NaNoWriMo 2006

pipsqueeek · **Posted:** Sun Oct 29, 2006 6:52 pm

Heh. I signed up and have since done absolutely nothing to prepare. I may end up not doing much on it after all, what with being busy and such

DM was on fire! · **Posted:** Sun Oct 29, 2006 7:01 pm

Nessa wrote:

Pretty much all you have to do is write 2,000 words a day, so its only hard if you think of it as in 50,000 words in a month. Break it down, its not nearly as bad

Dang. I never thought of it that way.

Pudding · **Posted:** Sun Oct 29, 2006 8:00 pm

DM was on fire! wrote:

Nessa wrote:

Pretty much all you have to do is write 2,000 words a day, so its only hard if you think of it as in 50,000 words in a month. Break it down, its not nearly as bad

Dang. I never thought of it that way.

And it's really only 1,667 words per day. That's not so hard at all!

I had this great spreadsheet program to keep my wordcount on track last year. It was the best...I'll have to find it again and post it, since my computer crashed back in March.

Dingbat the Mighty · **Posted:** Mon Oct 30, 2006 1:31 am

*waves* I tried it last year, with two separate stories. I ended up trashing both of them and eventually forgetting about NaNo. ;.;

But I'm doing it again this year! I've got a random high school girl and her friend finding this old house where they can go into the paintings and stuff. *nod* Except my plot ends there. XD

Robin · **Posted:** Mon Oct 30, 2006 9:47 pm

I"m signed up

Can't wait to get started--WEDNESDAY!!

WIS · **Posted:** Tue Oct 31, 2006 12:09 am

PuddingofEvil wrote:

DM was on fire! wrote:

Nessa wrote:

Pretty much all you have to do is write 2,000 words a day, so its only hard if you think of it as in 50,000 words in a month. Break it down, its not nearly as bad

Dang. I never thought of it that way.

And it's really only 1,667 words per day. That's not so hard at all!

I had this great spreadsheet program to keep my wordcount on track last year. It was the best...I'll have to find it again and post it, since my computer crashed back in March.

Spreadsheet? As in like Excel? I thought Nanowrimo had a thing that did it automatically for you.

DM was on fire! · **Posted:** Tue Oct 31, 2006 5:45 pm

Yeah, there's one there too. But word counters tend to differ. I believe the one you enter in the box is the more important one.
I'm using Microsoft Word for a word counter, and I'm gonna rely on NaNo's for the official count.

Wind · **Posted:** Tue Oct 31, 2006 7:24 pm

I'm a novelist in distress

I kinda neglected my novel idea for the last 20 days, and now I feel the urge of adding a monkey again...

stinkyllama · **Posted:** Tue Oct 31, 2006 9:37 pm

NaNoWriMo always looks like potential fun so I finally gave in and decided to register this morning. Ah! Now I have only a day to figure out what my story will be about!!

DM was on fire! · **Posted:** Tue Oct 31, 2006 9:37 pm

XD
Monkeys are cool.

NaNo's site is so laggy. I hope that's not what it's gonna be like this November. n_n

Pudding · **Posted:** Tue Oct 31, 2006 10:24 pm

I'm totally addicted to the dares thread right now. Writing down silly dares to take is fun. I did something like 40 of them in my last NaNovel--it made things terribly entertaining.

WIS wrote:

PuddingofEvil wrote:

DM was on fire! wrote:

Nessa wrote:

Pretty much all you have to do is write 2,000 words a day, so its only hard if you think of it as in 50,000 words in a month. Break it down, its not nearly as bad

Dang. I never thought of it that way.

And it's really only 1,667 words per day. That's not so hard at all!

I had this great spreadsheet program to keep my wordcount on track last year. It was the best...I'll have to find it again and post it, since my computer crashed back in March.

Spreadsheet? As in like Excel? I thought Nanowrimo had a thing that did it automatically for you.

Well, there is that, but the spreadsheet program was better. I entered my wordcount for the day into it, and it told me whether I was on track to finish in time, what percent of the novel was written, how many words I had to write every day after that to be on track to finish, and a bunch of other stuff. There was a pie chart, too. If anyone happens to be as big of a word count geek as I am, you can find it by googling NaNoWriMo Report Card.

6 1/2 more hours...

Maureen · **Posted:** Tue Oct 31, 2006 11:25 pm

NaNo is the bestest thing evar. Maybe.
I first attempted it in 2004 and failed. Last year i tried nd suceeded, but just barely. This year i'm hoping to keep on track and maybe even finish early. I have high hopes after reading "No Plot? No Problem!". And so far, i have no plot. Didn't have one to begin with last year either. But that's what makes it exciting, i guess?

WIS · **Posted:** Wed Nov 01, 2006 1:10 am

http://www.nanowrimo.org/modules/newbb/ ... &forum=171

Yay, it starts tomorrow! I've made a writing group/club there, for the people in the other forums that participate in Nanowrimo as well as PPT.

Also if you're interested, I'm going to be making Novel related graphics (Nano sets, Chapter Headings, Title Pages, etc. etc.)

Robin · **Posted:** Wed Nov 01, 2006 2:33 am

Wind wrote:

I'm a novelist in distress

I kinda neglected my novel idea for the last 20 days, and now I feel the urge of adding a monkey again...

At least you aren't writing a epic Doctor Who/Harry Potter/Phantom of the Opera/Kingdom Hearts/Ghostbusters crossover thing with a self-insert/Doctor romantic subplot

Wind · **Posted:** Wed Nov 01, 2006 8:41 pm

Aw, the site is waaay too laggy today, it won't even load for me. Well, enough procrastinating, I think it's off to write for me

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