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National Novel Writing Month 2007

 
  

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autran
06:51 / 26.11.07
Thanks Colonel
Just passed 40,000 this weekend
It's the home stretch but it's a sprint finish
 
 
Spaniel
13:35 / 26.11.07
Dooit
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
23:08 / 26.11.07
Yeah, went on something of a four-day bender (during which I was in no state to write) which has left me with just under 7,500 words to goo... but I've still got until Friday. I think it'll work out.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
14:12 / 27.11.07
But I'm back on track! Less than 5,000 to do in the next three days.
 
 
Spaniel
07:57 / 28.11.07
So you're gonna be a how-many-times winner?
 
 
Closed for Business Time
09:12 / 28.11.07
Dude, just go OuLiPo on the whole dang thang and do some wacky shit for the last 5000 words. Make RAW proud! Plus, you don't have to be sober to do it! Do it!!!
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
13:52 / 28.11.07
FANTASTIC!

I finished all my work early at the office this morning, and rather than find other stuff the day shift had not been arsed to do to fill my last half-hour, got another thousand words done. (I was kind of hoping my boss would come over and demand to know what I was doing, just so I could ill-advisedly say "working on my novel", but with hindsight it's probably better that he didn't). Just done another thousand-odd...

Which means I now have time to go to the pub, then write the last remaining 2,300 words (or thereabouts) tomorrow afternoon after walking the dogs, and I'm finished with a day to spare and may just be able to make it to the Barbemeet on Friday!

w00t!

Still nowhere near the end of the story, mind you, but at least some horrible things have finally started happening.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
14:10 / 29.11.07


WOOHOO!

Still not finished the story, mind you...

But I've got a nice cliffhanger so I can at least put "END OF VOLUME ONE" or something.
 
 
Colonel Kadmon
22:56 / 29.11.07
You won?! WTF? And you didn't even finish?

I mean, fantastic! Brilliant! But I don't think I understood the rules.

But again, well done. That's really pretty cool.
 
 
Colonel Kadmon
22:57 / 29.11.07
You could do volume 2 next year.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
01:57 / 30.11.07
Technically, you just have to reach 50,000 words to "win". But it's always nicer if you can actually put "THE END" in.
 
 
Closed for Business Time
07:13 / 30.11.07
Well done, man! Now come on down to Bloomsbury and celebrate with us losers later today!
 
 
Spaniel
07:48 / 30.11.07
So then, again with the how many times a winner?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
13:47 / 30.11.07
Twice. (The first few years I couldn't actually get my arse in gear to actually sign up).
 
 
Spaniel
14:11 / 30.11.07
Fucking show off
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
16:00 / 01.12.07
Oh, I didn't mean it like that- more in the sense that when I fail, it's EPIC fail. I had every intention of signing up every other time... I just couldn't even get the motivation together to do that. I'd remember about the 5th November (funnily enough) and go "ah fuck it. I've lost already".
 
 
autran
10:56 / 02.12.07
Oh yeah, I also finished
It's my fifth and probably my best

I got to The End but there are gaps in the plot

Gaps are good because they leave room to bulk it up to the length of a Proper Novel
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
11:21 / 02.12.07
Nice one- yeah, that's what happened with last year's; a couple of chapters towards the end were very rushed indeed and need a good rewriting.
 
  

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