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Comment from: Dave Van Domelen posted at October 3, 2005 3:20 PM

If you do the Not-Spider, you need to include fake ads for coal companies as inter-chapter bumpers. :)

Comment from: bzedan posted at October 3, 2005 3:23 PM

I am a real sucker for pulp, so that would be my first vote. Even so, this "interwoven series of short stories" sounds pretty nice too and, like you said, might be a perfect fit for the exercise.

Comment from: Ian K. posted at October 3, 2005 3:43 PM

I'm really curious about not-the-Spider.

So, that's my suggestion from a purely selfish standpoint. Your essays on that were some of your most impassioned writing and an absolute joy to read.

Dave's call on fake ads is also a good one. Dave, I approve of your thought processes.

Comment from: Eric Burns posted at October 3, 2005 3:46 PM

His thinking was inspired by Blue coal!! Colored a harmless, healthful color right at the mine for your convenience!

Comment from: vilious posted at October 3, 2005 3:47 PM

What is "this superhero/rumination thing I timelined"? I remember the Spider, but have missed any previous mention of this one.

Comment from: Shaenon posted at October 3, 2005 3:48 PM

If you think I'm backing off the romance novel idea, you are sorely mistaken, my friend. You know how to plot 'em. I've seen you do it. It would be awesome.

Also, I want to see you write a bunch of softcore sex scenes.

Comment from: Eric Burns posted at October 3, 2005 4:07 PM

Rapture by Browser's Light

Ashlynn Porter was a young artist, trained in fine arts, with only the most refined of schools and only the most refined of tastes. But Ashlynn's true passion was illustration. The art of caricature and cartooning. Discouraged by her family and Dale Roberts, the critic who her family and friends all assume she will marry, Ashlynn finds her spirit taking flight in the company of Gabriel Montaine -- young and rebellious, publishing comics of raw emotion on the web... and inspiring raw emotion in Ashlynn Porter.

Will Ashlynn follow the dictates of her family and formal art, or will she follow the passions of her heart in both?

Comment from: Paul Gadzikowski posted at October 3, 2005 4:21 PM

Left to myself I would've voted (not that it's a democracy) for the timelined superheroes, just cuz I'm me. But having read Ian K.'s comment I can't disagree that the not-Spider project is the one that, from the evidence before us, you have the most passion for.

Yet your observation we bounced the idea of a romance novel off one another earlier this year makes me wonder what passion could be brought to bear there which remains outside of evidence. So does the comment you posted while I was composing. Stop that! I was almost first on this website anouncing the GC telethon strip, too. But nooo. And your post wasn't up at 4:00, either, I looked at 4:06. Your day will come, Burns. Damn, I've got a test.

Comment from: Wednesday White posted at October 3, 2005 4:40 PM

Highly pornomantic novel about John Stark.

He is a hard man.

Comment from: Eric Burns posted at October 3, 2005 4:47 PM

Only if I can do sex scenes with Peggy Shippen.

Mmm... treasonalicious....

Comment from: Christopher B. Wright posted at October 3, 2005 5:12 PM

Heya Eric, for 2002 (I think it was 2002) I wound up writing a fairly goofy Space Opera. During the month of November I managed to crack 100,000 words (yes, I *did* go insane, thank you very much) and in the end it wound up being about 111,000 words. And I'm currently shopping it around, but I took a few months to do some serious editing and rewriting first.

Comment from: Christopher B. Wright posted at October 3, 2005 5:12 PM

No, wait, it was 2003.

Comment from: Wednesday White posted at October 3, 2005 5:14 PM

...dude, no scening with dead socialites. That's just --

-- oh. Wait. Right. Okay! Yeah, sure! Set it in the bagpipey lands across from the Fredericton Public Library, while you're at it. The bit where they get all "Benedict Arnold slept here! We're important too!" Then they can get totally interrupted by fweeeeeeeeeerrrrBWEEEEEEEEEOOOOOooooooooowwwwww every hour.

Comment from: Wistful Dreamer posted at October 3, 2005 5:30 PM

There's always high seas adventure, boy and his dog, randy dirty literature, combination of the last two, film noir type mystery, absurdist world gone amok, or travelogue. Oh, and lots not forget Harry Potter fan fic .

Comment from: Kneefers posted at October 3, 2005 5:36 PM

Man, I am so psyched about NaNoWriMo it's not even funny. Eric, I think you should go for the not-Spider thing. I'm intensely curious about it.

