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Sofie 'Melle' Werkers ([info]bubosquared) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2007-10-31 12:36:00
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Current mood:Candy-Coated
Entry tags:nanowrimo

Ladies and gentlemen, I bring you ... the first NaNoWriMo wank of the year!

If you've been to the boards since October, you'll know they've been slow, and that the search function has had to be disabled on and off several times to deal with the load. if you've been around for previous Octobers, you know this is pretty much par for the course whenever that year's boards go up and registration opens -- the site gets flooded, things slow down, the NaNo techies whack things with sticks until things settle down to normality somewhere in the first week of November, usually.

This year, however, this is all causing a smattering of wankery:

"I'm taking my toys and going home!"
"Me too!"
"Me three!"

Small, but tasty. Like aa petit four, in a way.

me, i just wish my t-shirt, mug and merit badges would get here already. woe.


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pastri_archy
2007-10-31 02:32 pm UTC (link)
T-minus 15 hours! My ideas are finally congealing into something writable.

Wow, NaNo wank. I've never seen the kind.

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[info]yattara
2007-10-31 04:00 pm UTC (link)
I did see someone get huffy because people weren't agreeing with her opinion about NaNo's goal. Nothing too wanky, though.

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pastri_archy
2007-10-31 04:38 pm UTC (link)
I saw some huffy/stupid/pretentious posts last year but they usually got frozen before they blew up enough for here. The Forums are mostly comprised of cool heads.

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[info]yattara
2007-10-31 04:45 pm UTC (link)
That's why I love the place. I find it motivational.

*counts down the hours.*

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pastri_archy
2007-10-31 06:21 pm UTC (link)
*hugs forums*

How long it is for you? I'm down to 11 hours...which means I've spent about 2-3 hours too long in my campus bookstore's cafe. Heh.

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[info]bubosquared
2007-10-31 06:44 pm UTC (link)
I have six hours and twenty minutes to clean at least my writing corner and come up with a way to start this damn thing.

... halp?

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pastri_archy
2007-10-31 07:16 pm UTC (link)
I have a test in about 15 minutes that I haven't studied much for. Then, I have to do a massive outline for my speech. Sleep, eating and other homework(math test tomorrow!!) must be squeezed in between those 11 hours too.

I think we both need help...

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pastri_archy
2007-10-31 07:16 pm UTC (link)
Now 10 hours...

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[info]kaesa
2007-10-31 05:41 pm UTC (link)
I've seen injured "Just because you wrote a NaNo novel doesn't mean you're a writer!" wank from pro writers (think "fanfiction isn't real writing, because you don't make money off it!" only stupider) and I've heard of people who choose to use the pressure of NaNo to add 50,000 words to a novel they've already started, and others being upset with them about that.

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pastri_archy
2007-10-31 06:28 pm UTC (link)
That's par for the course, I thought. Some snippiness as the anticipation wells up and then everyone's too absorbed with their plot or with misery over their plot to argue much.

Maybe I've been hanging around here for too long. Wanks over here tend to dwarf everything else.

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[info]bubosquared
2007-10-31 06:44 pm UTC (link)
And then there's the ones who manage the trifecta, because people using the peer pressure of NaNo to write 50,000 words in fanfic (either a long fan novel or several shorter stories) is wrong, dammit!

Ah, the Annual Fanfic Wank on the NaNo boards. Such a proud tradition.

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[info]kaesa
2007-10-31 07:03 pm UTC (link)
I knooow. That always makes me sad. I have a fanfic that's reached 55k over many years, and every year I think "This year I'll use NaNo to finish it/start the sequel!" and every year I either don't do NaNo or a shiny originalfic plotbunny will attack me out of the blue.

Then, I have to wonder how people who are ostensibly supposed to be juggling lives + 2000 words a day have time to complain about everyone else's novel not being good enough for them. Especially since there are so many "and then he said "PENGUINS" and a door made of CHEESE opened up in teh universe and..." people.

