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callistra ([personal profile] callistra) wrote2008-11-29 07:34 pm
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Nanowrimo

Thanks to [livejournal.com profile] cassiphone , I have been made aware of people who write a LOT. Like, a LOT A LOT A LOT. Like... 36,000 in ONE DAY.

And, reading this chickie's hints and tips ... there's people out there who do Nanowrimo in Day One. Let me think about this for a minute. Day One. Fifty thousand words.

Say... 7.5 hours.

Which is 450 minutes.

So you'd need to type...

111.11 words a minute.

I know someone who types that fast.....

[livejournal.com profile] mynxii , you doing anything tomorrow?? Got a spare 7.5 hours to spare??

[identity profile] mynxii.livejournal.com 2008-11-29 12:09 pm (UTC)(link)
ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Nope, still laughing!!


113 wpm baby :P

[identity profile] callistra.livejournal.com 2008-11-29 12:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Drop and gimme 50K!

Means I can take 5 minutes off the end for ya

[identity profile] mynxii.livejournal.com 2008-11-29 01:32 pm (UTC)(link)
LOL

[identity profile] tcpip.livejournal.com 2008-11-29 12:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I think I'll submit a 'phone book. :)

[identity profile] laughingimp.livejournal.com 2008-11-29 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
At the rate I type, I could crank out 50,000 words in just under 24 hours. Of course, that doesn't allow for food, bathroom breaks, or the inevitable pauses to get distracted by the Internet, but whatever. Sometimes, you just have to sit in a chair for 24 hours solid and type with crazed abandon.

Or you could bribe [livejournal.com profile] mynxii. Whichever. ;)

[identity profile] callistra.livejournal.com 2008-11-29 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Ahhhh, but what to bribe her with?? Much more fun to make demands!
:-)
I shall bring her a laptop at today's picnic and make her start for me...

[identity profile] battblush.livejournal.com 2008-11-29 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
This is where it gets ridiculous. Writing 50,000 words in a day is not the big achievement. Selling it is.

[identity profile] battblush.livejournal.com 2008-11-29 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I just read the post and I'm appalled. This person talks about putting down anything that comes to your head and not editing or using backspace or anything.

That's not writing a novel, that's writing drivel. Nanowrimo is national NOVEL writing month, not put down any crap and call it writing month.

I also look at their manic life style and the term 'bipolar' comes to mind.

[identity profile] callistra.livejournal.com 2008-11-30 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
Yep, completely insane. I worry about quality of life for my family when doing it in a month! Obviously she has other people to shove food under the door and make sure she washes occasionally. And to stop her from walking into poles.
:-)