Comment from: Merus posted at October 3, 2005 5:43 PM

"There's always high seas adventure, boy and his dog, randy dirty literature, combination of the last two, film noir type mystery, absurdist world gone amok, or travelogue. Oh, and lots not forget Harry Potter fan fic ."

Or, if one is feeling adventurous/has a clinical condition, all of the above.

"Ronald Weasley and his dog Ju-Ju set sail from Liverpool for a round-the-world yacht voyage in grief over his parents, killed by Ministry of Love road workers. His delight over his adventure, and his growing feelings for his companion, are brutally sobered by the realisation that someone has sabotaged his voyage. Was is Hermione, jealous of Ju-Ju and tiring of their love? Was it Harry, finally driven over the brink from his battles with the dark arts? Was it Voldemort, because he's just a dick? Or was it someone else...?"

I'm telling you, bestseller of 2008.

Comment from: Lilamrta posted at October 3, 2005 5:54 PM

Neat. I vote for Romance, myself. ... though I'd want to be able to buy your book and say to whomever will listen, yeah, see this book? It was written by a guy who has a blog that I was reading and occasionally commenting in before he even wrote this.

Okay, I'm lame.

I think this NaNoWriMo thing is just what I need to kick myself into gear. I'm in.

Comment from: Rich Burlew posted at October 3, 2005 5:58 PM

Crap. Last year, I swore was going to do this next year. And now next year is pretty much THIS year, and the thought of making time for 50,000 words in November makes me want to curl into the fetal position.

For the record, I want to see all three written, but I think if you're really seriously looking to send it to be published, the pulp/not-Spider idea is the winner. I have a feeling that romance novel publishers would be able to tell that on some level, you're making fun of them. And I think most book publishers have all-but-ceded the superhero genre to the comics (or novels based directly off of liscensed comic characters).

(In utterly unrelated pointÛEric, my attempts to descry your email address from this site have proven fruitless. Can I bribe you into sending me an email by promising free books?)

Comment from: quiller posted at October 3, 2005 5:59 PM

'Twere it me, I'd probably go for the pulp thing. Though my mind is twiddling a bit on Revolutionary War pulp, due to the whole Stark thing. Take a veteran of the French-Indian war with the combat prowess of Mel Gibson's character in the Patriot. Put him in the hot-bed of intrigue that is pre-revolutionary Boston. Give him some British spymaster nemesis. Of course, now my mind is starting to drift into film-noir. Maybe if I had a mind that could stay still for a few minutes I might actually be able to do something with it...

Comment from: quiller posted at October 3, 2005 6:02 PM

Eric's email can be found in reverse Rebus form on the Websnark cast page. But don't let it stop you from sending him free books...

Comment from: John Bankert posted at October 3, 2005 6:04 PM

Hmm.....

Well, I'd vote for Pulp or Superhero, being a guy and all, hence romance has no interest to me. I still want to see what's left of Triggerman, tripe in your mind or no.

Must consider Nanowrimo. If I'm still pounding the unemployement line, might be doable.

Comment from: Rich Burlew posted at October 3, 2005 6:06 PM

Good lord, I'm an idiot. Maybe I should consider actually reading before I ask questions, though that might blunt the spontaneous nature of my commentary. Thank you, quiller. I've been trying to get a hold of him for like two months, without success.

Oh, and upon further reflection, combining Stark with the not-Spider for Revolutionary War-era pulp sounds like Publishing Gold to me.

Comment from: Plaid Phantom posted at October 3, 2005 6:18 PM

Ooh...thanks for reminding me, Eric. I'd planned on trying my hand at this. There's a couple of ideas I think I could work on...

I'd like to see the timeline, myself.

Comment from: Christopher B. Wright posted at October 3, 2005 6:22 PM

Don't think of it as 50,000 words in a month.

Think of it as 1750 words a day. That'll put you over the top by 2.5K...

Comment from: 32_footsteps posted at October 3, 2005 7:31 PM

I've since decided, since the last time it came up, to formally do NaNoWriMo myself. Eric, in fact, was the first to encourage me, and my idea to bridge the gap between the classic superhero and the postmodern superhero. Of course, the idea has heavy pulp and superhero influences... isn't that always the way?

On the hopes I can call dibs, mine is going to be called The Sigil.

Comment from: Merus posted at October 3, 2005 7:38 PM

I'm thinking of doing a humourous crime thriller, myself. Cause it's different, and because even though the things take planning I reckon that barrelling ahead and leaving the actual sprinkling of clues till later is my best bet.

