# The NaNoWriMo Support Group for Novice Novel Writers with Too Much Time Thread! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 7, 2004, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nanowrimo-support-group-for-novice-novel-writers-with-too-much-time-thread/268081 "2004-10-07T19:41:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 20
**Author:** ![look\_ninjas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@look\_ninjas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/look_ninjas)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nanowrimo-support-group-for-novice-novel-writers-with-too-much-time-thread/268081/381 "2004-12-01T23:49:14Z")
Hooray for everyone! Next up: NaNoEdMo. Who’s with me? ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nanowrimo-support-group-for-novice-novel-writers-with-too-much-time-thread/268081/382 "2004-12-02T00:17:55Z")
> [@look!ninjas](#): > > Hooray for everyone! > > Next up: NaNoEdMo. Who’s with me? Gah. I’m avoiding looking at the thing for a few more days. What I’d love is to read a chapter or two of others’ NaNos, if anyone wants to share. ---
**Author:** ![JimSox5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5a626/32.png) [@JimSox5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimSox5)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nanowrimo-support-group-for-novice-novel-writers-with-too-much-time-thread/268081/383 "2004-12-02T04:06:25Z")
As I have missed this year’s contest, myself and a few friends have made our own thing. We have to write a novel over our Christmas break, which starts December 20 and goes for four weeks after that, whatever that may be. If anybody else would like to take this on, I guess you’re welcome, but there won’t be any tokens of completion or anything like that, just your own personal gratification. ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nanowrimo-support-group-for-novice-novel-writers-with-too-much-time-thread/268081/384 "2004-12-02T15:54:09Z")
> [@look!ninjas](#): > > Hooray for everyone! > > Next up: NaNoEdMo. Who’s with me? Not me. At least not yet. I still have six outlined scenes to go – another 15k at a guess, which I hope to finish off at a more leisurely pace over December. _JANUARY_ will be NaNoEdMo for me. ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nanowrimo-support-group-for-novice-novel-writers-with-too-much-time-thread/268081/385 "2004-12-02T15:57:34Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > Gah. I’m avoiding looking at the thing for a few more days. > What I’d love is to read a chapter or two of others’ NaNos, if anyone wants to share. I’d enjoy this, too, if we could come up with some way to do it w/o having to destroy first publication rights and our anonymity. Hmmm. Maybe a mail list through yahoo or such? Those interested could sign up on the list (under a new disposable mail account if you’re shy about having the people there tie you back to your straight dope id) and then the chapters could simply be pasted into messages to the list. How does that sound? Any interest? ---
**Author:** ![JimSox5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5a626/32.png) [@JimSox5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimSox5)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nanowrimo-support-group-for-novice-novel-writers-with-too-much-time-thread/268081/386 "2004-12-02T17:20:43Z")
I would love to read some chapters of these books. Great idea, **StarvingButStrong**! ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nanowrimo-support-group-for-novice-novel-writers-with-too-much-time-thread/268081/387 "2004-12-02T17:25:11Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > _JANUARY_ will be NaNoEdMo for me. I heard a rumor it was march; but I don’t know if that is official. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nanowrimo-support-group-for-novice-novel-writers-with-too-much-time-thread/268081/388 "2004-12-02T17:58:52Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > How does that sound? Any interest? Sounds neat. ---
**Author:** ![Hoshiko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Hoshiko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoshiko)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nanowrimo-support-group-for-novice-novel-writers-with-too-much-time-thread/268081/389 "2004-12-02T20:41:34Z")
I just discovered that Chris has come up with an agreement with lulu for one free copy of your book for winners, no purchase necessary, shipping included! Details can be found [here.](http://www.lulu.com/static/nanowrimo.php) ---
**Author:** ![JimSox5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5a626/32.png) [@JimSox5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimSox5)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nanowrimo-support-group-for-novice-novel-writers-with-too-much-time-thread/268081/390 "2004-12-02T20:44:15Z")
Ah! Now I definitely wish I would’ve found this out earlier. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Hoshiko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Hoshiko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoshiko)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nanowrimo-support-group-for-novice-novel-writers-with-too-much-time-thread/268081/391 "2004-12-02T20:58:01Z")
