National Novel Writing Month

6 pages a day, everyday of November. Meh. Sounds fun, but scary at the same time.

I'LL DO IT!

I came too late to participate in last year's NaNoWriMo, but I gleefully watched people from ZU drop like flies. The Wii is going to be out about half way through my little novel; I'll do the best I can to balance my recreation.

Originally Posted by Earth

6 pages a day, everyday of November. Meh. Sounds fun, but scary at the same time.

Try three pages and three fourths of another.

Believe me, I checked.

5000 divided by 30 is about 1667 words per day. Lord save anyone who needs six pages on a computer program to write that.

If you're thinking of paper, then yes, that sounds about right.

aex... you mean 50,000 words, right?

^ I would guess so.

Oh, and guys? It's still mid-September. There's more than a month to go 'til NaNoWriMo starts. What's with the mega-early thread? You'd probably just drag in just as many people if you'd waited until mid-October.

Having said that, I'll be trying for it too. I know I failed spectacularly last time (barely more than half way), but I'm actually trying to be organised this year. The hardest part of that has been not starting my story yet - I've had the idea for at least two months now.

Okay, okay, so I jumped the gun as well. So what?

Anyway. This is just a random half hour of 'net time before work (traffic made me miss the bus). I'm still not here.

*vanishes*

Two months? I've had the idea boiling inside me for almost a year now. I even have the title ready...

Hmm...I think I'm totally going to give this a shot. I've had random ideas in my head for a little while about a novel I want to write, so maybe I'll use this as a way to jumpstart that. The problem is going to be forcing myself to sit down and actually write something everyday.

Originally Posted by Aex

Try three pages and three fourths of another.

Believe me, I checked.

5000 divided by 30 is about 1667 words per day. Lord save anyone who needs six pages on a computer program to write that.

If you're thinking of paper, then yes, that sounds about right.

With the ammount of dreadful dialogue these people deem necessary, I don't think with proper spacing, they're going to have a problem racking up six pages.

Originally Posted by Lozzie

aex... you mean 50,000 words, right?

Indeed. My mistake.

Originally Posted by Steve McQueen

With the ammount of dreadful dialogue these people deem necessary, I don't think with proper spacing, they're going to have a problem racking up six pages.

It's not so much the way people use dialogue that bothers me, but the amount they use it in comparison to everything else. There's nothing that makes reading more annoying than when you have two or three pages of short paragraphs consisting solely of dialogue, and you have no idea what the people are doing as they talk. People do stuff while talking! :XD

Originally Posted by Power Shot

Two months? I've had the idea boiling inside me for almost a year now. I even have the title ready...

I've had a story in my head for five years, each day I've been brainstorming and coming up with new ideas. But, that story isn't for NaNoWriMo, it's for an actual writing career.

Originally Posted by Aex

If you're thinking of paper, then yes, that sounds about right.

Yeah, silly me. I forgot to work it by PC standards.

Hey guys.

I had an idea. Something to do in the interim.

What if we did a ZuNoWriMo?

Participants would have a month (October) to write a novella (30,000 words). Could be Zelda related... don't know if that would fly.

Maybe I'll just do it myself, see if it catches on. I'll do up some victory banners just in case.

...

::bows to pipking's peerless idea::

I'm in!

Hm... I've been contemplating it... And though I know I shall most likely fail miserably, I think it would be a good experience for me. Plus, I have a billion ideas just swirling around my head waiting for me to write them down. Therefore... I'm in too!

Cool, Selah - it may just be the two of us, but that's a start. I'll do up an 'official' thread for it sometime this evening. One question - Zelda related, or no?

I'm totally up for pip's idea, Zelda-related or not. :O

I'll definitely be tossing my heart and soul into the NaNoWriMo... up until November 19th. After TP comes out, I really can't offer any guarantees. ^_^

I'm not going to be able to balance this, my other writing, and schoolwork (and TP, upon release), but I'll be happy to read ya'll's work when it comes to fruition.

Regretfully, I won't be partaking in the ZuNoWriMo. October will be my month to set everything on hold so that I can participate in NaNoWrimo. Good luck to those who intend to do both, though.

Originally Posted by andi

I'm totally up for pip's idea, Zelda-related or not. :O

I'll definitely be tossing my heart and soul into the NaNoWriMo... up until November 19th. After TP comes out, I really can't offer any guarantees. ^_^

Hehehe. What totally wins about this, at least for me, is that the Wii and TP come out December 7 in Australia. I don't have to fear being sidetracked by an awesome new game during the writing period.

Of course, I'll have Perfect Dark at my beck and call for whenever I take a break, but that's different. I already know what that game's about and it shouldn't make me procrastinate in lengthy chunks.

Needless to say, I'm in for this.

Originally Posted by Earth

6 pages a day, everyday of November.

I think that's a little too much, at least for computer pages. A standard Word document set at default equates to about 1,000 words a page (real writing). 6 pages, or 6,000 words a day equates to around 200,000 words for the whole month. Of course, writing with pen and paper is a little different, unless you have miniscule writing.

Personally, I know I'm not going to have any trouble whatsoever churning out 50,000 words in a month. I'll be going for around 200,000, myself.

I just have one question, how do you sign up? It's October fist now, so shouldn't there be a link thing to it (feel noobish).

Has anyone noticed that although it's October 1st, you can't sign up for NaNoWriMo yet? 0.o

We will tell you this, however: It will happen sometime before 11:59 PM, Pacific Time, on October 1.

It'll be open within the realm of 12 hours.