Seeing as there’s only about a week to go in the NaNo-ing frenzy, Aella and I figured that we should probably get something more done than three character sketches and around 2000 words.
*cue frantic NaNo-fest!*
The Siofras graciously offered their residence as a place for our festivus, and so it began with me on a post-music, pre-drawingfail high (I was sing-song-ing everything for about an hour) and Aella in a nervy room-cleaning spaz brought on by:
Medeia: “How many words do you have, exactly?”
Aella: *nervy-spastically throws hands in the air* “Q! I have Q words!”
And then I couldn’t find the forum on the NaNo website that just lists a bunch of random conversations that people overheard and posted (ex. “So, where did you put the body?”, “He was murdered to death”, “You may have to stab some clowns.” etc) . It’s amazing and I still CAN’T FIND IT. Then Aella pulled out her million year old laptop. The combined Medeia-Aella awesomeness had kicked in by that point and I’m sure you would have been amused by a video of us NaNoificating, but as I remarked, “I don’t think they had cameras in that laptop’s prime”. Once Aella woke up her compy and we both started NaNo-ing… things got interesting. Some quotes from us at around midnight:
-”I just drooled ALL OVER my laptop!”
-Aella *reading some of her file names*: “Grimm Tale 1, Grimm Tale 2, My god it’s BACK, My god it’s BACK 2, and I FRICKIN HATE THIS STORY”
-Medeia: *lycanthropes into an evil llama*
- Aella: *notices that it is past midnight* “Happy October 23rd!” Medeia: *realizes right away that it is indeed November 22nd and bursts into gales of laughter* Aella: *looks puzzedly at me* “Why do you mock me?”
Oh, but the best part was that we actually got stuff done. Not nearly as much as needs to be done by the 30th, but something. Aella doubled her wordcount in just a few hours (from Q words to… uhm… several thousand more than Q words…) and I now have a character sketch of Ilse… and many many doodles reeking of unadulterated fail. So expect some… thing. I might post some of those drawings once I wash the awful out and maybe I can get Ael to share some of her story.
And now I ask, as we come upon the end of the month, how goes it? Anyone done NaNo-ing or are you just reading this as something to do while you procrastinate? …Okay, yes… I might also be procrastinating by writing this post. But on an English paper. That’s totally different.
~Medeia
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November 27, 2008 at 4:29 am
khy
Don’t remind me of how much NaNoing I need to get done. Dx I still need 11,635 words. -twitch-
November 27, 2008 at 4:44 am
Medeia
Oh, I know. Until recently I was just thinking “Since I’m making up this NaNoIllMo thing I can just do whatever I want. No standards. Sweet.” but then I recalled that old saying. A picture’s worth a thousand words. So, if a 50,000 word novel = NaNoWriMo then 50 pictures should = NaNoIllMo. Which is NOT going to happen. Not this year at least. But maybe one day *gazes wistfully into the distance and then snaps back to working feverishly*
November 27, 2008 at 5:04 am
Eli
You guys are my favorite people EVER.
November 29, 2008 at 2:10 am
Reese
NaNoWriMo is killing my soul.
And I am loving it.
November 30, 2008 at 8:08 pm
heather
I gave up. Well, WE gave up. Me and Caroline were COLLAB-ing and we decided to keep writing our peice, but since we didn’t even have more than two or three characters by the time Thanksgiving rolled around, we decided it would be best to try again next year.
We fail.
But we did have an interesting story-line. Sort of.