this thing is done and ready for poor idiots to read :D

Less than twelve hours to go! AIEEEE!

If a shotgun hangs on the wall in the first act, it must have gone off by the last act. —Anton Chekhov
     ... Unless it's there to distract you from the dagger on the table. —Micki Zvi Maor

Reading a good book requires more effort from your imagination, yes; but because of that, it's also more immersive. Thus it provides a more effective escape from the impossible task of living than anything else this side of drugs. —(unknown)

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent. —R. Emerson

Every writer has to write a million words of crap before they can get on to the good stuff. —(unknown)
so that means it'll take 20 NaNo attempts before I get to the good writing? o.O

Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. —Flannery O'Connor

WOOO!!!

A few hundred more words and then I'm done with these suckers until the people who agreed to read it are done with their reading and editing! I am so happy.

It's October already? I have noooooo ideas. This could be exciting.

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the_omelet fucked around with this post at Oct 08, 2006 around 00:05

WOO HOO! 50,050 words!

(the above meter might have been copied from a screenshot from last year, but then again, it might not have been. WHO KNOWS?)

Flannery O'Connor Quotes

Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

okay, so that one's not very reassuring for a NaNoWriMo participant. But, hell. If I write five years worth of crappy novellas before I end up with a sixth year's effort that can be refined into something good... then that's good enough!

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.

...yeah, that one's not any better. But it's amusing.

Less Grim Flannery O'Connor Quotes

The writer, in order best to use the talents he has been given, has to write at his own intellectual level. For him to do anything else is to bury his talents. This doesn't mean that, within his limitations, he shouldn't try to reach as many people as possible, but it does mean that he must not lower his standards to do so.

The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where human perception begins. He appeals through the senses, and you cannot appeal to the senses with abstractions.

There is a certain embarrassment about being a storyteller in these times when stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements and statements not quite as satisfying as statistics; but in the long run, a people is known, not by its statements or its statistics, but by the stories it tells.

The problem of the novelist who wishes to write about a man's encounter with God is how he shall make the experience -- which is both natural and supernatural -- understandable, and credible, to his reader. In any age this would be a problem, but in our own, it is a well-nigh insurmountable one. Today's audience is one in which religious feeling has become, if not atrophied, at least vaporous and sentimental.

The novelist is required to open his eyes on the world around him and look. If what he sees is not highly edifying, he is still required to look. Then he is required to reproduce, with words, what he sees.

When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God.

Well, the participant icon for this year is pretty boring. (Wah.)

However, I have a story idea, and I think it's good. I think the reason the story itself will be good is because I don't plan to have any romantic relationships. I have proven to my own satisfaction that I absolutely cannot write them believably.

And! And, I think I might be writing alongside other people from my dorm!!! That'll be neat :)

Most of the story-related material is kept behind friendslock. If you'd like to see it in all its ungloriousness, comment and I'll add you. :)

Aaaand, it's done.

There are a couple scenes I still want to write, and this monstrosity needs editing like fish need water... but it's done.

Anyone who, for whatever reason, wants a copy, should let me know that, and let me know what format to put it in, too.

Well, I have my new icon for this year. I decided that I'll leave last year's up until 2005. I don't like it as much, but I liked the other three options (at least there's options this year!) less.

But, more importantly than that, it's October! (It's been October, but the site didn't open until 1600 MDT, and I forgot about it until just now.) So now I get to try to plan my novel. Maybe I'll name it The Liturgical Omelet or something. But probably not.

Actually, if I don't have a good title soon, I'll call it "the omelet" until I do :P

Blah. I have no idea what I'm going to write this year, except that I certainly need to do it so I'm doing something with my time. I feel really apathetic, which is probably bad, but better than panicking because I don't have Openoffice reinstalled yet.

I did it!

At 1430 on November 28, 2003, I completed a novel of more than 50,000 words!

wc claims that MST.txt is 51019 words, but on the official site I claimed 51025 since Openoffice believes I have 51028.

First of all, many thanks to binarywraith for giving me the code to start this.

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