National Novel Writing Month

1st December, 2007. 11:16 am. TGIO(streetartistnyc)

Congrats to people who have over 50K.
Congrats to people who have under 50K, but tried anyway.
Congrats to

cheloya for a come-from-behind, kick-that-novel-in-the-ass victory.
And congrats for every other version of almost-winning and almost-losing we have here.
…
*falls asleep at the keyboard*

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25th November, 2007. 2:15 am.(the_omelet)

In case anyone wants a ?J-sized image of the winner's icon, check out my journal.

If you'd rather not be spoiled for what it looks like, don't.

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15th November, 2007. 8:00 am. Drum-roll please…(streetartistnyc)

For Week 2:
Cheyinka/

the_omelet would've won, at over 30K, but does not count this year due to repetitive insane writing mojo.
#2 is… me… and i don't give myself prizes. Well, i do, but i call it "wasting my paycheque" and i do it every week anyway.
#3 is Cheloya/

cheloya, at 21 316 words. Yay Cheloya!

I'm not going to bother re-posting the card pictures because they're the same as last year, nothin' new here. E-mail design choice and address to bubblejets@gmail.com and i'll send 'em out.

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9th November, 2007. 8:19 am. Week Two Contest(streetartistnyc)

Okay, it's a little late, but does anybody want to try for a Week 2 word count competition like the last two years?
Basically, whoever has the highest WC, according to their NaNoWriMo profiles, on day 15*, wins a pack of Christmas cards. A little something to a) Encourage y'all to actually write during that most heinous of writerly weeks, Week 2, and b) Give you one less thing to do next month.

Anyway, i have what i believe to be a somewhat incomplete list** of who's here, based on who was here last year. I know it's incomplete because for whatever odd reason,

the_omelet (aka Cheyinka) wasn't on (and if

the_omelet, who actually won last year, wasn't on, then God only knows who else isn't).
Obviously, i can't check your NaNo profiles if i don't have your user-name, so if you're not on the list, leave a comment. Unless you're really embarrassed. Don't worry, i won't tease you too much.

*for clarity: I used to check at midnight, but i have other things going on in the middle of the night now. So it'll probably be about 8 a.m., US EST (GMT -5, if Daylight Savings Time hasn't messed that up too much).
**( from last year's role call )

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1st November, 2007. 10:05 am. YAY NANOWRIMO!(streetartistnyc)

Dang, i have been completely ignoring this community as of late -_-
And now i'm going to be even more completely ignoring, 'cause it's writing time ^_^
Anywho. Be back soon. Go be good little novelists and write stuff.

Oh, and thanks to

the_omelet for shrinking down one of those damned oversized icons.

Also it occurs to me i haven't updated the members list for 2007, and we have newbies, and i don't know any newbie NaNo user names. I like to stalk you on NaNoWriMo.org, newbies. Gimme your usernames. *attempts to glare in an intimidating manner*

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4th October, 2007. 5:15 pm. NaNoWriMo icon, *J sized!(the_omelet)

This year's icons are too big for LiveJournal and DeadJournal, unless you take the tiniest one. Therefore, I offer you:

which I scaled down. I spent all of fifteen minutes on it, so if someone can do a better job, I'll happily take that one instead.

Current mood: artistic.

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2nd October, 2007. 9:14 am. yay!(streetartistnyc)

NaNoWriMo.org is up now… well, it was probably up a while ago, i wasn't obsessively refreshing the page. Sleep and studying and all that jazz.
Time to start planning the novelisation! *happy dances*

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30th September, 2007. 9:42 pm. NaNoWriMo site(the_omelet)

In case anyone had the same idea I did (of starting to refresh the page at midnight US/Eastern), the forums will not be back until Monday evening (US/Pacific, naturally).

Actually, strike that 'until' and replace it with 'any earlier than'¹, given that even if all the updates go through perfectly, it's going to get slammed by people refreshing it madly starting at, oh, noon US/Pacific ;)

This community's pretty small and pretty sane as far as Nanoers go, but I figured I'd make a post anyway :)

¹ _{You'll notice that instead of actually erasing "until" I added extra words to serve the same purpose, and that I am now compulsively footnoting. :D}

Current mood: helpful.

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31st May, 2007. 10:58 pm. Fade in…(streetartistnyc)

Script Frenzy starts soon (or has recently started, depending on your time zone).

Anyone else doing it?

Current mood: restless.

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2nd March, 2007. 12:44 am. Why read books?(streetartistnyc)

The latest Heard On Campus - Aurora Forum podcast from Stanford University covers the topic of why people should read books - worth a listen. They diss on-screen reading a little more than i think is strictly necessary but considering my eyes currently feel like they're about to mutiny against my skull, i should probably listen to them.

If you haven't seen the book/tech support video they talk about in the forum, it can be found here. It's only two and a half minutes long and oh-so-funny, so you have no excuse not to watch. I think it may have been posted somewhere in the NaNo forums this past year.

Current music: Why Read Books - Heard On Campus.

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