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National Novel Writing Month
Topic Started: Thu 18 Oct 2012 18:00:23 (511 Views)
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Hello my fellow rats!

The time has come for my annual post about writing novels. Of 50,000 words. In a month. That's 1,667 words per day. No big deal. Right?

Right! Especially when you get to do it with awesome who cheer you on just as much as you cheer them on! Yes, my ratty friends, I am referring to National Novel Writing Month, which, despite its title, is actually an international event run by the California-based non-profit group The Office of Letters and Light, which also runs prgrams to encourage literacy and education.

National Novel Writing Month is the Office's biggest event, drawing hundreds of thousands of writers together to celebrate the arts of writing, procrastination, panic, coffee-consumption, and keyboard-bashing. The rules are simple: anyone can join, make a profile, write a novel from scratch of at least 50,000 words starting at midnight on November first, and ending at midnight on December first. That's about 175 pages. 1,667 words per day. It's not that hard at all, and it is a super fun and rewarding experience.

This will be my fourth year doing it (and my second working as a volunteer for the event), and it's really fun and everyone should do it! Just sign up on the website here, add me as a writing buddy (I'm Morkskittar there), read url=http://nanowrimo.org/en/welcome]this[/url], and get planning! Make sure to sign up for the right region so you can meet up in person with other people to write, and also check in here to check up on the progress of fellow UErs! If you have any questions, I'd be more than happy to help. :)

So what're waiting for? Sign up now!

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I was just thinking about this the other day and that it was about time to post it up :P

You should all do it :lol:

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You should all do it :lol:
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NaNoWriMo seems to be conveniently placed during my end of semester exams :ermm: That being said I do plan to try and take part between my failed attempts at study and preparation.
 
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For all you budding writers, check out I Write Like. You stick in a copy of your writing and it compares you to various authors and tells you which famous author your writing style is similar to. Also, it doesn't seem to be randomised although some texts do pop up with different authors if its unsure.

Pretty cool stuff ^_^
(for various tournament write-ups I've done in the past it's come out with: James Joyce, Steven King, J.K.Rowling and Chuck Palahniuk)


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Oh god...

According to this i write the same way as an Irish dude who's been dead for nearly 300 years. I think i may need to take more up-to-date English classes without an Irish teacher... :P

Jonathan Swift - Whoever that is.

Edit: Apparently he was on the Irish £10 note from 1976–1993. Woot maybe? *shrugs*
Edited by Silvermane, Sat 03 Nov 2012 20:03:56.
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David Foster Wallace


A suicidal novelist really into his humorous realism.

Woot?
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Rudyard Kipling apparently...


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Sucks to be you guys. I got Dan Brown. :P
 
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ugh, me too.
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I submitted two different pieces of fluff from Sikatriks' story line. Apparently, despite lengthy titles and family history's, they think I write like J.R.R. Tolkein. Maybe I ought to publish something! :lol:

Out of curiosity, I typed in a fairly typical entry that I would use in my work as a physiotherapist! All jargon and abbreviations, a serious lack of prepositions and proper nouns and accurate sense of time. That part of my writing is like David Foster Wallace. An american novelist that was born in... the city I now live! WEIRD!!! :o
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Also had Arthur Clark and Harry Harrison when i put in different fluff pieces. Three different authors with three different pieces. How does it analyse the writing? I generally think that my writing style was fairly consistent one piece to the next.


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You'd think that, but I've gotten 6 or 7 different authors from various things I've written.
 
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