With 10 days to Nano and no conceivable plot in sight, I figured this thread was more than overdue. Plus, we've all turned whinging into an art form really.
WHY WHY WHY DO I NOT HAVE A PLOT? WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME THIS YEAR?! I JUST KNOW THAT I'M GOING TO END UP IRRITATED AT MY CHARACTERS AND WASTING TIME ON EXPOSITION AND THEN 30 NOVEMBER WILL ROLL AROUND AND I'M STILL STUCK ON WHAT COLOUR THE HERO'S TIGHTS SPANDEX PANTS ARE GONNA BEEEEEEE.
AND WHY IS MY HERO WEARING TIGHTS ANYWAAAAAAAY?
*rolls on floor*
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40,145 / 50,000
Oct 21, 2009 - 08 23
...AND I'M STILL STUCK ON WHAT COLOUR THE HERO'S TIGHTS SPANDEX PANTS ARE GONNA BEEEEEEE.
AND WHY IS MY HERO WEARING TIGHTS ANYWAAAAAAAY?
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Aha! WELL! I don't know about your hero, but the hero of our collaborative Bubble G.U.M. novel wears pink tights on the bottom and lime green tights on top and he wears them as part of his military uniform.
Yes, that's a bit of a spoiler but there are lots of other things to be revealed at the TGIO when the book is launched.
[edit] And thanks for starting this thread. It's usually me doing the whinging.
----------Former ML for Singapore 2005-2008
Possibly my last NaNoWriMo.
1,007 / 50,000
Oct 25, 2009 - 18 03
For some weird reason, I don't plan what I write. Not in exams, not ever. I just love sitting there staring at the topic and everything just comes out in this rush like some waterfall. (: Don't worry about not having a plot, because some people (don't know 'bout you though) work better under pressure haha.
----------Nic(:
40,145 / 50,000
Oct 26, 2009 - 01 09
You hear the sound of a big baby crying and that's me!! Someone postponed the big posh, dinner, gala, ball thing with long frocks and dickie bows that was supposed to take place two days after my birthday when my two sisters will be in Singapore and now they'll have left before it happens because it's been moved back two weeks and I got a lovely dress in Debenhams when I was in Leeds and now they won't see it ... okay, they will, but it won't be the same with all three of us getting dressed up with our nails and hair done and our photo taken for our Mummy & Daddy and I just want to cry!!
*sigh*
----------Former ML for Singapore 2005-2008
Possibly my last NaNoWriMo.
52,000 / 50,000
Oct 26, 2009 - 01 13
So that goes in the book too?
----------44,020 / 50,000
Oct 26, 2009 - 01 23
Exams around the corner, the group project/presentation from hell and the work, OMG the work. I want to quote my job and just do NaNo full time.
----------Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. ~ E.L. Doctorow
42,007 / 50,000
Oct 26, 2009 - 03 47
I hate it that a respiratory tract infection manifests almost exactly like a cold. Grr. To think I took all that Panadol for nothing. /grumble
----------Co-ML for Singapore
40,145 / 50,000
Oct 26, 2009 - 07 04
Having just returned from nursing my daughter through the H1N1 virus, I have to ask if you've had your swab done to make sure it isn't the dreaded 'flu. Although, having said that, there was no dribbling nose and yucky stuff coming up with the cough, just the cough and general dreadfulness of aches, pains and high temperature (eventually -- which I won't go into because that would be an enormous whinge on the British National Health Service's ridiculous 'Swine 'flu' handling...)
Anyway, get well before Saturday otherwise you might find yourself getting spritzed with various antisceptic cleansers.
----------Former ML for Singapore 2005-2008
Possibly my last NaNoWriMo.
40,035 / 50,000
Oct 26, 2009 - 07 20
Anyway, get well before Saturday otherwise you might find yourself getting spritzed with various antisceptic cleansers.
Amusingly, there's something in the goodie bag that might help with that.
----------Co-ML for Singapore
52,000 / 50,000
Oct 26, 2009 - 07 58
>there's something in the goodie bag that might help with [walking bags of infection].
