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What is NaNoWriMo? | National Novel Writing Month

I know its already the middle of the month, but maybe you could keep it in mind for next year...

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RetroGunslinger

Oh fiiiiiiine... I'll go get my pen...

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Baraka_Guru

Look at it this way: 50,000 words is approximately 200 pages (double-spaced, 12pt font).

So, 15 days would mean you'd need to write about an average of 13 pages per day.

Another way: If you set aside 4 hours per weekday and 8 hours per weekend day, that's 36 hours per week, or 72 hours to write the novel.

You'd need to write about 2 3/4 pages per hour, or, let's say, approximately a page every 20 minutes.

You could do that.

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

RetroGunslinger

That.... actually is a very good way of looking at it.


... I feel like writing a novel every month now.

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Zeraph

I'm already working on a novel

roachboy

we should write a novel here.
this is the novel.

generally, once you're inside a novel, you are introduced to a character who is doing something. the arc of that gesture is an allegory for who that character is, and provides the jump-off point for filling in enough of a past to give what follows a certain weight and/or structure.

for making something fast, i would think exquisite corpse might be a good procedure:

Exquisite Corpse

you could say that what is required is an initial gesture, or you could say that this is the initial gesture, that we are already inside, and that there's no way to go but forward since time is not reversible.

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CinnamonGirl

I've wanted to do this since I heard about it a few years ago, but I either get distracted and forget about the start date, or I completely blank on ideas.

Next year for sure. *nod*

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roachboy

or we could say that the initial gesture is the feeling of already having missed a deadline or the boat on something, that you start at a moment defined by the moment already having passed.

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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear

it make you sick.

-kamau brathwaite

Baraka_Guru

So revisiting the initial gesture isn't going back in time? As you've said, we must go always forward.

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

roachboy

if we're already inside, and cannot get back out again, then we are already writing the novel that we agreed before we could not write. one plot could be a continual revisiting of the initial gesture in the hope that by not repeating it something might happen. this could of course always collapse, maybe in the same way each time, but reading the same collapse, say, 25 times generates effects that are not the same as those generated or not generated by each of the 25 collapses on it's own. so nothing repeats and revisiting is changing it even if that changing has the outward face of repeating. that is what i think about that at 2:58 pm on this blurry monday afternoon. ask me later and i'll tell you something else. but i like loops.

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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear

it make you sick.

-kamau brathwaite

Baraka_Guru

If it collapses, how do we know it's a loop? If we are inside it, that is?

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

roachboy

because something keeps happening that resembles what happened before. whether that's processed as a loop or as life is an aesthetic matter, and the question of whether there's a difference between the two another one.
besides, we're not inside it if we're making it.

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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear

it make you sick.

-kamau brathwaite

Baraka_Guru

Are we speaking, specifically, of motifs?

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

roachboy

we could be if you want it to be thus.
characters inside the novel have power.
you, as a character in this novel, can direct things.
i, as another character in this novel, can as well.
so can all the other characters that may put things up.

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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear

it make you sick.

-kamau brathwaite

Baraka_Guru

But it's already the middle of the month. Should we keep it in mind for next year?

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

roachboy

we could do it if we mobilized the collective...but it'd have to be done like right away. if we have, say, 50 people who are doing things, we might be able to do it. i think we can frame it in interesting ways. if it doesn't work, it doesn't work.

50,000 words is a lot. we need lots of folk to do little things multiple times.

that's my theory.
i'll think about this more when i get home.

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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear

it make you sick.

-kamau brathwaite

Baraka_Guru

This could work.

We must plot....

I will think on this too.

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot