Never heard of it. Mind you, I graduated high school in 1980, and even my children's lit class in college was before this novel was published.
NaNoWriMO 2016
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Aw jeez. I was just sat here scratching my head about how you could graduate HS in 1980 but have kids in college before 1987. Bahaha. Makes a whole lot more sense if you read it as "children's lit class" instead of "children's" and then "lit class".
I never had kids - human ones, anyway. This was a literature class for people in the B. Ed. program, and I did some fancy tapdancing to convince my academic adviser to see if he could find a loophole to let me take it. I'd switched to my anthropology major by then, but reasoned that a class dealing with mythology and fairy tales would be a good fit for someone taking cultural anthropology.Aw jeez. I was just sat here scratching my head about how you could graduate HS in 1980 but have kids in college before 1987. Bahaha. Makes a whole lot more sense if you read it as "children's lit class" instead of "children's" and then "lit class".
Evie
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Bonanza meets Camelot?Or closer to Firefly meets those Stirling post-apocalypse novels where a medieval re-creation group turned out to be the ones who survived the best and established a new medieval kind of society in the US?
Emberverse! I love the first trilogy of that series
Though I think in his haste to make his point about overcrowding and the ilk, he overlooked that there are, in fact, any number of relatively lightly populated areas, with good farming land and reasonably remote from major urban centers in the east. There are a few prime candidates I can think of for pulling a Willamette (the Champlain valley comes to mind)
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Luckymoose
The World is Mine
True enough, but it isn't a proper competition. Good luck to you in hitting 50k, though. I'm more interested in making solid, clean progress on my current novel while seeing how close to 50k I get. I have won three nanos, so I don't really need another more than the simple camaraderie of writing communities.
Thanks for your good wishes.
I do get that when you've had the experience of the winner's badge, you don't really need another. You've proved you can do it, and the next step is to work on the quality. Let's face it - most NaNo submissions are first drafts that need a lot of editing to turn them into presentable stories. I tend to go back and do a little editing here and there, either because I've thought of something to add or because I've noticed a horrendous mistake or realize that I've contradicted myself in some way.
I've got three Camp wins under my belt - the first was a few years ago, and the other two were earlier this year. But I've never made it to 50,000 and I want to challenge myself to do it. Editing will come later.
And of course the main goal of NaNo isn't the competition itself - it's getting people to develop the habit of writing, to make it a part of their regular routine. I'm not doing this because I expect to someday end up shortlisted for a literary award. I just want to get the stories down that have been running around in my head for the past 30 years. This is exactly the metaphorical kick in the pants I needed to do it.
Luckymoose
The World is Mine
Thanks for your good wishes.
I'm not doing this because I expect to someday end up shortlisted for a literary award. I just want to get the stories down that have been running around in my head for the past 30 years. This is exactly the metaphorical kick in the pants I needed to do it.
Having the drive to write and self-improve is all you need to win literary awards. Age is no factor, only dedication to the craft. Don't shut out the possibility, just strive to be the best you can be and see what happens. Art is art.
Thanks, Luckymoose. I appreciate your encouragement.
I've just put my hero through a fight with a yeti and a dying trapper has told him of a great treasure to be found in an icy mountain fortress. Of course he's going to check it out!
Evie
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(I'm just going to assume I'm still banned from listing my wordcount )
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Why - are you halfway there already? I'm at 7584 as of a couple of hours ago.(I'm just going to assume I'm still banned from listing my wordcount
JohannaK
Heroically Clueless
Nice! My project suffered an abrupt change of form at the last minue and is now a poem that self-chronicles a lineage of women in a post-nuclear wasteland. Wrotr 1,000 words yesterday, will try to write at least 1,000 every day and by the end of November I might have something long enough to stand alone.
JohannaK
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Indeed, I am going for 1000 word parts if I can, corresponding to each woman of the line.
Evie
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75,000 words in 5 days?
JohannaK
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I believe it is not rare for Oda to hit 200k far before the end of the month.
Evie
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(four days, actually - I'll tell you tonight how far I am after five)
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I'm having difficulty wrapping my head around this. Do you set aside the entire month for this and spend all day, every day writing? How are you churning out coherent sentences at such a rapid pace?
I'm at 13,559 words after 5 days.
Did you do prep work beforehand, or start entirely from scratch? The rules say you can do an outline first, which is what I do, but you can't actually start the story proper until after midnight October 31/November 1.
