Wow, It's A Blog! - Latest Comments in Nano 09 – Nov 8 – 2065 words, 17 342 total

Re: Nano 09 – Nov 8 – 2065 words, 17 342 total

Nikki — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:06:01 -0000

Ummm... I think everyone that I know in nano does creative stuff year around. A lot of theatre/photography/music majors and such. I'm the odd one out with the science degree.

And, I dunno, I don't think I've ever met a boring person before, o.o *shrugs*

Re: Nano 09 – Nov 8 – 2065 words, 17 342 total

monoclelad — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:25:15 -0000

In my experience, when I try to put myself out there in these social
situations is that everyone else pairs off into groups and I end up feeling
unwelcome. Its not necessarily something they are doing intentionally, not
that it helps. Probably because in the five minutes it took you to stop
being strangers with everyone else, I'm still completely shell shocked and
awkward for another half hour or more.

Of course whats even worse then not getting included is when someone goes
out of their way to include me as some elaborate act of charity. Because
then I come of as the jerk, because I'm not able to hide how offended I am
at being labeled as a charity case, by some stupid airhead woman. (and it
is always a stupid air head woman.)

There's also the fact that I find 90+% of everyone I've ever met to have
been incredibly boring, if I'm really honest its probably closer to 99%. I
have no real interest in meeting the kind of people who need a construct
like Nanowrimo to be creative. I'm really only interested in talking to
people who try to be creative the other 11 months in the year. And while
those people may be at the meetings, I have no interest in trying to
separate them from the loons that only do it because they love the event
itself.

Re: Nano 09 – Nov 8 – 2065 words, 17 342 total

Nikki — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:20:02 -0000

Shame. And they're only strangers for, ohhh, five minutes, XD Less than if you're spazzing in excitement on the forums first, XPPP

Re: Nano 09 – Nov 8 – 2065 words, 17 342 total

Nikki — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:18:52 -0000

Dude, your entire fic is a Doctor Who reference!

Re: Nano 09 – Nov 8 – 2065 words, 17 342 total

grlgoddess — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:58:26 -0000

It's all good. I can make up my own Doctor Who references! :)

Re: Nano 09 – Nov 8 – 2065 words, 17 342 total

monoclelad — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:09:54 -0000

I disagree. Going somewhere to go hang out with complete strangers,
sounds like basically my definition of a nightmare. as for irc I never
liked that. after you get more then 3 other people I completely am
unable to keep up with anything.

Re: Nano 09 – Nov 8 – 2065 words, 17 342 total

Nikki — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:59:34 -0000

Awww, but the write ins and the forums and the IRC channels are the best part!

Re: Nano 09 – Nov 8 – 2065 words, 17 342 total

monoclelad — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:56:58 -0000

I'm not looking for perfect perse but the words weren't right at all.
To the point where they were changing the meaning of what I wanted to
say. and it wasn't even so much that they were the wrong words it was
that I had the right words on the tip of my tongue, metaphorically
speaking. Writing any further would have been beyond pointless. It
was making me angry, and I quit.

The only good reason to do it 'RIGHT NOW!' is for the community of
other people doing it, but I actively avoid that community(whatever,
Im anti-social) that is a counter productive reason for me to do it
now. I'll work on it later, and you'll still be there to bug me about
it anyways probably even more then you will now because you won't be
so busy writing and interacting with the nanos. So yeah I got no good
reason to do it atm so I'll go do other stuff because I have good
motivations for that.

Re: Nano 09 – Nov 8 – 2065 words, 17 342 total

Nikki — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:43:44 -0000

Rough drafts aren't supposed to be perfect - yer just supposed to get the ideas out and move on. Making the words the right words is what you do in drafts two and three. Cuz if you spend all of your time trying to get the perfect words, nothing ever is accomplished (see, for example, anything I do).

Re: Nano 09 – Nov 8 – 2065 words, 17 342 total

monoclelad — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:29:27 -0000

I can't do that. I have already trained myself to try and make every
word count for comics, and those five words weren't up to my standards
because i knew they weren't the words I wanted, they weren't even that
close, but I couldn't get the words I wanted out of my brain. That
being the case writing further words was only an exercise in futility
and I quit. I would only end up rewriting it from scratch anyways.

Don't worry I will write this, just not in a month. I'm not capable of
that Nikki. I can barely read a 50k word story in a month.

Re: Nano 09 – Nov 8 – 2065 words, 17 342 total

Nikki — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:56:04 -0000

Darcy has managed to keep up with mine and stay on track with hers!

Dude, you wasted five words! The point of nano is that it doesn't have to be good (hell, it ISN'T) - it just has to exist. Write garbage that makes no sense! That's what most people do.

Re: Nano 09 – Nov 8 – 2065 words, 17 342 total

monoclelad — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:45:50 -0000

gah, I can't even keep up with READING your story. This is why I haven't even done anything with mine.

Well technically I put down 5 words then deleted the document and went to bed frustrated.

Re: Nano 09 – Nov 8 – 2065 words, 17 342 total

Nikki — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:50:34 -0000

I put that in there for you and Morgan, XD I'd put in some Dr Who for you too, but I haven't seen ANYTHING for that show yet T.T

Re: Nano 09 – Nov 8 – 2065 words, 17 342 total

grlgoddess — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:36:11 -0000

IT'S OVER NINE THOUSAND!!

Yeah. This is why I don't always comment.