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So I just did a challenge over at the NaNo community, and now I like the idea started with the challenge. But there's two problems: 1) what the hell do I do with my "I'm going to rewrite Macbeth" idea I've been telling EVERYONE about (which I still like, btw..), and 2) I can't include any prose previously written in my NaNo - and that little bit would be a great starting point to my novel! Here's what I put: She found a diamond bracelet in the back of the car. Which was funny, because she could have sworn she'd pawned the bracelet just that morning. She even had the receipt in her purse - didn't she?
Sarah checked. Yep. Receipt in purse.
But there was the bracelet, sitting in the back seat. The same. Damn. Bracelet. No matter how she tried to get rid of it, it always turned back up. The first few times could be forgiven - I mean, dogs really do like to fetch things you throw, and toilets back up all the time,right? But showing up in the back of your car after you pawn it? That's not normal.
Sarah sighed. "I guess that damn vampire will be able to find me, after all." She thumped her head against the steering wheel. Why oh why did she have to find the one vampire in all of San Jose who was a magic-worker in life?eta: Oy! Now it won't leave me alone! GOR! Why do I have all these ideas for NaNo, and only one November a year? I think I'll just wait until next Wednesday night/Thursday morning to decide what to start writing. Tags: nanowrimo
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Numbers taken from http://www.nanowrimo.org and the percentages were calculated by yours truly: How many novels have been written through NaNoWriMo? - percentage of participants who won 1999: 21 participants and six winners - 28.57% won 2000: 140 participants and 29 winners - 20.71% won 2001: 5,000 particpants and more than 700 winners - 14% won 2002: 13,500 participants and around 2,100 winners - 15.55% won 2003: 25,500 participants and about 3,500 winners - 14% won 2004: 42,000 participants and just shy of 6,000 winners - 14.28% won 2005: 59,000 participants and 9,769 winners - 16.55% won 2006: 80,546 participants and 12,961 winners - 16.09% won On average, 17.46% of NaNo participants win (i.e., reach and/or pass the 50,000 word mark). LET'S MAKE IT BETTER THAN 17.46% THIS YEAR! Join me in writing a novel this November - check it out at http://www.nanowrimo.orgNothing ventured, nothing gained. You might just gain a novel! Tags: nanowrimo
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Hokay. I'm going to give you my planned NaNo. I need a title. Help, all ye writers! Main characters: a poly trio, mmf. They work at their local RenFaire, which is year-round (crazy people, I know: I work my local faire which is weekends for 6 weeks, and it's exhausting as it is). Something important goes missing (possibly the Queen's crown), which gets incorporated into the storyline of the Faire itself. SPOILER: in the end, it turns out that the Queen did it, in cahoots with the management, in order to increase publicity for the faire and boost profits. I'm hoping there will be sex, as I want to improve my sex-writing skills. Maybe, if it's bad enough (*snerk*) I can get a romance publishing house interested? ;) Also, if it helps: I'm thinking I'm going to write it first-person, from the POV of the "f" third of the "mmf" (who, I think, will be named Brianna). Tags: nanowrimo
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Oh, my God. It's October already. Which means that NaNo is just around the corner! Look out for this icon until then, for anything regarding NaNo. Then, during November: watch out for revolving NaNo icons! I intend to do better than last year! (Which means I want no less than 20,000 words this year; last year I made either 13,000 or 15,000, I can't remember.) ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) mortaine, are you the Santa Cruz area leader again this year?ETA: I actually made 17,552 last year. Roughly a third of 50,000. Mayhap this year I can make 2/3? *grin* Tags: nanowrimo
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Name: Ankhet
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'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
'Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!'
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought--
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
'And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
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Previous 
sick
optimistic
exhausted
accomplished