And it's either that or a fantasy, and for this I've actually got a plot.

Comment from: TeleriB posted at October 3, 2005 7:42 PM

"I'm gonna be a bigtime mainstream author
Talk with Phil and Oprah on TV
I know that I can be a big time author
'Cause all I gotta do is write Romantically.

I'll have me a heroine who is virtuous
A sweet young thing whose head's not filled with fluff
She'll have a nature feminine and nurturous
With an unknown yen for strange and sensual stuff!

I'll set my story in a time botanical
The kind of place my readers pay to see
With flashin' swords and pirate hordes fanatical
And everything of course is done Romantically."

- from "Romantically," by Michael Longcor, on "Michael Longcor Live"

I'd vote for pulp, myself.

Comment from: siwangmu posted at October 3, 2005 8:02 PM

John Bankert said, "Well, I'd vote for Pulp or Superhero, being a guy and all, hence romance has no interest to me."

Let's all take a moment to stare at our cultural definitions in bogglement, because apparently men are asexual!

Although, kidding aside (and I am making fun of the definitions, not John Bankert), this has sparked off a definite vote from me; Eric, I want to see you write a romance novel. I know you can't half-ass it, so you'll write something with characters you care about and situations you find interesting, whether you mean to or not. Than all the 'snarkies will go read it and Bwa ha ha ha! they'll like it, because it'll be good, but they'll all be too embarrassed to admit that they liked it.

I want you to write a romance novel that makes a bunch of male geeks cry! (Note: the 'snarkies cannot be generalized to a bunch of male geeks, but there are enough to make this prospect delicious to me)

Why, no, I've never been accused of being contrary.

(and of course you will and should write whatever's grabbing you, because duh. But since you asked...)

(also, I reeeeeeally don't want to set off a backlash, because I don't know how much this has been pervasive online and I don't want to bother anybody, but I am totally dying waiting to see if you or Weds is gonna talk about Serenity. have you seen it?)

Comment from: Wednesday White posted at October 3, 2005 8:08 PM

Serenity is not on general UK release until Thursday.

Comment from: siwangmu posted at October 3, 2005 8:14 PM

Oh, ok. If you have thoughts after seeing it I hope you share them here! I would enjoy that.

Comment from: larksilver posted at October 3, 2005 8:38 PM

Holy frijoles, not-the-Spider! Eric's going to write a novel, all fast and dirty!

I'm excited to see what you come up with. If you wrote a romance novel, I'm sure you'd be less Harlequin tripe and more Nora Roberts tripe and that'd be fine and dandy by me! I can't see you making any character, ever, who'd be all "oh, John, you're such a big strong man. Protect me!"

Funny thing is, although I'm sure you'd do it beautifully.. the not-the-spider doesn't thrill me as much as the other ideas do. But then, I'm a girl, and a fairly girly one at that. So..

I'm with the unsinkable Ms. Garrity! Write us a hot steamy soft-core romance, you.. you.. writer!

Oh, and speaking of Movie Releases (See Serenity stuff, up there^^)... They've gone and made the first of the Narnia Chronicles. I think I'm going to hold my breath til December. holy cow, if the trailer is any indication, it's going to be gorgeous. Those books.. despite their failure to deter me from my somewhat pagan-ish leanings, those books formed a big chart of my inner world. I .. wow.

Ohyeah, back on topic. Write whatever you damn well want, seriously. It'll be good, and we'll love it, and some of us will nitpick it to even your exacting standards. yay!

Comment from: MasonK posted at October 3, 2005 9:01 PM

Well, I'd set Not-Spider in the superhero timeline's past, myself, and then be able to say I was doing both at once.

But I want you to do the romance novel.

Comment from: trpeal posted at October 3, 2005 9:14 PM

I really vote for the romance novel, Eric. Not that I don't want to see not-the-Spider revealed, or that I'm a fan of romance fiction (that's a "no" on both counts), but because I think it would be the bigger challenge for you, one that you will sink your big, pointy literary teeth into with gusto.

But contrariwise, it may not be the genre that gets you a final product worth submitting, since you'd be figuring out the structure as you went.

For myself, my goal this year is to replace "failed" in the phrase "failed novelist" with "bad and unpublished". Last year I got about 22,000 words down before I ran out of gas. But this year is another try.

Comment from: Wednesday White posted at October 3, 2005 9:59 PM

big, pointy literary teeth

. . .

Aiyaaaa.

Comment from: kirabug posted at October 3, 2005 10:03 PM

Feel-good happy porn!! Feel-good happy porn!! Give Josh Lesnick (sp?) a run for his money!!

