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.
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.
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.
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?
I would love to read some chapters of these books. Great idea, StarvingButStrong!
I heard a rumor it was march; but I don’t know if that is official.
Sounds neat.
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.
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.
$10? That is cheap. Still, it’s $10 I could’ve saved, which is potentially big to a college student.
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…
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).
Yup.
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.)
“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!)
So, what is the cheesy bit that they’ll put on the back of your NaNo novel? Be honest! (Or not…) Here’s mine.