Nanowrimo Podcast 2007

It's getting close to the end. And yes, that can have an ominous tone. Thankfully, there's an mp3 .

Excerpt - Sleep Inertia in the Land of Milk and Honey by Roni feedback bryan & jotacon were the ones who asked for more stuff about our stories Steven Ray Orr likes to hear me say his name bobbyjohn liked the on the water show and wanted inspiration for when you’re behind tips & tricks chart of SF nano writers - sign up on the forum the nano progress report: http://www.nanowrimo.org/NanowrimoUtils/ProgressReport/[your_userid].html my nano progress report
plot bunny there is no plot bunny in the immortal words of the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: DON'T PANIC
theme music is Dragon Dance by Shiva in Exile @ Magnatune.com email darusha + nanowrimo @ gmail.com

In which we determine that German is a bad language in which to write a nano novel. Especially if you don't speak German .

Excerpt - Nameless by Kreg feedback Steven Ray Orr don't forget the call me button on the site - click it, enter your phone #, it calls you and connects you to our message service, it works & it's FREE
tips & tricks Kreg of the excerpt suggests using imdb for names, just mix & match
plot bunny a character has a near death experience & comes back changed
theme music is Dragon Dance by Shiva in Exile @ Magnatune.com email darusha + nanowrimo @ gmail.com

Back to reality - this totally sucks! Oh well, at least there are mp3 s.
housekeeping the theme music is life in a tube by Bjorn Fogelberg which I found on the excellent Magnatune.com keep on commenting and emailing if you want, but stop calling main course the other Sarah cascade-fire is a winner! Michael is a winner! Steph is a winner! lulu.com has a free book offer for nanowrimo winners reading Sarah (cascade-fire) s-s-s-something from the forums the ‘I won and am really depressed now’ thread It's been a great month! See y'all next year.

Less than 48 hours left. So, why are you listening to me?feedback Sarah has questions:
1. What’s your day job? - I'm a civil servant for the Government of Canada
2. What novel writing program do you use? I always wondered if those programs were worth purchasing . - I use CopyWrite , it's awesome and totally worth buying (Mac only)
3. As a nano veteran, is it normal for nano participants to sink into gut-wrenching depression when it’s all over? I swear I think I’m a freak. I’ve been on this amazing creative high for a month now, and I reached the 50k mark, and then plummeted into the pit of despair. is this normal, or am I in desperate need of lithium? - Yes, it's normal
Michael says, “Do you ever write scenes where your characters are standing around waiting for you to tell them what to do? That’s depressing. Then later something clicks, and your characters are doing things you didn’t intend them to do, living a life of their own. That’s fun.” main course Eugenia is a winner! Sarah is a winner! displaced beatnick is a winner! to everyone else who is a winner – congrats!! to everyone else who’s madly writing – go go go!! reading Sarah's excerpt
s-s-s-something from the forums reaching 50K

Neener neener neener, I am a wiener. In mp3 format.

feedback Michael has been sending me lots of encouraging nanomail, and I fear he knows me better than I know myself Nan sent a whole lot more distractions:
Bad Language The Word Project The Alternative Dictionaries Web Economy Bullshit Generator Writer Beware The Apostrophe Protection Society main course I got the green, then the purple bar I made a snowman as a celebration

reading stompy's excerpt
promo – Billibub Baddings and the Case of the Singing Sword s-s-s-something from the forums dirty tricks for increasing wordcount

Wherein the host waxes poetic about all the lovely encouragement she’s gotten from the listeners and Oscar-Mike-Golf ! Another McManlyPants novel is done! Listen to the fangirl babble .
feedback Michael sent me a very encouraging nanomail Nan is sent me another great email about her excitement about being so close to done, worrying about typos and nice stuff about the podcast and its wonderful listeners main course woo hoo! to all the listeners many of us are very close to finishing if you aren’t close to 50K, don’t forget that this is one of those weird things where starting is almost as good as finishing we’re novelists – how cool is that? my neighbour & friend Kris got the green bar
so did Robust McManlyPants, about whom I talk for too long reading Eugenia's excerpt
s-s-s-something from the forums let’s encourage each other

So stinkin’ liberating! Get yer free mp3 s here (listen carefully to hear the sweet sounds of a hard drive spinning - spin baby, spin!).

feedback Michael wants to publish and mentions lulu.com donnieg liked hearing his words read, and is kicking ass & taking names Nan has reached that magic point where the characters are doing their own things nano-newbie Sarah (not the other Sarah) sent me a really nice email – yay! I’m happy to help! main course omg! donnieg has a green bar! Sforzie is over 100K traveling for me = crap for wordcount reading Robust McManlyPants’ excerpt shinan’s excerpt s-s-s-something from the forums where do you stand in your region?