If it's disinfectant does it work on minds? I accidentally caught thirty seconds of Riz Low's speech and now have to cough gingerly for fear of infecting someone nearby.
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Oct 26, 2009 - 08 51
What a "boomz" on that "shingz" right?
----------~ Joelyn Alexandra
joelyn.alexandra@gmail.com
http://joelynalexandra.wordpress.com
23,895 / 50,000
Oct 26, 2009 - 12 52
*sigh*
Rozen
There is no reason why you & your sisters can't get dressed up & go for a posh dinner & have your night out without all that organisation - even if it's just for yourselves - it will be fun.
i hope u get to go out & have fun with your sisters.
waiting to see you in that dress!!
sandra
13,187 / 50,000
Oct 26, 2009 - 15 33
I hate you, stupid compulsory service learning module. I hate you.
44,020 / 50,000
Oct 26, 2009 - 18 53
Adult responsibilities, they suck.
Need sleep. Need rest. Need people to get out of my face so that I can do the first two in peace.
Also, don't want to be at work.
----------Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. ~ E.L. Doctorow
40,420 / 50,000
Oct 26, 2009 - 19 36
Image change is like REBRANDING. Omgosh.
I'm just happy I didn't jump in and published individually on Raven Azure. Or it'll mean more blahs for me.
P/S - Rebranding. I'm not gonna be Raven Azure anymore. Even though NaNoWriMo's username can't be changed. BLAHHH.
----------~ Joelyn Alexandra
joelyn.alexandra@gmail.com
http://joelynalexandra.wordpress.com
25,066 / 50,000
Oct 26, 2009 - 19 42
am i going to be penalised in my essay because i've crossed the 500 word limit? DD<
----------"What a bunch of crybabies, no guts, no glory!" - the Big Bang Theory
52,000 / 50,000
Oct 26, 2009 - 21 13
>Image change is like REBRANDING. Omgosh.
Some people go to great efforts to keep the old "brand", though.
When I was in the UK, a crisp company was undergoing an image change of sorts, in that they were rolling out a new layout on their packaging.
They took great pains to assure everyone that the brand had not changed, with a series of adverts and slogans. The catchphrase?
"Same s***t, different package"
A similar one but with more "G" rated language was the "Darkie"/ "Darlie" change. (amusingly, in Chinese, it's still "Black Man toothpaste")
----------40,145 / 50,000
Oct 26, 2009 - 21 16
*sigh*
Rozen
There is no reason why you & your sisters can't get dressed up & go for a posh dinner & have your night out without all that organisation - even if it's just for yourselves - it will be fun.
i hope u get to go out & have fun with your sisters.
waiting to see you in that dress!!
sandra
Well I'm going to take your advice. I've told them to bring along their party frocks anyway and we'll go stun some unsuspecting restaurant next week!
----------Former ML for Singapore 2005-2008
Possibly my last NaNoWriMo.
40,145 / 50,000
Oct 26, 2009 - 21 19
A similar one but with more "G" rated language was the "Darkie"/ "Darlie" change. (amusingly, in Chinese, it's still "Black Man toothpaste")
Really? It stills says that in Chinese? I remember the first time I saw Darkie toothpaste as it then was back in 1981 and I nearly fainted with the shock. Interesting the way the face has become lighter as well as the name change.
Okay, that wasn't a whinge, but it took my mind off things.
----------Former ML for Singapore 2005-2008
Possibly my last NaNoWriMo.
13,187 / 50,000
Oct 27, 2009 - 00 01
Why does the Meeneestree Awf Edukashun* insist on making me do irrelevant, inane things as part of a module assessment?
Oh wait.
*Name changed to protect (my) identity
13,187 / 50,000
Oct 27, 2009 - 09 28
Why, pointless source skills essay, why? Why do you hate me so?
