# Camp Nanowrimo is coming **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 24, 2012, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camp-nanowrimo-is-coming/622960 "2012-05-24T15:46:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camp-nanowrimo-is-coming/622960/21 "2012-06-15T18:49:46Z")
> [@Balance](#): > > Hm. If they’re able to get by on stored blood, that kind of undermines the need for the banrie, doesn’t it? They could build the same kind of network from normal humans, as long as they extract the blood with medical equipment, rather than feeding on them directly. They’d need more humans than banrie, of course, but it could be done. > > Also, if they’re feeding on donated blood, they’d either have to intercept it before it got processed (whole blood gets separated into red blood cells, platelets, and plasma very soon after donation) or blend it back together themselves. If the latter approach is workable, they might be even able to avoid a lot of this fuss by going into the medical waste disposal business and angling for contracts to handle expired blood (red blood cells have a shelf life of only about a month and a half). > > If you want the vamps to be in any real crisis, I think you need them to need to feed directly, at least some of the time. Maybe they can get by for a while on indirect feeding or animal blood (are all animals immune to ghoulification?), but it doesn’t provide everything they need, and the resulting deficiencies eventually get to them. Maybe the deficiencies trigger cravings strong enough to make them attack humans, or maybe they just fail to wake up from hibernation and slowly wither away. Hmm. I thought medical blood was an easier solution than that (watching too movies, I guess). It’ll be something from what you’ve suggested (I haven’t thought it through much yet - got too many other stories in the pipeline at the moment). At very least, medical blood is something like eating an overdone steak, rather than good one. It sucks, it’s no fun, and it’s more trouble than you really want to put into it. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2012, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camp-nanowrimo-is-coming/622960/22 "2012-06-17T18:43:11Z")
_happy dance_ Hit 50,000 words this morning! (Well, really 60, but the first 10 don’t count for NaNo). Nowhere near done, but that’s okay. I expected that. And things are humming along now. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camp-nanowrimo-is-coming/622960/23 "2012-06-18T17:02:08Z")
Good for you **Infovore**. I’ve basically given up on the idea of ‘winning’ but I’m still going to try to write as much as I can. ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2012, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camp-nanowrimo-is-coming/622960/24 "2012-06-19T00:01:27Z")
Congrats Infovore! I started story #7 yesterday afternoon, so I’m doing okay on pace. Of course, this week I’ll have to juggle writing, preparing critiques for my sci-fi workshop, and packing, so that’ll be interesting. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camp-nanowrimo-is-coming/622960/25 "2013-03-08T16:36:17Z")
Like a zombie, Camp Nanowrimo is returning! Who’s up for the April session this year? ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camp-nanowrimo-is-coming/622960/26 "2013-03-08T16:43:24Z")
I think I’m going to wait for the next one this year–my novel (#3 in the series–#2 was the one I finished last year) is limping along one disassociated scene at a time, but the spark of life hasn’t hit it yet so I’m sure I won’t be able to do 50,000 words in a month right now. Good luck to all who participate! ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camp-nanowrimo-is-coming/622960/27 "2013-03-08T17:26:09Z")
I am. I love the new customizable wordgoal feature. I was going to try to do a lot of writing next month anyway and then I found out it was camp nano time. ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camp-nanowrimo-is-coming/622960/28 "2013-03-08T17:28:29Z")
Cool, **Infovore**. Set a reminder for July 2013 for the final Camp this year. I’m hoping I’ll have a good reason not to do camp in the summer; I’ve got applications out to Clarion at UCSD, Clarion West, and the Odyssey SFF workshop, and I’m waiting to hear back on them now. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camp-nanowrimo-is-coming/622960.md?page=1)