Comments on: Off Topic: NaNoWriMo

By: Tyler F.M. Edwards

Tyler F.M. Edwards — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:17:50 +0000

I’m pretty sure NaNoWriMo would kill me. They’d find my broken corpse splayed over my keyboard on December 1st, a mere 15,000 words into the novel, one finger still vainly twitching over the space bar. I simply cannot write that much in that short a time.

Much respect to those who do manage it, though.

By: Troutwort

Troutwort — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:47:54 +0000

1895 Pittsburgh? I think I had an asthma attack just reading that.

By: ReversionLFG

ReversionLFG — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 12:56:57 +0000

hmmm…..

By: Analogue

Analogue — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 12:46:27 +0000

They don’t match either of our settings – no robot catgirls in steampunk 1895 Pittsburgh – *right Rev?*

By: Gromitdaddy

Gromitdaddy — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 02:41:19 +0000

What? No robot cat girls?

By: Analogue

Analogue — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 22:00:33 +0000

Off my metaphorical butt which is if anything wider and more complacent than my real one.

By: ReversionLFG

ReversionLFG — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:40:51 +0000

ooo… maybe so… Something like ‘Autonomous Robot War Machine Operators Manual’. Every other chapter is from the manual and the alternate chapters are calls to the tech support hotline… hehe muwahahaha!!

drat… now I have to get my muse back on my original plotline.

By: wolfgangcat

wolfgangcat — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:43:58 +0000

Never heard of this but I love writing so I’ll check it out. I’m lousy at fiction and poetry though…

Any way to make a 50,000-word technical manual into a novel?

By: repgrind

repgrind — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:39:07 +0000

I like how you say it gets you off your butt. I’d guess you’re on your butt when you do the actual writing.

By: Analogue

Analogue — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:46:37 +0000

Two nights a week of raiding gives me plenty of time still for NaNo – so good luck to you and give it a whirl. You lose nothing even if you only get five days in and quit.