(boy ain't that gonna mess with your search results hits.)

Romance will do, if you have to. ;)

Comment from: kirabug posted at October 3, 2005 10:05 PM

Whereas on my first crack at NaNoWriMo, I will be writing chunk 4 of the series of novellas I started years ago where all the important people die.

Comment from: Archon Divinus posted at October 3, 2005 11:07 PM

Do the romance. While the others sound good, the romance wins on sheer bizarity.
I think i'm going to do this too, but I can't seem to find the sign up button. I'm sure it's really obvious, but I just can't find it.

Comment from: enchiridion posted at October 3, 2005 11:59 PM

Quite a few of us are waiting for the NaNo web site to finish their upgrade & whatnot. The sign up button should be available tomorrow. No doubt someone (or several someones) will post a link as soon as they get things worked out on that end.

My vote would be for the pulp not-spider bit. Though if my own experience is any guide, you will be hit with a new idea around Oct. 29th, and with some regret you will set aside your notes and (fairly complete) outline to pursue the newcomer with all the passion that you can muster for about two weeks, at which point you will be stuck without any clear way to proceed, still 20K words short, and generally pissed at yourself for giving in to last minute 'great' novel ideas.

Comment from: Sempiternity posted at October 4, 2005 1:15 AM

The not-spider idea does sound like the most unique of the projects, but...

...i'd love to see a juicey romance!

As long as it isn't too snarky... ;)

Comment from: xaandria posted at October 4, 2005 1:43 AM

This is slightly off-topic...

I think I have Eric to thank for having met my fiance». I hadn't even heard of NaNoWriMo until he mentioned it here last year. I went to a book signing the founder of NaNo had. I met a boy. Boy became said fiance».

So, thank you--very much. :D

Comment from: Nate posted at October 4, 2005 1:44 AM

Ah, man, Nanowrimo. I did it past two years, and hit 50K each time. But neither story was actually done, and unfortunately I never went and finished them. One was a sort of bizarre retelling of the Matrix (only without the sucky parts, and a lot less kung-fu), and the other was an utterly random internet novel where the characters were essentially defined by picking three adjectives from a list like "monkey, ninja, pirate, robot, mad scientist..." Sorta like lots of webcomics. That's beside the point.

As for this year, I have no idea what to write. There's a couple characters of mine who have rather long stories waiting, but I'd also kinda like to do something that might have a chance of getting published.

However, for votes for what you should write, I can't go with anything else other than Romance Novel, not after seeing the blurb for "Rapture by Browser's Light". Webcomic romance novel. Dude.

Comment from: Sean Conner posted at October 4, 2005 2:20 AM

Why not a romance pulp novel of superheros?

Comment from: miyaa posted at October 4, 2005 5:05 AM

If anyone is going to sabotage Ron's voyage, it's going to be his little sister, because that's what younger sisters do, sabotage your bigger brother. I'm speaking from personal experience here!

I'd like to see a teen romance novel involving Leroy "Encyclopedia" Brown and Sally Kimball. Time passes. Leroy is bitter junior after Chief Brown dies in something horrible. How about he's one of the tragedic 9/11 victims? His mom goes off the deep-end, and she's now residing in Idaville's mental ward. Because of this, Leroy lives by himself not sure what to do with the money coming in from circumstances. He helps as much as he can behind the scenes with cases, but doesn't become personally involved until Bugs Meany is found dead, and Sally is one of the suspects. As the case progress, their feelings for each other grows and grows, until they let their frustrations out in a love-scene that the people from Laguna Beach would wish they could do. Then two-thirds through the story, someone poisons the two, and their bodies youthen to the age of 10 again...

...I'm sorry. Somehow I've channeled CLAMP.

Comment from: Jack' posted at October 4, 2005 8:00 AM

Ooooh, this interests me a lot. I'm sort of doing this NaNoWriMo thing (except, of course, for me it would have to be InNaNoWriMo), but not exactly. I started a novel writing course which has the objective of everyone writing a book by the time it's done, and we're vaguely following the guidelines of the NaNoWriMo challenge.

I'm just getting into the planning of my book, getting to really enjoy it. I decided to do a new project rather than continuing anything else that I've been working on, and so I'm doing a science fiction book, which is interesting for me because I very rarely write sci-fi, but also a lot of fun.

So I wish everyone else doing the challenge good luck.

Oh, and I think the not-Spider book sounds the most interesting.

