I will be insane during the month of November.

[Lorizael]

I made a thread about this two years ago, and I'm doing it again. November is NaNoWriMo - National Novel Writing Month - where participants are tasked with excreting 50,000 words organized in an original fashion and dressed up as narrative, plot, and dialogue.

This year I'm doing a first contact story between 22nd century Earth and an alien entity/construct that pops into existence outside the solar system. My characters include an astrophysicist educated in a virtual environment populated by AIs, an exobiologist born in space and searching for life on Europa, and a genetically engineered sexless Chinese clone fomenting a rebellion on Ceres.

Anyone else participating?

[MikeH]

I was going to do this.

I am away for a long weekend, am insanely busy at work, have tons of other stuff going on and generally can't imagine where I'll get any time to write.

Should be fun.

[MikeH]

Haven't thought about plot, characters or any of that stuff yet.

[Lorizael]

Well, I'm sure if you spent less time moderating here and more time in front of the old typewriter, you'd be fine.

[MOBIUS]

As discussed with Funko on CG, I shall be participating in my usual half-arsed way in projects like this. Hopefully it will represent some sort of kick start to my own ideas, seeing that a friend of mine has recently got published, not to mention Galnemer, is an inspiration. Though most likely this will only be a personal project...

Good luck!

[MikeH]

I am working on the basis that I can comfortably type at 50+ wpm, and I can think faster than I can type, 1500 words a day should take half an hour. Right?

[-Jrabbit]

I am working on the basis that I can comfortably type at 50+ wpm, and I can think faster than I can type, 1500 words should take half an hour. Right?

I see you're a theory guy. In practice, those are pretty high expectations.

I won't be participating; I prefer to get paid for my writing. Plus, I was long ago drained of original thoughts.

[MikeH]

Yeah, obviously I was joking.

I'd prefer to get paid for writing too. But I enjoy doing it and very rarely make time to do any, so hopefully this will be fun but also good motivation to get back into it. Which is what I think it's really for.

If you are writing regularly anyway and getting paid, why would you bother?

[Al B. Sure!]

What the?

[Elok]

Good luck to everyone who tries it!

[MikeH]

What the?

http://www.nanowrimo.org/

[Lorizael]

I prefer to get paid for my writing.

Wouldn't we all? If only it were a simple matter of preference.

[ColdWizard]

I will probably just forget to try this again.

[C0ckney]

if work doesn't pick up next month, i might actually give this a go.

maybe write something about a young surgeon on the run in south america...

[ColdWizard]

if work doesn't pick up next month, i might actually give this a go.

maybe write something about a young surgeon on the run in south america...

That gets groped by muggers and police alike