NaNoWriMo 2006

[aclubs]

First sentence! “It was 11:35 at night, and Peter couldn’t fall asleep.”

This was such a stupid/awesome idea.

[js_africanus]

@aclubs

This was such a stupid/awesome idea.

Go for “awsomely stupid” and wait for the art to actually happen around Thanksgiving. Either way, I’m glad you’re in. You rock!

Everybody in this thread rocks! Succeed or not, we’re all doing something super cool, so thanks for posting and joining!! (Even if you were going to join anyway, it’s still cool. )

[Surok]

@Dr. Rieux

Don’t forget the pirates!

Oh my.

Pirates too.

Good thing I didn’t start last night - the pirates might have got squeezed out.

I’m about to settle down to a bit of awesome stupidity now (the guilt monkeys started early, and are already on at me because I didn’t take advantage of my superior time zone…)

[tagos]

@DeadlyAccurate

Just remember, you can never go wrong with evil robots or ninjas.

Or Nazi’s and UFO’s. 1000 words of my ‘let’s pretend a whole lot of crap is true and make out like a bandit/Dan Brown’ UFO/Nazi/Catholic Church conspiracy thriller is in the bag.

[Paul_in_Qatar]

Here are my opening lines:

The room was far too warm in the Washington summer. But the tall windows had been closed to prevent eavesdroppers; inside it was stifling. Charles Lindbergh stood near a window, his white linen suit rumpled by the humidity, holding a digital watch, watching as the seconds rushed by.

“No noise at all.” He reported as he held the artifact to his ear.

“No moving parts,” General Marshall replied, “we took it apart and couldn’t make heads nor tails of it.” His soft voice carried authority. “It was made in Japan, by the way.”

[Kamino_Neko]

Not my opening section, but the one I’m using for the exerpt on the NaNo site:

It was a sunny afternoon, and Kirby Plaza was packed. People streamed into and out of the stores that dotted the periphery, or stopped to admire the sculptures peppering the plaza itself, or listen to the singer who was currently dancing on the stage in the center of the plaza, her energy spreading to the crowd, many of whom danced along with her.

It was a perfect moment, but perfect moments cannot last, and this one was broken by a thunder-clap from above, as a strange craft materialised in the sky above the plaza, and began to plummet into the center of the plaza. People scattered, clearing the area where the craft was going to land just before it hit and shattered the paving stones.

[Jayn_Newell]

I’m scared to start…the power has been off twice already this morning and I’d hate to lose what I’ve typed already. I’ll get to it this afternoon, sometime.

I’m not sure if it helps or hinders me in that my word processor doesn’t have a word counter…

[Draelin]

I was a good girl and didn’t stay up past midnight to start writing. Hell, I only stayed up till 11 or so, laying out my plot notecards and tweaking here and there, and I’m still exhausted. Dunkin’ Donuts neglected to put cream in my coffee, but somebody higher up the food chain than I am snuck into the Executive Kitchen and scored me some cream.

Then I got all ready to work, and discovered our terminal system is down. Guess what that means? That’s right … I can’t work. Whatever will I do with myself?

[KSO]

I’ve done nothing. Still haven’t figured out my characters. No plot, no notecards, nothing.

Can’t wait to start tonight…

[ArrMatey]

1664 words this morning, after waking from a nightmare. Everything this year is outlined for the story, although I’ll admit part of the outline entries are just chapter titles that I thought sounded cool, and have no idea what will actually go into them yet.

[Paul_in_Qatar]

@Tengu

Not my opening section, but the one I’m using for the exerpt on the NaNo site:

Where can I post a few lines. Give me a link, no time for browsing, I got a book to write!

[Kamino_Neko]

@Paul in Saudi

Where can I post a few lines. Give me a link, no time for browsing, I got a book to write!

http://www.nanowrimo.org/modules/wordcount/ Same place you go to update your wordcount.

[look_ninjas]

My first paragraph, which I rather like:

The first thing that must be said about the Coin-Operated Boy is that he was not, in fact, coin-operated. Nor were any of his kind. They ran as any other clockwork mechanism must do, a carefully planned meshing of gears and springs and India-rubber belts, activated with the turning of a key, which could be inserted into a small keyhole at the very base of his neck, and then hidden by his collar. In fact, it appears that “Coin-Operated Boy” was a slang term used to describe a male prostitute, as they would turn themselves on when given money. Although the clockwork simulacrum could be used for a number of things, from menial household chores to lifesaving operations to work that is too dangerous for we humans to attempt, at the time, it was primarily thought of as a sort of enormously complicated dildoe, a plaything of bored noblewomen with rapacious sexual appetites. Indeed, one must wonder if such perceptions have changed at all.

Granted, there are at least two tremendous run-on sentence in there, but… that’s what EdMo is for.

[Malacandra]

Okay, I’m out of the blocks with 1980 words. Fear my mad hack-writer skills! Nothing to say about it yet except (a) it owes its inspiration to a Dope discussion and (b) I think I can probably find another twenty words today. Registered under the same name over at NaNo.

[Draelin]

The system came back up, so no writing for me. I can knock out a couple thousand words before Lost tonight, but I’ll probably have some time this afternoon.

[Surok]

@look!ninjas

Granted, there are at least two tremendous run-on sentence in there, but… that’s what EdMo is for.

Yay for EdMo! And look!ninjas, I adore the name Coin-Operated Boy.

[Paul_in_Qatar]

Fine, my day’s work is posted. Here.

[elfkin477]

look!ninjas, suddenly the song “Coin Operated Boy” by The Dresden Dolls makes a lot more sense.

I still have 600 words to write for the day before I upload, but I’ve posted my exerpt here. (is the flash version working for anyone?)

[Kamino_Neko]

@elfkin477

I still have 600 words to write for the day before I upload, but I’ve posted my exerpt here. (is the flash version working for anyone?)

Just fine, last time I checked.

I hit 1800, which is way better than I managed last year. Just hope I can keep this pace up.

[N9IWP]

I’m currently unemployed so I figured maybe I could try it.
So I started writing. After an hour I have 329 words. 50,000 words / 29 days (probably not going to write on Thanksgiving) = 1700 and change per day. At my current rate that is approx 5 hours a day. Which is a stretch even I stay unemployed.

Unless I get majpr inspiration I think I will pass.

But best of luck to all participants!

Brian