NaNoWriMo anyone?

[LizW65]

Uploaded and won!  (and still writing.)  Couldn't make my laptop do the scramble thing, though...maybe it's because I have Microsoft Works rather than Word.

[belial.1980]

50,179. Did it!

Still only about 3/4 of the way done though, lol. I'll keep at it another week or so till I've finished it all.

[j3nnee]

I won... I won!!!
Yay... got to 50K and a few cents in words earlier this morning.

[Kris_W]

Wait, there's something wrong here. If I have 50K words why haven't I reached the end of the story?

 

[j3nnee]

Wait, there's something wrong here. If I have 50K words why haven't I reached the end of the story?

 

Because you aren't like me. I can make one sheet of paper fill a whole illustration even if it really doesn't fit.

[Kali]

For the same reason that you can be out of money but still have checks left.

Congrats to all the winners!  Purple bars for everyone!

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Ok, what's everyone writing about next year?

[j3nnee]

For the same reason that you can be out of money but still have checks left.

Congrats to all the winners!  Purple bars for everyone!

...

Ok, what's everyone writing about next year?

Uhm no idea... I have 12 mos to think about it ;P

[jeno]

56k.

It's 56k of crap, but it's 56k. *sigh*

[j3nnee]

my main problem is trying to figure out how to explain why the main characters disappear near the end and another character suddenly gets the spotlight. I did go back and sort of write in why he gets the spot light suddenly. Time paradoxes are fun!

[the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh]

my main problem is trying to figure out how to explain why the main characters disappear near the end and another character suddenly gets the spotlight. I did go back and sort of write in why he gets the spot light suddenly. Time paradoxes are fun!

Enough time paradoxes, and they can all be the same character, and that solves that one.

[Kali]

Enough time paradoxes, and they can all be the same character, and that solves that one.

I'd read that.

[the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh]

I'd read that.

It's been done as a short story, by Heinlein, twice: "By His Bootstraps" and "All You Zombies".

David Gerrold's novel The Man Who Folded Himself comes close, too.

[j3nnee]

hey I'd love people to read my story. Tell me if you think it works out.
I liked it but it was mostly desperation for more words (argh!) that caused me to do what I did with the last main guy and the time paradox.

[LizW65]

For the same reason that you can be out of money but still have checks left.
Congrats to all the winners!  Purple bars for everyone!
Ok, what's everyone writing about next year?

I think I'm gonna do my "Bruce Campbell Meets Martin Chuzzlewit" next time--this story has been in my head in one form or another for damn near a quarter century now...

[KevinEvans]

Here is the last of my NaNo weirdness,

In doing the rough edit, I found a whole chapter that did not make it to the counted submission.

At a Con last week end, I heard a publisher bemoaning the "Slush Storm" that was coming in the next few months......

Regards,
Kevin