I think I'm going for it again. Anyone else this year?
Woo Team PD!
Fuck if I have time for it, but maybe I'll give it a shot.
For the last two years, I've planned months ahead and ended up with less than a page by December (a month less productive than my average friday night on IRC), but I suppose at worst I'll just end up equalling last year's entry of a title and no document at all. I guess I'm in.
I'm in!
Finished a novel last year and now I'll probably make a sequel, just because that'll piss the main character off. Or then I'll just start a new story with no planning at all.
I'm really not supposed to have time for this, but I think I cheated too much last year, so I want to do it again. (The Author was an actual character in the novel, so I kept smashing the fourth wall into pieces all the time and had a good excuse for w r i t i n g l i k e t h i s, for example.)
Probably give it a go, despite my terrible, disasterous attempt last year. Surprisingly I have more free time now then when I did when I was on the dole (go to this interview, show up to sign on, lets talk about how you are finding jobs etc etc) and I think if I confine myself to writing it and occasionally blogging, I should be OK.
I'm totally going to abuse TV Tropes and this thread (http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=20811.0) in writing it, though.
I'm pretty sure I don't have the time.
I may give it a go, however. Maybe.
I may start, but any sentiment that I should be adding another monthly deliverable right now is getting a compulsive "FUCKYOU!" from my brain ATM.
The feeling I got last year after it was over (and me ten or twenty thousand words behind) was actually pretty miserable, because it was a crap story, and I wasn't even able to finish.
I got two halfway decent essays out of it, but the pressure, guilt, and lack of inner creativity really drained me.
I will once again be a cheerleader from the sidelines. I know damn well I don't have the motivation, nor the discipline, to undertake such a thing.
Mine is going to be exceptionally easy this year, and maybe publishable:
"Tales from a Recession-Battered Bistro"
I intend to give it a shot this year. I have no ideas, but I'll attack it.
tl;dw*
* too long; didn't write
Last year I had no idea either, it turned into an absolute mess (and the most words, if you can call them that, were typed when I was drunk) but I still managed to do over 50,000 before the end of November.
I'd love to do NaNoWriMo, but I just don't have time.
Might be better to start a REAL novel. You know, the sort that's pre planned and takes longer than a month to write.
I'm still researching and planning for a real novel.
I came up with the basic idea in March or so.
Quote from: Cain on October 13, 2009, 09:58:04 PM
I'm still researching and planning for a real novel.
I came up with the basic idea in March or so.
I remember when you posted the first chapter.
Quote from: Cain on October 13, 2009, 09:58:04 PM
I'm still researching and planning for a real novel.
I came up with the basic idea in March or so.
Is that the fantasy deconstruction one? I've been looking forward to that.
Yeah, a couple of fragments aside, I have written nothing extra.
And even that chapter I'm reconsidering. If I want to go with the theme I wanted, I may have to follow the "lowly peasant discovers he is the Messiah" route first, for a while anyway. The whole thing is a take that to this subtype of the genre, so following the format, at least in the early days, may help.
Quote from: Kai on October 13, 2009, 09:44:22 PM
I'd love to do NaNoWriMo, but I just don't have time.
Might be better to start a REAL novel. You know, the sort that's pre planned and takes longer than a month to write.
The thing about NaNoWriMo is that it's not supposed to result in anything GOOD, but simply that it's supposed to get people writing daily, which is hard to do.
Came up with a plot.
It involves, in no particular order:
HIMEOBS
Thirty Xanatos Pileup
Cosmic Horrors
Brown Notes
Corrupt Corporate Execs
Made Of Explodium
Refuge in Audacity
Rule of Cool
HIMEOBS
Parallel Universes
Martial Arts Does Not Work That Way
Gun Kata
Military Maverick
Your Head Asplode
HIMEOBS
Needs More Dakka.
By the time I'm done, they'll need a whole new category: Dakka Times Infinity
What about go-faster lines?
Quote from: RWH1N1 on October 13, 2009, 01:24:27 PM
I will once again be a cheerleader from the sidelines. I know damn well I don't have the motivation, nor the discipline, to undertake such a thing.
Yeah, this. I barely got past 1000 words last year and it was all shit. I will have even less time this year so I'm not even going to try.
