what it is I'm up to. Yes I do.... Now let me see....
And it was then that inspiration struck.
LeFou lifted his gaze from its previously intense lock with Sybil's, looking over her shoulders....
His jaw dropped. The flickering rainbow of color in his milky eyes instantly deadened to a dull, lifelless panic as he seemed stunned in his tracks. What Sybil failed to notice was that he was still keeping her arm at bay, and this lack of observation would cost her. To her most unfortunate surprise she quickly whirled around to find....
....nothing,
SLAM!
"I win again!" LeFou cried with glee, leaping onto the table and giving a flourish and a bow, smugly congratulating himself at large. Sybil wrinkled her nose and drummed her manicured nails on the table.
"That's crap, you tricked me."
"Crap is in the eye of the beholder, dear opponent, and I do believe you owe me something." He curled his index finger toward himself multiple times in a beckoning gesture, and now it was Sybil's turn to grin. She meandered around the table from where she sat toward him.... and socked him right between his legs. LeFou instantly crumpled on the table, curled in the tightest of fetal positions; he surely could have fit himself back in the womb at that circumference. Sybil patted his back without sympathy and floated across the Inn to see if Lorne would be social today. The only other sound in the room was LeFou's painful whimper.
Write 500 words if you posted more than 3 times in the forums today!
----------.~: Live. Dream. Write. :~.
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Oct 16, 2009 - 17 53
Generally, you don't post what you've written in response to a prompt...just the prompt you're leaving or the ones you've taken.
These things get really big as November goes on, and you can find yourself "owing" like 3000 by the end of a page.
Public Service Announcement is now over.
On to prompts!
Write 150 words if you...
-- Told a child "no" today
-- Have played a video game for at least half an hour this week
-- Still have to name your MC
-- Are planning on skipping at least one event in November in order to write
And now I owe 1000 words, since I walked outside today.
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Oct 16, 2009 - 21 16
Yes, to the video game; Singstar.
He liked walking in the dark. I was comforting, it was home. God knew, if there even was a God, that he wasn't at home in his house with his deadbeat dad, or at school where everyone looked at him like a freak, as if they were all perfect. No doubt they viewed him as some stupid emo -- that was just their way of insulting him, even going so far as to believe it, and letting their dirty smirks infest his mind. They knew he hated it. He'd smash in their faces if it would wipe that look from their faces, their eyes.
And his dad, he didn't pay much attention to. He'd just lay about the house, drinking beers and complaining about Orion, before leaving the house the next day to his tedious job as a labourer amongst complaints that he might chuck a sickie because he was hungover.
That's 150, exactly! Counted it myself.
----------"Blocked again and again and again until you learn to keep your mouth shut and your mind closed, Potter!" --Severus Snape
"Little else but revenge and candy are cold and sweet." -- Me, just now
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Oct 16, 2009 - 23 00
Write 200 words if you logged into NANOWRIMO.org more than once today.
Write 400 words if you've been outside today.
Write 500 words if you posted more than 3 times in the forums today!
Write 150 words if you... Still have to name your MC (I still don't know what I'm writing! XD)
Yup, I did all of them. XD All 1250 words!
Write 250 words if you're wearing green.
----------2009 NaNoWriMo: Good Luck Priestess
Writing Journal: http://utensil-drawer.livejournal.com/profile
A fine is a tax for doing wrong, a tax is a fine for doing well.
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Oct 17, 2009 - 07 12
HOW did you know I was wearing green socks?
Write 200 words if you ate an unusual breakfast.
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Oct 18, 2009 - 11 30
Well, I didn't wake up until noon and I made chicken wings. It was the first thing I ate, so you could call it breakfast.
I wrote 200 words for a story that I have due in my Fiction Writing Class tomorrow.
Write 250 words if you have no idea what you're going to write about for NANO.
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Oct 18, 2009 - 13 27
> Write 250 words if you have no idea what you're going to write about for NANO.
Yup, that's me. Brainstormed for a few hours and still don't know. XD
Write 200 words if it's below 80F/27C outside.
----------2009 NaNoWriMo: Good Luck Priestess
Writing Journal: http://utensil-drawer.livejournal.com/profile
A fine is a tax for doing wrong, a tax is a fine for doing well.
