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McAnally's (The Community Pub) => Author Craft => Topic started by: meg_evonne on October 28, 2009, 07:12:42 PM
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I hereby declare this the official brain cell revival thread for NaNoWriMo authors.
Please suggest ONE word to be used in the novel. The more unique, the more strange, the more WHAAAHHAAHHA evil the better. But you only get ONE. You may go back in and change or modify as often as you wish, but must stop by Oct 31st, midnight. The writing marathan begins at midnight... May the hilarity ensue.
..and if the top 10 are not used? Uhmm. Depantsing with photos by Nov 30th at 11:59PM? Hey, they'll all be exhausted and drunk by then anyway, right? Maybe not, if they are still finishing up. Make that 1:00AM the morning of Dec 1st instead. sixty minutes to chug a few back in celebration!
Okay, I am off to find the PERFECT word to befuddle and confuse authors!
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sinople.
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Gastroturgy
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Where the hell did I put my dictionary? LOL
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grallatorial
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I went with a word that might be useful in world building...
infotainment
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Defenestrate.
In a thread from way back when somebody else on this board--I can't remember who--posted this as their favorite word. It's now one of my favorites as well. :)
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antiquing
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Defenestrate.
In a thread from way back when somebody else on this board--I can't remember who--posted this as their favorite word. It's now one of my favorites as well. :)
This is one of my favorite words, too. Danged if I know why it's so popular! ;)
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*evil grin*
Barry Manilow.
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*evil grin*
Barry Manilow.
Evil, evil, evil.
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Gastroturgy
Oh, by the way. I dug through some old books to find several interesting words, and kept looking until I found one that did not show up on Google. Evil, evil evil.
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crowdsourcing BWAHAHAHAHAHA
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masticate.
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Formication.
Nope, not a typo.
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I went with a word that might be useful in world building...
infotainment
Not a world I want to live in, thank you.
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Ok - That's 10!
1. Sinople (Neurovore)
2. Gastroturgy (Kris_W)
3. Grallatorial (LizW65)
4. Infotainment (meg_evonne)
5. Defenestrate (belial.1980)
6. Antiquing (Darwinist)
7. Barry Manilow (Murphy's Stunt Double)
8. Crowdsourcing (j3nnee)
9. Masticate (Starbeam)
10. Formication (LizW65
Anyone want to toss in bonus words?
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wait.... you're going to honor MSD's Barry Manilow??? Egads, I guess I would cheat and make a humorous dedication to Barry. I mean that might be enough to cause the Nano crowd to ditch the whole activity.
I know, my anti Barry is showing. LOL
Let's see... I write the words, Barry writes the songs.
I can laugh, I can cry, and I can write a novel, but I can't smile without you, Barry!
Looks like We Made It, but I couldn't have without you Barry!
Okay, I'm barfing now... seriously!
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Good Lord, do we have to use every single one of these? The only one I think I can even remotely use is defenestrate (and since my protagonist gets thrown down a stairwell, not out a window, I have doubts about this one too.) Okay, maybe masticate and antiquing can be forced in there somewhere. ;D
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Well, that was originally my idea, but the majority of the words are going to look like sore thumbs and an author with a vocabulary hangup.
Anyone wish to change theirs to something out there, but no so out there?
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Ok - That's 10!
1. Sinople (Neurovore)
2. Gastroturgy (Kris_W)
3. Grallatorial (LizW65)
4. Infotainment (meg_evonne)
5. Defenestrate (belial.1980)
6. Antiquing (Darwinist)
7. Barry Manilow (Murphy's Stunt Double)
8. Crowdsourcing (j3nnee)
9. Masticate (Starbeam)
10. Formication (LizW65
Anyone want to toss in bonus words?
Uhm I couldn't find Gastroturgy anywhere. What is that?
The rest i can figure out since my character has recently become a research librarian of sorts. Most of these words will work I think... just trying to figure out in what context.
???
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wait.... you're going to honor MSD's Barry Manilow??? Egads, I guess I would cheat and make a humorous dedication to Barry. I mean that might be enough to cause the Nano crowd to ditch the whole activity.
I know, my anti Barry is showing. LOL
Let's see... I write the words, Barry writes the songs.
I can laugh, I can cry, and I can write a novel, but I can't smile without you, Barry!
Looks like We Made It, but I couldn't have without you Barry!
Okay, I'm barfing now... seriously!
Oh, pah-leeeeeze....
Even Nicholas Sparks described a traffic back-up full of old people as looking like the exit line from a Barry Manilow concert. Nobosy said it had to be complimentary!
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Oh, pah-leeeeeze....
Even Nicholas Sparks described a traffic back-up full of old people as looking like the exit line from a Barry Manilow concert. Nobosy said it had to be complimentary!
