Anyone else here doing the NaNoWriMo this year?

I'm kinda curious to know if anyone else here is insane enough to subject themselves to this kind of pressure. I did it last year and had a blast, right up until the day after I hit the 50,000 words. My laptop went KABOOM.

This year, I make backups. Every two bloody hours.

So, yes... anyone else here insane?

 

If I have to look up something on Wikipedia or otherwise do research in order to understand a mere thread you've written, then you have failed in your exposition and I cannot conceive that you'd be successful at writing a novel.

Or maybe I'm just an ignorant slut who needs to read more.

Either way, there is failure going on at some level.

 

If you've been on the Internet for more than a year and you've not heard of NaNoWriMo, the fail is not mine, child.

Now shoo, shoo. This thread is for those with brains larger than a walnut. Preferably creative brains, but I'll take what I can get.

 

Are you saying you've logged over 8,760 hours on the internet? Because that may be indicative of a problem.

 

I think you practice too much dark magick, and your aura destroys electrical components.

 

Definately! In vast quantities! Do you take it straight, or the 'tradiational' way?

 

I've seen it mentioned before, checked it out last year, but never figured I'd have an idea big enough to stretch that far. But dammit, it's time to try! I think I've heard somewhere that nothing's as dangerous as a madman with a mission...or something.

 

Hey now! I've been on the internet for over 13 years (*shudders at the memory of dial-up on a 14.4....*) and this is the first I've heard of the thing!

 

You had a 14.4! Shesh! In my early days all I had was a 9600. And it was up hill both ways in the snow. Course I also remember the 1200 at work. type, type, type,go on break and wait for the buffer to clear, rinse, repeat...

 

TELL me about it. We got Broadband because we joined the 'Broadband Experiment' (cute name, Bigpond, real fuckin' cute), but most everyone I know IRL only has dialup. *sigh*

Absinthe? Nooooo, I'm too creative as it is. I don't think I could handle the thought of being even more wired on my own imagination than I already am.

I'm currently trying to track down an Alphasmart 3000. Portable word processing.

Edit: Well, fuck that for a laugh. The Alphasmart is dead and the Neo only allows for 'up to between two and six lines' on it's screen. FUCK THAT. They obviously know very little about writers, especially the kind who can, on a bad day, put out 2,500 words in about three hours.

Yeah, yeah, Xiao's on an ego trip. Well goddammit, I don't have a real cock, so I might as well be endowed somehow.

 

For god's sake, no. The last thing we need is Xiao with a penis. Contrary to just about every adult manga artist or anime series, chicks with dicks=horrible and unimaginative.

 

What Gross said, only with a certain amount of cringing at the mental image of myself with a cock. EW.

 

Butt just think of the new things you could teach Virgil.

 

It’s called fickle.
Rhymes with pickle.
Which could explain the popularity of the cucumber.