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Novel Writing-Age: NaNoWriMo 2013
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Okay let's do this right.
First off, I ended on 50,535 words on the 30th November 2013. I wrote 3 novellas:
* Novella 1 [ Muslimah - The Third Year] ~ 16k
* Novella 2 [The Child Destruction] ~ 15.6k [completed]
* Novella 3 [Animalia - (working title)] ~ 18.8k .
Of the three pieces, I finished one. Extract from THE CHILD DESTRUCTION:
(Ending)
Cheers. And I've been waiting a while to post this gif! Here's what I got for yah this year cool cat:
Well done mate.
And that's it. Congrats everyone. See you next year.
Thank you for your play. Game over.
Oh and one last thing, @Cyan:
First off, I ended on 50,535 words on the 30th November 2013. I wrote 3 novellas:
* Novella 1 [ Muslimah - The Third Year] ~ 16k
* Novella 2 [The Child Destruction] ~ 15.6k [completed]
* Novella 3 [Animalia - (working title)] ~ 18.8k .
Of the three pieces, I finished one. Extract from THE CHILD DESTRUCTION:
(Ending)
Yeeeeeessssss
Happy birthday!
Cheers. And I've been waiting a while to post this gif! Here's what I got for yah this year cool cat:
Well done mate.
And yes I backtracked this last post from this gif.
And that's it. Congrats everyone. See you next year.
Thank you for your play. Game over.
Oh and one last thing, @Cyan:
Congratulations, everyone!
It was a lot of fun, even if I had to stop as soon as I hit 50k due to other commitments. Still got a ways to go, and already looking forward to next year.
And a thousand thanks as always, Cyan!
It was a lot of fun, even if I had to stop as soon as I hit 50k due to other commitments. Still got a ways to go, and already looking forward to next year.
And a thousand thanks as always, Cyan!
lastflowers
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Cyan is the real winner here. Without cyan, there is no way I would have completed this. Thank ye cyan, we are unworthy
SmarterUnconscious
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Congrats to everyone who won and to the rest of you who participated or encouraged us. Big thanks to Cyan for everything you've done for the thread, I'm sure I wasn't the only one looking forward to our congratulations pics. See you next year everyone!
I hope to be around next year with an even better novel!
Amazing NaNo thread this year, too, Cyan! Thanks for hosting and for those glorious victory pics!!!
I had a lot of fun this year : ) I didn't think I was going to do it, and flew into it blind. I still have to finish what I ended up with.... but Im really enjoying what I've got so far : D
Congratulations to all the winners and everyone who participated !
Keep writing : )
I had a lot of fun this year : ) I didn't think I was going to do it, and flew into it blind. I still have to finish what I ended up with.... but Im really enjoying what I've got so far : D
Congratulations to all the winners and everyone who participated !
Keep writing : )
bengraven
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Best NaNo thread so far. 
Thanks for everyone for the feedback and support. I'll see you again next year! Or...more appropriately you'll see me again in GAF in like five minutes, blathering on about Doctor Who or Indie sandbox games or whining about how much my writing sucks!
Thank you to Cyan, not just for the great advice, but a fantastic thread that must have been an incredible duty to keep tabs on! I bow to you!
Thanks for everyone for the feedback and support. I'll see you again next year! Or...more appropriately you'll see me again in GAF in like five minutes, blathering on about Doctor Who or Indie sandbox games or whining about how much my writing sucks!
Thank you to Cyan, not just for the great advice, but a fantastic thread that must have been an incredible duty to keep tabs on! I bow to you!
Same here!
It too was my first entry and my first win, and I've also slowed down drastically since the win. I've only done about 2,000 more words, but I can finish by the end of this week for sure.
Figure my story will end around 60,000 words, but I can see it being around 65,000 by the time I'm done with first revisions as there's plenty of parts that I can write more about. My hope is to get this thing self-published (print and digital) by March or April.
WhereAreMahDragonz
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Congrats to all the winners! 
I lost motivation at around 10k and couldn't get into it, though. I did learn a few things despite this.
1. Outlining is essential.
2. It's hard to come up with something that you'll love enough to stick with until the end. I lost the drive, and didn't want to keep up with it.
3. School sucks.
If I can take anything away from this, it'll be that I discovered my writing tendencies and I've already got a few new ideas kicking around in this noggin of mine.
I'm going to practice my writing and hopefully be motivated enough next year!
I lost motivation at around 10k and couldn't get into it, though. I did learn a few things despite this.
1. Outlining is essential.
2. It's hard to come up with something that you'll love enough to stick with until the end. I lost the drive, and didn't want to keep up with it.
3. School sucks.
If I can take anything away from this, it'll be that I discovered my writing tendencies and I've already got a few new ideas kicking around in this noggin of mine.
