NaNoisms - Part 2

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Serendipitous, humorous, prolific, erroneous verbosity, NaNoWriMo Style!

Part 1: http://www.nanowrimo.org/node/3263721

Continued on Part 3: http://www.nanowrimo.org/node/3431462
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Permaplasmaticmorticians for whatever I end up writing. ;)

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“I know,” Benjamin said as if Allen was stating an obvious fact, which he was.

It's obviously very obvious... Obviously.

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Finally recovering from his initial, stun the counselor stepped up to the man.

Hello, I'm Stun The Counselor. See what a comma in the wrong place will do to you?

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Permapermissionperfume or whatever on all of my Nanoisms.

A lovely Nanoism which I just found.

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It wasn't that interesting of a wall, but it wasn't really that boring, either. It was old, and gray, and from what I felt behind me, it was cold, with stone so hard that if you fell on it from a few meters above concrete, I was pretty sure that you could crack your skull, break your leg, or the like. That sentence, and all of the others which were falling from my head into the real world, didn't make much sense. I thought of what April would say, and remembered a funny little word - a Nanoism. I'd tell her to put it on the forums, when I got back. Well, if I ever got back. Not that I would.

Riiight. I don't know what my trail of thought was anymore, but I'm just so happy that my characters best friend was doing Nano. Why she'd be thinking of this when she's dieing of hunger in a dungeon, though, I do not know.
And of course, I don't know how sentences are supposed to fall out of her head.

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nov. 2, 2009 - 07 40

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Juno mauled the information over and agreed to help the woman as best as she could.

Oh, she mauled it over? Well, you let that information know who's boss, woman! Don't let that news push you around!

*hangs head*

Parsimonious parsnips of permission to you.

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nov. 2, 2009 - 07 55

Perma russel simmons and all that jazz.

This first one was actually ALMOST typed in a facebook conversation to my friend Bradley. Please note, I was watching Zombie Strippers at the time:

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Yeah well, I've been stripping really hard, so I should be done soon.

I totally meant 'writing really hard.'

I was still watching Zombie Strippers (stupid, stupid) when I started working on my story again:

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"Ooh," Prudence said, looking around teh shop in amazement. "Do they have vaginas?"

Stupid movie...

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Never says a thing. While she? She is left with dumbstruck.

Even in context, it doesn't make any sense.

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And yeah, I was so not touch, especially when I broke your noise, yeah?

This same character says the word 'yeah' about five more times in this paragraph.

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Her leather pants are chafing her pies

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Pulling his jacket around him and bowing his head against the sudden wind that’s picked up, he bumps into a man with an angry fart

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The idea of death (or rather, a lingering sense of death) in the house with him is almost too much to bear. Death is almost too much to bear. It's unbearable.

I think the death is too much to bear.

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It jsst sooo hatppens to be his garndmother’s hosue.

I don't know, my fingers just spazzed out on me here.

And that's just from the first 8K, so I'm expecting many more!

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It dark down there.

(Verbs are as of now unnecessary!)
Funnier was my brother's comment: "Don't leave out words, you need 50k! You should write: 'It is very very very dark down there. Really.'"

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nov. 2, 2009 - 08 29

Ah, nanoisms! Permyperms.

surgifualc
--Surgical, even.

I guess that is why on this most important day of my life, my wedding day, my best man was a cat. But i am getting ahead of myself, aren't i? Where is that pesky beginning part?
--My narrator, the idiot.

Ipso facto, they were happy. I do not kow what ipso facto means.
--Then later,
I stopped at our Latin dictionary Wikipedia , and — hey, i used ipso facto correctly! Le woot.

Genetics and Bio Engeneering, Inc. was founded by Frank Welker in1980 as a lab for xperiments to imp4rove gthe lives of bth people ansd animals. Welker, a rich man built Genetics and Bio Engeneering, Inc. in is zan eccentric old man, not unlike grandpa dinosaur. You k nowthe giuy i mean. The old guy in Jurassic park
--I wasn't paying attention.

Buyt welker knows i was 1 point shy of being a doctor no. im watching house. Scientist.. sohe hired nm as a handy man slash onsultant. Did you know you dont bled whehn youre ded? Something i learned in science academy. so anyway.
--That's me, nanoing and watching House online

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Drowned Waters

...Well now that would be an interesting title! It's Drowned Lights but I somehow always manage to write or even think it as Drowned Waters...

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Jin shook his head slightly, forcing his attention to the man tied down to his ned.

Poor Ned.

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He managed to identify the words ‘but’, ‘you’, ‘shirt’ and ‘immmmbgh’.

immmmbgh? ...This one came out kinda wrong, by the way XD I swear the rating is still PG13!

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nov. 2, 2009 - 08 55

I decided to share the opening scene with my writing group and it definitely showed that my inner editor is well and truly chained in the yard...

