Okay, so I realized this years nano is hugely crap. The kind that can't be fixed without just starting over. I could quit, I could attenpt to start over (but I'd probably just end up in the same boat at the same point, so why bother?)
So I have decided not to quit. Instead, I will embrace the crap and let it flow from my fingers and finish NANO. *cheers*
Who's with me??
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10,303 / 50,000
nov. 6, 2009 - 12 00
*Raises Hand* I'm in!
----------34,788 / 50,000
nov. 6, 2009 - 12 02
Cheers to that!
----------NaNo 2006 - 30,006 / 50,000
NaNo 2007 - 25,550 / 50,000
NaNo 2008 - 66,000 / 50,000
NaNo 2009 - 0 / 50,000
21,444 / 50,000
nov. 6, 2009 - 12 04
Me too! Me too!!!
----------Writing a book is "like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” E. L. Doctorow
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25,003 / 50,000
nov. 6, 2009 - 12 07
HERE HERE!!!!
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2009 NaNo
Part of the Undercover Lovers Series
15,152 / 50,000
nov. 6, 2009 - 12 08
yup. =D
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50,364 / 50,000
nov. 6, 2009 - 12 09
I'm going back and adding *more* crap to boost my word count!!
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2009-- Foundations, breaking all the rules of Marauder fics...
2004-- Tough Times Don't Last (lost, <10%)
35,096 / 50,000
nov. 6, 2009 - 12 23
Cheers!
if nothing else, after I get done with the whirlwind editing spree that will happen whenever I can finally stand to look at this book again once I'm done....well, maybe I'll have enough decent writing to cobble together a 2,000 word short story ;)
----------We have done the impossible, and that makes us mighty.
--Mal, from Serenity
41,291 / 50,000
nov. 6, 2009 - 14 18
Crap rocks! I have 14,000 thousand words of pure crap and I'm proud of it!
27,596 / 50,000
nov. 6, 2009 - 14 23
I love the Crap! December will be editing month!
----------31,574 / 50,000
nov. 6, 2009 - 15 12
I hit a real low point yesterday because I actually read it.
----------And then I moped.
But no longer! I will churn out more crap!!
Untitled - 2009
24,012 / 50,000
nov. 6, 2009 - 15 15
I'm with you! Hell yeah! My novel is so terrible, but hey, maybe I'll be able to make something from the elements of it somewhere.
38,599 / 50,000
nov. 6, 2009 - 15 16
Wow, great mental image: just let the crap flow from your fingers. That's a winner! ;)
20,000 / 50,000
nov. 6, 2009 - 15 21
I've seen the light. I too am embracing the crap.
19,530 / 50,000
nov. 6, 2009 - 15 59
I'm hugging the hell out of my crap.
----------“The first draft of anything is sh*t.” - Ernest Hemingway
33,023 / 50,000
nov. 6, 2009 - 16 18
*Raises a drink* A toast! To the crap! May more of it flow before today ends!
39,892 / 50,000
nov. 6, 2009 - 16 32
*raises hand* I've been writing crap since the beginning of chapter two |D
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2009: Welcome to Hell. A novel about Gods in high school.
2010: Thermals (tentaitive title). Steampunk. High adventure/fantasy of an all-female crew of airship pirates.
37,662 / 50,000
nov. 6, 2009 - 17 47
My whole story so far is complete and utter crap, but I have no desire to restart.
Maybe because I have no other ideas.
Besides, I kinda like my characters, even though they're the awfully unrealistic and not very original.
30,565 / 50,000
nov. 6, 2009 - 18 28
Reading back on my first five thousand words, it's all not only crap but boring crap. Now going to spend the next forty-three-odd thousand words embracing the crap, and if possible, turning the boring crap into hilariously insane crap. Yay!
----------** Hurling into the Void **
2005 - The Horizon Wakes - Winner!
2006 - Redundant - Winner!
2007 - Fair Paradise - Winner!
2008 - Fortuna - Winner!
2009 - A Woman of Sand: Things in Threes - ...
42,068 / 50,000
nov. 6, 2009 - 18 47
Hecks yeah! It was all going good up until the end of the first chapter lol, i know the rest of my story's gonna be crap but im going to embrace it! :D
I will love the crap i write haha
38,464 / 50,000
nov. 6, 2009 - 18 48
I'm in! So far I'm producing all boring, pointless crap. But you know what? I am WRITING. I refuse to get bogged down in my perfectionism that paralyzes me normally. I'm looking at this solely as a volume and persistance and discipline exercise. I LOVE THIS CRAP!!!
37,032 / 50,000
nov. 6, 2009 - 18 52
Definite in over here!
----------NaNoWriMo '08: Hard-Drive: WON
NaNoWrimo '09: King Me (WIP)
8,004 / 50,000
nov. 6, 2009 - 19 16
I'm in!!!
Oh, and also, once you are done with your novel, please publish it. I have read your summary and excerpt, and I am completely hooked. It sounds incredibly awesome!
----------Chapters: 5
Writer's blocks: 1, but it has been overcome
Sugar rushes: About 4
Frustration level: 15%
Plot breakthroughs: 3
33,389 / 50,000
nov. 6, 2009 - 19 17
That's what happened to mine last year. I ended up with 60,000 words of glorious crap.
----------I'm fearing mine is going that way againg this year, only maybe a little less crappy.
I will embrace and like it.
36,796 / 50,000
nov. 6, 2009 - 19 44
I'm totally with you!
I had gotten sick for about two days and couldn't get up the will to get up and write. So now I'm paying for it and I still gots the sniffles *sniffs* I'm typing out nothing but crud by I'm makin it I suppose. Going for another 500 at the :45 though *sneezes*
39,481 / 50,000
nov. 6, 2009 - 19 57
I am! I wrote pretty much the ugliest sentence ever tonight, but I'm just embracing the crap and letting it stay!
----------Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes when you fall, you fly. -Sandman
27,006 / 50,000
nov. 6, 2009 - 20 23
I'm totally in. I thought I was doing ok, until I made the fatal mistake of re-reading what I've written to draw inspiration.
Its all complete crap, but I shall embrace it. I can always make it prettier come December. Then, the red ink will flow. *Cackle*
----------20,063 / 50,000
nov. 6, 2009 - 21 00
What utter sh*t I'm writing. But I love it!
----------2007: Providence
2009: O Ye of Little Faith (In Progress)
31,677 / 50,000
nov. 6, 2009 - 21 21
This is how I roll every year. <3
It's all about just writing and getting everything out for me, more so than being a perfect, publishable novel. :D
----------26,054 / 50,000
nov. 6, 2009 - 21 53
Yes indeed! I need that traveling shovel of death just to find my feet, it's so deep around here.
I will henceforth solve this problem by not reading anything that I type longer than it takes to put it on the page. It'll still be crap but I won't have the painful experience of reading it until it's time to edit! :)
----------5,200 / 50,000
nov. 6, 2009 - 22 04
Shiny new plot (yes, I started over) and I are becoming fast friends. Shiny new plot is sort of continuation of last years suckfest. I've grown to love the crap. Not only have I embraced it, I think I'm going to marry it. ( but don't tell anybody because they would say I was crazy)