> [@JimSox5](#): > > Ah! Now I definitely wish I would’ve found this out earlier. ☹ That’s ok, it’s still really cheap to get a copy with them. My novel should be about 250 pages when done and it’s only about $10 to get a paperback with a full color cover. Not too shabby. ---
**Author:** ![JimSox5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5a626/32.png) [@JimSox5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimSox5)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nanowrimo-support-group-for-novice-novel-writers-with-too-much-time-thread/268081/392 "2004-12-02T21:06:29Z")
$10? That is cheap. Still, it’s $10 I could’ve saved, which is potentially big to a college student. ---
**Author:** ![Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9dc877/32.png) [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nanowrimo-support-group-for-novice-novel-writers-with-too-much-time-thread/268081/393 "2004-12-02T22:28:59Z")
> [@Hoshiko](#): > > I just discovered that Chris has come up with an agreement with lulu for one free copy of your book for winners, no purchase necessary, shipping included! > > Details can be found [here.](http://www.lulu.com/static/nanowrimo.php) That is truly awesome. Is anyone else taking advantage of this? I didn’t think I’d look at my story again, but the prospect of having a hard copy in my hands is irresistible… ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2004, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nanowrimo-support-group-for-novice-novel-writers-with-too-much-time-thread/268081/394 "2004-12-03T00:22:20Z")
I’m trying to figure out a way to bind my own, without buying Word 2003. I’ve put together blank books before (sewn the pages, added backings, end papers, cloth covers, etc.) So this would just be the same thing - except I’ve got to find some way to print it so that page 1 & 16 end up on the same page with 2 & 15 on the opposite side (and so on and so on). And I can’t find anything that will let me do that. Except there’s a rumor that it can be done in Word2003. Which I don’t have. And don’t really need (other than this). ---
**Author:** ![look\_ninjas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@look\_ninjas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/look_ninjas)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2004, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nanowrimo-support-group-for-novice-novel-writers-with-too-much-time-thread/268081/395 "2004-12-03T02:21:41Z")
> [@js\_africanus](#): > > I heard a rumor it was march; but I don’t know if that is official. [Yup](http://www.nanoedmo.org/). I’ll amend my previous statement - Next up, a few months of slacking off, tinkering with other projects, and possibly a third draft of last year’s NaNo. _Then_ NaNoEdMo! Who’s with me? (I know better than to even look at this year’s NaNo so soon after completion. I might go blind with horror.) ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2004, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nanowrimo-support-group-for-novice-novel-writers-with-too-much-time-thread/268081/396 "2004-12-03T20:20:05Z")
> [@Hoshiko](#): > > I just discovered that Chris has come up with an agreement with lulu for one free copy of your book for winners, no purchase necessary, shipping included! > > Details can be found [here.](http://www.lulu.com/static/nanowrimo.php) “US and Canada only” - well, bother. I suppose I’ll just have to get back to finishing mine, then (currently a shade under 70k, and the end is in sight, thank goodness!) ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2004, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nanowrimo-support-group-for-novice-novel-writers-with-too-much-time-thread/268081/397 "2004-12-06T20:17:55Z")
So, what is the cheesy bit that they’ll put on the back of your NaNo novel? Be honest! (Or not…) Here’s mine. > [@](#): > > They call them “travelers” and very few of them survived long enough to escape the forest and those who did almost always lost their minds. Now a traveler has arrived who has not only her sanity, but damascus steel and a .45 pistol to boot. When an off-hand remark is conflated into a boast, she finds herself being led through the forest and over the mountains by a guerilla and a love-struck oræd. If they can make the suicidal journey through the orchard, she still must avoid the Dead Queen’s assassins and extract the Sword from the Rock—and unlike King Arthur, she can’t use magic for the job. Her success may mean an end to an ages-long conflict between rival peoples; her failure may cost her her freedom, her life, and maybe even her soul. > > This exciting new novel by brilliant “upstart” **js\_africanus** paints a world like none you have ever seen and turns your expectations on their heads. > > “It was so good, I almost plotzed!” --Shithead McFee, _Shitty Book Reviews Monthly_ > > “…it…was…fucking…[good]…” --Hunter S. Thompson, _Fraudulent Quotes Reader_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nanowrimo-support-group-for-novice-novel-writers-with-too-much-time-thread/268081.md?page=19)