National Novel Writing Month

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• Script Frenzy RE: What am I doing?

  
  EK's Star Log — Authority: 132
  In responce to: RE: What am I doing?Script writing is pretty easy. FAR easier than novel writing actually, because it is straight up dialog and zero descriptions. Pretty much all you need to do is have two characters talk to each other for a while, have a third character wander in and talk to them. [...]
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• Script Frenzy RE: Dirty tricks

  
  EK's Star Log — Authority: 132
  RE: Dirty tricks@@revallyson http://www.scriptfrenzy.org/user/470121 [quote=revallyson]But I admit, I find myself asking, if youre cheating, why bother playing? Theres no major prize for getting to 100 pages, and I know that I would feel like dirt if I submitted an empty pdf and claimed it was 100 pages.[/quote] ...
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• “Rule #3: The main character can’t be clinically insane.” What the hell? Who thinks up rules for Playwrights? (A Script Frenzy Rant)

  
  EK's Star Log — Authority: 132
  I was reading Marsha Norman’s Tips for Playwrights and was stunned by her #3 choice as a required rule for script writing.Marsha Norman’s Tips for PlaywrightsRule #1: No passive central character;Rule #2: On or about page 8, tell the audience why they are here and what is at stake, or to put it more simply, [...]
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• Our Last Best Chance

  
  green | rising — Authority: 116
  I’m approaching 30,000 words. While I’ve been moving at a much slower pace than I’d like, I’m coming up with a few subplots that will hopefully help my story. Tortoise and the hare, tortoise and the hare.What some people are calling the last best chance for humanity to save itself from climate change starts ...
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• Authors want publishers to buy their manuscripts off Amazon??? What the hell?

  
  EK's Star Log — Authority: 132
  I was just reading the blog post: How not to sell your book on Robert J. Sawyer’s Blog, in which he tells of an author who sent him this request:A few years ago I sent you an email to see if you were interested in publishing my first novel. You were interested but I did [...]
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• Nano: Writing a Full-size Novel in a Month

  
  Making Moments — Authority: 104
  On November 1, Jenni I were about to get ready for bed when she mentioned to me that she had a friend who was going to write a novel in a month. When I asked why he was doing it, she told me about National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, and how it was a group that challenged people to write a 50,000 word novel in ...
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• NaNoWriMo RE: Self Publishing? Good or Evil?

  
  EK's Star Log — Authority: 132
  RE: Self Publishing? Good or Evil? Satoru ReidSelf Publishing? Good or Evil?0 / 50,000Official ParticipantJoined: Nov 30, 2009Location: CanadaPosts: 4Posted on:Dec 2, 2009 – 00 00Hey everyone, Who here has tried self-publishing? If you have tried it tell me what you think about it because I hear self-publishing is ...
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• NaNoWriMo RE: RE: Planning on doing Script Frenzy but I’ve never done it. Shar

  
  EK's Star Log — Authority: 132
  RE: Planning on doing Script Frenzy but I’ve never done it. Shar [quote=Writing4Life]Hey I’m planning on doing Script Frenzy coming up in April I believe but I’ve never wrote a script in my life or even attempted to. Any tips or anything. Also any stories about good and bad Script Frenzy’s? I’d just like to ...
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• NaNoWriMo RE: Whos going back to their 08 Nano?

  
  EK's Writing Blog — Authority: 133
  RE: Whos going back to their 08 Nano? phantom000 Whos going back to their 08 Nano? 53,343 / 50,000 Official Participant Joined: Oct 18, 2008 Location: Arkansas Posts: 101 Posted on: Dec 4, 2009 - 12 02 Well i am thoroughly burnt out on the story i did for NanoWrimo this year ...
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• NaNoWriMo RE: Who’s going back to their ‘08 Nano?

  
  EK's Star Log — Authority: 132
  RE: Who’s going back to their ‘08 Nano?phantom000Who’s going back to their ‘08 Nano?53,343 / 50,000Official ParticipantJoined: Oct 18, 2008Location: ArkansasPosts: 101Posted on:Dec 4, 2009 – 12 02Well i am thoroughly burnt out on the story i did for NanoWrimo this year and there are just too many holes to ...
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• Updates and Formspring

  
  Into the Rush — Authority: 104
  Well, I drove my parents out to the air port yesterday. Im incredibly lonely. (And my house makes strange noises that it should NOT make when no one is upstairs walking around. Creepy.) But Ive gotten a lot done. Im getting my book printed in paperback. It was one of the prizes for winning NaNoWriMo. Most of the ...
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• 12-3-09 Ritterschlag

  
  One Neat Thing a Day — Authority: 116
  I HAVE RETURNED! I have swum through endless oceans of time and space, past the universe, past reason, PAST SANITY! in search of wisdom! knowledge! good schools! reasonable access to public transportation! AND WISDOM! I have sat with elders of a gentle race this world has seldom seen and talked of days for which they ...
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• Screnzy RE: How much stage direction is reasonable?

  
  EK's Star Log — Authority: 132
  How much stage direction is reasonable?Hey guys!How much stage direction do you think is reasonable? I’m just trying to figure out what would be too much…Thanks!I’d say it depends on the play write’s personal style as well as the style of the play in question. I think of stage direction in a play, like the ...
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• A healthy dose of NaNo failure

  
  write meg! — Authority: 123
  So, friends, I didn’t make it this year. Compiling 50,000 words into some semblance of a novel for National Novel Writing Month just really exceeded my abilities — especially since I spent most of the month making scarves ; gallavanting about with friends; stuffing hams (yes — hams ); eating way too much ...
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• In like a ferret

  
  Saturday Scribes — Authority: 109
  Best NaNoWriMo analogy so far, courtesy of Chris Baty: “For some background on all the 2008 records that we are currently demolishing like a ferret in a Lego museum …”
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• NaNoWriMo: Mission Accomplished

  
  Amy Letinsky — Authority: 111
  If you’ve been reading my Tweets, you’ve probably already seen that I crossed the finish line in the National Novel Writing Month .  I took advantage of Thanksgiving Break and even managed to wrap it up a couple days early.  If I’m using a 5”x8” page spread, I came out with 199 pages worth of a novel, and ...
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• National Novel Writing Month 2009 is now over...

  
  The Knight Shift — Authority: 140
  ...so, did I finish mine?Unfortunately, I have to report that I did not.It was back in late July that I first mentioned that I was taking part in this years National Novel Writing Month. About how each participant had to churn out a 175-page novel between November 1st and the night of November 30th. When all was ...
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• I Finished My Novel!

  
  I Heard Tell — Authority: 113
  I did it! 50,000 words in 30 days! And actually, it was more like 18 days, because I really didn’t start writing until the 12th! Yay! NaNoWriMo!! I want a t-shirt. Too bad all the sizes are sold out. Make more shirts, NaNoWriMo! Man, writing is the best. I’m so glad I did this. It’s really made me ...
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• Final NaNoWriMo Update

  
  The Book Connection... — Authority: 131
  Today I planned to write some to at least reach 10K for NaNoWriMo, but it doesnt look likely. I worked on virtual book tours most of the day and caught up on some reviews at my kids book blog. While I am slightly disappointed I didnt even make it halfway, I am pleased that I have been writing every free moment I ...
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• Twenty Four Thousand Pounds

  
  green | rising — Authority: 116
  National Novel Writing Month ends at midnight tonight and I’m at 26,392 words. If you recall, the goal is 50,000. Odds are that someone has written 24,000 words in one day but I can guarantee you that feat will not be reproduced by me. Alas, I have failed. But, the journey will continue. While I [...]
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