Quote from: LMNO on October 19, 2009, 03:04:54 PM
Needs More Dakka Ditka.
:D I double dare ya, Cain!!!
I have an inspirational sentence all ready to go. It has to do with hair, and urine.
I'll try. Let's see how much drivel I can churn out in one month.
every year I say I will, every year I fail... :cry:
How do we become writing buddies with each other? I do not understand this social networking function.
It helps to know people's nicks ;-)
Mine is enkiv2, I think.
Mine's "Kalera".
Looks like you go to search -> author and then click 'add buddy' when you get there.
I don't know what Suu's nick is. :(
ITS THE FUTURE
mine is the future after that future
:?
If my pattern continues the way it has for the past seven years, I should actually finish this year.
HI, EVE!
HAY LMNO!
Quote from: Nigel on October 22, 2009, 06:28:12 PM
I don't know what Suu's nick is. :(
Kaousuu of course.
Quote from: Suu on October 22, 2009, 09:02:08 PM
Quote from: Nigel on October 22, 2009, 06:28:12 PM
I don't know what Suu's nick is. :(
Kaousuu of course.
That seems terribly obvious in retrospect. :lulz: Sometimes I R SMRT.
I'm also doing fundraising for them this year. I figure if there's any way to weasel people out of money, get a tax break AND a free sticker, this is the way to do it.
Alright, I dood it. If people feel so inclined to send a few bucks to the cause:
http://www.gifttool.com/athon/MyFundraisingPage?ID=1891&AID=777&PID=108270
I'm determined to give this another shot this year.
I tried two years ago, and wrote an OK short story. I hate it.
I skipped last year for lack of time.
I'm going to try for the first time this year. If I finish, it will probably only result in the most gawd-awful piece of literature the world has ever seen. :D
It's not supposed to be Pulitzer quality stuff...
If you manage the word count, it's an achievement.
I'm not bothering to try to make it either good nor particularly even comprehensible.
I want to maybe work on this premise from the Original Story Ideas thread.
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on July 13, 2009, 05:37:28 PM
Slightly different idea in the same vein, a world where literally that which does not kill you only makes you stronger. The entire world shifts from pain aversion to pain seeking behavior with accidental deaths skyrocketing from those trying to push their physical limits. The survivors of such radical measures become virtually indestructible. Governments regularly abuse their own soldiers within inches of their lives in an arms race based on superhuman combat. Police forces need to likewise train their officers in order to combat gangs swelling with Herculean members. "Non-lethal" methods of subduing criminals such as tazing and pepper spray are useless, as the dosage required to stop a veritable behemoth would kill any "average" human. Our hero is a journalist investigating what brought this phenomenon about two generations ago, and stumbles upon a terrible truth. He is hunted by private and national interests to silence his discovery, which includes how to reverse the shift. He succeeds, only to bring society to the brink of collapse, every aspect of life having depended on our newfound strength.
It's been stuck in my head since then, but I think it would only really work as a graphic novel. I might be able to do NaNoWriMo with panel and page layout descriptions adding to the daily word count as well as captions and dialogue.
I'm picking up Comics and Sequential Art by Will Eisner to hopefully digest before the month is out so I have some grasp as to how it all comes together.
Today is the day!
So far.... ZERO written words!
668 words. If I drink today I can probably do 3000 or so.
641. Better than last year's final result.
Zero words so far. Will probably start later this evening. It's going to be an epic love story between a man and his recently deceased girlfriend. :fap:
1,873. Will probably write more tonight, too.
It's definitely HIMEOBS: the novel, its just not very funny or bizarre so far because I'm having to do scene-setting and character introductions. All that stuff will happen later though, for sure.
2. Michael Bolton.
I can't write on a bus. Tomorrow I'm off though so I'll bust quite a bit out and catch up.
im doing it too now
i stole my idea from twitter, im going to write short sentences of what im doing at the moment in the blandest way possible. in third person.
ITS GONNA BE AWFUL
nevermind the necrophilia love story.
It's going to be a dramatic hunt for Waldo.
(http://media.ebaumsworld.com/mediaFiles/picture/827859/80714488.jpg)
Quote from: Fredamir Putin on November 01, 2009, 10:35:22 PM
im doing it too now
i stole my idea from twitter, im going to write short sentences of what im doing at the moment in the blandest way possible. in third person.
