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The Nano-Rhino Challenge

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ninazerg
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States7291 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-11-06 23:44:47
November 03 2013 05:05 GMT
#1
There are these super-tiny rhinos called Nano-Rhinos, but that's not important right now.

November, of course, is national novel-writing month, according to the website "National Novel Writing Month", or http://nanowrimo.org/. The idea is that you write a full novel in one month. I have never completed this challenge. Why? Because it's really hard. That's what she said.

Okay, so, this year, I'm gonna go for it, AND I decided at the last minute on November 2nd to start. So far, I have no story in mind, no concept in mind, nothing inspired to create. I consider these to be minor obstacles, however. I was thinking of writing a novel about someone writing a novel, but it would be super-short and go like this:

"There once was a novelist named Bee who was typing a novel on her typewriter and sipping cups of coffee while wearing a scarf indoors. She had thick-framed glasses and long curly hair. She was the quiet-type, who spent her highschool days more interested in books than boys, and in college, worked vigorously for her literature degree while her skanky friends were all out going to wild parties and having sexual relations with the utmost scrupulous of frat boys. Bee's ambition, however, was not to go all #YOLO, but to produce a brilliant novel. So she sat down and began to write. And then she finished writing it, and it was a masterpiece, the end."

UGH, WAIT! That's not long enough to be a novel!!! WHAT HAVE I DONE!? Damn it!

See what I mean? Novels are like, super-intricate and shit, and go into all this detail about meaningless things, like describing every little thing in the world and all the feelings of all the individual characters and how their feelings relate to all the various features of the world around them and they never to say "Hey wait a minute, why am I soaking in the features of this super-boring world?" and then they break the fourth wall and go "Fuck you, author, fuck you. And fuck you, reader." and I'm like WHOAAAA CALM DOWN THERE LITTLE FELLA.

So, I'm going to write a novel like nothing you've ever seen before. It is an experimental style that will shock the world, and will hurt to read. So yeah, I'm going to bitch-slap all literary conventions with this avant-garde word-vomit, and then will become more famous than J.K. Rowling and will become so famous that normal people won't be able to talk to me.


Edits:

Day 1, (11/03/13): Bad news, I didn't write a single word yet. I went to the gym today, and the room with the treadmills is totally empty. Then this girl who was probably like 90 pounds, who I could easily snap over my knee, gets on the treadmill next to mine and starts running like the 5-0 is coming. But I won. She went for only 30 minutes, with no incline, and had to hold onto the rails a few times. I went for 45 minutes, with the maximum amount of incline, and I only grabbed the rails a few times out of sheer "omg my heart is going to explode any second now", but my legs never stopped moving. It was a moral victory that I will cherish always, but unfortunately, it didn't get shit done in terms of writing anything.

Day 2, (11/04/13): Good news, I wrote about 1500 words. This is turning into a very dark comedy. I think I might have some serious issues, but hopefully, it produces a good story. yay

Day 3, (11/05/13): I did nothing today. NOTHING. I did a lot of conceptualizing though, which I guess is good. I often have a bad habit of starting off with something simple, and then getting super-ambitious with it and then losing my focus because the idea just gets too big.

+ Show Spoiler +

The story revolves around a "game", where one of the players has to find pieces to a larger puzzle while being hunted by an assassin. To do this, he has to find and recruit other players in the game, each of whom holds a piece of the puzzle. The entire arena for the game is a virtual reality which can be altered at whim, because it is basically a dreamscape. The problem facing the characters is that they don't realize they are asleep and this is a dream. The initial world starts relatively normal, and then descends into various levels of abnormality.

The details of the story might come off as me trying to present a metaphor for something, or to preach some kind of world-view, but that's not the intent at all. If I say someone is happy because they have a kitten, then I'm not saying that everyone should have a kitten, or even that I want a kitten. I don't always create characters that follow my beliefs and ideals, and in fact, many of them don't. I always like art that is 'open-ended' - that is, not having a distinct 'purpose' - so that other people can think about things that they may not have thought about before, or express a feeling that they didn't have the words for. I always put pressure on myself to write a good story, but I know if I write, and I like my story, that it will be good. I'm not trying to make a novel to sell, so I don't need to cater to critics.

I don't know how this story will turn out right now, so I'm just going to focus on having fun with it, which means there's going to be lots and lots of subtle humor, cheesy jokes, and gratuitous violence.


***
"If two pregnant women get into a fist fight, it's like a mecha-battle between two unborn babies." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
babylon
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
8765 Posts
November 03 2013 05:09 GMT
#2
You should copy and paste this blog into your wordcount doc.
Goolpsy
Profile Joined November 2010
Denmark301 Posts
November 03 2013 05:37 GMT
#3
But don't edit too much! It takes valuable time, and the 50.000 words are only for 'first-drafts'.
Jerubaal
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States7684 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-11-03 05:57:00
November 03 2013 05:50 GMT
#4
You forgot a comma at "and [,] in college," and the word you are thinking of is "unscrupulous".

I had the thought to make a blog like this, although I hadn't heard of this website nonsense or Novel Writing Month, but I didn't for some reason.

