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• you stayed up until 12am on November 1st just so you could start your NaNo novel.

• you set your voicemail message to:
"Hi, you have reached my phone. I'm currently taking part in the insanity called NaNoWriMo, which means I'm dedicating my November to writing a 50,000 word novel. It might be awhile before I can detach myself from the computer, and when I do I may seem schizophrenic, but go ahead and leave a message and I'll get back to you as soon as I have regained sanity. *beep*"

--You want to do NaNo, but can't so you enthusiastically cheer the others on! (Not to mention waiting for their stories...

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-When you want to participate in a NaNoWriMo, but find yourself stuck in a prison called life with schoolwork as your jailer. :roll:

-When you wonder if all your school related words and essays will add up to 50,000 words by the end of the month. (I think I'll have to do a word count sometime.)

You know you're a crazy NaNo writer when...

• you stayed up until 12am on November 1st just so you could start your NaNo novel.

--Your mother is already worried that your school work will suffer during November. (it might. just a little.

~ you now bring your laptop with you everywhere and you write on car drives.

~ you were annoyed when you went to a fancy restaurant because your mother would not allow you to whip out your laptop and write while waiting for your food.

You know what it means to get your "Write or Die" on.

Well, then let me enlighten you.

http://writeordie.drwicked.com/box.html ... l&grace=17

You type your words into this and it will eat them, flash the screen red, and yell at you if you don't keep typing in words with rapid regularity.

You know you're a nano fan when you finish all of the 50,000 words on like the 6th day and the 13th day.

Conversation that just took place:
"Andrew, can you help me?"
"Sure, just wait 21 words, ok?
"Sure."

~ when you ⌘+S everything. Google searches. Forum posts. Word documents. ⌘+S. Everything, every few words. ⌘+S. (Adapted from a post on the NaNoWriMo forums, it would be CTRL is you're not on a Mac.)

• when the days in November are counted according to milestone word counts. (Eg: November 7 = one day past 10k; November 22 = a day to 40k, etc.)

• when you ⌘+S everything. Google searches. Forum posts. Online games. ⌘+S. Everything, every few words. ⌘+S. (Adapted from a post on the NaNoWriMo forums, it would be CTRL is you're not on a Mac.) ⌘+S.

• when you carry a thumb drive of the latest backup of your novel just in case your computer blows up while you are out, because losing your novel-in-progress would be the worst thing that ever happened to you.

Wait, normal people DON'T count time in words? Strange...

-When you abbreviate NaNoWriMo to NaNo.
-When you think November's real name is NaNoWriMo.
-When you are proud of your character's flaws.
-When you have four pens and two notebooks in your backpack and two pens and one notepad in your pocket.
-When you set your homepage on the internet as Write or Die.

Talk about a sad boring dream! LOL!

-If you have moved your refrigerator into your room so you can get food and write at the same time.

~ you now bring your laptop with you everywhere and you write on car drives.

Author:	Evening L. Aspen [ November 1st, 2010, 1:44 pm ]
Post subject:	You know you're a crazy fantasy writer... NaNoWriMo edition
With the arrival of NaNoWriMo, a lot of us are going rather crazy in our quest to write 50,000 words in the month of November. In honor of the "You know you're a crazy fantasy writer when..." thread, here is is a place to post all of the symptoms of NaNoWriMo. You know you're a crazy NaNo writer when... • you stayed up until 12am on November 1st just so you could start your NaNo novel. • you set your voicemail message to: "Hi, you have reached my phone. I'm currently taking part in the insanity called NaNoWriMo, which means I'm dedicating my November to writing a 50,000 word novel. It might be awhile before I can detach myself from the computer, and when I do I may seem schizophrenic, but go ahead and leave a message and I'll get back to you as soon as I have regained sanity. beep" • you dressed up as your NaNo MC on Halloween as a way to prepare for November. • you have posted in this thread. Well, that's all I have for now (got to get back to the ol' word processing doc) but I can't wait to see what ya'll come up with. ~ Evening