ITS GONNA BE AWFUL
This beats my idea. I was planning on doing a novel in the format of the scrambled pages of an instruction manual for a nonexistent device with some pieces of people's fictional diaries and footnotes by fake post-singularity historians thrown in.
OH SHIT ITS NOVEMBER.
Good thing I have days off now. :horrormirth:
1303 and counting, just in the last hour and change starting a day behind.
I'm gonna drink a bit with my girl-gang and then come home and write a bunch of semi-coherent shit about love, sex, and breaking up.
My nick is Unknownspaceadorer, if someone happens to be interested in that particular piece of information. For example, you can add me as a buddy and brighten my day in enormous amounts, because then I can pretend I have social contacts!
The word count is something like 2700 at the moment, but I have lots of time today. (Which I apparently spend posting here. Well, fortunately I don't have teh internets at home, so I might even write something once I get home from school).
Also, Cain, I dare you to post your novel at PD.com!
I've been considering when to do that, actually. I might save it a while, since so far, the only craziness that has happened was a granny getting shot in the face. By the hero, no less.
Oh I need to get writing...fuck fuck fuck. I need to put like 3-4 hours into this mess today.
I'm managing to do about 1700 words a day, which is very slightly above the needed minimum...but this weekend I'm going to try and do about 5000 each day, if possible.
Well with this new exciting change in my work hours, my pattern is fucked, because typically I would come home from work and write until I got tired, now I wake up tired and don't want to do anything until I go into work, and when I get out it's too late and have to go to bed. :argh!:
Did I ever mention how glad I am that I'm NOT subjecting myself to this?
3 days, 5002 words. This is going to be tough.
I think I've already given up. I have other writing projects that I actually want to do, and so many things already on my plate I don't know why I thought this would be a good idea to add to them...
my uh..."writing"...is on hold for illness :lol:
I'm off tomorrow.
Time to unleash HELL.
I'm setting myself a different task... Writing an album of new material by December.
Well, it's been four days and I'm still on 641 words. I'm sure as hell not likely to make the goal, unless I cheat and copypasta from markov output or something, but I might as well keep going.
Quote from: Richter on November 03, 2009, 05:24:33 PM
Did I ever mention how glad I am that I'm NOT subjecting myself to this?
*high five*
All my mental energies are currently going into not getting sick. I'm currently the only one in my entire building who is still well.
Quote from: Cainad on November 04, 2009, 05:32:54 PM
Quote from: Richter on November 03, 2009, 05:24:33 PM
Did I ever mention how glad I am that I'm NOT subjecting myself to this?
*high five*
All my mental energies are currently going into not getting sick. I'm currently the only one in my entire building who is still well.
You need to stop posting that before you jinx yourself. Yes, I sound lame, but still.
Also: I considered doing this and decided that for sanity purposes, I'll do this next year, when the whole world doesn't own my ass.
Quote from: Jenne on November 04, 2009, 07:26:41 PM
Quote from: Cainad on November 04, 2009, 05:32:54 PM
Quote from: Richter on November 03, 2009, 05:24:33 PM
Did I ever mention how glad I am that I'm NOT subjecting myself to this?
*high five*
All my mental energies are currently going into not getting sick. I'm currently the only one in my entire building who is still well.
You need to stop posting that before you jinx yourself. Yes, I sound lame, but still.
By which you mean, 'stop being a smug prick about having a rather good immune system/being lucky' :lol: I'll stop braggin about it; it's more fun to rub it in the faces of the people coughing on my door and giving me wet willies in an attempt to infect me.
Oh no...it's already starting to turn into drivel, and I'm just 3 days in. :x
Quote from: Cainad on November 04, 2009, 09:52:48 PM
Quote from: Jenne on November 04, 2009, 07:26:41 PM
Quote from: Cainad on November 04, 2009, 05:32:54 PM
Quote from: Richter on November 03, 2009, 05:24:33 PM
Did I ever mention how glad I am that I'm NOT subjecting myself to this?
*high five*
All my mental energies are currently going into not getting sick. I'm currently the only one in my entire building who is still well.
