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Home » Forums » NaNo Tips & Strategies » Reaching 50,000!Totems bereccaboxTotems0 / 50,000Official ParticipantJoined: Oct 30, 2006Location: Fort Worth, TXPosts: 37Posted on:Oct 3, 2010 - 09 04In all the years that I have competed in this, I have never once had a totem. I've always wanted one, but have never had the money or time to search for one.What's your totem and how does it inspire you?Also, what should one look for in a totem? Just inspiration, or should one look for a deeper meaning...Read Full Story

Home » Forums » Genre Lounges » Fantasy"Big" storie for Nano? Amanita"Big" storie for Nano?0 / 50,000Official ParticipantJoined: Nov 18, 2009Posts: 7Posted on:Oct 6, 2010 - 07 32Hello,my first question for the new forum? ;)I have to decide something now. I've created my own fantasy-world with the plot I've already been describing in various threads here. But looking at all the back-ground stuff I really doubt that this story can be told in anything close to 50 000 words. Now I also have...Read Full Story

Grand prize: $2000Two Finalists: $500 each Have you got a great idea for a screenplay that just doesn’t happen to be feature length? Maybe you’ve already written a short screenplay – between five and forty pages long – but you’re not sure what to do with it. Maybe you’re looking to get some perspective on your short before you try to produce it, and maybe pick up a little extra cash for the budget while you’re at it.If so, then submit your screenplay to BlueCat Short Screenplay Competition...Read Full Story

National Novel Writing Month is, they say, a fun, approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing on November 1. The goal is to write a 50,000 word, (approximately 175 page) novel by 11:59:59, November 30. NaNoWriMo http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/whatisnano is a novel-writing program for everyone who has thought fleetingly about writing a novel but has been scared away by the time and effort involved. As you spend November writing, you can draw comfort from the fact that, all around the...Read Full Story

Home » All Regions » USA :: MaineLulu?? lizbeth9106 Lulu??  0 / 50,000 Official ParticipantJoined: Sep 9, 2010 Location: New EnglandPosts: 13 Posted on:Oct 23, 2010 - 19 02 Does anyone else on here sell their writing on Lulu?? I recently self-published a short ( *very* short, about 13 pages long) non-fiction "10 Reasons to be Homeschooled", on there and have only now a month and a half later sold my first copy. I was wondering if anyone else has sold their work there.Thanks, God Bless...Read Full Story

Home » Forums » Genre Lounges » Horror & SupernaturalPrepping For Writing Horror by Watching Horror Movies...It's only 7 days til NaNoWriMo, as usual I will be writing Horror - my seventh year as a Horror Wrimo, YAY! I love doing Edgar Alan Poe style Horror, and so every October I pull out my Poe books and read them. Than the last week of October, I drag out all my dozens of Vincent Price DVDs (most of them based on Poe books) and start watching them.As I do every year, I am prepping for...Read Full Story

Home » Forums » Life During NaNo » ShoutoutsI've Killed One of My Characters! jadedragon I've Killed One of My Characters! 0 / 50,000 Official ParticipantJoined: Jun 25, 2008Location: Baton Rouge, LouisianaPosts: 135Posted on:Oct 2, 2010 - 17 46 When I wrote my first novel, one of the best feelings I had was when I killed a character. I went on a rampage so bad that I had to go back and UNKILL some of the characters I killed off. See, I forgot that I needed some of them later on in...Read Full Story