Author:	Arias Mimetes [ November 1st, 2010, 3:49 pm ]
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Evening L. Aspen wrote: • you stayed up until 12am on November 1st just so you could start your NaNo novel. Whoo-hoo! X) Evening L. Aspen wrote: • you set your voicemail message to: "Hi, you have reached my phone. I'm currently taking part in the insanity called NaNoWriMo, which means I'm dedicating my November to writing a 50,000 word novel. It might be awhile before I can detach myself from the computer, and when I do I may seem schizophrenic, but go ahead and leave a message and I'll get back to you as soon as I have regained sanity. beep" I may have to change mine now Although mine would sound more like: "Hi. It's November, so I'm probably either writing or hunting. It may be a while before I answer the phone, and I'll probably forget to call you back, but you obviously had a reason for calling, so leave a message and I'll get back to you eventually." I'd mention being attacked by my characters, but I don't want to appear entirely insane

Author:	Willow Wenial Mimetes [ November 1st, 2010, 8:24 pm ]
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You know you're a crazy fantasy writer... --If you're already crying over your characters stubborn refusal to do things in a timely fashion. --Your mother is already worried that your school work will suffer during November. (it might. just a little.) --You don't eat regular meals anymore. You just snack all day as you type. (guilty as charged. ) --You are furious because your speakers are broken and your boombox is skipping and thus you are left music-less and uninspired and bitter and are going to die lonely and frustrated on a broken down cot in a weary, dirty old--er...grimace Never mind about that one. --You are procrastinating terribly by posting on this forum.

Author:	Kiev Shawn [ November 1st, 2010, 8:45 pm ]
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--You want to do NaNo, but can't so you enthusiastically cheer the others on! (Not to mention waiting for their stories... )

Author:	Calenmiriel [ November 1st, 2010, 10:17 pm ]
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Shawn Henderson wrote: --You want to do NaNo, but can't so you enthusiastically cheer the others on! (Not to mention waiting for their stories... ) Yes! I'm not the only one! Woo hoo! Thank-y, Shawn!

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Author:	Celestria [ November 2nd, 2010, 3:32 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: You know you're a crazy fantasy writer... NaNoWriMo edit
You know your a crazy fantasy writer... -When you want to participate in a NaNoWriMo, but find yourself stuck in a prison called life with schoolwork as your jailer. -When you wonder if all your school related words and essays will add up to 50,000 words by the end of the month. (I think I'll have to do a word count sometime.) -When you dream you wrote a 100,000 word story in one month based on ninjas, a burning building, and moldy cheese. (It was a good dream until I got to that last bit.) (This is an imagined one for if I was participating) -When you have a million ideas all planned out to the ending scene, but get stuck on 500 words and under when you finally start writing.

Author:	Andrew Amnon Mimetes [ November 2nd, 2010, 8:18 pm ]
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Quote: -When you want to participate in a NaNoWriMo, but find yourself stuck in a prison called life with schoolwork as your jailer. True! Quote: -When you wonder if all your school related words and essays will add up to 50,000 words by the end of the month. (I think I'll have to do a word count sometime.) Also very true. I'm working on a rough draft of a term paper this month so that alone should get me half way there. Happy NaNoing all you free, young, grasshoppers. eruheran

Author:	Hisart [ November 2nd, 2010, 8:24 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: You know you're a crazy fantasy writer... NaNoWriMo edit
Evening L. Aspen wrote: You know you're a crazy NaNo writer when... • you stayed up until 12am on November 1st just so you could start your NaNo novel. LOL Guilty as charged!

Author:	Rachel Newhouse [ November 2nd, 2010, 10:46 pm ]
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-When November is your busiest month of the year, but you're idiotic enough to do NaNo anyway. (Not all of us are free grasshoppers. Schoolwork isn't the only jailer on the block. Try "day job." )

Author:	Airianna Valenshia [ November 2nd, 2010, 11:34 pm ]
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Nods The "day job" is only half the reason I can't do Nano. The household responsibilities contributes to my inability a lot too. I may not be a crazy Nano writer, but I am a crazy Nanoer fan! I’m cheering everyone on.

Author:	Elanhil [ November 3rd, 2010, 8:56 pm ]
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Willow Wenial wrote: --Your mother is already worried that your school work will suffer during November. (it might. just a little. Ditto. Evening L. Aspen wrote: ~ you now bring your laptop with you everywhere and you write on car drives. Good idea! Evening L. Aspen wrote: ~ you were annoyed when you went to a fancy restaurant because your mother would not allow you to whip out your laptop and write while waiting for your food. I can identify with this!! Although I wasn't even allowed to bring my laptop. I fell behind that day and had to get up early the next morning to catch up! -You find your self using as many words as you possibly could in what should be a short sentence but you turn in to a long sentence just because you need to reach your goal and the best way to do that is to make your thoughts as long as possible! (ok, not really. You could make your novel richer or something.) -Your progress in reading a certain book grinds to a halt. -You have a conversation like this: Friend: So what have you been doing recently. You: [glancing up from notebook] Writing. Friend: What else? You: Just writing. Friend: Don't you sleep or anything? You: No, just writing. -You use as little internet as possible because you are worried that on November 25th onward you won't have any megabytes left on your internet plan and won't be able to be whisked away to the winners page! (Gasp!) That's all I got right now.

Author:	Celearas [ November 5th, 2010, 11:28 am ]
Post subject:	Re: You know you're a crazy fantasy writer... NaNoWriMo edit
You read these: http://www.nanowrimo.org/node/3748387 and find yourself smiling and laughing, because you know they're so true. If you're in a bad way, check them out. They're the 10 Commandments of NaNo, and hilarious. But thou shall not let them get in the way of your writing!

Author:	Willow Wenial Mimetes [ November 5th, 2010, 3:28 pm ]
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You know you're a crazy Nanowriter when... You go to bed after midnight, all November. You eat a diet of halloween candy, and cheetos, all from the comfort of your keyboard. You know what it means to get your "Write or Die" on.

Author:	Elanhil [ November 7th, 2010, 5:44 am ]
Post subject:	Re: You know you're a crazy fantasy writer... NaNoWriMo edit
Willow Wenial wrote: You know what it means to get your "Write or Die" on. I must not be a crazy NaNoer then...

Author:	Willow Wenial Mimetes [ November 7th, 2010, 11:27 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: You know you're a crazy fantasy writer... NaNoWriMo edit
Well, then let me enlighten you. http://writeordie.drwicked.com/box.html ... l&grace=17 You type your words into this and it will eat them, flash the screen red, and yell at you if you don't keep typing in words with rapid regularity.

Author:	Elanhil [ November 9th, 2010, 10:46 am ]
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Haha, that's funny.

Author:	Celearas [ November 9th, 2010, 11:55 am ]
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^ I love those things! Is that the one that will play obnoxious music loudly if you stop? That's great to use in the middle of the night, you get the fear of stupid music and your family if you wake them up.

Author:	Elanhil [ November 15th, 2010, 6:17 am ]
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You take your computer everywhere you go, even on lunch break, but you can hardly write because you are so sleep deprived.

Author:	Princess Arante Weneve [ November 15th, 2010, 6:25 am ]
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Willow Wenial wrote: Well, then let me enlighten you. http://writeordie.drwicked.com/box.html ... l&grace=17 You type your words into this and it will eat them, flash the screen red, and yell at you if you don't keep typing in words with rapid regularity. I've used that during the last 10,000 words for my 50,000 words. It's very nice. I stayed up till midnight and welcomed Nano into the Eastern time. You know you're a nano fan when you finish all of the 50,000 words on like the 6th day and the 13th day.

Author:	Kiev Shawn [ November 22nd, 2010, 7:49 pm ]
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Arwen_Eveningstar wrote: You know you're a nano fan when you finish all of the 50,000 words on like the 6th day and the 13th day. Wow. Nice.

Author:	Elanhil [ November 22nd, 2010, 9:06 pm ]
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--When you measure time in words. Conversation that just took place: "Andrew, can you help me?" "Sure, just wait 21 words, ok? "Sure."

Author:	Eirwyn [ November 23rd, 2010, 12:21 am ]
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Elanhil wrote: Conversation that just took place: "Andrew, can you help me?" "Sure, just wait 21 words, ok? "Sure." lol! That was hilarious! I sometimes do it too though... ~when you don't go to bed until you have written all 1667 words, and reached your goal.

