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Kamikaze Novel Writing

Posted by michael on from the do-or-do-not,-there-is-no-try dept.

spotmonk writes "November is National Novel Writing Month, and the beginning of this year's nanowrimo program will be starting on Nov 1st. Participants will write a novel of a minimum of 50,000 words in a month's time. Described as valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over talent and craft, nanowrimo takes a kamikaze approach to writing a novel - you may not get the best novel out of it, but at least you've written a novel. Sign-ups last till the end of the month."

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  1. Chapter One by fontkick · · Score: 5, Funny

    The night was moist.

    1. Re:Chapter One by orangesquid · · Score: 2, Funny

      Hmm. It was a dark and stormy packet...
      No, no. It was a dark and stormy Internet...
      No! Even worse.
      Maybe---It was a stark and dormant server... and then it was posted to slashdot.
      Hah, now there's the start of a classic Comic Tragedy!

      *sings Send in the Trolls*

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  2. I have a feeling... by niteice · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...that Windows was written exactly the same way.

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    1. Re:I have a feeling... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      What if the spec says it should have bugs?

    2. Re:I have a feeling... by Moderatbastard · · Score: 2, Funny
      Nope, it just has to be somewhat usable, even if it crashes every half an hour and occasionally corrupts data.
      Those are bugs. They might not be serious,they might not be showstoppers, but they're still bugs.
      Do you work in marketing, by any chance?
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    3. Re:I have a feeling... by orangesquid · · Score: 2, Funny

      It was a stark and dormant night.

      The owls weren't hooting.

      The mice weren't squeaking.

      The inept weren't buying lottery tickets.

      The extraterrestrials that do not exist and have not lost a craft near Area
      51 were not hovering nearby, not looking for gullible tabloid-readers and
      not finding none.

      There were no pipers a-piping, no dancers a-dancing, no maids a-milking, nor
      milks a-expiring on in grocers' refridgerators.

      Something was indeed missing in the little town of.

      In fact, more than just the name of the town was missing. All forms of life
      in were missing. All signs of human, animal, and plant activity had long
      since abandoned the streets, houses, shops, parks, and sewers of.

      The Deletes had won the war.

      It had all started when a research project to design a better, more
      efficient computer keyboard had gone haywire. The prototype's claim to fame
      was an auto-delete functionality that automatically removed anything
      imperfect.

      Hindsight is everything.

      The remaining 49,832 words of this novel were, incidentally, spelled wrong.

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  3. Now we know... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...how the screenplay for The Phantom Menace was written.

  4. I can already see it now by antifoidulus · · Score: 3, Funny

    Goatse, the novel.
    The opening chapter is a real killer....

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    1. Re:I can already see it now by Anonymous+Luddite · · Score: 2, Funny


      and we all know how it ends..

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  5. Live Novel Writing by JohnPerkins · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...a very good crowd has turned out to watch local boy Thomas Hardy write his new novel 'The Return Of The Native,' on this very pleasant July morning...

  6. A kamikaze approach to writing ? by Linker3000 · · Score: 2, Funny

    So, as soon as you've finished your manuscript do you dive head-first into your word processor, destroying your work and blowing yourself up in the process?

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  7. Re:When did mediocrity become something to shoot f by xasper8 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can appreciate the motivational aspic of telling someone to "get off your butt and do something". The act of trying can get people past the initial hurdle - but isn't 50k words a huge undertaking? That alone seem daunting. (Clearly I am no novelist). (In fact I hardly have a grasp on the English language)

    Also this kills me..."valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over talent and craft " that is a quote right from the Bush and Kerry handbook.

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  8. The thing about kamikaze authors... by Pantero+Blanco · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...Is that they never write sequels.

  9. Absurdity taken to new heights by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    November is National Novel Writing Month

    *rollseyes* When's National Month Naming Month?

  10. Ob. Simp Q by yellowcord · · Score: 3, Funny
    x=1
    do{
    echo Screw Flanders
    x++
    } while x<25000
  11. Re:first satanic post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Now that's satanic!

  12. Re:kamikaze by fireboy1919 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well...you know, if you do nothing but write - you don't eat, drink, or sleep, then you'll probably die by the time you get to 50,000 words, just like the Kamakaze pilots during WWII.

    It'd probably make the end of the book kind of interesting, what with the psychosis that you get from sleep depravation.

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  13. correction by rhild · · Score: 2, Funny

    The night was saltry.