10 Increasingly Pointless NaNoWriMo Helpers
November 14, 2007 by John Hewitt
My NaNoWriMo word count is at about 18,000. Let me know where you’re at and feel free to offer more helpers.
- Red Bull single shot dispenser
- Feeding Tube
- He Said / She Said macros
- Toolbar set to display Tony Robbins quotes
- Random character name generator… Tiberius Mellon???
- Stephen King tied to a bed for inspiration
- iPod set with Paperback Writer, Eye of the Tiger and Alec Baldwin’s speech in Glengarry Glen Ross
- Farming out narration to virtual assistant in India
- Wheel-O-Plot-Twists
- Five-year-old child on standby to point out things that could never happen in real life
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- An Analysis of Indian Killer, To Kill a Mockingbird and Daisy Miller (0.500)
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“Ha Ha Ha Ha”
That really brightened up my day!
The 10 increasingly pointless… were just what I needed.
In the 2 years I’ve been doing Nanowrimo, I’ve not taken it with a grain of salt or had any real fun. I stressed out trying to get to 50k, but not this year. This year I visited the forums, read the remarks, and now have only 1200 words. And this was the most fun I’ve had with Nanowrimo.
I’m really enjoying Nanowrimo this year.
24,783 — If you don’t know where its headed, keep on typing, type out your questions, let your characters do the thinking, what ifs, whys, then answer them, don’t take yourself so seriously, have fun, when you get to know your characters let them play off one another, it’s all about reaction, reacting to, see where your subconscious will lead you
Excellent count, Connie! My main obstacle during the week is work. I usually put in 10 to 12 hour days Monday through Thursday so that I can have three days off. Because of Thanksgiving and strategic days off, I’ll have seven out of nine days off starting Friday. That should give me the time I need to get close to the 50,000.
22,092 I’m trying to build up enough words so that I won’t feel guilty taking T-day off. I have seriously considered those he said/she said macros, by the way. And why does the phone ring everytime I finally sit down to write?
Congratulations to you all for even having a go, let alone notching up those thousands of words!
Ahh yes I am doing the lovely, insane NaNoWriMo. Hmmm. My username thingy is minfire. I’ve got a good word count (30k or so), but am very dismayed to realize that it’s still about an eigth of my story overall. I will be writing for a long time. I’m dismayed because my parents are really going to get annoyed with me, I’m addicted to novel-writing now. Ah well. It’s my fault I guess for having 4 viewpoints. (so far) and going into detail, even if it is bad detail.
Anybody broken that 4th wall yet? I did, once, when I was ready to kill off one of my characters for disrupting my plot. We worked it out though
it’s going great, not easy, but I’m getting there, I’m at 28,711 — get this guys, I’m writing chapter 12, and it’s called the number 13, and all kinds of things around the no. 13 started appearing, so then I decided to skip chapter 13, just not even have one in the book, like the floors in a hotel if you get my drift, (superstitious meself) so I go on to Chapter 14 and its called divination, and one of my characters is throwing the tarot cards, so I think to myself, I’ll just throw the cards myself for him to see how it comes out, well, the card that that came up as the foundation of the character’s reading hahahaha, it was the 13th card of the major arcana — shades of Stephen King –
Ha ha ha!
Connie! Way to go on the count! Sometimes the Cosmos just pulls us along kicking and screaming. You, however, seem to be enjoying the ride. Keep up the great work. My main character reads auras. She’s also a witch that can see magic’s residue, so to speak.
I need to get some tarot cards, I think.
(Barely 28K on this end, btw.)
30,074 words — hey, they’re taking me on a camping trip, man alive, these guys know how to have a good time when they’re working they think we need to get away and get a better perspective on the situation,build a big bonfire, read the stars, etc. the next chapter is “To Catch a Thief.”
We finished the play this afternoon. What a run, the house was full and half of them had come back to see it a second time. Playing Goldie Hawn was the honor of a lifetime. She gave me a glimpse of life I had never had before — Sock it to me!!!!
28K is great John, and I bet you’ve got bunch more today. Ah . . magic’s residue . . . hmmm, and . . . . ????
Cards are fun — try the Rider Waite deck for starters . . . . unless someone has a better suggestion, just keep it simple, and don’t take yourself too seriously . . . we’re here to enjoy life.
Have fun ! ! ! ! !
Thanks, Connie! I’ll look for them. 35,158!