Author:	Evening L. Aspen [ November 23rd, 2010, 1:27 am ]
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• when the days in November are counted according to milestone word counts. (Eg: November 7 = one day past 10k; November 22 = a day to 40k, etc.) • when you become temporarily myopic from working so hard late into the night. • when you ⌘+S everything. Google searches. Forum posts. Online games. ⌘+S. Everything, every few words. ⌘+S. (Adapted from a post on the NaNoWriMo forums, it would be CTRL is you're not on a Mac.) ⌘+S. • when your teacher (who totally supports your insane venture) starts off one of her classes by telling a story that is basically a message for you to get some sleep. • when you are having a conversation with said teacher, and she tells you that you need to get some rest, and you just blink at her... • when you think that eleven is a ridiculously early bedtime, and you will never get any writing done if you have to go to bed that early. • when you carry a thumb drive of the latest backup of your novel just in case your computer blows up while you are out, because losing your novel-in-progress would be the worst thing that ever happened to you. • when, when you are asked in Sunday school if you have any prayer requests, you ask people to pray that you will finish NaNo on time (and retain some fraction of sanity...) • when you "type" whenever you are not on your laptop; on the kitchen table, on textbooks, etc. Everywhere. • when you believe that the most wonderful sight in the world is seeing a vertical blue bar pass a diagonal purple line. • when this smiley fits your optic state pretty well:

Author:	Lady Vilisse Mimetes [ November 23rd, 2010, 1:34 am ]
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Evening L. Aspen wrote: ~ when you ⌘+S everything. Google searches. Forum posts. Word documents. ⌘+S. Everything, every few words. ⌘+S. (Adapted from a post on the NaNoWriMo forums, it would be CTRL is you're not on a Mac.) Just wait till you CTRL+S or CTRL+Z something in real-life ~ you waste precious time finding good/inspirational quotes from the peptalks, create a .DOC of them (with the quotes resized, bolded or italicized to create emphasis) and print it out to put on your bedroom wall...... I did that two years ago.... There are 8,766 hours in a year....

Author:	Elanhil [ November 23rd, 2010, 5:52 am ]
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Evening L. Aspen wrote: • when the days in November are counted according to milestone word counts. (Eg: November 7 = one day past 10k; November 22 = a day to 40k, etc.) That's... two days to 40, unless I'm mistaken...

Author:	Kiev Shawn [ November 23rd, 2010, 8:48 am ]
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Evening L. Aspen wrote: • when you ⌘+S everything. Google searches. Forum posts. Online games. ⌘+S. Everything, every few words. ⌘+S. (Adapted from a post on the NaNoWriMo forums, it would be CTRL is you're not on a Mac.) ⌘+S. • when you carry a thumb drive of the latest backup of your novel just in case your computer blows up while you are out, because losing your novel-in-progress would be the worst thing that ever happened to you. I do these, and I'm not NaNoing!

Author:	Andrew Amnon Mimetes [ November 26th, 2010, 9:42 pm ]
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I'd have to agree with Shawn--I do a lot of these too without even NaNoing =D Wait, normal people DON'T count time in words? Strange... eruheran

Author:	Kiev Shawn [ November 27th, 2010, 10:37 am ]
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That would make me not normal. high-fives Eruheran

Author:	Princess Arante Weneve [ November 27th, 2010, 5:20 pm ]
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When you only dream in text.... (has not happened to me...)

Author:	Willow Wenial Mimetes [ November 27th, 2010, 7:28 pm ]
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Talk about a sad boring dream! LOL! I have however...."When you dream about your word count".

Author:	Eirwyn [ December 6th, 2010, 12:09 pm ]
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eruheran wrote: Wait, normal people DON'T count time in words? Strange... VERY strange...

Author:	Princess Arante Weneve [ May 31st, 2011, 10:07 pm ]
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When you dream that all the words in the world are flying around you in a vortex and you do not know how to get out. (I just thought of this)

Author:	Elly [ June 1st, 2011, 11:56 am ]
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-When you abbreviate NaNoWriMo to NaNo. -When you think November's real name is NaNoWriMo. -When you are proud of your character's flaws. -When you have four pens and two notebooks in your backpack and two pens and one notepad in your pocket. -When you set your homepage on the internet as Write or Die.

Author:	Princess Arante Weneve [ June 1st, 2011, 1:22 pm ]
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Elly wrote: -When you abbreviate NaNoWriMo to NaNo. -When you think November's real name is NaNoWriMo. -When you are proud of your character's flaws. -When you have four pens and two notebooks in your backpack and two pens and one notepad in your pocket. -When you set your homepage on the internet as Write or Die. Oh, I love Write or Die.