Comment from: Dave Van Domelen posted at October 4, 2005 8:03 AM

Pulp romance with coal ads.

Comment from: William_G posted at October 4, 2005 8:50 AM

goinking

Man, if that's not a new slang for "fucking" I shall be sad.

Comment from: William_G posted at October 4, 2005 8:51 AM

And "The Adventures Of John Stark" as your novel is staring you in the face.

It could be an industrial age "Forrest Gump"

Comment from: Lucretia posted at October 4, 2005 10:42 AM

I vote for the (non)Spider theme.

Comment from: Dave Van Domelen posted at October 4, 2005 11:45 AM

Will_G: Yes, that's what it means. But sillier. Godzilla suits are involved.

Comment from: Eric Burns posted at October 4, 2005 4:37 PM

I think I have Eric to thank for having met my fiance». I hadn't even heard of NaNoWriMo until he mentioned it here last year. I went to a book signing the founder of NaNo had. I met a boy. Boy became said fiance»

That's right. Another love connection!

Comment from: Wednesday White posted at October 4, 2005 5:49 PM

"That'd be the..."

Comment from: Sean Duggan posted at October 4, 2005 8:13 PM

Actually, I plan on writing a romance novel. Catch is, I plan to write a romance novel that involves no sex. ^_^ I'm optimistic. I mean, love isn't always about sex, right?

Comment from: Wednesday White posted at October 4, 2005 8:22 PM

Oh, I don't know; Christian romance novelists pull it off all the time. Some don't even have the kissin', or only the chaste, tongueless kissin'.

Mind you, it ends up with all the romantic tension of [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] in [A WEBCOMIC]. So if you're actually looking to write a romance novel with this goal in any sort of contemporary voice (if not setting), you might want to have a good rummage through the Tyndaletastic section of your local emporium.

(I'm not sure love is ever "about" sex so much as frequently requiring or strongly relying upon sexuality as a bonding mechanism.)

Comment from: Ford Dent posted at October 4, 2005 9:50 PM

I tried the NaNo last year, and failed miserably. I think I was 20,000 words short.

Then I lost the file so I never even got to finish it up. Life's a cruel mistress and no mistake.

As I am currently immersed in another writing endeavor (which sadly is only 23,000 words and I've been working on it for almost 8 months) I'm not certain if I really want to try another one.

Then again, Serenity has me wanting to try my hand at sci-fi again...

Hopefully my courses won't be expecting me to do any sort of 'essay writing' during November.

Comment from: Phy posted at October 5, 2005 1:23 AM

Eric, I thoroughly enjoyed the NaNo process last year. Knowing that you were out there struggling to make your weekly quota spurred me on and kept me engaged with the process.

I wrote a deliberately pulpy space opera last year, "The Sky Pirate", that unabashedly borrowed the Firefly vibe. "Alacrity" was my floating pirate ship (ala Peter Pan) and I had Captain Cooper Flynn and his eccentric, colorful crew.

I had 55,000 words when I finished, and was surprised that a) I finished on time, and b) it all came together with a degree of flow and resonance and fun.

The thing is, I accomplished what I set out to do, and I've had different goals this year. Mark Twain wrote "I would have written half as much if I would have had twice as long." Instead of writing the novel length manuscript, I've been working on crafting, editing, and publishing shorter fiction with a moral core. I've been active over at The Sword Review, and have recently been named Managing Editor of Dragons, Knights, and Angels, a Christian Fantasy e-zine.

I've been giving this year's contest some thought, and one idea that came to mind seems so insane that I quickly set it aside. But it gave me the grist for another, more practical idea. My first, untempered idea was to write 30 short stories, one per day. But all that would do is instill the Flash Fiction vibe, and that's not what I'm going for.

Instead, I'm currently considering a variation on that theme, one short story per week, with the emphasis not on quantity, but finished quality. I'm seriously thinking of going that route (even though it would put me out of the NaNo guidelines).

Best wishes with whatever you end up doing.

Johne (Phy) Cook

Comment from: larksilver posted at October 5, 2005 1:41 AM

Love isn't about sex, nope. But lemme tell ya, I discovered a pattern, long ago, wherein if my hubby and I don't, for more than like 5 days (which goes by FAST with two jobs and a kid, I swear), that suddenly we're all snipey and bitchy.

It's such an obvious pattern, and so thoroughly reliable, that I admit without shame to thinking to myself "hm. not really in the mood, but if we have sex, he will stop being such a bitch, and maybe we'll stop growling at each other before we say something stupid" and then essentially tripping him.

