Nano

[cantdog]

It's practice. I read somewhere you have to write a million words before you start to get good at it.

That's TWENTY YEARS of Na No

Or twenty months. Not so long.

 

[sophia jane]

From the nano website:
"A growing number! Jon F. Merz was one of Team 2001's winners; his NaNo book The Destructor was published by Pinnacle Books in March 2003. Lani Diane Rich, sold her 2002 NaNo-penned manuscript, Time Off For Good Behaviorto Warner Books, and it came out to great reviews in October 2004, and won the Romance Writers of America RITA award for Best Debut Novel eight months later. Her 2003 NaNoWriMo novel was published by Warner Books as Maybe Baby in 2005.

I've actually read Time off for Good Behavior (and liked it). Should look for her other book. She was funny. (and yes, I read romance novels, obviously. )

 

[yui]

LOL. I simply know I am more intelligent and talking down is not easy, believe me, but I am happy to develop a Charley dictionary for the dumb Wanna be the editor?

Oh, Charley, I would be happy to be editor of the Guide to Idiot Charleys; you so need a good post editor.

 

[CharleyH]

Or twenty months. Not so long.

20 months is a good time for the best of authors.

 

[cheerful_deviant]

LOL. I simply know I am more intelligent and talking down is not easy...

And modest too.

 

[CharleyH]

Oh, Charley, I would be happy to be editor of the Guide to Idiot Charleys; you so need a good post editor.

LOL you are it then in a child-like tag Damn thats sexy kinda. lol A me dictionary of absurd and twisted, but better spelled stupidisms lol Too cool.

 

[cheerful_deviant]

A me dictionary of absurd and twisted, but better spelled stupidisms

That may be one of the best lines I've ever read.

 

[cantdog]

And modest too.

She may just be the most modest person in the whole province of Ontario.

 

[CharleyH]

And modest too.

I would like the tongue better if ducks did not have avian flu.

 

[CharleyH]

She may just be the most modest person in the whole province of Ontario.

THAT is frightening!

 

[cheerful_deviant]

I would like the tongue better if ducks did not have avian flu.

Not to worry, I'm certified organic, free range duckling. But I suppose it's just as well, being verbally torn to shreads isn't really my idea of foreplay.

 

[CharleyH]

Not to worry, I'm certified organic, free range duckling. But I suppose it's just as well, being verbally torn to shreads isn't really my idea of foreplay.

LOL. I may be carnivorous, but cant stand eating free range, so you are in luck. Or not

 

[oggbashan]

I had hoped no one caught that. Why bother with Nano? If you could take your time and write something better? Why only try in Nano? Why not do it for the rest of your year?

Answer 1. The whole point of NaNo is practising consistent output.
Answer 2. You can but NaNo is about self-discipline.
Answer 3. I do, most of the year. My 2003 NaNo 'Flawed Red Silk' was posted here before the end of November 2003. Since then my output has continued, posted here, elsewhere and as entries in non-erotic writing contests.

Og

 

[CharleyH]

Um... How many great novels have you written?

Q_C

Well, I've written more than you think. A novel - no, I have never pretended to have written one, a novel takes time. My theory about Nano is one stolen from Bob Fosse and his movie All that jazz. His exact quote was "I can make you a better dancer, but not a great one." I understand the 'challenge' of Nano and always support it. I want to know what great novels come of it? THAT is a challenge to Lit writers.

 

[CharleyH]

Answer 1. The whole point of NaNo is practising consistent output.
Answer 2. You can but NaNo is about self-discipline.
Answer 3. I do, most of the year. My 2003 NaNo 'Flawed Red Silk' was posted here before the end of November 2003. Since then my output has continued, posted here, elsewhere and as entries in non-erotic writing contests.

Og

Well, why waste 40,000 words that no one will ever see? It doesn't seem like consistent output. It seems inconsistent.

Self-discipline to write an outline and to continue writing outlines and be a really great treatment person, that's what I see in Nano. But if you never revisit that story, never fix it, edit and primp it as I have seen for three years being on Lit? Is that discipline as an author? I support you all, writing is as a Nano,writing an outline, but I'm sure the purpose of it is greater. Publishing in the end I think, or trying, at least.

 

[yui]

Well, why waste 40,000 words that no one will ever see? It doesn't seem like consistent output. It seems inconsistent.

Self-discipline to write an outline and to continue writing outlines and be a really great treatment person, that's what I see in Nano. But if you never revisit that story, never fix it, edit and primp it as I have seen for three years being on Lit? Is that discipline as an author? I support you all, writing is as a Nano,writing an outline, but I'm sure the purpose of it is greater. Publishing in the end I think, or trying, at least.

Charley, I'm not going to argue with you. I say go with what works for you. But different styles work for different people. To put is in a Judeo-Christian way; there were 12 different tribes of Israel, eh? Nanoers are simply from a different tribe than you are, and some people write for the simple joy of it.

No right, no wrong.

 

[cheerful_deviant]

Charley, I'm not going to argue with you. I say go with what works for you. But different styles work for different people. To put is in a Judeo-Christian way; there were 12 different tribes of Israel, eh? Nanoers are simply from a different tribe than you are, and some people write for the simple joy of it.

No right, no wrong.

You're just too nice sometimes.

Come on, open up and let her have it with both barrels!

 

[CharleyH]

Charley, I'm not going to argue with you. I say go with what works for you. But different styles work for different people. To put is in a Judeo-Christian way; there were 12 different tribes of Israel, eh? Nanoers are simply from a different tribe than you are, and some people write for the simple joy of it.

No right, no wrong.

Yes, I understand, but should we not push and PUSH the shy ones?

 

[CharleyH]

You're just too nice sometimes.

Come on, open up and let her have it with both barrels!

First, why don't you, you Leave it to No Beaver type! Second, I have those Austin Powers-like Fembot tits that shoot as many bullets as you shoot cum. Test my patience!

PS: I'd have said try me but ...

 

[cheerful_deviant]

First, why don't you, you Leave it to No Beaver type!

Cuz I'm just a freakin' Duck. No fingers to pull the trigger.

Second, I have those Austin Powers-like Fembot tits that shoot as many bullets as you shoot cum.

Well that's not much.

PS: I'd have said try me but ...

I'd have to brush up on my Charlieese before making the attempt.

 

[CharleyH]

Cuz I'm just a freakin' Duck. No fingers to pull the trigger.



Well that's not much.



I'd have to brush up on my Charlieese before making the attempt.

ROFL

And I need a mother goose brush up (lame excuse rubber ducky! As I do make sense but a chicktionary may be in the works. Or is that a Charlinary? )

 

[yui]

You're just too nice sometimes.

Come on, open up and let her have it with both barrels!

You just want to see a girl fight.

Yes, I understand, but should we not push and PUSH the shy ones?

If you are sincere, it occurs to me how similar “pushing” and “trolling” appear.

Denigration as motivation? *snort*

Put on your Possibly Intellectually Superior Yet Sometimes Unintelligible Shoes and go tap dance on the fluffy threads, Charley, and let the Nanoers write for no better reason other than they want to.

Cuz I'm just a freakin' Duck. No fingers to pull the trigger.

I’m kinda keen on fingers, CD.

Well that's not much.

I might not have needed to know that.

I'd have to brush up on my Charlieese before making the attempt.

You speak Charley?!? Kewl.

but a chicktionary may be in the works. Or is that a Charlinary? )

Chicktonary? You are strangely cute, Charley.

 

[CharleyH]

Chicktonary? You are strangely cute, Charley.

I know (angel look and blink blink )

I have never been against trolls to tell the truth. Good question, though, Yui.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

I don't do NaNo either. I don't knock it any more, because I know it works for some people as a motivational tool and gives them a sense of accomplishment, but to me it seems an awful lot like speed sex or speed eating. Writing isn't something I want to do under a deadline, or any kind of limitation, for that matter.

I stay away from those "In less than 100 words" things too, or the ones that want you to write a story using a spider, a toothbrush, and a kangaroo, or without using pronouns, or any of those other contrivances. Writng ain't a game. You should use both hands when you do it and go all out.

I worry too that, if I were speed writing, I'd pick up bad habits. With 1700 words a day, I know I'd be tempted to take short cuts, gloss over things, and settle for less. 30 days of writing is enough to turn those short cuts into permanent bad habits that then have to be unlearned.

But that's just me. Best of luck to the participants, though. I hope you find what you're looking for.

 

[neonlyte]

I don't do NaNo either. I don't knock it any more, because I know it works for some people as a motivational tool and gives them a sense of accomplishment, but to me it seems an awful lot like speed sex or speed eating. Writing isn't something I want to do under a deadline, or any kind of limitation, for that matter.

I stay away from those "In less than 100 words" things too, or the ones that want you to write a story using a spider, a toothbrush, and a kangaroo, or without using pronouns, or any of those other contrivances. Writng ain't a game. You should use both hands when you do it and go all out.

I worry too that, if I were speed writing, I'd pick up bad habits. With 1700 words a day, I know I'd be tempted to take short cuts, gloss over things, and settle for less. 30 days of writing is enough to turn those short cuts into permanent bad habits that then have to be unlearned.

But that's just me. Best of luck to the participants, though. I hope you find what you're looking for.

This is my third NaNo but I don't follow NaNo rules. last year, I used NaNo as a motivational tool to crank out a draft following a prepared outline, pretty much roughing out the central framework of a story where I know the beginning and ending. I've spent the period between NaNo's re-writing, fine tuning, editing and I have a good story emerging, I figure it will take another year, God willing, to complete. This year I'm roughing out the mid-section of the Ob Seen story, the first part of which featured on SDC some year or so ago. The first third is re-written, as is the ending, mid-chapters in outline structure only. I find it useful purely as a time management tool, I tend to write more creatively under pressure and enjoy fine-tuning the language, structure etc after the surge of effort is over. We all do it differently. At the risk of repeating myself, I'm aiming to complete at least two novel length tales before finding a publisher, with a third in outline structure - this on advice that at my age a publisher will not even consider me unless I can produce more than one book. NaNo fits my plan.