Nanowrimo Ate My Homework

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

I am going to officishing today, which means I should have written the post last night, instead of which I spent time preparing for Nano wrimo.
So, watch this space.  Something will be posted after work.  Now, whether that will be sane or coherent, it’s something else.

24 thoughts on “Nanowrimo Ate My Homework”

      1. Never fear! My next door neighbor lit his burn pile this weekend. The speed and number of fire trucks showing up to put it out (and explain about the burn ban) was impressive. I think they can save the house and barns from even my level of distraction.

        Like

        1. LOL. I used to live across from a farmer who EVERY SPRING coated his fields in Marine Sludge. what is Marine Sludge? Well, whatever was left of the fish markets at nightfall was sold to him at A Really Good Price. He believed it should be allowed to rot before being dug under. Now, I’m no agronomist, but I’m going to hazard that much salt could NOT be good for his fields, but anyway, the smell — you could cut it with a knife. I still have nightmares about it.

          Like

  2. So I’m figuring to get 50Kwds done on my current WIP, of which there are already 24Kwds written. (IOW, goal is to get to 74-75Kwds by EoNaNoWriMo.) That *is* allowed, innit?

    Well, even if it’s not, that’s what I’m doing.

    M

    Like

  4. Don’t let the jargon fool ya. I’m a total noob, too.

    NaNoWriMo is abbreviation of NAtional NOvel WRiting MOnth. Eo is End Of. Explanation forthcoming at nanowrimo.org.

    M

    Like

    1. All different words or can y’all quick brown fox it?

      Or does you mean 50 words beginning with the letter K?

      Sometimes I think instructions are deliberately vague.

      Like

      3. Don’t hate me. Pity me. Most of it isn’t very good.

        Besides, If you want the ability to write 50 pages a night, just get a Ph.D. I would submit a chapter to my advisor, who would sit on it for three months before returning it to me with instructions to rewrite the whole thing by the end of the week. If you couldn’t write or rewrite 50 pages a night you couldn’t survive.

        Like

  8. I can’t remember if I mentioned this…
    Rather than do the normal NaNoWriMo (me, normal?) I got together with a friend who is into conspiracy theories, and we are writing a Collaborative NaNoWriMo novel. The two of us managed 3200 words yesterday, and things seem to be flowing along.

    If you want to read it (warning – it is a bit disorganized) we decided to post the whole thing online so people could kibitz, and hopefully give us ideas.

    So far we’ve got a child with a genetically engineered implanted communications device, a U. S. Navy base on the bottom of one of the Great Lakes, a company called Canada Drive Systems producing something called an AVRO which is powered by a Merrill.

    Oh, and there’s a changer in there as well, who passes huge quantities of noxious gas when he changes.

    Confused?

    So are we!

    Wayne

    Like

  9. Ok, I got 2000 words and I’m all signed up on NaNoWriMo.

    Now what? Is there a prize? or just bragging rights? I see how you update your progress, but big deal…is there something more to this I’m missing?

    Like

Comments are closed.