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Oct 19, 2009 - 07 14
It's 32 outside, so 200 to me. x]
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Write 333 words if you've had fruit or fruit juice today xD
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Oct 19, 2009 - 18 12
Write 500 words if you posted more than 3 times in the forums today!
Write 150 words if you have played a video game for at least half an hour this week
Write 200 words if it's below 80F/27C outside.
Eek, 1250. *toddles off to write*
ETA: Had to take a break to watch a bit of TV, so I wound up with the depressing wpm rate of 17.5 wpm. Skipping the time spent not writing, my rate was probably actually closer to 30 wpm. Much better, though still not great. :P And hey, 1261 words, woohoo! :D
Write 300 words if you watched a movie today.
-Write 400 if the movie was 300.
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Oct 20, 2009 - 00 20
I guess that means me. Actually two movies today...off to write that Study Abroad essay.
Write 250 words if you got a hug/gave a hug today!
-----------300 if it was a teddy bear
-350 if it was your child
-400 if it was your significant other
I can trip up the down escalator. Now that takes talent!
I hate it, but hey. It's a first attempt at GIMP:
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Oct 20, 2009 - 14 06
1250 words to write now! Now to steal a prompt XD
Write 200 words if you...
----------- have heard/sung a song from a musical today
- drank hot chocolate
- have listened to your portable music player today
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NaNoWriMo 2007 - Moonlit Nights - 29, 319 words - Failed =(
Screnzy 2008 - Fly! - 52 pages - Failed =(
NaNoWriMo 2008 - Blood Filled Puddles - 50, 201 words - WON! =D
Smile and remember to be happy
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Oct 20, 2009 - 15 08
Only 450 for me today. :( Gotta get this thread moving! :P
Write 200 words if you're using these forums to procrastinate.
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Oct 20, 2009 - 21 15
Darn it!
500 words if you've watched an anime... double that if you watched it in preparation for Nanowrimo. ^__^
----------For those that love me, no explanation is needed. For those that don't, none can be given.
www.writersretreat.darkbb.com - The forum for Writers who know that Imagination is the essence of all Creation
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Oct 21, 2009 - 08 46
I now have 500 more reasons to regret my DNAngel phase.
450 words if you have more than one pet
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Oct 21, 2009 - 10 22
700 words to me. (Procrastination and anime).
Write 450 if you have no pets.
Write 400 if you only have one.
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Oct 21, 2009 - 18 59
Write 450 if you have no pets.
Write 400 if you only have one.
Ha! Covering all the bases, are we?
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Oct 21, 2009 - 19 02
I thought it was only fair. :P People with 1 pet get off light, because it's the perfect balance. :D
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Oct 21, 2009 - 21 47
- ordered to bedrest since I am ill.
.... so once I was medicated to coherancy I wrote! ^_^
I am none of the above, I have two pets! Soo...
Hah-ha! 1577 words in less than an hour! (gods if i can keep up that pace during nano I might just reach my sadistic goal of 150k.)
Sooo....
300 words if you're reading through the forums to avoid sleep.
----------250 if you are just bored and reading through the forums
500 if you were supposed to be researching or writing and came here anyway!
--if none of the above, than 200 words for reading my post! How's them apples?
“Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” – E.L. Doctorow
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Oct 21, 2009 - 22 36
I sense this coming from a person with only one pet... a dog, my newly acquired psychic powers inform me.
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Oct 21, 2009 - 22 39
Hold your horses, you don't get off that easy. I required more than one pet owners write 450. :}
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Oct 22, 2009 - 04 06
I sense this coming from a person with only one pet... a dog, my newly acquired psychic powers inform me.
ETA: Eek, 1200 words for me today.
Write 200 words if you've had more than one cup/bottle of water today.
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Oct 22, 2009 - 06 05
Hmm. 900 words for me :P I'm not entirely sure I'm getting the rules, but hey, 900 words can never be wrong? ^^
Write
----------300 words if you're writing fantasy and/or science fiction this NaNo
400 words if you're writing history based fiction this NaNo
700 words if you won't write this NaNo at all ;P
2009 - The Fateless/Den Ödeslöse
Current mood: Stressed, but happy
Days without writing: 3
Days reaching 1667: 20/25
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Oct 22, 2009 - 08 10
I hate you all. (Not really)
Because of your ridiculous requests, I must now write 1950 words with a headache. Woohoo.