23,895 / 50,000
Oct 27, 2009 - 13 44
*sigh*
Rozen
There is no reason why you & your sisters can't get dressed up & go for a posh dinner & have your night out without all that organisation - even if it's just for yourselves - it will be fun.
i hope u get to go out & have fun with your sisters.
waiting to see you in that dress!!
sandra
Well Done You!!! So we eagerly await photos ;)
Have an absolute blast!!
Well I'm going to take your advice. I've told them to bring along their party frocks anyway and we'll go stun some unsuspecting restaurant next week!
23,895 / 50,000
Oct 27, 2009 - 13 45
*sigh*
Rozen
There is no reason why you & your sisters can't get dressed up & go for a posh dinner & have your night out without all that organisation - even if it's just for yourselves - it will be fun.
i hope u get to go out & have fun with your sisters.
waiting to see you in that dress!!
sandra
Well I'm going to take your advice. I've told them to bring along their party frocks anyway and we'll go stun some unsuspecting restaurant next week!
Well Done You!!! So we eagerly await photos ;)
Have an absolute blast!!
23,895 / 50,000
Oct 27, 2009 - 14 29
I'm just happy I didn't jump in and published individually on Raven Azure. Or it'll mean more blahs for me.
P/S - Rebranding. I'm not gonna be Raven Azure anymore. Even though NaNoWriMo's username can't be changed. BLAHHH.
Yes - rebranding - exactly what i feel like doing this year ... but how much is lost in rebranding, how much is actually changed - the fact that people still remember Darling as Darkie toothpaste ...
i actually liked the oxymoron of using Darkie to get white teeth ...
a rose by any other name smells just as sweet
ok enough blabbling...
PS: i wanted to change my Nano username too but it can't be done - sigh! Nothing to do with image - more to do with privacy.
52,000 / 50,000
Oct 27, 2009 - 19 37
>Why, pointless source skills essay, why? Why do you hate me so?
My highest scoring essay at NIE involved me writing the equivalent of the Sokal Hoax with my tongue planted firmly in my cheek.
I think I impressed them by using the phrase "we must modify the Renzulli paradigm" and illustrating that aforesaid change with bar charts showing how the two protagonists of Chariots of Fire achieved their level of ability that is a "socially constructed and arbitrary definition of 'genius'", and how any indvidual might have achieved that level with sufficient work.
Rozen:
Yes, it really does say "Black man's Toothpaste". Apparently the black man is Michael Jackson.
Edited to add:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darlie_toothpaste
As I said, wikipedia is our friend!
----------40,035 / 50,000
Oct 27, 2009 - 22 47
Arrrrrrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhhh. Just arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh.
----------Co-ML for Singapore
42,007 / 50,000
Oct 27, 2009 - 22 53
I knew they'd changed the English name, but I didn't know they kept the Chinese name...
----------Co-ML for Singapore
44,020 / 50,000
Oct 27, 2009 - 23 13
3 days to November and I have yet to have a title. Well, I have some but they're all so corny and lame.
----------Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. ~ E.L. Doctorow
52,000 / 50,000
Oct 28, 2009 - 00 04
>... I have yet to have a title
I didn't get a title for last year's nano until this year. You can always change it.
My whinge:
WHY does Wizards of the coast have to release Zendikar exactly as Nanowrimo starts? And why does Butcher have to release First Lord's Fury right in the middle of it?
It's infamy, I tell yer. They all have it in fer me.
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Oct 28, 2009 - 14 20
WAIL!!!
i'm falling ILL!!! Coughing, headaches & i can feel liquid in my sinus!!! i Do Not want sinusitis again! i had it a few yrs ago - it was terrible - it took me 2 months to recover! Plus last year i was so excited at having started NaNoWriMo, staying up really late for 3 or 4 days to write made me sick for a whole week - i blame that illness for not making it to 50,000 last year.
NO! No! NO!!! i don't wanna be sick!
Sob sob sob...
13,187 / 50,000
Oct 28, 2009 - 16 22
2000 words in 24 hours. If you weren't some sort of weird mental prepping for Nano, I'd suggest you go to hell, stupid Ed Psych paper.