30 July 2012 @ 10:06 pm
Camp NaNo Support Group - August Session  
A few of us were talking over in the Creative Support Group Thread (CSGT?) about Camp NaNoWriMo. The site is here). In a nutshell, by signing up for CampNaNo, you're challenging yourself to write 50,000 words (a novel) in 31 days, beginning August 1st.

Since there isn't really much of a message board system over on site for Camp, I'm just gonna put this here so we have a place to cheer, commiserate, and have fun. (I have plot bunnies - literal little puff-ball bunnies with sticky feet attached to prompt cards - and I'm not afraid to use them**.)

ETA: Word Count Check-In

**If anyone needs them, the blue bunnies are object bunnies, the purple ones are conflict bunnies, the yellow ones are general bunnies (but not General bunnies), and the pink ones are relationship bunnies.
 
 
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http://lar_laughs.livejournal.com/: Hitgirl - Wanna play[identity profile] lar_laughs.livejournal.com on August 5th, 2012 03:54 pm (UTC)
I think I want bunnies! A blue one and a purple one. Wait. I feel bad. I'm not giving all the bunnies their due. How relationshipy are the pink bunnies? What does it mean by general?

Oh, heck. Give me one of each color. Who cares! THIS IS NANO! There's not thinking in NaNo!
[identity profile] cybermathwitch.livejournal.com on August 6th, 2012 01:42 am (UTC)
Hi! I come bearing bunnies!

(In answer to your questions, the relationship-y ones can be anything from a kinda gen-ish friendship prompt to full-on romance, just depends. They're things that involve people's relationships and interactions with one another, basically. And the general bunnies are actually "action" bunnies - prompts telling a character to do something. I really should get some green bunnies and make them "General" bunnies with orders like "write 500 words!" on them.)

Blue (object): heirloom necklace
Pink (relationship - again, not necessarily romance or sexual): two characters are stuck in close quarters
Purple (conflict): something blows up (literally)
Yellow (action): wear a costume
http://lar_laughs.livejournal.com/: Funny Fall Leaves[identity profile] lar_laughs.livejournal.com on August 6th, 2012 03:06 am (UTC)
I will give them the best home EVER!

Yes, you should get green bunnies. They could also be things like "write for twenty minutes without stopping or backspacing" or things like that.
[identity profile] cybermathwitch.livejournal.com on August 6th, 2012 03:14 am (UTC)
They could also be things like "write for twenty minutes without stopping or backspacing" or things like that.

Have you ever used "Write or Die"? (http://writeordie.com/) It's awesome. :D
http://lar_laughs.livejournal.com/: Danbo - waiting for coffee[identity profile] lar_laughs.livejournal.com on August 6th, 2012 03:42 am (UTC)
I've used it a couple of times with good success. I'm more a "fits and starts" sort of writer so I can't use it often. It stresses me out! I should buckle down and write more for longer instead of taking all the little breaks to check the "important things" on the internet. I'm not even opening up Facebook this month (and it hasn't stressed me out in the least) so that is going to save me a stupid amount of time that I've been wasting for the last year. Ugh!

Do you use it often (omg, I just wrote awesome instead of often and then couldn't remember how to write often and it's only like 9:30 here so I shouldn't be this punchy!) when you're writing?
[identity profile] cybermathwitch.livejournal.com on August 6th, 2012 03:50 am (UTC)
Sometimes I need it worse than others - usually I turn to it when I'm having writers-blocky-issues because i forces me to work past them, even if it ends up being crap it'll shake something loose.
http://lar_laughs.livejournal.com/[identity profile] lar_laughs.livejournal.com on August 6th, 2012 03:55 am (UTC)
I get some of my best ideas when I write fast. Yes, granted, they have to be rewritten but it's exactly what you said. A good way to shake things loose!