I guess this is practice for NaNo.
- 2040 words in an hour and a half. Not bad at all!
Write 400 words if you sang anything today
----------Write 350 words if you hummed a tune today
Write 300 words if you spoke today
If none of the above, write 200 words just for thinking
AMPish - Water inspires and writing is art.
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Oct 22, 2009 - 10 02
Are we supposed to be adding these up? I had to write 300 words for talking... I ended up with 447 word in 15 minutes. Yay me... (I'm not sure if I sang this morning or not, but at least I'm covered if I did.)
Um... write 500 words if you own a four-door vehicle
----------write 250 words if you own a two-door vehicle
Death toll: 9 named, about 181 unnamed
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Oct 22, 2009 - 10 41
Well, don't keep going back to the beginning of the thread. :P You're going to end up with massive, impossible wordcounts that way. I like to go back to when I last claimed wordcounts and add up from there. You can choose to just look at the previous post, or do what I do. And for your first time (you're faster than I am, by the way :P), go back to where you're comfortable.
Write 150 words if you own a vehicle with no doors (bike, motorcycle, etc.)
Write 100 words if you own no vehicle.
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Oct 22, 2009 - 12 49
300 words if you're writing fantasy and/or science fiction this NaNo
400 words if you're writing history based fiction this NaNo700 words if you won't write this NaNo at all ;P
300 words to me! Here I go, courtesy of Write Or Die:
Laura never thought twice about her decision. After all, it was she who'd always wanted a life of adventure, one free of the boredom that daily smothered her in her well-kept apartment. So she sold everything, even her precious laptop, and joined the Peace Corps.
Signing up was not the adventure she thought it would be. It was appointments and interviews and forms to fill out. Ugh, those forms she had to fill out. Then she was afraid she wouldn't be accepted, even though she'd heard that they pretty much accepted everyone. She certainly hadn't been expecting the background check.
But after a lot of jumping through hoops, Laura finally bade her old life of careful planning good-bye. Onward toward adventure! Onward toward spontaneity! New people to meet! New places to see! New and wonderful and exciting things to do!
She was rather disappointed when her plane touched down in Botswana. She would be living in poverty with an entire village of people who didn't speak English while she taught them how to dig irrigation ditches to improve their crop yield. Like she knew anything about irrigation ditches! Now she'd have to learn it herself, but from where? There was no library nearby where she could research "how to dig irrigation ditches for dummies."
This was no good, but there was no turning back for her. Oh, how she longed for her old life of bills that needed paying on time. Her cell phone, her credit card, her rent. How she long for the sure structure of her 9-to-5 job. That desk started taunting her in her dreams.
And her laptop! Laura began to kick herself for selling her baby, with all her files on it, all the games she loved to play. FreeCell. Spider Solitaire. Hearts. But what she missed most of all was her bathtub.
(302 words in 12 minutes)
For the next person: Write 350 words if you recently got a haircut.
----------"I'd like to thank you on behalf of the group and myself, and I hope we passed the audition."
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Oct 23, 2009 - 09 43
Write 150 words if you own a vehicle with no doors (bike, motorcycle, etc.)
I got exactly 650 words in twenty minutes or so (Taking out time for all the interruptions...
Write 200 words if you sleep with a living animal
----------Write 100 words if you sleep with a stuffed animal
Death toll: 9 named, about 181 unnamed
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Oct 23, 2009 - 17 54
>Write 100 words if you sleep with a stuffed animal
I got 138 words! Woot woot!!
Write 300 words if you bought something brand new today (food doesn't count)
Write 200 words if you own an animal
> Write 300 words if you own a dog
> Write 400 words if you own a cat
Dangit... now I have to write 1,200 words!! Off to finish my little story-thing!!
----------# of Words in a Single Day - 0
# of Characters - 2
# of Points of View - 0
# of Days with No Nanoing - 0
# of Break-Ups - 0
# of Plots Included from Adopt a Plot - 0
Cups of Coffee: 0
Snacks: 0
Conversations with self: 0
Words: 0
Headaches: 0
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