Bet yer plot bunnies & ninjas (ninja bunnies?) here! And mp3 s, too.
feedback Michael writes about having similar problems as me, but got over it Nan has another distraction Lesley has a question - who wants to publish and who does NaNo as only a personal exercise
main course answering Lesley’s question, I only tend to write during nano, but yes, I have delusions of publishing Michael got over his blockage by spending a few minutes brainstorming – I did this early on & it helped a lot I also got out to the local meeting this weekend, I met Steph, talked about chickens, weasels and pants reading Steph’s excerpt promo – Morevi s-s-s-something from the forums get acquainted with your regional forums

I’m in ur plotz, feeding ur bunnyz. Listen to the madness here .

feedback
Sforzie & Josh (aka Alcar) commented on my readings
if you think I'll screw it up and you don't want me to, send me pronunciation keys if you sent me email about your reading, wait for it - it's coming
main course Nan's links – a title generator , a one word writing prompt and a cool collection of language related games I’m in ur X, Y-ing ur Z-z reading Michael’s excerpt promo – NanoMonkeys all about plot bunnies s-s-s-something from the forums games: in my pants

One third of the way in. Listen in as we fill the void.
feedback 2 votes for call-in show (sort of) - tell me what you want to do
a bunch of people have sent in excerpts or permission to read the excerpts in their profiles – keep it coming! Sarah is stuck in the week 2 doldrums main course 60second pep talk
I hit 20K! check out the Second Life group Nanowrimo Nuts - the next meetup is Sat, Nov 11 at 10am PST /SLT readings congratulations Sforzie and Josh on hitting 50K! (you both make me sick)
s-s-s-something from the forums creative cussing

Day One, Week Two. Still no plot. But there is an mp3 !
feedback I got an email from Nan while I was posting the last show look at Sforzie's wordcount email from Michael – it only takes a day to get behind, and a great tip for names: use descriptive placeholder names, like Toughguy or Bighair main course I'm using a modified (10+2)*5 hack (mine's 12+5 X a lot)
I'm using an app called flextime as a timer for the above anti-distraction plan
you can disable the flash profiles on the nanowrimo site in your own edit profile do people want to do a call in show? We'd use talkshoe (check it out and let me know)
reading Nan’s email promo – Dutch NaNo podcast s-s-s-something from the forums character questions

Slow going. Listen here .
feedback Sarah & Steph left comments I got email from Robust McManlyPants, my nano stalkee main course my wordcount is okay, but the story is slow going I have trouble with names I've been missing out on the local meetups – this is stupid and I need to stop being stupid reading no reading this week send me your stuff! (or just let me know if I can read your excerpt)
promo - The Survival Guide to Writing Fantasy
s-s-s-something from the forums random thing generators random name generator

And, we're off! Listen .

Feedback You've all been super awesome – but I'm supposed to be the encouraging one!
Nan writes about using 100 words a day (more on wikipedia )
I got encouraging email from Michael and returning listener Baron Leslie sent me a voice mail with the most awesome image in it – listen What's up today the nanowrimo site is slow as molasses you can now subscribe only to the forums you actually read don’t forget to upload chunks of your novel in progress so we can all read I’d like to do readings, so send me an audio file of your reading, send me text for me to read or just let me know if you want me to read your excerpt Reading my excerpt
Promo Evil Genius Chronicles
s-s-s-something from the forums – wordcount badges simple one graph another graph the one on my site official nanowrimo wordcount widgets

Episode 2 of year 2 - the terrible twos! Here's the mp3 .

Feedback Sarah left a comment about I Should Be Writing , and mentions Holly Lisle’s podcast there's an audio message from tomoyan Michael writes that he’s going to cheat & finish something, and he likes my “podcast voice” Steph left an audio comment, and we’re probably going to meet in Real Life
Main Course there's a really useful exercise on forums - the one word plot summary I’m not stoked this year maybe if I heard from all y’all, might help (hint hint)
nanowrimo flickr group s-s-s-something from the forums Ladies and gentlemen of nanowrimo Promo - Escape Pod Don't forget to change your clocks back one hour on Saturday night

Episode one of year two - in glorious mp3-o-vision .
The Basics the theme music is life in a tube by Bjorn Fogelberg which I found on the excellent Magnatune.com check out the chat box, where you can leave short voice messages or call me @ 206-222-2349 or email me at darusha plus nanowrimo at gmail.com or leave a comment talk to me!!!
The Plan no daily show this year more interviews and readings I'd love to get other people doing readings, so call me, email me mp3s, or send me your text & I’ll read it Nano Plans
umm... not much I might try a modified version of the snowflake method s-s-s-something from the forums (inspired by the show with ze frank ) google docs
the thread about google docs/writely
Promo - I Should Be Writing

Greetings for another year, writers and would-be novelists. I have decided to once again delve into the insanity that is NaNoWriMo, and I'm going to do the podcast again, too. I had already figured that I would, but today I got an email from someone who had just discovered last year's 'cast and was begging (okay, maybe just asking) me to do it again this year. So, I guess I have no choice. It probably won't be a daily show this year; I just don't think I'll have enough time. But, we shall see.

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Have a listen to a promo (Yeah, it's just a revamped version of last year's - too bad).