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[info]bubosquared
2007-11-01 10:36 am UTC (link)
Seriously, the whole point of NaNo is to write 50K words of random crap. It's people like me, who try and write stuff that might be suitable for sending off for publication after cleaning up a bit, who're the odd ones out!

And yeah, the people who somehow go to work/school, flood the boards with posts, and still claim to be finished on, like, day 15 ... Sure, I believe you. (Cheating on NaNo has always struck me as odd. I mean, sure, it's possible to write a 50K novel in a day or three, four, but only if that's all you do, and when it becomes blatantly obvious you cannot possibly have finished so fast with the number of times you're posting, if only because of the limitations of typing speeds, ... why?)

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[info]kittikattie
2007-11-03 08:06 am UTC (link)
The two years I won was with a novel that I'm still doing clean up on but is otherwise complete, and the prequel to said novel. This year is a different novel, but it's working.

I use NaNo to get a novel written, and I don't go on crazy twists. When I'm done, I have something that's actually in need of cleanup instead of removal of whole chunks. (And yes, I once cut 300 or so words out because it wasn't accurate for the death scene. They ultimately weren't needed.)

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[info]ladylauren
2007-11-04 05:10 am UTC (link)
We seem to have the same sort of philosophy going. Except that I think to make 50K this year I'm going to need the crazy. This idea is not working as well as I'd hoped, but I think it's too late to ditch it and start over.

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[info]wolfsamurai
2007-10-31 07:25 pm UTC (link)
I'm doing the 50k words as an add on to a novel that I've already started (I did 30k words in September) and more than a few people have given me crap about it. Most people don't care, but weird purists seem to think that not doing the novel from scratch means that I'm off setting fire to kittens in my free time or something.

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[info]kaesa
2007-10-31 08:09 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, I don't see the point of OMG YOU STARTED THE NOVEL ALREADY, THAT DOESN'T COUNT. Especially since my main issue with writing seems to be finishing novels.

Also, your icon + the kittens comment have just made me dissolve into giggles. I am a terrible terrible person.

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[info]wankaholic
2007-10-31 09:52 pm UTC (link)
Weird, I (sort of) gave someone a hard time about that today . . . but because she wasn't clear, and made it sound as though she was going to just write another 25K to go with the 25K she'd already written, and call it good.

Must be more people just expanding on previous stories than I thought.

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[info]blue_penguin
2007-10-31 09:01 pm UTC (link)
It's not only pro writers that do the "NaNo novels aren't real novels!" thing. I got it from this girl at my school. Apparently she's written two novels already, not counting the ones she's done for NaNo because that's just a game, it doesn't really count for anything. She isn't published, though..

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[info]kaesa
2007-10-31 09:12 pm UTC (link)
Well, to some extent I wouldn't call my NaNo novel a real novel. But that's mostly because I'd call it a half-finished, poorly-researched, unedited novel with extensive historical, scientific, and linguistic inaccuracies.

(Which totally ups my word count.)

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[info]blue_penguin
2007-10-31 09:13 pm UTC (link)
True, there is that. But, you know, I sort of like to think that my NaNo novel from last year could become a real novel, if I would just get off my ass and edit it.

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[info]kaesa
2007-10-31 09:20 pm UTC (link)
Exactly. It's not the NaNoness of the novel that makes it unnovellike.

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[info]deliciouschaos
2007-11-01 08:16 pm UTC (link)
And then there are the people who believe that "the three beautiful words I write in a month make the 49,997 superfluous words useless; I will not pervert my writing like that." I'm frightened by these people.

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[info]blue_penguin
2007-10-31 08:54 pm UTC (link)
There was wank on the NaNo forums last year involving all the different genre-groups hating on the other genres and certain people trolling other genres' forums. I guess that wasn't technically wank about NaNoWriMo, though.

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[info]squib
2007-11-01 02:03 am UTC (link)
There's been NaNo wank every year since I've been participating (since '03), and there was probably wank the year before that too. It's usually "professional" authors hating on the concept of NaNo, or the inevitable "wah, fanfic is pathetic and illegal and immoral and really shouldn't count thread.

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