Not that said tripping isn't fun for me TOO... we're BOTH snipey when it's been too long. He's just, well, more sensitive to sex-deprivation than I, being male, and thus more fragile. (runs and hides)

Comment from: larksilver posted at October 5, 2005 1:44 AM

All this talk of NaNoWriMo has me wishing I had an ounce of creative writing in me, just as it did last year. Alas, I love the research part, even down to building a reality for the characters, and I can easily spend a happy month or three of in-between times (in line at the grocery store, etc.), living with the story and the characters. But I have no interest in actually writing about 'em. Odd, eh?

Comment from: Phy posted at October 5, 2005 5:49 PM

An update - since my post (checks timestamp) very early this morning, I've formalized the competition I've set for myself this year. I'm calling it "Four for NaNo", and it goes something like this:




http://dkamagazine.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?p=5194#5194




I was considering whether to take part in this year's NaNo competition and it occurred to me that I've proven what I set out to prove, and learned what I set out to learn. A picture has been clarifying over the past weeks and has finally come into focus within in the past 24 hours. I was chatting with Bill Snodgrass (Editor at The Sword Review) and Lee S. King (an Editor with me at Dragons Knights, and Angels magazine) last night when the idea suddenly blurted out - if I'd achieved what I was aiming for with the novel-length stuff, what next?




So to cut to the chase, I'm going to attempt to write four finished, theoretically publishable short stories of at least 3000 words in length during the four weeks of November, 2005, one per week, beginning 12:01 am November 1st, and ending at the stroke of midnight November 30th.




But wait, there's more...




I'm going to take votes from you all on the genre(s) that I will be writing from for two of the stories, and my son will be providing a third (courtesy of a suggestion from my lovely, formerly benevolent wife).




There's still more...




I was telling this to my sister this afternoon at lunch (hey, Heph) and she cheerily blurted out, "yeah, and you should run a common thread through all of them and tie them all together in the fourth story".




I used to like her so much - I don't remember this wicked streak in her. Must be the four kids.




So here we are, a challenge that initially sounded like good, clean fun, and has somehow taken on a life of its own and now is staring at me with big, gnarly fangs and an impoverished glint in its rheumy right eye.




I've set up a poll at the link above for the genre to be employed the first week of November, and then won't setup the next poll until the first week for the second week, and so on, so I won't know ahead of time what genre I'll have to tackle next.




I'm calling these stories "Four for NaNo". While this isn't technically a NaNoWriMo-sanctioned event, I feel that this challenge captures the general spirit of the event while being customized for the next facet of my skill set that I need the most work on. Also, enlisting aid from you, the reader, builds in the element of accountability, my very own pointy stick. The possibility for absolute, crushing, humiliating failure of the highest profile is an unintended bonus for some of you - you know who you are. ;)




The poll is at the DKA forums and the stories will be posted at the end of each week at my writing blog.




So, yeah. Vote early and vote often. And hey, if I've ever been remotely kind to you in any way and I don't happen to currently owe you money, be gentle - this sounded like a great idea on paper.

Comment from: Phy posted at October 5, 2005 5:50 PM

Ok, sorry - that looked far less grody in Preview mode (my apologies).

Comment from: Atomic Penguin posted at October 6, 2005 2:14 PM

Some friends and I made up and did HouNoWriMo (Houston Novel Writing Month) in February to see if we could finish. Out of 17, one finished (sadly, not myself). I made it to 35,000 words before running out of time and gumption. This time, I believe I can finish as I will not be unpacking from a move.

My vote is for the (not)Spider. I want to see how your version differs from the original (or at least the original as put into a short series of comics in the early 90's).

Comment from: J.(Channing)Wells posted at October 6, 2005 3:06 PM

This whole concept is terribly appealing, but I eventually decided not to take part in it this year because I've already got too many in-progress stories in the pan, and the last thing I want to do is sink everything I'm doing in favor of a brand new thing that will monopolize my entire writing brain for an entire month.

I wonder if I can be an honorary participant just by writing 50,000 words in stories that already exist. Not that I'd probably make it that far, just sayin'.

Comment from: larksilver posted at October 10, 2005 9:39 AM

Atomic! You're in Houston too! That's, what, 3 people that I'm sure of who read websnark in this big ol' town. coolness.

Sorry, I'm so used to people I see on the Internet being in New England or on the West Coast.. it's weird to know that not everyone in Houston is a technological neophyte. Most of the people I know can barely play PacMan.

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