Express your epic woe
of NaNoing, in this thread
of short poetry.
Five syl-la-bles first;
se-ven in the mid-dle piece;
then five at the end.
Three lines should tell us,
all of which we wish to know.
Pain and sometimes joy.
It should give one pause,
present sticking imagery.
Abuse as you will.
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I will commence thus:
my tale well known; sad in heart.
My plot hates me so!
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NaNo '09- "Hell in a Handbasket"
60,458 / 50,000
Oct 13, 2009 - 22 35
NaNoWriMo rules
In exchange for confidence
I just had to write
Getting fifty-K
Is like eating a pizza
Delicious heaven
Best characters made
Which I treasure with my soul
All in 30 days
Always remember
Those excellent times to write
Reason to rejoice
(Did I do it right?
----------Haven't done this in a while
But it's lotsa fun)
NaNoWriMo 2006: Natalia's Journey (won!)
NaNoWriMo 2007: The Pride of King Julius (won!)
NaNoWriMo 2008: Hatoshi's Reality (won!)
NaNoWriMo 2009: The Lament of the Lemon King (won!)
48,046 / 50,000
Oct 13, 2009 - 23 35
Nabs any excuse
to make haikus for NaNo
or anything lol
the haiku above
assumes the reader doesn't
spell out ell-oh-ell
*happy sigh* I really do love haiku. I need to do it more often. I wonder if I can work it into my book. In fact, I might have to now that the thought has occurred to me.... *sigh*
it is very late
for opening Nano docs
my eyes are sleepy
;)
12,304 / 50,000
Oct 14, 2009 - 01 33
If only Nano Books
----------had this few words to complete
its insanity
An Author is someone who gets paid to tell them where to go, and how to get there.
34,007 / 50,000
Oct 14, 2009 - 08 39
The Suck Haiku thread
has returned to us again!
I chortle in joy.
This year's NaNovel
has a wonderful premise.
Too bad there's no plot.
No plot? No problem!
This is a common mantra.
May not work for me.
Writing in Chem class
----------I think I'm continuing
A proud tradition.
Check out my NaNo blog!
36,900 / 50,000
Oct 14, 2009 - 09 45
any haiku is fun
haiku verses are new form
more is less, or more?
77,137 / 50,000
Oct 14, 2009 - 10 18
Hello Dear Nano;
50k in thirty days
at the end, a BOOK
who are you people?
why am I tied to this chair
with just my laptop?
woven together
characters' life stories hang
like bad macrame
My book is finished
----------word count: four nine nine nine nine
Oh! I'll add "The End"
1,065 / 50,000
Oct 14, 2009 - 10 41
I haven't a clue
----------What I am going to do
As I have no plot.
blog
Hi, I'm Alyssa.
12,304 / 50,000
Oct 14, 2009 - 12 32
What I am going to do
As I have no plot.
I love this! So very true!
An Author is someone who gets paid to tell them where to go, and how to get there.
----------An Author is someone who gets paid to tell them where to go, and how to get there.
52,778 / 50,000
Oct 14, 2009 - 13 29
The rush you get is
Just simply phenomenal
As you cross the line.
Finish line, that is
All of the beautiful words
Each and every one
Each year gets better
As do my novels, except
That some parts still suck.
They always will, and
I should just accept that,
Realize that I fail.
But to win, you have
----------To fail, and that is the real
Beauty of NaNo.
2007: The Regency Street Book Club - realistic fiction 50k/50k
2008: Indigo - fantasy 58k/50k
2009: Witching Hour - YA
"Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies." --Adrienne Gusoff
103,275 / 50,000
Oct 14, 2009 - 14 32
Here we go again.
----------Don't know if I can make it.
Let's cross our fingers.
87,160 / 50,000
Oct 14, 2009 - 14 34
Autumn marathon
----------From zero to fifty K
Words fall into place
2006 SF: "Bella Transfigured"
2007 Mainstream: "Novena"
2008 SF/F: "Wanderer #1: The Oracle's Gifts"
2008 SF/F: "Wanderer #2: Sky Ships of Ciello"
2009 SF: completed: "Wanderer #3: Unsettled"
2009 Mainstream: in progress: "Reading in the Dark"
8,301 / 50,000
Oct 15, 2009 - 17 33
Doing this again
Leaping in without a plot
I must be insane.
This year a YA
In search of five good plot points
Clueless again. Eek!
High anxiety
Looming at next month's start date
Alcohol might help.
Words don't gush, they drip
----------Like a broken faucet's wound
Someone shoot me now.
"Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something."
~ The Princess Bride
38,787 / 50,000
Oct 15, 2009 - 21 50
Most of it makes sense
----------But I still can't figure out:
What's the first mate's deal?
"When the hero develops this sort of arrogance, it always ends dreadfully. Look at Icarus. Fellow with the wings, have you read that one?"
"I think so."
"That is precisely where we find ourselves now."
55,912 / 50,000
Oct 15, 2009 - 22 42
I make brilliant plans
completely forgetting that
it's simply not easy
***
Yes I'm no good at haikus, I think I prefer limericks, like this for example:
There once was a girl doing Nano
----------who was told not to tell, but just to show
but she told anyway
just because she thought "hey,
no one's going to read this but me, yo!"