I'm going to practice my writing and hopefully be motivated enough next year!
viciouskillersquirrel
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Congratulations to everyone in this thread! I can't believe we got more than fifty winners. It's unfathomable.
I'm currently thinking about using the createspace winner offer to print my novel again. However, I'm not quite sure regarding publication rights.
It would only be my first draft I'd be printing. But it gets a ISBN and all that. Does that prevent me from getting it published later on after revision?
It would only be my first draft I'd be printing. But it gets a ISBN and all that. Does that prevent me from getting it published later on after revision?
Just on the off chance that you're not all sick of writing: the new creative writing challenge just went up. Only 1400 words and you've got a week and a half, should be easy after NaNo, yeah?
Anyway, these threads are a typical hangout for writing GAFers through the year. Feel free to chat a bit about writing in there if you feel like it, even if you aren't planning to write a story for the challenge.
But seriously, write a story for the challenge.
Anyway, these threads are a typical hangout for writing GAFers through the year. Feel free to chat a bit about writing in there if you feel like it, even if you aren't planning to write a story for the challenge.
But seriously, write a story for the challenge.
We can publish our novels now.=O
You can still work on your novel it seems so yeah since it asks for pdf,doc,docx,rtf files.
Great initiative by CreateSpace, especially havingt the offer to at the end of June 2014. Those novels need some polish!
Congrats everyone who finished (and to those who didn't. You'll get it next time). I didn't enter this time around since I was absolutely swarmed with work, but god damn me if I won't enter next year. A novel shall be written!
bengraven
Member
Is there some kind of coupon or something linked to our email and/or Nano?
Yeah you should have one when you go to the winner goodies/prizes, I have one.
toddhunter
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Yeah mine does and I'm polishing it now. But I'm also working hard on the outline for the next novel so that can be close to perfection and be able to write it faster when Nano starts again so I got a lot of work to do either way, lol.
Ooooh, gives me an excuse to keep writing or edit now. Didn't like my 2012 material, this year was a bit more fun.
Not me.
I need to sign up for this :O
I've been taking a little break from writing, well not writing as much. I've been getting a few hundred words done a day. I want to keep up the habit, but I feel I'm slipping back into the too-tired-to-write mode. I suppose I'm just catching up on lots of non-writing stuff that I let slip.
I am banging away at that creative challenge, 1400 words seems like a walk to the shops after NaNo. It would have seemed like a mountain climb before. Perspective is a weird thing.
I am banging away at that creative challenge, 1400 words seems like a walk to the shops after NaNo. It would have seemed like a mountain climb before. Perspective is a weird thing.
bengraven
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I was filling out that Createspace form and hesitated when I reached the "Series" part. I clicked "yes", then named the series.
I realized I have a ton of stories to tell in this alternate Old West and since my character can shift through time and space I can tell Natty Bumpo like "Wild East" stories or Civil War stories and since the title is fairly non-exclusive to my character I can tell stories of his grandfather and parents and great-grandfather.
But I'm thinking: I shouldn't keep writing books in a series if no one is going to publish the first one.
And I guess I'm going to go the Amazon route and self-publish as long as I have to. I don't care - I love this series, I get excited when I sit down to write.
If five people buy a digital copy, that's pretty awesome to me. (and I'm pretty much guaranteed that because I have THAT kind of mom...)
I realized I have a ton of stories to tell in this alternate Old West and since my character can shift through time and space I can tell Natty Bumpo like "Wild East" stories or Civil War stories and since the title is fairly non-exclusive to my character I can tell stories of his grandfather and parents and great-grandfather.
But I'm thinking: I shouldn't keep writing books in a series if no one is going to publish the first one.
And I guess I'm going to go the Amazon route and self-publish as long as I have to. I don't care - I love this series, I get excited when I sit down to write.
If five people buy a digital copy, that's pretty awesome to me. (and I'm pretty much guaranteed that because I have THAT kind of mom...)
toddhunter
Member
I was filling out that Createspace form and hesitated when I reached the "Series" part. I clicked "yes", then named the series.
I realized I have a ton of stories to tell in this alternate Old West and since my character can shift through time and space I can tell Natty Bumpo like "Wild East" stories or Civil War stories and since the title is fairly non-exclusive to my character I can tell stories of his grandfather and parents and great-grandfather.
But I'm thinking: I shouldn't keep writing books in a series if no one is going to publish the first one.
And I guess I'm going to go the Amazon route and self-publish as long as I have to. I don't care - I love this series, I get excited when I sit down to write.
If five people buy a digital copy, that's pretty awesome to me. (and I'm pretty much guaranteed that because I have THAT kind of mom...)
Great stuff. I just used the createspace voucher to order two copies of my nano work. It isn't even a 1/3 of the way finished, but I figured it will be a nice way to sit down and read through it to decide if I want to continue.
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