You need to stop posting that before you jinx yourself. Yes, I sound lame, but still.
By which you mean, 'stop being a smug prick about having a rather good immune system/being lucky' :lol: I'll stop braggin about it; it's more fun to rub it in the faces of the people coughing on my door and giving me wet willies in an attempt to infect me.
Yeah, until we hear from you how you're a-dyin' from the piggy flu! Wet Willies? :x YUCK YUCK.
I'm knackered, yesterday and today were impossible for writing. I need to be able to think clearly, else I make mistakes, get annoyed, and start trolling political forums (which is exactly what happened yesterday and today).
Fortunately, tomorrow, I can work pretty much from 3pm-midnight uninterrupted.
I just switched over from using word to Liquid Story Binder, which lets you go into typewriter mode so you can't edit yourself or go to another program easily. It also keeps your word count in view.
Quote from: Enki v. 2.0 on October 12, 2009, 10:40:29 PM
For the last two years, I've planned months ahead and ended up with less than a page by December (a month less productive than my average friday night on IRC), but I suppose at worst I'll just end up equalling last year's entry of a title and no document at all. I guess I'm in.
Nothing could be less productive than you on IRC.
Wordcount-wise?
i have just remembered why i never participate in this, I HATE WRITING
i quit :D
Quote from: Enki v. 2.0 on November 04, 2009, 10:45:10 PM
Wordcount-wise?
Long-winded topic titles about the rubbish you permanently fucked up RFD with doesn't count. So yeah.
Quote from: Suu on November 04, 2009, 10:42:09 PM
I just switched over from using word to Liquid Story Binder, which lets you go into typewriter mode so you can't edit yourself or go to another program easily. It also keeps your word count in view.
Oh? I turn off everything except my RSS feed, my music and my word processor to get on with it. I may occasionally fire up Wikipedia to double check a fact or two, but that's about it.
MS Word (Enterprise Blue version anyway, the one that was only meant to be for Microsoft employees...until it got leaked) has the wordcount in the bottom left corner as well, which is very helpful, I agree. Any word processor which does that, its a good thing in my book.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on November 05, 2009, 04:22:15 AM
Quote from: Enki v. 2.0 on November 04, 2009, 10:45:10 PM
Wordcount-wise?
Long-winded topic titles about the rubbish you permanently fucked up RFD with doesn't count. So yeah.
I think you just gave me a subject for my NaNo 2010 entry.
So not having done this wonderful thing before, I'm loving the totally insane shit appearing on the computer screen before me. An excerpt:
QuoteKurt removed himself from the breakfast table, a busy piece of furniture which moonlighted as a dinner table, in between renting its services as a key holder, coat hanger, or grocery bag handler. If Kurt knew it dabbled in the dark art of lunch he ignored it, lest his anger drive him to smash the efficient thing limb from dovetailed limb. He went upstairs to his room to retrieve essential working supplies, returning to settle himself upon his favorite office desk, a deep cherry surface with a glossy finish that's been known to, in its mercenary spirit, accept a job or two as a breakfast table.
A gloriously long sleep having cut so far into the day followed by an elaborate breakfast and what he considered pointed political analysis put the start of his work at about 2 o'clock. Lamenting shortly afterwards a lack of available camera crew to document his horror upon realizing that, yes, he'd done nothing until 2 o'clock, as in 2 in the afternoon, as in post meridian, he set himself to type furiously and research with a vengeance unseen in academia, a resolute goal to have an admissions representative at each graduate program acknowledge that the document they perused had been written with nothing short of pure fury. Precisely thirteen words into his first project of the day, he remembered Todd's phone call.
"Shit," he declared to the amazingly multi purposed table of which he'd so recently grown fond.
"the dark art of lunch" sounds vaguely worrying.
I'm still behind, but I have...well, all of this afternoon, and the weekend, to catch up. Once Nano is over, I'll probably edit this into something much more coherent, but for now....well, mutated giant ants (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047573/), the Bloop, El Chupacabra, "spiders", the Everett-Wheeler hypothesis, corrupt mercenaries, planned bio-terrorist attacks and BIG FUCKING GUNS all play a role.
Cain, I want to read that.
