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#127 2011-11-14 19:15:23
#128 2011-11-14 19:18:48
- veggieman001
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Re: Write A Novel in... *heart attack* 17 days!?
okay i am going to sit down
put on some oppenheimer
and write this bloody book
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#129 2011-11-14 21:15:49
#130 2011-11-14 21:38:17
Re: Write A Novel in... *heart attack* 17 days!?
I spent about an hour downloading open office and adding tabs to the story etc, and now the ' doesn't translate to ’ -.-
I'm particular about punctuation...
ARGGGH
*headdesk*
Okay and now Open Office is deleting all the tabs I've been putting in for the past forty-five minutes
Why.
Ok punctuation solved but my last 45 minutes of existence have been wasted
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#131 2011-11-15 10:11:39
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Re: Write A Novel in... *heart attack* 17 days!?
this reminded me of a episode in kodocha(ONE OF THE BEST SHOWS EVER!) where she had to write a novel in only three days and it had to be four inches high ;^^
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#132 2011-11-15 21:12:23
#133 2011-11-15 22:04:30
#134 2011-11-15 22:06:24
Re: Write A Novel in... *heart attack* 17 days!?
Wickimen wrote:
Is it sad that I'm playing the Doctor Who theme in the background for writing for lack of any other music available?
Listen to 'loud pipes' by ratatat
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#135 2011-11-16 15:32:26
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Re: Write A Novel in... *heart attack* 17 days!?
Ok I have to do this next year. I will probably elaborate on my story I have to write for school.
Wickimen wrote:
Is it sad that I'm playing the Doctor Who theme in the background for writing for lack of any other music available?
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#136 2011-11-18 19:38:50
Re: Write A Novel in... *heart attack* 17 days!?
I can't start this year but I did the NoWriRoll and this is what I got:
If you LIVE in a country you weren't born in, write 137.
If you share a bedroom, write 75.
If you don't share a bedroom, lucky you, because you get to write 190 
(+190)
If your walls are painted, write 200. (+200)
If they're plain white, write 145.
If you're a vegetarian or ever tried being one, write 100 words
If you've hit your words goal for the day, go write 82 words
If you are (slightly or tragically) behind in your word count, write 257 words (+257)
If you're visiting a different state or country for Thanksgiving, write 158 words
If you're staying home for Thanksgiving, write 317 words (you have the time!) (+317)
If you have freckles, write 14 words 
(+14)
If you have a pet dog, write 100 words
If you have brown hair, go write 250 words (+250)
If your over 50% done with your story, write 230 words
If you are below 50% on your story go write 400 words (+400)
If you are below the age of 12, go write 126 words (+126)
If you have a goldfish, go write 14 words.
If you're sitting on your bed, write 100 words. (+100)
If your favorite character is anyone other than your MC guy or girl, write 200 words. (+200)
If you ate chocolate or peanut butter today, write 50 words.
If you play any type of string instrument or the piano, write 75 words.
If you've never read The Dark Tower Series, write 175 words. (+175)
If you don't believe in unicorns, write 100 words. (+100)
If you have heard of the Slow Loris, write 200 words.
If you haven't, write 250 words and Google search it. (+250)
If your story doesn't have an octopus, write 54 words. (+54)
If you ate Nutella today, you are lucky. Write 72 words.
If you love light colors, go write 97 words. (+97)
If you don't, write 149.
If you read the Inheritance series, write 125 words.
If you didn't, search it on the web and write 225 words (+225)
If you are not at your home computer, write 400 words when you get home (+400; on the laptop)
If you are at home, write 24 words (+24)
If you think that Harry Potter was an average book, write 11 words
If you have green eyes, write 200 words
If your eyes change color, write 409 words (+409)
If you are addicted to kitties, go write 196 words
If you don’t have any younger siblings, write 100 words.
If you don’t have any older siblings, write 200 words. (+200)
If you don’t have any siblings, write 300 words.
If you are under the age of ten, write 100 words.
If you are ten or older, write 200 words. (+200)
If your goal is less than 10000, write 200 words (+200)
If your goal is 10000 or more, write 300 words. (+300)
If your favorite color is blue, red, or black, write 100 words.
If you have red hair, write 100 words.
If you are homeschooled, write 100 words.
If you aren't homeschooled, write 174 words. (+174)
If your book is fantasy, write 50 words.
If your book has a title, write 60 words. (+60)
If your book doesn't have a title, go write 200 words.
If you have done NaNoWriMo for more than 2 years, write 75 words.
If you have ever left the country in which you were born, write 88 words.
Look at the time. Whatever time it is, write that many words. (+538)
Multiply your age by 50. Then 75. Then 100. (+550. Then +825. Then +1100)
Total = 7935.
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#137 2011-11-21 19:31:28
Re: Write A Novel in... *heart attack* 17 days!?
I've kind of given up on my novel
Now I'm just writing a humorous novel to give to my friends for Christmas
Excerpt (it's... kind of weird):
Miss Nesbit said suddenly, “Fetch me the kitchen sink again, Barbara.”
“Do I have to?” he whined, feeling his sore teeth.
“Do it now!” she said in an inhuman-sounding voice.
“Uh, okay.” (Jimmy and Barbara, as you’ve probably gathered, were the only Americans of the group; actually, they were born in a different country, but... you know what, never mind.) Barbara fetched the kitchen sink.
“About time!” Miss Nesbit grabbed it and jerked it upwards, but didn’t take it, making more of Barbara’s teeth feel a bit looser. “This is no ordinary sink. That’s why it’s not ‘a kitchen sink’, it’s ‘the kitchen sink’. It’s got some important functions and one will prove useful just now!”
