Final update:
After last year's quiet failure of a GAF NaNo group, the second round produced no less than five winners! Way to go GAF!
The results:
To everyone who participated:
OP preserved for posterity:
GAFers! Have you dreamed of writing a novel some day, but just never gotten around to it? Do you hate having free time? Then NaNoWriMo may be right for you.
http://www.nanowrimo.org (the site istaking a beating right now totally fast because everyone has quit!)
We have just under a week until the start of November--enough time to decide you're going to do it, and come up with a few ideas for your novel.
November is here and NaNoWriMo is underway. But it's not too late to join, you'll just have to write faster! Brilliant literary masterpiece? Stupid anime fanfic? It doesn't matter--just write something!
We had 14 GAF participants last year, but I don't think anyone finished (I reached 12,500, a quarter of the way there, but hit a wall). This year, let's get this thing done! I will keep this post updated with participants and their word counts.
Leaderboard:
(people in red have completed NaNoWriMo previously)
Useful tools:
Stuck on plot? Try adopt-a-plot or even adopt-an-opening-line.
No Plot? No Problem!, a book by the founder of the site, intended for NaNoWriMo participants. (GAF referral included in link)
NaNoNoob Advice Thread
A number of alternative word processing programs are discussed later in the thread.
For the excited: A few NaNo benchmark desktops.
(if anyone else finds some good stuff, post it and I'll add it here)
FAQ:
The internets are broken?
If you can't access the site, your internets may be down. You'll probably have to hack all IPs simultaneously. The site is working now, since everyone has dropped out. Everyone except you and me, because we're totally awesome.
How do I wrote 50k words?
One at a time. Seriously though, if you can keep up with the benchmark (1,667 a day) you're golden. If you can't, no problem, just set aside a weekend day to play catchup.
How do I updated word count?
My original plan to buddy-list everyone and use the main site's word count feature won't work, since you can't add buddies at the moment (why they disabled that feature is beyond me). For now, if you want it updated, enter your final word count for the day in this thread. I'll update the leaderboard in the post daily (as of midnight PST).
After last year's quiet failure of a GAF NaNo group, the second round produced no less than five winners! Way to go GAF!
The results:
To everyone who participated:
OP preserved for posterity:
GAFers! Have you dreamed of writing a novel some day, but just never gotten around to it? Do you hate having free time? Then NaNoWriMo may be right for you.
http://www.nanowrimo.org (the site is
A whole novel in a month? Yes it's insane, but that's the point. Write like hell, shut down your internal editor (that can come later), and just get it done.NaNoWriMo.org said:
NaNoWriMo.org said:
November is here and NaNoWriMo is underway. But it's not too late to join, you'll just have to write faster! Brilliant literary masterpiece? Stupid anime fanfic? It doesn't matter--just write something!
We had 14 GAF participants last year, but I don't think anyone finished (I reached 12,500, a quarter of the way there, but hit a wall). This year, let's get this thing done! I will keep this post updated with participants and their word counts.
Leaderboard:
(people in red have completed NaNoWriMo previously)
Useful tools:
Stuck on plot? Try adopt-a-plot or even adopt-an-opening-line.
No Plot? No Problem!, a book by the founder of the site, intended for NaNoWriMo participants. (GAF referral included in link)
NaNoNoob Advice Thread
A number of alternative word processing programs are discussed later in the thread.
For the excited: A few NaNo benchmark desktops.
(if anyone else finds some good stuff, post it and I'll add it here)
FAQ:
The internets are broken?
If you can't access the site, your internets may be down. You'll probably have to hack all IPs simultaneously. The site is working now, since everyone has dropped out. Everyone except you and me, because we're totally awesome.
How do I wrote 50k words?
One at a time. Seriously though, if you can keep up with the benchmark (1,667 a day) you're golden. If you can't, no problem, just set aside a weekend day to play catchup.
How do I updated word count?
My original plan to buddy-list everyone and use the main site's word count feature won't work, since you can't add buddies at the moment (why they disabled that feature is beyond me). For now, if you want it updated, enter your final word count for the day in this thread. I'll update the leaderboard in the post daily (as of midnight PST).
