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Wickimen · 2012-08-01 00:31:43

So uh, soup and I are hosting this thingamajig kind of like Camp NaNoWriMo here on Scratch. (Actually it's pretty much exactly like Camp NaNo, except since I am restricted to the use of Scratch and Gmail I can't do the real one.)

It's pretty simple. The premise of NaNoWriMo, a rather interesting abbreviation of National Novel Writing Month (officially November, but they've got other ones in the summer and stuff--hence, Camp NaNo): you try to write a novel in one month.

No pressure or anything, yes?

Except this is much easier to do, since school is going to be starting and
Wait hold on a second, I only have a little over two weeks of summer vacation left!! Nonononono!!!
all that. It starts tomorrow (or today, depending on your timezone)--Wednesday, August 1, 2012--and you have until the last day of the month to finish.

However!!

Unlike the 50,000 word rule on NaNo, the rule here is /at least/ 10k, and you can set your own goal to be higher than that.

Also, feel free to post excerpts of your novel here and seek advice.

What Counts
Any collection of short stories or novel chapters, in poetry or prose, that, altogether, adds up to 10,000 words or more. Which isn't /that/ much if you're working at this for a month really.

Signup Sheet
[Name]
[Novel Title]
[Word Count Goal]
[Opinions on Global Warming]*
[Excerpt (optional)]

*loljk

Alrighty no one's going to sign up for this I bet but whatever k!
Or if they do won't follow through, since that's the spirit of Camp NaNo
Happy writing!

Participants Aug 2012
Wicki/Alison
soup/Joshua
veggie/Jacob
777w/winston
PF
Agg/Angela
wolvesstar
hungergamesfanatic/Kayetlin
banana/Don'tpushmei'malreadyfalling(??)
Pluto

Last edited by Wickimen (2012-08-10 01:31:03)

veggieman001 · 2012-08-01 00:35:38

I'm going to try to do this and it will probably be short but um yeah
Gotta get the creative juices flowing before the real thing in November, you know
I should write not a bad thing
k

Wickimen · 2012-08-01 00:36:51

veggieman001 wrote:
I'm going to try to do this and it will probably be short but um yeah
Gotta get the creative juices flowing before the real thing in November, you know
I should write not a bad thing
k

True, true
Good preparation and all that
I highly doubt it'll be bad tongue

veggieman001 · 2012-08-01 01:11:12

Wickimen wrote:
veggieman001 wrote:
I'm going to try to do this and it will probably be short but um yeah
Gotta get the creative juices flowing before the real thing in November, you know
I should write not a bad thing
k
True, true
Good preparation and all that
I highly doubt it'll be bad

Come on, all my writing is bad
My ideas suck and I don't express them well either.

Agg725 · 2012-08-01 07:46:12

i might enter. it sounds awesome!

777w · 2012-08-01 07:55:14

name: hmm lets put down "winston" for now
novel: a nonfiction story about ants, their history and behaviour
word goal: i hate goals and word limits so im just gonna go with the regular 10,000
global warming thoughts: it sucks >:I
excerpt: i havent started writing, i havent even entered yet :O

ProgrammingFreak · 2012-08-01 11:17:02

I'm going to do this. Might even try to whip up a website for this! o:

veggieman001 · 2012-08-01 11:26:27

ha-ha! I already have 162 words! take that!

ProgrammingFreak · 2012-08-01 11:26:41

veggieman001 wrote:
ha-ha! I already have 162 words! take that!

I took it. o:

veggieman001 · 2012-08-01 11:31:04

ProgrammingFreak wrote:
veggieman001 wrote:
ha-ha! I already have 162 words! take that!
I took it. o:

No, not you! stand aside!

777w · 2012-08-01 11:37:33

veggieman001 wrote:
ProgrammingFreak wrote:
veggieman001 wrote:
ha-ha! I already have 162 words! take that!
I took it. o:
No, not you! stand aside!

me? :O

veggieman001 · 2012-08-01 11:44:58

777w wrote:
veggieman001 wrote:
ProgrammingFreak wrote:

I took it. o:
No, not you! stand aside!
me? :O

Alas, no!

soupoftomato · 2012-08-01 12:13:01

323 words a day on average to reach minimum on the ending day.

Agg725 · 2012-08-01 12:54:27

veggieman001 wrote:
ha-ha! I already have 162 words! take that!

yeah well i have 559.(still not sure if I want to enter)

soupoftomato · 2012-08-01 13:06:41

Agg725 wrote:
veggieman001 wrote:
ha-ha! I already have 162 words! take that!
yeah well i have 559.(still not sure if I want to enter)

Enter. Achieving minimum will be a very relaxed challenge and even possibly 20-25K isn't unimaginable even with school.

veggieman001 · 2012-08-01 13:48:15

soupoftomato wrote:
323 words a day on average to reach minimum on the ending day.

Yet the day has hardly begun!

soupoftomato · 2012-08-01 13:51:12

Everyone post your first sentence.

The entire town was a strange sight but it didn't matter because outsiders never looked upon it and whether those living within found the aesthetics attractive or functional was unknown.

veggieman001 · 2012-08-01 14:11:19

Although it was a fair-weathered spring day with hardly a cloud in the sky, the neighbourhood playground seemed dead and grey as if all its colour and vigour had been sucked from it, and was uninhabited save for a brown-haired teenage girl.

imnotbob · 2012-08-01 14:15:24

8 days till school.

*sigh* I'll try to do it next summer, I suppose.

veggieman001 · 2012-08-01 14:16:25

imnotbob wrote:
8 days till school.

*sigh* I'll try to do it next summer, I suppose.

:'( that sucks
My school starts like a week into September

soupoftomato · 2012-08-01 14:23:58

I have 8 days until school and I'm doing it.

imnotbob · 2012-08-01 14:25:48

soupoftomato wrote:
I have 8 days until school and I'm doing it.

I have summer reading, band camp, school supply shopping, and I need to work at orientation with my mom who is now (sadly) on the PTO board (D=)

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Agg725 · 2012-08-01 14:29:17

soupoftomato wrote:
Everyone post your first sentence.

The entire town was a strange sight but it didn't matter because outsiders never looked upon it and whether those living within found the aesthetics attractive or functional was unknown.

here's mine: oatmeal?

veggieman001 · 2012-08-01 14:29:39

I have 334 words now, more than enough! ha-ha!

777w · 2012-08-01 14:31:10

i havent started yet and dont know if i ever will :U

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