“Uh in uh huh uh is?” Barbara asked.
“This!” Miss Nesbit answered, and she tore the kitchen sink from the grasp of Barbara’s jaws.
“Um... ow...”
Miss Nesbit appeared not to notice. She pulled up the drain of the kitchen sink and began pulling out hair, various grimy knickknacks, bits of a sort of green slime that felt remarkably like glue, and some things that I don’t really feel like describing.
“Eww!” Jimmy said, edging away from a soggy, grayish, stinking, moldy, moth-eaten, lukewarm, stained, gross, “eww” sock that has been overly described, to the reader’s inconvenience and to the odd satisfaction of me, myself and I.
“Aha!” screamed Miss Nesbit, making everyone else jump. “Here it is!!” She henceforth produced a wet, slimy Tupperware container that had been lodged deep inside the drain. It was covered in disgusting tidbits that had been down there.
“Is that a maggot?” asked Jimmy.
Miss Nesbit ignored her. “It’s a food supply!” she said. “Stored right here in this Tupperware thingamabob.” (As the reader may be aware, ‘thingamabob’ can refer to several things—Canadian bacon, for one, or the left shoe that you forgot to return to its owner.)
“Gross,” Violet said. “Our food is in that?”
“There are two thingamabobs wrong with that,” Miss Nesbit said. “First, it’s not gross at all. It’s an airtight container and as such has kept out all particles of nastiness. And second, did I ever say ‘our’?” She pried off the Tupperware lid and began munching a popular cheese-flavored snack.
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#138 2011-11-22 11:49:33
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Re: Write A Novel in... *heart attack* 17 days!?
How far did you get along?
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#139 2011-11-22 18:12:07
#140 2011-11-23 11:44:15
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Re: Write A Novel in... *heart attack* 17 days!?
You should.
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#142 2011-11-26 05:04:01
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Re: Write A Novel in... *heart attack* 17 days!?
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#143 2011-11-26 05:27:47
Re: Write A Novel in... *heart attack* 17 days!?
veggieman001 wrote:
Wickimen wrote:
I'm writing in Google docs (sooo slooow
but we're out of Microsoft Word product keys
) and I'm listening to my Dad watch hockey game reruns
lolz
I use gedit for writing, because it's clean and uncluttered like Notepad but has an easily accessible word count tool.
I've been listening to a bunch of nineties stuff, like grunge, alternative, indie, lo-fi, etc. (Guided by Voices, Nirvana, Pavement, Eels)
Whenever I'm writing an action scene, I listen to this EPIC music: http://www.youtube.com/user/SuperCalebx … cCrHZAKfPI
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#144 2011-11-26 05:29:19
Re: Write A Novel in... *heart attack* 17 days!?
Wickimen wrote:
Is it sad that I'm playing the Doctor Who theme in the background for writing for lack of any other music available?
No! That's EPIC music!!!!!! Wait, which theme tune are you listening to?
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#145 2011-11-26 07:34:56
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Re: Write A Novel in... *heart attack* 17 days!?
Wickimen wrote:
Is anyone else doing NaNoWriMo? I'm Wicki
yep
it sure is hard
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#146 2011-11-26 12:38:25
Re: Write A Novel in... *heart attack* 17 days!?
calebxy wrote:
Wickimen wrote:
Is it sad that I'm playing the Doctor Who theme in the background for writing for lack of any other music available?
No! That's EPIC music!!!!!! Wait, which theme tune are you listening to?
All of them and the 2010 soundtrack
Oh, and I found a YouTube video with all of them combined 
it sounds weird but cool
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#147 2011-11-26 12:39:52
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Re: Write A Novel in... *heart attack* 17 days!?
calebxy wrote:
veggieman001 wrote:
Wickimen wrote:
I'm writing in Google docs (sooo slooow
lolz
I use gedit for writing, because it's clean and uncluttered like Notepad but has an easily accessible word count tool.
I've been listening to a bunch of nineties stuff, like grunge, alternative, indie, lo-fi, etc. (Guided by Voices, Nirvana, Pavement, Eels)Whenever I'm writing an action scene, I listen to this EPIC music: http://www.youtube.com/user/SuperCalebx … cCrHZAKfPI
I find it really hard to listen to orchestral stuff when writing.
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#148 2011-11-26 12:42:41
Re: Write A Novel in... *heart attack* 17 days!?
veggieman001 wrote:
calebxy wrote:
veggieman001 wrote:
lolz
I use gedit for writing, because it's clean and uncluttered like Notepad but has an easily accessible word count tool.
I've been listening to a bunch of nineties stuff, like grunge, alternative, indie, lo-fi, etc. (Guided by Voices, Nirvana, Pavement, Eels)Whenever I'm writing an action scene, I listen to this EPIC music: http://www.youtube.com/user/SuperCalebx … cCrHZAKfPI
I find it really hard to listen to orchestral stuff when writing.
Really? I love it!
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#149 2011-11-26 12:45:44
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Re: Write A Novel in... *heart attack* 17 days!?
calebxy wrote:
veggieman001 wrote:
calebxy wrote:
Whenever I'm writing an action scene, I listen to this EPIC music: http://www.youtube.com/user/SuperCalebx … cCrHZAKfPII find it really hard to listen to orchestral stuff when writing.
Really? I love it!
It just seems too complicated and in the way. Can't think clearly. I did discover twee/indie pop is really good for writing though. Apples in stereo, The Unicorns, of Montreal, Oppenheimer, etc.
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