Word painter
51,722 / 50,000
Oct 15, 2009 - 23 10
Like November rains
Writing fifty thousand words
Makes you want to cry
If you pass this goal
And go above and beyond
Then we might hate you
But it is only
October and we panic
Such are NaNoers
Good luck to all here
May your muse not run away
And plot bunnies come
(Oh well, I tried XD)
----------40,138 / 50,000
Oct 15, 2009 - 23 45
Spent all day reading
A Vampire haiku novel
Which was rather cool.
Kind of inspiring,
----------But vampires are too in now;
Still have no ideas.
Gee, my name sounds masculine. I'm actually a woman.
2007: Sick Bacchus (won!)
2008: Nocturne (won!)
2009: Like a Drug
0 / 50,000
Oct 16, 2009 - 04 06
Oh anxiety
What have I done to myself
This cannot be good
Why did I do this
I've never written a thing
No, I'm serious
8,301 / 50,000
Oct 16, 2009 - 04 11
If you pass this goal
And go above and beyond
Then we might hate you
LOL! Oh, yes the truth hurts. This is by far my favorite thread.
T.
"Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something."
----------~ The Princess Bride
"Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something."
~ The Princess Bride
46,275 / 50,000
Oct 16, 2009 - 08 41
I don't really know, why I posted to this thread. Sorry - got nothin'. ;)
----------Adjectives on the typewriter
He moves his words like a prize fighter
The frenzied pace of the mind inside the cell
-Cake
46,892 / 50,000
Oct 16, 2009 - 13 41
if only i had plot
----------i'd be a happy woman
woe, woe, woe is i
Dreamer of Inescapable Nightmares -- Vu
ぜつぼうした！
And I will look at these scars and shove my despair aside, and forthwidth shall come a grand total of 100,000 words!
39,767 / 50,000
Oct 18, 2009 - 12 17
It is my first year
I don't know how well I'll do
At least I've got plot.
Well sort of a plot
I must smooth out the edges
I can't think of five.
That is....five more sylables. I was having trouble at the end haha.
----------I know the saying is “a picture is worth a thousand words,”
But what if I can make those thousand words more beautiful that I could ever draw?
61,391 / 50,000
Oct 18, 2009 - 12 46
Funny characters,
Amusing banter to write,
Where is my villain?
It's NaNoWriMo,
Carpal Tunnel and Word Counts,
The torture begins.
(meh, it's the best I can do at the moment---I love this thread though)
----------"Multi-tasking is the art of doing everything and accomplishing very little." --Me
8,301 / 50,000
Oct 19, 2009 - 09 39
Sitting here at work
Should be doing something else
Instead of forums
T
----------"Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something."
~ The Princess Bride
36,010 / 50,000
Oct 19, 2009 - 10 04
I should be working
But NaNo is on my brain
Eating my poor mind
Characters are there
But my story hates me so
I should just burn it
I will get no sleep
----------In the month of November
I'll write my will now
"Time...line? Time is not made out of lines! It is made out of circles! That is why clocks are round."
- Caboose, Red vs. Blue
30,946 / 50,000
Oct 20, 2009 - 04 00
Too busy to think
yet still I attempt to write
fifty thousand words
in a space of time
----------most would tell me is insane.
I love the challenge.
Disgustingly behind. Still f-ing determined. I WILL get that Createspace offer. I swear by the awesomeness that is NaNoWriMo itself. May my fingers fall off if I do not win.
Rae Lynne
30,946 / 50,000
Oct 20, 2009 - 04 03
Too busy to think
yet still I attempt to write
fifty thousand words
in a space of time
----------most would tell me is insane.
I love the challenge.
Disgustingly behind. Still f-ing determined. I WILL get that Createspace offer. I swear by the awesomeness that is NaNoWriMo itself. May my fingers fall off if I do not win.
Rae Lynne
36,010 / 50,000
Oct 20, 2009 - 07 15
I'm at my college
Pretending to study hard
I'll fail my midterm
My brain is busy
Thinking about what I'll write
And not my homework
Perhaps I should just
----------Say I write for a living
It's a good excuse
"Time...line? Time is not made out of lines! It is made out of circles! That is why clocks are round."
- Caboose, Red vs. Blue
14,362 / 50,000
Oct 20, 2009 - 08 52
Haikus are easy
But sometimes they don't make sense
Refrigerator
NaNo is scary
----------Oh, what a thing to attempt
get me out of here
"The first draft of anything is shit" ~Earnest Hemingway
NaNoWriMo 2009 --- Bound By Blood -II- Scarlet Nights (0/50,000)
35,421 / 50,000
Oct 20, 2009 - 12 49
Oh Pre NaNo Doubt
Back again to torture me
Will I or Won't I?
A Pirate Novel
with zombies and cannibals
Cliche', but so fun!
Sitting here at work,
----------Chatting, playing, and lazing,
Bad employee me.
NaNo 08- Quest for Blood- Fantasy Adventure
NaNo 09- Perilous Tides- Pirate Adventure
"Yo ho ho and a bottle of NaNo-RUM-o!"
53,395 / 50,000
Oct 20, 2009 - 15 11
This thread should be in
----------NaNoWriMo Ate My Soul
I'll move it there now
Heather Dudley
Forums Moderator
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