Just for the sake of tradition could you work the three elements of the Action Movie into it: Tits, Guns and Helicopters? :-)
[or don't, I'm sure it'll be good either way]
You forgot 'SPLOSIONS.
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on November 06, 2009, 01:30:34 AM
So not having done this wonderful thing before, I'm loving the totally insane shit appearing on the computer screen before me. An excerpt:
QuoteKurt removed himself from the breakfast table, a busy piece of furniture which moonlighted as a dinner table, in between renting its services as a key holder, coat hanger, or grocery bag handler. If Kurt knew it dabbled in the dark art of lunch he ignored it, lest his anger drive him to smash the efficient thing limb from dovetailed limb. He went upstairs to his room to retrieve essential working supplies, returning to settle himself upon his favorite office desk, a deep cherry surface with a glossy finish that's been known to, in its mercenary spirit, accept a job or two as a breakfast table.
A gloriously long sleep having cut so far into the day followed by an elaborate breakfast and what he considered pointed political analysis put the start of his work at about 2 o'clock. Lamenting shortly afterwards a lack of available camera crew to document his horror upon realizing that, yes, he'd done nothing until 2 o'clock, as in 2 in the afternoon, as in post meridian, he set himself to type furiously and research with a vengeance unseen in academia, a resolute goal to have an admissions representative at each graduate program acknowledge that the document they perused had been written with nothing short of pure fury. Precisely thirteen words into his first project of the day, he remembered Todd's phone call.
"Shit," he declared to the amazingly multi purposed table of which he'd so recently grown fond.
And that is really what it's all about.
Also, if you spell out numbers and eliminate contractions and hyphens you get more words.
Quote from: LMNO on November 06, 2009, 02:52:33 PM
You forgot 'SPLOSIONS.
They are a natural consequence of the Action Movie Trinity.
Tits + Guns + Helicopters -> SPLOSIONS
It's simple first-order predicate logic, really.
Quote from: Suu on November 06, 2009, 03:04:47 PM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on November 06, 2009, 01:30:34 AM
So not having done this wonderful thing before, I'm loving the totally insane shit appearing on the computer screen before me. An excerpt:
QuoteKurt removed himself from the breakfast table, a busy piece of furniture which moonlighted as a dinner table, in between renting its services as a key holder, coat hanger, or grocery bag handler. If Kurt knew it dabbled in the dark art of lunch he ignored it, lest his anger drive him to smash the efficient thing limb from dovetailed limb. He went upstairs to his room to retrieve essential working supplies, returning to settle himself upon his favorite office desk, a deep cherry surface with a glossy finish that's been known to, in its mercenary spirit, accept a job or two as a breakfast table.
A gloriously long sleep having cut so far into the day followed by an elaborate breakfast and what he considered pointed political analysis put the start of his work at about 2 o'clock. Lamenting shortly afterwards a lack of available camera crew to document his horror upon realizing that, yes, he'd done nothing until 2 o'clock, as in 2 in the afternoon, as in post meridian, he set himself to type furiously and research with a vengeance unseen in academia, a resolute goal to have an admissions representative at each graduate program acknowledge that the document they perused had been written with nothing short of pure fury. Precisely thirteen words into his first project of the day, he remembered Todd's phone call.
"Shit," he declared to the amazingly multi purposed table of which he'd so recently grown fond.
And that is really what it's all about.
Also, if you spell out numbers and eliminate contractions and hyphens you get more words.
Last year, I knew I was in trouble when I listed everything Doug had in his kitchen.
Quote from: Triple Zero on November 06, 2009, 03:12:41 PM
Quote from: LMNO on November 06, 2009, 02:52:33 PM
You forgot 'SPLOSIONS.
They are a natural consequence of the Action Movie Trinity.
Tits + Guns + Helicopters -> SPLOSIONS
It's simple first-order predicate logic, really.
TIT-SPLOSIONS?
Quote from: LMNO on November 06, 2009, 01:47:15 PM
Cain, I want to read that.
Once it is over 10,000 words, I am going to start posting it here. Its basically the conspiracy kitchen sink, plus mad science, plus lots of guns, flamethrowers, grenades and occasional orbital strike.
