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NaNoWriMo

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    #62
    Raphael
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,880 ✭✭✭Raphael


    Ah. Crazy bastard. I'm multi tasking...ie MSNing and writing


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    #63
    PurpleFistMixer
    Registered Users Posts: 5,851 ✭✭✭PurpleFistMixer


    I've tried that before with non NaNoWriMo endeavours. Always ends badly. I'm waay too easily distracted.


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    #64
    Raphael
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,880 ✭✭✭Raphael


    Yeah, that's the differnce between us. I have really good concentr...Ooooh! Shiny *wanders off*


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    #65
    Undergod
    Registered Users Posts: 2,858 ✭✭✭Undergod


    Yeah, Aonghus, sort of. It's the Cecil Day Lewis whatchamacallit. I'm entering about three stories and a one-act play. Assuming my english teacher doesn't make me rewrite them, because her deadline is on monday and I'm not going to be physically able to do it all again, cause I've got music practice and a new punchbag and I've got my work experience and I'm panicking.
    <starts hyperventilating>

    Well, seeing as I only found out about NaNoWriMo yesterday (I've been offline for a while) doubt I'll be able to make it up. The word count in my longest novel draft is <consults word document in background> 13,770, although total wordage if I include the rewrites, other drafts, discarded ideas and such, is probably around 50,000. Since sixth class. Maybe next year.

    This is kinda related, but if anyone hasn't broken their keyboard, or isn't suffering from permanent caffeine-induced twitching at the end of this month, if you're interested in science-fiction check out the James White Award (www.jameswhiteaward.com).


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    #66
    PurpleFistMixer
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    The word "short story" is like music to my uh.. eyes. Maximum 4k words? Ahh the careless days of not having 50k looming over your head. As in last week.


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    #67
    Raphael
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,880 ✭✭✭Raphael


    Right, after NaNo, and the one act play thing in december, i might try that ^^;


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    #68
    snuffles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 71 ✭✭snuffles


    I'm on 7000 and something...

    And all my Christmas tests are in the last week of November! :D

    Just keep telling yourself that you'll have a novel...just keep telling yourself...


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    #69
    Liquorice
    Closed Accounts Posts: 849 ✭✭✭Liquorice


    I'm only on about 3.5k, I should really get my act together...but I'm lazy.


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    #70
    PurpleFistMixer
    Registered Users Posts: 5,851 ✭✭✭PurpleFistMixer


    *relaxes*
    Ah, to be in 3rd year and without christmas exams.
    Wait, I am!
    Huzzah.
    *relaxes some more*


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    #71
    It wasn't me!
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    Heh. Third year. I remeber that. It sucked ass. Enjoy. :)

    On a side note, bow before me. I'm on about twelve hundred. :p


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    #72
    Raphael
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,880 ✭✭✭Raphael


    ...Damn you Franklin

    Well..I'm in 5th year, and have a show on the 1st 4 days of december


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    #73
    PurpleFistMixer
    Registered Users Posts: 5,851 ✭✭✭PurpleFistMixer


    It's not so bad. You can't make me jealous!


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    #74
    It wasn't me!
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    Heh.
    *Stretches out, kicks back, and enjoys the next ten months*


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    #75
    PurpleFistMixer
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    Way ahead of you.


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    #76
    Undergod
    Registered Users Posts: 2,858 ✭✭✭Undergod


    PurpleFistMixer wrote:
    Girl meets guy. Guy lies to . DESTROYS UNIVERSE.

    This actually has potential. But then again, when I was ten, I started a novel and Australia got destroyed in the prologue.

    What playwright thing in December are you refering to, Aonghus?

    Oh, by the way Dave, I agree totally. <collapses on couch beside Dave and stays there until I have to drag myself away to make some convenience food>


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    #77
    Raphael
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,880 ✭✭✭Raphael


    Young Playwright competition, organised by St Andrews. I have a poster, poke me next time your on AIM and I'll give you mroe details


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    #78
    It wasn't me!
    Registered Users Posts: 13,034 ✭✭✭✭It wasn't me!


    Yeah, I had a theory once that if you didn't use any energy at all, you wouldn't need to eat, so I just lay in bed for a few days and didn't move. I really don't recommend it, though it is a really cheap way to hallucinate. In short, why bother getting up to eat when you can just sit there and drift...


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    #79
    Undergod
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    Raphael wrote:
    Young Playwright competition, organised by St Andrews. I have a poster, poke me next time your on AIM and I'll give you mroe details

    Um, yeah, AIM...

    Is there a website or something? Or just PM me the details.


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    #80
    Raphael
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,880 ✭✭✭Raphael


    Nope, I heard abouts it through school

    Oh, and I've given up on NaNo. I have a show at the start of december, so I can't keep up such a hectic writing pace. Oh well, it's gotten me writing, that was all I wanted

    Whee!


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    #81
    It wasn't me!
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    I've just given up. Who needs an excuse! :p Meh, it was ****e anyway and it wasn't getting any better.


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    #82
    PurpleFistMixer
    Registered Users Posts: 5,851 ✭✭✭PurpleFistMixer


    I've gone too far to give up... like violin, and internet. Once you get to a certain point, there's no going back.

    (Watch me burning the half completed book in 2 weeks)


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    #83
    StupidLikeAFox
    Registered Users Posts: 7,708 ✭✭✭StupidLikeAFox


    Raphael wrote:
    Nope, I heard abouts it through school

    Oh, and I've given up on NaNo. I have a show at the start of december, so I can't keep up such a hectic writing pace. Oh well, it's gotten me writing, that was all I wanted

    Whee!

    so much for that novel so......


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    #84
    Raphael
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,880 ✭✭✭Raphael


    No, I fully intend on writing it. Just not at a 50k/month rate


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    #85
    snuffles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 71 ✭✭snuffles


    My christmas tests are the last week of November...

    *much frothing at mouth*


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    #86
    PurpleFistMixer
    Registered Users Posts: 5,851 ✭✭✭PurpleFistMixer


    You are a madwoman!


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    #87
    Undergod
    Registered Users Posts: 2,858 ✭✭✭Undergod


    Top marks to PurpleFistMixer for keeping up NaNoWriMo.


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    #88
    PurpleFistMixer
    Registered Users Posts: 5,851 ✭✭✭PurpleFistMixer


    Do I get extra points now that I've finished?


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    #89
    Undergod
    Registered Users Posts: 2,858 ✭✭✭Undergod


    'Fraid not. "You cannot award marks for the same post twice." and "You must spread some reputation around before giving it to PurpleFistMixer again."


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    #90
    It wasn't me!
    Registered Users Posts: 13,034 ✭✭✭✭It wasn't me!


    Can I get free rep? No crap from you this time Aonghus!


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    #91
    PurpleFistMixer
    Registered Users Posts: 5,851 ✭✭✭PurpleFistMixer


    There's a whole thread in the Cuckoo's Nest devoted to free rep. How else would I have gotten a glowie greenie?


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