I can tell you that I find writing in large quantities difficult. I had the idea to write 1k words a day starting in September....I wrote 1k words the first day and about 2k more over the next 2 weeks before petering out. So I'm sitting at ~20k words. The first Harry Potter is 76k words. I think Grendel is about 65k. It's a strange feeling of double dread because at once it seems like too much to write but you're also deathly afraid you won't have enough to write.

Anyway, good luck to you and all others trying this.
I'm not stupid, a marauder just shot my brain.
Shock710
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Australia6097 Posts
November 03 2013 06:01 GMT
#5
50 shades of grey sold more than hp, i think u should definitely take of some the themes from both and combine it into a super seller!!!
dAPhREAk gives Shock a * | [23:55] <Shock710> that was out of context -_- [16:26] <@motbob> Good question, Shock!
ObviousOne
Profile Joined April 2012
United States3704 Posts
November 03 2013 08:32 GMT
#6
On November 03 2013 15:01 Shock710 wrote:
50 shades of grey sold more than hp, i think u should definitely take of some the themes from both and combine it into a super seller!!!

50 Shades of Granger
It's probably already a thing.
Fear is the only darkness. ~Destiny Fan Club operator~
Kittan
Profile Joined April 2012
Poland3999 Posts
November 03 2013 10:30 GMT
#7
Go for it!
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=81288 <--- How I fell in love with a man, a team, a game and a website in a single day... | "There are no false gods, there is only the Emperor, and Choi Yun Sung is his prophet." -> Zona 40k
AnythingThenDelete
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
381 Posts
November 03 2013 11:15 GMT
#8
Meanwhile " no shave november shit ".
Also whener you post a " That's what she said " I will give you 5 stars whatever you write.

Go Nina write about why Mass lings is the only way to play starcraft or any other game ( because if a game does not have mass lings, there is no use playing it )
esReveR
Profile Joined February 2010
United States567 Posts
November 03 2013 17:47 GMT
#9
This should be the Preface.
Skill is relative.
The_Templar
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
your Country52797 Posts
November 03 2013 20:57 GMT
#10
please let me know where I can find it when it's done
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Blisse
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada3710 Posts
November 03 2013 23:45 GMT
#11
Your post reminded me of this commercial.




Good luck with your writing! Everyone should try it at one point. :p
There is no one like you in the universe.
ASoo
Profile Joined November 2010
2864 Posts
November 04 2013 00:51 GMT
#12
Can't you just copy/paste your Liquipedia user page?
Jerubaal
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States7684 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-11-04 02:52:50
November 04 2013 02:49 GMT
#13
I'll be attempting to write ~1100 words a day starting tomorrow, if anyone cares to throw down. Could make it a word-per-day contest.
I'm not stupid, a marauder just shot my brain.
Mothra
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States1448 Posts
November 04 2013 02:54 GMT
#14
Wouldn't hurt to throw a nano rhino into the plot. Bee's food goes missing, and mysterious messages appear if she leaves her typewriter out overnight. What could it be?
catplanetcatplanet
Profile Blog Joined March 2012
3830 Posts
November 04 2013 03:36 GMT
#15
i'll translate into derp just for u
I think it's finally time to admit it might not be the year of Pet
Kingsky
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Singapore298 Posts
November 04 2013 04:33 GMT
#16
part of nanowrimo too!!
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ninazerg
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States7291 Posts
November 04 2013 04:51 GMT
#17
On November 04 2013 11:49 Jerubaal wrote:
I'll be attempting to write ~1100 words a day starting tomorrow, if anyone cares to throw down. Could make it a word-per-day contest.


I think I would lose

On November 04 2013 11:54 Mothra wrote:
Wouldn't hurt to throw a nano rhino into the plot. Bee's food goes missing, and mysterious messages appear if she leaves her typewriter out overnight. What could it be?


The ghost of a vengeful spirit.

On November 04 2013 12:36 catplanetcatplanet wrote:
i'll translate into derp just for u


It's going to be 20,000+ words at least. That's a lot of bulbasaurs to turn into blobsourz
"If two pregnant women get into a fist fight, it's like a mecha-battle between two unborn babies." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jerubaal
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States7684 Posts
November 04 2013 05:06 GMT
#18
20k words is basically 1k a day and taking weekends off.
I'm not stupid, a marauder just shot my brain.
GTPGlitch
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
5061 Posts
November 04 2013 05:16 GMT
#19
quick, fictional ESPORTS thriller with matchfixing mafia vs TBLS nunja convent ft. fangirls!

N-W is hard though, in high school had a competition and none of the ~10 people that signed up got past halfway to halfway ^^;
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ninazerg
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States7291 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-12-05 08:54:12
November 05 2013 08:52 GMT
#20
On November 04 2013 14:06 Jerubaal wrote:
20k words is basically 1k a day and taking weekends off.


I JUST DID 1500

I'M DOING IT, OMG

Edit: Hi R1CH
"If two pregnant women get into a fist fight, it's like a mecha-battle between two unborn babies." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
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