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[Digital Hellhound]

Maybe try writing something set in the Victorian era, it'll sound perfectly natural then.

Last year, the majority of my characters were polite, well-mannered aristocrats. Do you have any idea how much wordcount I got out of their greetings and polite interjections and tactful word choices? So much.

I've gotten criticism on dialogue in general before. I don't quite know what's supposed to be 'natural'-sounding with dialogue, I guess - listening to how people speak in real life helps, I think, but no-one's ever been specific enough that I'd know what the problem is.

[IronTomato]

I've got all sorts of ideas. Pertaining to robots.

Metul... Gier?

[GiglameshDespair]

EDIT: Wrong thread. >_< _{Ignore my foolishness.}

[Darkmere]

I forgot to mention, my infopage on the nano site is here:
http://nanowrimo.org/participants/darkmere
if anyone wants to friend me.

Also, another bit of advice: The local group I'm in does a lot of gimmicky stuff like word sprints or the plot twist filler handouts. For a while I'd try to do the word sprints to participate and they ended up screwing me over as I fumbled trying to keep up without doing dumb things.

If those kinds of things don't work for you, don't feel obligated to try them. Just work your own way and keep writing and you'll be fine.

[GiglameshDespair]

I've got kind of an idea. Sci-fi, of course. Probably a story about a bioknight (from my writers apprenticeship thing) and a clone.

I kind of want to start writing now, but...

[inEQUALITY]

I kind of want to start writing now, but...

You can always plan and do character studies in the meantime! None of it should count towards your word count goal, but it can help!

Also, for anyone who would like to buddy me on the NaNo site:
http://nanowrimo.org/participants/hiddentruth

I think I've already buddied a few of you who participated last year.

[GiglameshDespair]

Signed up as GigDes

[Doomblade187]

I'll probably at least give this a shot, or maybe attempt something similar with music stuff, considering that it would give me some nice production practice. Or maybe be insane and try to make music and do NaNo. We'll see what school says about that.

[Doomblade187]

Oh god not again.
I can't participate because of another goal coming up this November that I've been working towards for 12 years now, but I'll watch and be guilty.

Sounds kinda impressive, whatever it is. The 12 years part, at least.

[Prudent Viper]

Oh god not again.
I can't participate because of another goal coming up this November that I've been working towards for 12 years now, but I'll watch and be guilty.

Sounds kinda impressive, whatever it is. The 12 years part, at least.

See, now I'm wondering what it is. You could do a lot in twelve years, ranging between organising the world's largest stamp collection to growing your own human clone.

[sjm9876]

Is it possible to clone eldritch horrors? Speaking of which, I wonder how long their gestation period is......

[Caz]

So ready for this.

My NaNo name is CazP, btw.

[Fniff]

So, has anyone else got their covers prepped? I have!

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[birdy51]

Tried this once, but unfortunately I ended up flopping.

This is my way of saying PTW. : P

[Caz]

So, has anyone else got their covers prepped? I have!

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...This is actually from 2 years ago when I was working on Maelstrom in the 2012 NaNo. Only got around 7k before life circumstances decided to implode around me and I had to abandon ship. Here's hoping to a better result this year.