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Old 11-15-2008, 10:27 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Write a novel

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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Old 11-15-2008, 10:40 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Oh fiiiiiiine... I'll go get my pen...
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Old 11-15-2008, 11:15 PM   #3 (permalink)
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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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Old 11-16-2008, 12:31 AM   #4 (permalink)
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That.... actually is a very good way of looking at it.


... I feel like writing a novel every month now.
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Old 11-17-2008, 10:44 AM   #5 (permalink)
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I'm already working on a novel
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Old 11-17-2008, 10:57 AM   #6 (permalink)
 
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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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Old 11-17-2008, 10:57 AM   #7 (permalink)
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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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Old 11-17-2008, 10:59 AM   #8 (permalink)
 
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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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Old 11-17-2008, 11:46 AM   #9 (permalink)
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So revisiting the initial gesture isn't going back in time? As you've said, we must go always forward.
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Old 11-17-2008, 11:48 AM   #10 (permalink)
 
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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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Old 11-17-2008, 12:02 PM   #11 (permalink)
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If it collapses, how do we know it's a loop? If we are inside it, that is?
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Old 11-17-2008, 12:14 PM   #12 (permalink)
 
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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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Old 11-17-2008, 12:42 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Are we speaking, specifically, of motifs?
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Old 11-17-2008, 12:57 PM   #14 (permalink)
 
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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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Old 11-17-2008, 01:24 PM   #15 (permalink)
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But it's already the middle of the month. Should we keep it in mind for next year?
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Old 11-17-2008, 01:45 PM   #16 (permalink)
 
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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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Old 11-17-2008, 01:52 PM   #17 (permalink)
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This could work.

We must plot....

I will think on this too.
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