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Author Topic: NaNoWriMo 2013- It Ends!  (Read 40977 times)

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Re: NaNoWriMo 2013
« Reply #30 on: October 21, 2013, 03:02:33 am »

Participated first time last year and I barely started it before giving up. Not sure if I'll participate this year. On one hand I'd want to but there's all the school-work...
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Re: NaNoWriMo 2013
« Reply #31 on: October 21, 2013, 06:36:56 am »

I just spent a couple hours doing a rough character sheet and chronology for ~20 major events in my novel, so I'm enthusiastic, tired, and off to a decent start I think. the notes .doc came out to exactly 1337 words. Tomorrow... world-building!


Woah, organised. I've wrote a 4-line synopsis and will wing it from there. :P
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Re: NaNoWriMo 2013
« Reply #32 on: October 21, 2013, 08:09:10 am »

I've had an idea rolling around for a while, so this could be a good idea. I'm on as Kyyshak.
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Re: NaNoWriMo 2013
« Reply #33 on: October 21, 2013, 08:17:36 am »

My NaNoWriMo username is USEC_OFFICER (surprise!). If anybody feels like adding me, of course.

And, uh... I'm definitely not going to go write up a plot sheet right now.
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Re: NaNoWriMo 2013
« Reply #34 on: October 21, 2013, 09:15:21 am »

I'm also notquitethere on Nanowrimo and I've not quite managed it in recent years, but I hope to this year, so feel free to add me!
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Re: NaNoWriMo 2013
« Reply #35 on: October 21, 2013, 11:23:05 am »

Plot sheet written, and buddied everyone i could see here. Username is sjm9876  :o
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Re: NaNoWriMo 2013
« Reply #36 on: October 21, 2013, 11:36:48 am »

Pulled up my old account and was pleasantly surprised that it was still there. Look for me under the name SirusTheWriter.
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Re: NaNoWriMo 2013
« Reply #37 on: October 21, 2013, 11:39:21 am »

I just spent a couple hours doing a rough character sheet and chronology for ~20 major events in my novel, so I'm enthusiastic, tired, and off to a decent start I think. the notes .doc came out to exactly 1337 words. Tomorrow... world-building!
Do you have a particular schema you follow for these notes or are you just writing down what comes to you as it comes?
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Re: NaNoWriMo 2013
« Reply #38 on: October 21, 2013, 12:23:47 pm »

NaNoWriMo name is HiddenTruth. Third year attempting, failed last two times very early on.

This year I'm putting more effort into it. Or planning to. I guess I'll have to see how that pans out.  :P
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Re: NaNoWriMo 2013
« Reply #39 on: October 21, 2013, 12:29:10 pm »

I know my sister is going to be attempting to do this.  Might just attempt it myself.
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Re: NaNoWriMo 2013
« Reply #40 on: October 21, 2013, 01:23:53 pm »

I just spent a couple hours doing a rough character sheet and chronology for ~20 major events in my novel, so I'm enthusiastic, tired, and off to a decent start I think. the notes .doc came out to exactly 1337 words. Tomorrow... world-building!
Do you have a particular schema you follow for these notes or are you just writing down what comes to you as it comes?

I... sort of write what comes out as it comes to me, while organizing it in an outline format once most of it is down. Here's the general idea I used for Crawl, my nano novel:

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Once that's out, if interesting things come to me I just add it where it should reasonably go. The world-building documents will probably look and read like small dungeon maps of a D&D module, with mostly environment details that I can reference later on for consistency of details and setting.

I should point out that I have to do this to keep me focused and on-task later when crunch-time shows up and I can't afford to faff about re-plotting stuff that doesn't quite "fit" in mid-November. The more I get done now, the more I can focus on getting from A to B in a timely fashion later.
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Re: NaNoWriMo 2013
« Reply #41 on: October 21, 2013, 03:43:56 pm »

I just realized a real fun way to write my story.  Every single time I run out of inspiration,  I just roll the nearest die, and start writing the result.  Heck, I even created some roll tables I could use to assist in creating randomized creatures and civilizations.
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Re: NaNoWriMo 2013
« Reply #42 on: October 21, 2013, 03:45:58 pm »

Well, got the synopsis of my new novel up. It's an idea I've had knocking around for the past year or so and I'd like to get it down on paper (so to speak). Will feature plenty of anachronism.
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Re: NaNoWriMo 2013
« Reply #43 on: October 21, 2013, 04:02:08 pm »

Signing up now, as Xantalos.
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Re: NaNoWriMo 2013
« Reply #44 on: October 21, 2013, 07:51:09 pm »

What do you guys listen to when you write - if anything? Right now I'm digging the atmospheric orchestral tunes by Dan Johansen.

Also, are we doing that IRC channel for word war purposes like last year? They really help to get the wordflow going, imo.
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