NaNoWriMo

Minzoku · Post by **Minzoku** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 4:44 pm

I might as well ask... anyone participating in Nano this year?

magnum opus · Post by **magnum opus** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 5:05 pm

yeah, won last year too.

captain ahar · Post by **captain ahar** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 6:41 pm

jeez that sounds like fun. signing up as i speak (well after really, but you get the idea).

Tomtom · Post by **Tomtom** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 8:08 pm

Hell, I might as well.

DoDonPachi: The Novel!

EDIT: OK, I've started. So far, I have two characters, whose initials are JAM and PROSECTUTEDT. Jdehioioaueaeiuoieuaieouan Athemwfwlemmki Moeoeoeoeoeoedddddka and Peter Robert Orrin Steven Edwin Christopher Undinus Thomas Edgar Delridge Terrykins. This is gonna rock.

Minzoku · Post by **Minzoku** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 2:18 am

I figured writing a shmup novel would be hard... it'd be all dodge sequences!

Great names, TomTom

Specineff · Post by **Specineff** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 3:47 am

I haven't had any ideas since my two characters Elly and Malcolm escaped an isolated city, a la Wolf's Rain.

And I started it in May 2002.

Tomtom · Post by **Tomtom** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 6:21 am

My story has the best chapter names ever:

Prologue - Before the Attack of the Giant Bees From Outer Space Who Don't Like People And Wish To Someday Destroy All Of Them Completely Because They Don't Like Them And They Have A Lot Of Big Guns With Which To Destroy Humans And The World That They Live In, By Which I Mean The Earth, That Blue-Green Planet Home To Many Species Of Life, Which They Want To Destroy Because As I Said Before, They Really Don't Like Humans, Or In Fact Anybody

Chapter 1 - Wanderings In The Desert By A Guy Named Agerod Who Is Obviously In Pretty Bad Shape Judging By The Fact That He Is Malnourished, Has A Busted Arm, And Has A Pretty Weird Name That Sounds Like An Old Penis

Chapter 2 - Agerod Finds Out Where He Is, And Divulges Some Of His Ultra Mysterious Past To The Person Who It Turns Out Lived In The Hut That Agerod Was Trying To Get To Before He Passed Out From Malnutrition And Heat Exhaustion

Yep, I'm filling up as much space as possible

. I don't know how or if I'm going to tie this in with DDP, but it's going to be an interesting ride.

EDIT: Holy crap, I just wrote a 295-word sentence:

"Well, I originally came from Gyrutinia-Yettrion Bosylzylvanizia," he replied, "but then I moved to Undowosurugochu of Great Yill, where I joined the armed forces and went on duty in Jutto Von Geramutti, Ftarri Buikolian, Quygeyamaua Ieyeinjiao Niovedssyu, Perlugia, Huygen Intentir Hapoplia, Varlige's Mountain, and the border between Riondiisersland and Einvodpawervonk, among various other locales and nations that were in need of some sundry military aid at the time due to whatever circumstances were present, such as perhaps foreign invasion, internal strife, or natural disasters, which, although they are quite difficult to actually fight physically against, end up causing the need for much medical help, what with their uprooting or destroying of homes and habitations, and destruction of many man-made objects such as power plants, water facilities, and sewer systems, much of the repair of which in the case of the 2420 flood in the northeastern corner of Quygeyamaua Ieyeinjiao Niovedssyu I was responsible for, and there I served admirably to bring the course of events back to as close to a normal state as I possibly could without interfering with the culture of the indigenous people or otherwise causing irreversible chaos, which would be highly unsavory and was against the very principles that we, the National Armed Forces League of Undowosurugochu of Great Yill, stood for, held dear to our hearts, and attempted to put into practice in all of our endeavors, both in military and casual, social interactions with others as we made our way through the world trying to promote the Undowosurugochuan law, under which all of the world could eventually, hopefully, learn to strive together, hand in hand, for everlasting, unbreakable compassion for one another, while keeping bloodshed to a discreet minimum and promoting dialogue between all the world's major nations."

Minzoku · Post by **Minzoku** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 1:47 pm

I wonder if they should count that as cheating if half of the novel is your characters' names

Well, it's YOUR novel

so it boils down to "you get out of it what you put into it."

captain ahar · Post by **captain ahar** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 4:12 pm

excellent tomtom. never heard of a novel that uses its chapter titles to sort of summarize the following chapter.

Minzoku · Post by **Minzoku** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 4:05 pm

I showed that to my friends, and one of them asked if there were any giant space insects that like people

I also couldn't get any serious writing done, because I kept thinking about your entry and laughing

Tomtom · Post by **Tomtom** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 4:13 pm

Umm...I may not be doing this after all. I just got slammed with work and school stuff, which will be going on until November 18th or so, and though it's fun to make up stupid crap like that, I don't think it would be wise right now. Sorry for getting you off track

Minzoku · Post by **Minzoku** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 5:45 pm

Oh, well, you tried

it was good for a laugh, anyway, which is kind of what Nano's about in the first place

Vexorg · Post by **Vexorg** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 8:31 pm

I actually took a crack at writing something out of a shmup plot once, but never finished it up... Maybe I'll have to dig that up and post it at some point.