What a riot!
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Infotainment....Not a world I want to live in, thank you.
Ah, but what is life without the revolution!
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Can we get "gastroturgy" declared a "not a real word" since it doesn't occur in any dictionary I've consulted? If we don't know what it means, we can't work it into a story, at least not in any clever way. I mean, I could always have someone doing a crossword and asking if "gastroturgy" is a real word, but that's no fun. :D
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Can we get "gastroturgy" declared a "not a real word" since it doesn't occur in any dictionary I've consulted? If we don't know what it means, we can't work it into a story, at least not in any clever way. I mean, I could always have someone doing a crossword and asking if "gastroturgy" is a real word, but that's no fun. :D
I could tell you right now, it's not a word that's likely to be in any crossword. If we can't find it in a dictionary, we can't verify it, it doesn't stay. Plus crosswords don't generally use big words.
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I'm keeping mine.
Besides, it should be easy to write a story involving antiquing and Barry Manilow, the theme can be murder-suicide.
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Oh, pah-leeeeeze....
Even Nicholas Sparks described a traffic back-up full of old people as looking like the exit line from a Barry Manilow concert. Nobosy said it had to be complimentary!
Would Nicholas Sparks be a name that a trendy happening with-it person should recognise, then ?
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Can we get "gastroturgy" declared a "not a real word" since it doesn't occur in any dictionary I've consulted? If we don't know what it means, we can't work it into a story, at least not in any clever way. I mean, I could always have someone doing a crossword and asking if "gastroturgy" is a real word, but that's no fun. :D
Well, I didn't put it out there, but it seems pretty simple. Something JB might find handy. Gastro (of the stomach) turgy (study of) as in Taulmaturgy (sp).... So I take this to be the study of using gastric smells to follow someone... LOL
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Would Nicholas Sparks be a name that a trendy happening with-it person should recognise, then ?
Several of his books have been adapted into movies, off the top of my head I think Under the Tuscan Sun and The Notebook.
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Would Nicholas Sparks be a name that a trendy happening with-it person should recognise, then ?
I'd say so. Eldest is a big fan of his. And she adores the movie and the book of "The Notebook".
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Well, I didn't put it out there, but it seems pretty simple. Something JB might find handy. Gastro (of the stomach) turgy (study of) as in Taulmaturgy (sp).... So I take this to be the study of using gastric smells to follow someone... LOL
So basically the study of stomaches? or if you're using gastric smells... farting? ;P
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I'd say so. Eldest is a big fan of his. And she adores the movie and the book of "The Notebook".
Well, I suppose that since my stepson moved out somebody else had to take up the responsibility of making it clear to me that I am a clueless has-been.
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Glad to be of service! ;) :D
*snuggles Neuro* You know I love you!
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So basically the study of stomaches? or if you're using gastric smells... farting? ;P
most definitely! who wants to study the stomach. Although hunters and fisherpeople slit the guts to see what fish are biting at etc. And I never understood that amazing research tool---the cow with a window. Yes, necessary, but I really didn't need to know that!
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I have 772 words and I hate my story.
>:(
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*snip*
And I never understood that amazing research tool---the cow with a window. Yes, necessary, but I really didn't need to know that!
So, this is where we fit in Defenestration? That sounds... messy?
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I have 772 words and I hate my story.
>:(
eek, how will you do 50000. Better add some sex... don't wait for the tradition 22 age rule.:-P
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What's that?
And you know me... If I added in sex, I would probably write about 50000 words A DAY! LOL
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can i add a word?? Gotterdammerung!
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I'm keeping up with the word counts but I don't know if my character is interesting enough. So far he's had a fairly prophetic dream and gone to work... ::)
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Alternate word,
Improbabalise, (spelling it from memory, - to render improbable)
Regards,
Kevin
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Day two and I'm still ahead of the goal...
I think the best thing that's keeping me going is that I keep telling myself it doesn't have to be good and nobody's going to read it anyway! LOL
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Day two and I'm still ahead of the goal...
I think the best thing that's keeping me going is that I keep telling myself it doesn't have to be good and nobody's going to read it anyway! LOL
Oh hellz yeah. ;D My first pages are especially painful. I blather, I ramble, I bumble around the beginning of my story and bounce off the walls a few times before I finally manage to get going. Normally, I'd still be re-re-re-writing the beginning. This time, I just left it back there and kept going. It was a revelation to me! I didn't know you could do that. I thought, y'know, horrible things would happen.
Of course, I also usually send it out to people to read and this time I'm laughing out loud when people ask if they can read it. "No," I say. "I like you, therefore you cannot read it."
It's freeing.
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:D
Ain't it though?
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I finally figured out how to go from showing how ordinarily dull my character's life is to something interesting happening or about to atleast. :D