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The place was getting noisier and looking more like the greenhouse of a rouge botonist every moment. “Lets's get out of here, go someplace quieter.”

Welllll... I have no idea what a "botonist" is or how rouge would play into it, but that was supposed to say rogue botanist. And I'm not sure how that extra "s" got in let's.

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nov. 2, 2009 - 09 01

disemont wrote:
Drowned Waters

Agreed, whatever it was supposed to be that pair of words is memorable all by itself.

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Hard sci-fi? Soft? Should be more like peanut butter -- neither hard, nor soft, and either way you have it a bit nutty.

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It was the pain of a man with no job, a pain that was so painful that the pain itself was experiencing pain. Well, that's what they felt like, anyway, and you know how over dramatic English majors get.

Heh.

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nov. 2, 2009 - 10 05

"Grayson tipped his head over to glare at her."

That sounds rather painful... unless he was somehow decapitated within the last thousand words and no one saw fit to tell me.

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Today, first one's from Horatio. He was supposed to be drying off. instead here is what i typed:

After frying off, Horatio wrapped the towel around his waist where he pulled a pair of boxers out of his dresser drawer before stepping into them.

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nov. 2, 2009 - 10 15

First nanoism ever....at least the first one that's made me really laugh.

With the same care that he had shown from the start, he wrapped the bandage around her wand, tying it off tightly.

....I may have watched too much Harry Potter today.

(For the record, I wasn't sure whether to write "wrist" or "hand"....so we ended up with a hybrid of the two :P)

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Gah! Moooore. :O

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As usual, Career Day was very boring. It essentially amounted to several workers saying how much they liked their job. Benjamin expected them to start a song and dance number any second.

Wut?

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When it was over, Benjamin went home and went to bed. The rest of the week passed slowly, but without much incident except for one incident.

The Secret Society Of Overt Contradictors has kidnapped me!

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And then, he could see them. The giant white stone walls that wrapped around the town, protecting it from the world like a mother’s embrace. Or maybe an overprotective mother’s embrace in this case.

It rhymes too. -_-

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At the bottom, the staircase opened into a smallish medium sized room.

It was pretty big.

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nov. 2, 2009 - 10 35

This was in an assignment for school:

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He was in a rival magio group.

Actually he was in a rival MAFIA group (augh, I just typoed that as 'magia'! Do I have magic on the brain...?). This story is set in the real world, so no magic. Or 'magio', whatever that is...

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nov. 2, 2009 - 10 40

I was just rereading through what I wrote yesterday and came across this.

Desta casually examined her nails. She smirked; the ball was in her court now. “I have it on good authority that you like that Jessica chick from the cheerleading squad. I also know you wanted to get her a gift for her a nice, shiny, expensive gift for her sixteenth birthday...

O rly?

Edit: Permapersimmons for this and future NaNoisms.

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"...and though he kept his useless eyes clothes,"

What, do you have little eyelash-warmers, or perhaps some kind of eyepatch? Or, perhaps more likely, you meant that you kept them closed?

Ah, dear. It's only the second day and I've already hit my first NaNoism. More to come, I'm sure.

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nov. 2, 2009 - 10 45

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Cesua, prince of kacu, did not sleep well that night. His thoughts were filled with thoughts of the lovely Chayamina, princess of Slomachy. He found no rest in the quiet night

He really didn't sleep well. Those must have been some fairly scary thoughts.

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This statement was followed by silence, in which they were all quiet.

In case you, you know, forget what silence means. I'm just trying to be helpful here.

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Yes, there were many, many ways that this could go wrong. I was, of course, hoping for one of them.

...No, honey, you were hoping for none of them. One letter can make a big difference.

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I was on a roll...until I tried to think of the word "secretary":

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Since I was always at the Laff Inn, anyway, the next summer Bea hired me as a nanny / maid / phone answerer.

I guess I couldn't decide between Target and WalMart, so I chose the next best thing--a roofing store:

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When he got back, he dumped me in the parking lot of the Hamilton TarMart.

EDIT: Per Missions, and so on.

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This isn't from my novel but while trying to actually write my novel yesterday, I came up with this little gem in the process of downing a 2 liter of cola in an eight hour time span. Why Captain Planet was in my head, I have no idea whatsoever.

Edit: Permapositions and such... enjoy!

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Characters!
Plot!
Pen!
Paper!
Coffee!
GO WRIMOS!!

By your powers combined, this is NaNoWriMo!

Caffeine goodness, it's our hero
Gonna bring our word counts up from zero

Helps our plot lines, magnify
And we're racing to the finish line!

Caffeine goodness, it's our hero
Helps those word counts rise from zero

Gonna help us hunt and destroy
Bunnies who like to, breed and multiply

"NO!!! Not the Day Care!!!"

We're the NaNo clan
you should join us too
cause writing our novels is fun to do

Editing and sleeping, is not the way
Here's what all us Wrimos have to say:

"The Pen Is Yours!!"