Quote from: Triple Zero on November 06, 2009, 02:38:31 PM
Just for the sake of tradition could you work the three elements of the Action Movie into it: Tits, Guns and Helicopters? :-)
[or don't, I'm sure it'll be good either way]
We already have guns, and tits will no doubt appear soon, as female HIMEOBS agents are introduced. Helicopters...yeah, probably by the time Baghdad becomes part of the plt.
Perfect. In that case it is destined for ULTIMATE WIN!
Since I'm writing this regularly from three different locations I'm using Google Docs for the whole thing. Its Word Count automatically calculates the sentences per paragraph, words per sentence, characters per word, Flesch Reading Ease, Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level, and Automated Readability index.
It's presenting an interesting game of how much I can fuck up those averages in a single day of writing. Early on, it's been quite easy. Later, I'll likely have the work judged as easily understandable to a 13 year old student.
Much belated edit: I've been messing around on the website and I added a few writing buddies. I'm EaterOfClowns on there if anyone's looking.
Someone should rewrite Doom: Repercussions of Evil, as an epic, 50,000 word space horror novel.
For Script Frenzy I'm thinking of re-writing Top Gun for Star Wars as a fan film.
No. Really.
That could work. Maybe.
Also, I fear I have made a terrible error. I have started to introduce facts into HIMEOBS: the novel. Well, plausible theories at least. I spent last night skimming Alien Species and Evolution (alien in the sense of foreign, not from another world), Impossibility: The Science of Limits and The Big Bang Never Happened: Serious Alternative Science. Ideas are...fermenting.
You should collaborate with Richter on his script for HIMEOBS: The TV Show.
They'd have to invent two whole new watersheds for that. One simply for HIMEOBS, and one for what Richter's twisted imagination will come up with.
In all seriousness, the storyboard he has for episode 2 is pure genius. It revolves solely around Captain Da being suck on the toilet with no paper.
Quote from: Cain on November 07, 2009, 03:05:07 PM
That could work. Maybe.
Also, I fear I have made a terrible error. I have started to introduce facts into HIMEOBS: the novel. Well, plausible theories at least. I spent last night skimming Alien Species and Evolution (alien in the sense of foreign, not from another world), Impossibility: The Science of Limits and The Big Bang Never Happened: Serious Alternative Science. Ideas are...fermenting.
Are you at least salting it with RI fodder? Project Monarch is on the plausible side in that respect, since Artichoke, Bluebird and MK-ULTRA all attempted to do such things.
I'm going to get into it a little more with that sort of thing, later on. I have pretty much the entire RI blog saved on my HD though, so reference isn't exactly a problem 8)
I also spent last night reading David Icke, and now my head hurts :cry:
Have been procrastinating, and need to get my writer's hat on as I'm only at liek 1500 words. :x Most def. will not finish, but I'm going to try to see how much I can force myself to bang out by the end of the month.
I'm at 8300, but I'm going to be writing closer to 3000 per day over the next few days.
I am still at 641.
I strongly suspect I will not make the deadline.
I've stalled out for about a week. Will not make deadline, so am throwing in the towel for NaNoWriMo. Though, I do intend on finishing this thing (just will probably be a bit shorter than 50k words) slowly but surely.
I'm way ahead on my word count. I'm finishing EARLY!!! :banana:
Quote from: Suu on November 24, 2009, 03:53:55 PM
I'm way ahead on my word count. I'm finishing EARLY!!! :banana:
:mittens:
I can't seem to get anything above the minimum daily. If I finish it'll likely be day of.
Done.
Well, actually I was done 2 days ago. I just didn't upload it to the website for the final count.
Quote from: Suu on November 29, 2009, 09:59:41 PM
Done.
Well, actually I was done 2 days ago. I just didn't upload it to the website for the final count.
Way to go, Suu!
I just finished and submitted it myself.
:awesome:
What was your word count?
Quote from: Suu on November 29, 2009, 09:59:41 PM
Done.
Well, actually I was done 2 days ago. I just didn't upload it to the website for the final count.
:mittens: for patience and perseverence
Epic victory!
Quote from: Suu on November 30, 2009, 10:36:05 PM
What was your word count?
I think 50,112 according to their site. MS Word and Google Dogs measure it more between 51,500 and 52,000.
Congrats. I ultimately flaked out :sad: