Who won NaNo?

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Who won NaNo?

Who won NaNo?

I DID!! Had to stay up SUPERDUPER late to finish (I wrote by hand this year... >.<) But I did! Validated at 11:15 with half my story still untold. I feel like this one's getting somewhere.

Tell us some of your spectacularific NaNoWriMo tales of Woe. They can be from your novel or just stuff that happened. Here's mine:

So it's November 30th and I am 10,000 behind. Luckily, school finished for the trimester on Thursday (curse you exams... sucking all the creativity out of meee...) and I had all of Friday to write, because we didn't have school.

Sat around in my pajamas all day with a notebook. Best. Day. Ever. I don't even remember if I ate breakfast. Or lunch. You know, I don't think I ate anything today. Well. That's a problem. Let me go find an apple or something.

Spambert Spamstein says ikod.

--L

(Postscript: If any of this seems exteremly random, kind of crazy and/or sleep deprived, please do not say so. I apologize for the weirdness.)

 

Congratulations, L!

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submitted by L
(November 30, 2012 - 11:17 pm)

back to the Inkwell

I won for my own word goal, which was 30,000.  I ended really badly, though.  I'm giving a copy of it to my friend so he can tell me all the awful stuff I wrote.  I stayed up until 9:30.  If you're writing by hand, how do you know how much you wrote?  Because I personally don't want to count every single word.  But next year I would want to Nano in a notebook.

Congrats, all Nanoers!

 

Yes, congrats to all, and welcome back to Chatterbox, to those who took time away in November!

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submitted by Helen S., age 12, Woodstock, NY
(December 1, 2012 - 9:18 am)

TOOOOOOOP!

Well, I guess you would have to count every single word.

submitted by TOP, age toptoptop, at the top
(December 2, 2012 - 7:32 pm)

I did. It was kind of time-consuming, but I made up for that with the easiness of just cracking open a notebook instead of booting up my laptop every time I want to squeeze in a sentence or two. And validating's easy, just use a lorem ipsum generator.

submitted by L
(December 6, 2012 - 3:38 pm)

I literally validated my word-count minutes before time ran out. I was up really late. I got back from the reception for my dance show on the last night of NaNo at 11:00 and I wrote nonstop for the last hour and wrote the most I ever did in a hour (and in a dayEmbarassed) which was 1,400 words in the last hour. It was amazing and the validators closed literally right after I validated and it was amazing. I was just steadily writing and I don't think I've ever written like that before. I just kept my fingers on the keyboard and thought about nothing else but my story and occasionally checked my word-count up in the toolbar and it was almost midnight and I was shaking because it was so close and I checked it and I met my goal! After I validated it I screamed and I started to tell my brother that I did it and the I realized that he had left the room while I was typing.

Wow I just used a lot of run-on sentences. Anyway, YAY!Smile

Captcha says fhuf. Sounds like phew. Yes captcha, phew.

submitted by Miki G., age 11
(December 9, 2012 - 12:57 pm)

Congrats, Miki!  That sounds like a really awesome Nano.  My end of NaNo was relatively boring. I came home from school and wrote 1,200 words (with many distractions on youtube) and validated by 9:30.  Not too interesting.

submitted by Gollum, Mooseflower
(December 9, 2012 - 8:32 pm)