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Post by Sakerra on Sept 12, 2005 0:09:33 GMT -5
Anyone ever heard of NaNoWriMo? It stands for National Novel Writing Month and it takes place in November of every year. The goal of this is to write at 50,000 word novel in 30 days. Starting on November first, and ended November 30. Anyway, I challenge you to take this challenge, I know all of you here are excellent writers, besides it's not like you have anything to loose. I know I am going to try, if I succeed really depends on how much time I get. Oh, and a link to the site... www.nanowrimo.org/
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Post by yokohoshi on Sept 12, 2005 21:15:10 GMT -5
sweet
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Post by Sakerra on Sept 20, 2005 19:20:45 GMT -5
Just a bit more info
These are 30 reasons to do it that were listed on the NaNoWriMo forum by Sushimustwrite.
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Post by yokohoshi on Sept 22, 2005 18:24:54 GMT -5
cool, now if I can only remember to talk to mrs. moses.
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Post by Sakerra on Sept 28, 2005 23:14:21 GMT -5
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Post by Sakerra on Sept 30, 2005 23:28:40 GMT -5
Hey Yoko, this is the list of dares I am taking, post the ones you are taking to!
Put a penguin somewhere in your story. You don't even have to mention that it's a penguin.
have your story or a chapter start with "the day was just like any other - cold, slimy and covered in alligators"
have your MC refer to him or herself as vermin
Have a conga line in your story. It MUST occur at a random point in the story, and the main character must either A) Not notice at all or B) Get caught in it.
Use the following line: "Suddenly, they were attacked by ninjas."
At least 1 terrible pick up line
Include a game of cards somewhere in the novel.
Include Mr. Ian Woon (anagram of NaNoWriMo)
Have one of your characters (preferably male) become obsessed with knitting.
include deranged squirrels at any point in your story.
have a character go to the hospital for a really really dumb reason (IE. he got a dime stuck up his nose and he can't breathe). Have the doctors get really mad at character.
Pull a Gone in 60 Seconds. Have a character who never says a word, to the point where no one thinks he/she can speak, until the last chapter. Then allow the character a short monologue.
include line: " As much wood as a woodchuck could if a woodchuck could chuck wood " WITHOUT making a reference to the rhyme which usually precedes it
have a scene revolve around the dilemma of grass being green and whether or not the color is a matter of perception ( I am changing that to the Sky being orange...but yeah)
Have a character steal a traffic cone/road sign.
Have your main character get stuck in an elevator, and devote an entire chapter to this. Even if elevators don't normally exist in your novel's world.
I dare you to somehow, some way involve the line 'Never fall in love with a Korean boy' in your novel. Especially if the circumstances surrounding the line are totally unrelated.
Include the Pythagorean Theorem.
The 50,000th through 50,002nd words in your novel must be "Norma, I won!" ("Norma I won" is an anagram for "nanowrimo") Bonus points if there's no one in your novel named Norma, or if the person saying it just lost something horribly. Have one character woken up by being poked with a stick.
I dare you to use at least 100 semi-colons in your story. Correctly! the semi-colon is a neglected punctuation mark; I would see it get the recognition it deserves.....
a scene where someone threatens your MC with a fire poker.
Explain where belly button fluff comes from
Have a character (major or minor) constantly ask what day it is, then mutter something about "only x days left". Bonus points if something blows up when the countdown ends. Double bonus points if the character had nothing to do with it. Triple bonus points if he was actually counting down something incredibly innocuous (like the time until his next dentist visit)
Have a character say "And thus, the universe ended" all the time.
Include a hardcore game of pingpong that includes one of the characters being hospitalized.
Yeah, that's all the dares I dare take; I do still want to keep my plot after all.
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Post by Sakerra on Oct 10, 2005 22:39:57 GMT -5
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Ed
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Post by Ed on Oct 11, 2005 8:27:57 GMT -5
Sakerra, you're absolutly insane! I like those dares and about 3/4 of them are in the staory i started before I had even thought of a book writing contest. One of my MC does get a coin stuck up they're nose and the doctor cuffs them behind the ear to "Get it out" I do include a penguin... My favorite MC says the universe is ending all the time... and so on.
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Post by yokohoshi on Oct 11, 2005 22:48:55 GMT -5
I love cookies!!!!
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Post by Sakerra on Oct 13, 2005 17:04:01 GMT -5
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Post by yokohoshi on Oct 13, 2005 17:12:34 GMT -5
Thanx, I will!
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Post by Ed on Oct 17, 2005 8:37:43 GMT -5
Theres a radio thingy for nanowrimo.
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Post by your admin just not on Oct 18, 2005 23:31:20 GMT -5
to lazy to log in, but this is me Sakerra. Just want to remind you guys about the NaNo forums and to please come join me in the SLC Utah section located www.nanowrimo.org/modules/newbb/viewforum.php?forum=251 well, located right at that link. So come on! Meet the other strange people from around Utah, I swear, we are mostly harmless!
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Post by yokohoshi on Oct 28, 2005 21:26:36 GMT -5
Yay I posted (in Nano)
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Post by mai on Oct 28, 2005 22:00:43 GMT -5
I posted too! Now I feel happi! Only 4 days left!
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