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Today's the 2nd, so I should be at over 3000 words.
Instead, I'm at about 500.
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This is gonna suck.
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"There's a pony in the shop, but don't buy it. It might do something unfortunate to you." ~from the first Summoner's Seal topic
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I wonder how viable this would be for yours truly. Let's see, it took me probably an average of three hours to come up with each of my articles in October. So that's 15 hours for 13.7k words, or 913 words per hour. That means doing this would take me roughly 54.77 hours. If I write a maximum of four hours per day, that's 13.69 days, or half the month. With an average word length of 4 characters written in a solid block (i.e. there is no dialogue, ever), that also comes out to 73 pages in Word if my use of copy and paste can be trusted.
Of course, since I have nothing in mind for said novel and I tend to obsess about the details, I would never finish. That's no fun. And either way the final product would be awful, though I guess that's an acceptable cost in the NaNoWriMo world. I don't think I'm going to do this, but I'll maybe start it and then stop appropriately shortly thereafter.
2k words? You sir are on a roll!
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"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
Liberal Arts Major
What's the point?
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"What the fuck is Alice doing in Wonderland anyway? Who the fuck told her she could leave the god damn kitchen in the first place?" -Random guy on Xbox Live
http://www.backloggery.com/kodan882
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"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
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I'm honestly wishing to try it some of these years, but i'm too wrapped up in anything to give it a shot at the moment.
I'm gonna give you a root!
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"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
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And it would be totally awesome if you joined me in this venture, but I honestly wouldn't blame you if you didn't, or started and then went "screw it". It kinda sucks, like I said in the first post. >_>
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If I can then pull off another 2500+ tomorrow, it'll give me a nice little buffer in case I need more time than anticipated to write a term paper this weekend. <_<
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Now all we need is xp to come in here and join the author party and TFN is officially a haven for dejected writers.
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"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
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Edit: In fact, this gives me an idea for a poll!
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This is true, but kind of vacuous. The internet is a haven for everything.
Edit: In fact, this gives me an idea for a poll!
Damn right it did!
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"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
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"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
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"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
Liberal Arts Major
And the worst part is, I'm fairly sure I'd have the free time to do this, and I have the feeling (and it doesn't matter if it's terribly inaccurate or not so long as I have that feeling) that if I got on a roll, it wouldn't be that difficult based on your earlier Word count. Which only means it'd be easier to lure me into this.
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Liberal Arts Major
Well, my word count was based on my own writing, which is completely thoughtless and arbitrary. So I may write faster than people who, you know, take the time to consider what they're saying instead of just vomiting it all out onto the screen.
Anyway, if you and CG7 join in we can have four incomplete novels! That's a sweet 100% increase in activities of questionable merit! As the owner of this website, I am clearly for such things.
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"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
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(Until I give up mid-week 2 out of frustration, but yeah.)
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Edit: Incidentally, I sure hope "50,000 words of a novel" still counts, because I haven't even introduced my entire main cast yet. Ugh.
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Who are you, Stephen King? Throw some random characters in there and be done with it. You know, like Stephen King.
I'm presently stalled at around 2,200 words - not because it's hard to come up with something to write about, since I'm taking the Stephen King approach myself, but because the story I have sort of put together is incredibly boring, to the point where it's hard to write (and, it goes without saying, impossible to read). I don't know, maybe I should add in some giant spiders and tentacle monsters... like Stephen King does.
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"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
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but because the story I have sort of put together is incredibly boring, to the point where it's hard to write
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Ptitlepblp18h5?from=Main.ChandlersLaw
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"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
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If anyone feels like reading a 'short' story about a kung-fu maid that is background for a DnD character, hit me up.
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"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
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Day 9: 15,470. This, I believe, exceeds my goal for day 9, which should be ~15,000 words. Technically I'm into day 10 but whatever, that's really only going to matter on the last day. (I will be so, so sad if I miss the end of November, 50,000 word goal by 1,666 words. Not surprised, but very sad.)
In regards to plot progress, I've now introduced all the main characters (except the villains and important supporting characters) and am ushering them towards the plot as quickly as they will permit. Which, it turns out, is quite slowly, because they're huge whiners, and I didn't expect this.
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I took whining to be a plot device. Many a batch of several hundred words emerged out of whining! It's truly a wonderful tool.
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"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
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Plot-wise, I'm at the first real fight scene. om nom nom delicious
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