IHMLAWTD *headdesks*

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2 liters of cola killed: I lost count, too many to remember
cups of tea consumed: 5 (cola is more enjoyable and cheaper too!)

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I'm back already, this is obviously going to be one of those days.

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"...their eyes settled on the spark of light in the difference,"

Interesting. What difference? What is it different from? Why is it alight?

Distance might have been a better fit. /headdesk

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She was a student handbook.

Actually, she was given a student handbook. This is what happens when you try to write your novel while reading the nanoisms thread.

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While procrastinating (I have started; I just don't have enough to justify going through the trouble of verifying yet...) and talking to my friend on IM about an incident that occurred on our post-Anime-Convention trick-or-treating trip, I came up with this:
"You know, I should've made you take my picture with those Red and Gold cosplayers that we met when we were trick-or-teating..."
Where kids go around the neighborhood and ask women to take their shirts off or suffer having their house egged and TP'ed. SOUNDS LIKE A PLAN-- I mean, that is not a good and legal thing for kids to be doing... *cough* *cough* Ahem.

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I just re-opened my document after working on it earlier this morning. Mind you, I just got back home from a weekend where I tried jello shots for the first time in my life, slept in a very odd motel, and didn't get any real rest. This is one of many results.

Twilicat wrote:
“You’re so addicted to the Internet,” Danielle said. “You can’t go ten seconds without checking your e-mail unless you’re asleep.”

“And she text messages in her sleep,” I reminded her. It was true. Fiona randomly sent text messages that said random things like I love you or la la la la la while she was sleeping. My favorite had been a text that said The trolls walk at midnight. I asked her about it the next morning and she had no idea what it meant, but it quickly became a running joke to use as a code for trouble.

Katie, dear, could you possibly randomly describe how random random might really be? Randomly? And tell me, was typing la la la la la a shameless attempt to up the word count? I expected better of you! Randomly!

And...um... "the trolls walk at midnight"? Yeah. I have no idea. Sleep deprivation and NaNoWriMo are always an interesting combination, but wow. And then, there was THIS gem:

Twilicat wrote:
“What are you doing, anyway?” Danielle asked.

“I’m trying to up the word count, duh,” Fiona said. “If I’m random enough, maybe the book will at least bee funny.”

Awesome. That one's gotta go, LOL. I shouldn't write while exhausted. And Fiona, bees aren't funny. They scare me. You may be funny, but you may not bee funny. Thanks.

So I changed that, because Fiona wasn't supposed to get all snarky there, and this is what happened next:

Twilicat wrote:
“What are you doing, anyway?” Danielle asked.

“I’m Googling my name to see what comes up,” Fiona said.

“Well, that’s certainly random,” Katie said.

We GET IT, Katie. Fiona is random. Please consult a dictionary (or Danielle) and learn a new word. Thank you. And this book is being narrated by you, so what's with the third person all of a sudden?

Head, meet Desk. Desk, Head. You're going to be getting to know each other very well in the next month.

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Quote:
Regan scowled at him. "Nothing. Really. It's just... a feeling. Incidentally, author, the horses should be feeling uneasy too, and Meredith ought to be more aware than I am of things being dead all around us. You've started out with the wrong POV again."

"She's right," Meredith said. "So let's quietly switch POV and pretend that I started this conversation, because it'll make editing easier later on. Regan, everything's dead. There's nobody in the fields and I can't even sense any wildlife nearby."

Not only do these two write themselves, but apparently they edit themselves as well, now.

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Smiling I put down my Jack, the only card that fussed me was the five which I relaised I did not have as Sophie misread her notes, well done on the fourth wall btw.

I don;t know what happened to that five either...

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(the first bluff thing was rule one just add that in in Editing, damn there's the ofurth wall gone again)

APart form teh fact this was in the smae paragrah as my previous one, it actually makes no sense. I think it was meant to say the first rule was the bluff thing...

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unless it's uno don't let people knwo you only have case.

Yeah, that made no sense, why did I type case instead of card? And I missed out a word...

And now for the naem changing!

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Mel put down a double queen
Millie put down five and Olivia put a six down.
May went out

All meant to be the smae person... at least she kept the first letter the same unlike Tina who changed her name to Quita (is that even a name??)
And thent ehre's Nat turning into Nadine and Nelly...

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Well aside from changing to 3rd person POV for a sentence or two before I notice it every 500 words or so, it hasn't been toooo bad. Yes, I've already posted in this thread. This one is a wee rebellion on the part of my FMC:

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Kristi had a brown belt in Karate and had let me watch her teach a class one evening. She was anything but harmless.

Actually, Kristi, you have a green belt... but if you're so set on the brown belt maybe I'll let you test up at some point in the story. If you behave.

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I just wrote:

'he turned to him and spock'

Um...yeah. It was supposed to be 'spoke'. I'm not writing Star Trek fiction.

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