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BlackLiger · Post by **BlackLiger** » 02 Nov 2006, 15:58

For all you budding writers *cough* someone direct zoombie here *cough* http://www.nanowrimo.org is fun as hell and a great challenge (Plus, I challenge someone to write an OTA story for it

or a nanoblobs one or an E&E one

)

Stickied until end of month. Come on someone, write a Spring Story for us

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 02 Nov 2006, 16:07

Did I ever tell you my idea for the OTA story about the thousand or so people who are suffering from Transfer Shock Syndrom. Or, in other words, they are having trouble adjusting to being a 'pattern'. So the CORE puts them in a old computer that is just set to create a virtual reality world, circia 2300's, and tricks them into thinking that they never transffered to being 'patterns'

Then a ARM hacker finds his way onto the computer and tries to get the patterns to defect to his side.

Guessmyname · Post by **Guessmyname** » 02 Nov 2006, 16:09

...

That was an insight into the workings of your mind that I did not need to see

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 02 Nov 2006, 16:12

Eh? I thought it was a rather interesting idea. Too bad I will never write it, because I can't legally do that...

Or...CAN I?

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 02 Nov 2006, 16:17

And even better, by the end of the month I have to have written 50,000 words!

I've already written 66,959!

BlackLiger · Post by **BlackLiger** » 02 Nov 2006, 19:04

Fail. You're not allowed to use a story you started BEFORE the start of the month, zoombie.

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 02 Nov 2006, 19:16

Dang. And I can't start a new story without finishing my old stories. Also the website is really really really mind numbingly slow beyond all possible belife. Like REALLY slow. Like as in I can write five pages before the page is done loding on the web page.

Oh well...thats that. What can cheer me up?

Write some more!

Neddie · Post by **Neddie** » 02 Nov 2006, 21:54

You can import from off the site, as long as you wrote it all during the time period.

I would do this if I had the time.

SwiftSpear · Post by **SwiftSpear** » 02 Nov 2006, 23:55

Is it bad that the first thought that came to my head is "random sentence generator?" It would get to 50000 words within a few days.

Really, 50000 words doesn't seem like that much... I accidentally wrote a 5000 word article for a gaming site once...

Quanto042 · Post by **Quanto042** » 03 Nov 2006, 02:46

SwiftSpear wrote:Is it bad that the first thought that came to my head is "random sentence generator?" It would get to 50000 words within a few days.

Really, 50000 words doesn't seem like that much... I accidentally wrote a 5000 word article for a gaming site once...

Well, considering it took me 4 years to write a 67,000 word scifi story, (that i WANT to publish, but haven't). Its far from easy. Writer's block is a vile vile thing.

Snipawolf · Post by **Snipawolf** » 03 Nov 2006, 02:50

Shiiit... It takes like 30 mins to write an essay that is like 150 words long..

If someone made a story that fast, it would be dry as hell, would it not?

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 03 Nov 2006, 06:22

An average episode of Homecoming is about 5000 words long, and I hope to all hell that it's not dry as hell :)

And...not to make you feel bad, Quanto...but Homecoming is already 70,000 words. It's still RIDDLED with spelling errors, grammer errors and other such things that one has to BEAT out of a novel before it can be considered a 'novel'. So those words don't really matter much so far, as half of them will be changed by the end of the writing, which might take far longer then 4 years.

Argh · Post by **Argh** » 03 Nov 2006, 08:53

Heck, I probably type 50K words a week, just between work and random Forum posts. This was twenty words alone

Quanto042 · Post by **Quanto042** » 03 Nov 2006, 08:57

Zoombie wrote:An average episode of Homecoming is about 5000 words long, and I hope to all hell that it's not dry as hell :)

And...not to make you feel bad, Quanto...but Homecoming is already 70,000 words. It's still RIDDLED with spelling errors, grammer errors and other such things that one has to BEAT out of a novel before it can be considered a 'novel'. So those words don't really matter much so far, as half of them will be changed by the end of the writing, which might take far longer then 4 years.

Oh very true, so does mine, and mine also has a problem with a few plot holes in the beginning. So I still have to fix all that. but to give you an idea here, my aunt (who is a published poet) told me once that 50,000 words is close to 300 pages in standard print. So its not length i'm worried about as much as maintaining a coherent story.

Forboding Angel · Post by **Forboding Angel** » 03 Nov 2006, 09:03

@ snipa

Many people can type extremely fast. I myself can type 90 wpm, but you have to understand that at that speed mistakes crop up a lot more often.

Generally I try to take my time when writing (such as posting on these boards), but a lot of the time I post from work and only have about 30 seconds to say many paragraphs.

Meh I got off topic. My original point was that I believe zoombie is most likely one of said uber typers, and I imagine that I myself, would make 5 times the grammar and spelling mistakes he does if I were typing stories that fast.

And to answer your original point snipa: not really. Consider the fact that most of the time with storywriting (I believe), a lot of times entire scenes, chapters etc get mapped out in mere minutes. Now Imagine that you have a boring job, with nothing else to do other than refine said idea.

I imagine by the time a writer makes it to a computer, the words are practically bursting.

SwiftSpear · Post by **SwiftSpear** » 03 Nov 2006, 11:35

I type just a hair under the pace that I speak, so it really doesn't take long to pump out alot of words if I don't take long milling them over. Hell, I could probably have a 50000 world creative writing project done in a week if I didn't have anything better to do and I didn't put much thought into story content. Although it really wouldn't be very interesting to read, even after being fully edited. I would have to leave out too much symbolism message and theming for time concerns for such a project to ever be really attractive to me though.

1v0ry_k1ng · Post by **1v0ry_k1ng** » 03 Nov 2006, 20:22

I dont know about everyone here, but I can write incredibly fast. the problem is I cant write interestling and creatively and write amusing or moving dialog at 90 wpm.. I can type fast but I sit thinking out each sentence before I write it.. same with paragraphs, chapters etc... for me it takes about 1-2 hours/page of size 10 font creative writing that dosnt lick balls

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 03 Nov 2006, 20:36

For some reason the hard part, for some people, is the easy part for me. Creativity...pish posh. I just think and BAM, I get ideas. The hard part is the grammer, spelling and such. Weird, huh?

PicassoCT · Post by **PicassoCT** » 03 Nov 2006, 21:16

I could write fast to, but if it is a important case, i can write one sentence and think a hour over it.. a turtel must feel the same thing, watching rabbits running by.

1v0ry_k1ng · Post by **1v0ry_k1ng** » 03 Nov 2006, 21:25

zoombie, you should just program your computer for voice recognition and talk away. wham. book/week.

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