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    #16
    What kind of exercises or challenges are you thinking?
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      #17
      I'm not sure. I was hoping you guys might have some ideas. I'll do some searches over the weekend, and get some ideas.
      "Dance until your feet hurt. Sing until your lungs hurt. Act until you're William Hurt." - Phil Dunphy ("Modern Family"), from Phil's-osophy.

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        #18
        Not sure either, lol, never really done them before that I can think of
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          #19
          I didn't do much looking, but found an interesting one we could all try.

          Write a 26 sentence story with each sentence starting with a successive letter of the alphabet.
          "Dance until your feet hurt. Sing until your lungs hurt. Act until you're William Hurt." - Phil Dunphy ("Modern Family"), from Phil's-osophy.

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            #20
            Hmm, that sounds interesting, possibly leading to a chaotic story, lol.
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              #21
              I finally started my Strange Critters story, so I need to concentrate on that at home, but maybe I can do this at work at lunch time.
              "Dance until your feet hurt. Sing until your lungs hurt. Act until you're William Hurt." - Phil Dunphy ("Modern Family"), from Phil's-osophy.

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                #22
                Interesting idea. It could be something to start in the Sharing Your Work subforum, perhaps, or on a dedicated thread. I wouldn't know where to begin on the 26 sentence challenge, though.

                Well, "A" I guess...

                Another site I occasionally haunt has a subforum for writing challenges. The monthly challenges often see a lot of forum activity.

                http://www.sffchronicles.co.uk/forum...ng-challenges/

                I'll see if my twisted little mind can come up with something in the meantime.
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                  #23
                  I might go for it. I once wrote 9,000 words in one day, but it really wigged me out...we'll see. Great idea, though--will show the validity of an idea.

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                    #24
                    I'm definitely going to give NaNo another go this year. I completely failed last year to make any significant progress because November is a beast of a month at my work. Hope to do better this year. Anyone doing the Camp NaNo in July? I'm thinking about giving it a shot for a longer Novella that has been brewing for a while. Kinda like a warmup for November.

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                      #25
                      Originally posted by Sock Monkey View Post
                      I'm definitely going to give NaNo another go this year. I completely failed last year to make any significant progress because November is a beast of a month at my work. Hope to do better this year. Anyone doing the Camp NaNo in July? I'm thinking about giving it a shot for a longer Novella that has been brewing for a while. Kinda like a warmup for November.
                      I'm considering whether to do Camp NaNo in July. If I do it I likely will use that month to start on my story for the actual NaNoWriMo in November because I can easily see this story going longer than 50,000 words. Heck, I won't be surprised if it is something I will decide to split into more than one story so as not to make a massively long story.
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                        #26
                        Wow, no posts here in a while, lol!

                        I ended up not doing Camp NaNo in July due to other things getting in the way, but oh well. Right now I am patiently for October to begin so I can add this year's novel to my page. In the meantime I still have to do more prep work for my story, including research. I have a crapload of pages bookmarked just for that purpose though.

                        So what have the rest of the NaNoers been doing to prepare for their stories? Anything? Nothing?
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                          #27
                          Reading, researching and outlining, though not as much as I'd like, and not as much as I did for The Floors. I've been having fun creating my main character and supporting cast, though, and I have a cool finale in mind. This year's NaNo could be a story I pants more than plan, which could be interesting. Or a disaster.
                          Last edited by Lucian Poll; 09-30-2013, 09:06 PM. Reason: Extraneous wordage
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                            #28
                            I'm a natural pantser, so doing planning won't be easy. I think I am going to take some advice I found on the NaNoWriMo website when it comes to research though http://blog.nanowrimo.org/post/62067...ent-1057439806
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                              #29
                              There might be a few passages in my first draft that read "beef this up in the second draft". I can already sense Future Me's incandescent fury at finding them.
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                                #30
                                lol, well that will just add to the word count that you accrue! I know I plan to have a trash folder in my Scrivener project file where I will keep a copy of all my typing from forums and Facebook and such. This is to have just in case I find myself struggling and will be removed if I find I don't need it.
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