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7th August 2008, 4:09pm
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#1 | | Mr WYSIWYG
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| If you thought NaNoWriMo was for pussies.
I just stumbled across bit of insanity called the 3-Day Novel Contest.
Write a novel over a weekend with the possibility of it being published. It's been noted elsewhere that this would mean you would need to write twenty thousand words a day. I think that's inviting some kind of haemorrage.
Although, apparently Michael Moorcock managed it, but that was because he needed to do it.
That amount of writing in a day boggles my mind.
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7th August 2008, 4:22pm
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#2 | | Tishoumaren
Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: downonthestreet
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| Re: If you thought NaNoWriMo was for pussies.
Hahaha, what Moorcock work was that?
I can't be arsed reading the link because I'm already all multitasked out but what's to stop someone submitting something they wrote previously and claiming they banged it out in a weekend?
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7th August 2008, 5:00pm
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#3 | | ShakingTheDisease SuperMod
Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Ptolomea
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| Re: If you thought NaNoWriMo was for pussies.
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Originally Posted by Will_Couper  you would need to write twenty thousand words a day | I think that's about the rate of output triggerhappy managed for her dissertation.
10,000 words starting the day before it was due in? yup, that's about right.
(i'm only slightly exaggerating.)
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7th August 2008, 5:11pm
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#4 | | Hammer Smashed Face
Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Airstrip One
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| Re: If you thought NaNoWriMo was for pussies.
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Originally Posted by djtoast I think that's about the rate of output triggerhappy managed for her dissertation.
10,000 words starting the day before it was due in? yup, that's about right.
(i'm only slightly exaggerating.) | All the cool kids write dissertations ate that rate. | |
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7th August 2008, 5:18pm
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#5 | | Tishoumaren
Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: downonthestreet
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| Re: If you thought NaNoWriMo was for pussies.
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Outlines are permitted prior to the contest; however, the actual writing must begin no earlier than 12:01 a.m., Saturday, August 30th and stop by midnight on Monday, September 1st. Novels may be written using any method, and in any location, anywhere in the world. Yes, the honour system still exists! (You'd only be cheating yourself out of the experience! Seriously. We can tell if you didn't commit to the contest.) Novels may not be edited outside the contest time frame.
Mail your completed novel to us as soon as possible after the weekend is over. If you handwrote your novel, you have a few days to type it up...otherwise just send it in right away. Novels must be postmarked on or before Sept. 5, 2008 to qualify. Include a statement, signed by a witness, confirming the novel’s completion over the 2008 Labour Day long weekend. You must send in a novel--even if it isn't as finished as you like--to get your certificate. So send it in!
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7th August 2008, 5:23pm
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#6 | | Mr WYSIWYG
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Kirkintilloch
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| Re: If you thought NaNoWriMo was for pussies.
Aye done on the (ha ha ha ha ha ha!) honour system. Quote:
Originally Posted by Posh Hahaha, what Moorcock work was that? | It was some unspecified Hawkmoon book apparently.
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