Whoo-hoo! X)



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

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.

--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!

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.

True!


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

LOL Guilty as charged!

-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." )

*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.

Ditto.Good idea! 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.

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!

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.

I must not be a crazy NaNoer then...

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.

Haha, that's funny.

^ 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.

You take your computer everywhere you go, even on lunch break, but you can hardly write because you are so sleep deprived.

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.

Wow. Nice.

--When you measure time in words.

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.

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....

That's... two days to 40, unless I'm mistaken...

I do these, and I'm not NaNoing!

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

That would make me not normal. *high-fives Eruheran*

When you only dream in text.... (has not happened to me...)

Talk about a sad boring dream! LOL!

I have however...."When you dream about your word count".

VERY strange...

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)

-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.

Not if the text comes alive and starts eating you!

-When you have three play-lists and two CDs that are titled; writing music.

-If your mother is worried that you will get "too creative" because you are coming up with so much? (what is that supposed to mean?!?)

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

-If you fight with fellow nano-ers about who gets the fridge on their side of the room.

Are you serious?

Hehe, ok... I have never done that one!

*shakes head *

I remember reading over your shoulder during those car drives.

*always writes on car drives, or is on HW *

...When you are scared out of your mind, but doing it anyways. O_O