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64wrimo: Base Camp

Posted by F1ak3r on July 1, 2013, 7:53 a.m.

While http://campnanowrimo.org delights in making cutesy summer camp references, I thought I'd go with another camp metaphor: climbing a mountain¹. We'll start here, with the base camp blog, and then make another every week, or at another interval. I'll take care of this week's administration, and then we can take turns doing the following weeks.

Let's use this site to do our chatting and what not, seeing as CampNano's servers are hopelessly overburdened and will likely continue to be for at least another few days.

1 – And then I realised, too late, that a campy metaphor would have been even better!

Novel(la)s, participants, wordcounts

Fenced Fencer by colseed: 341/20 000

Plagued by F1ak3r: 7 659/25 000

??? by hel: 555/25 000

Untitled by Iasper: 5 994/20 000

Ot by JuurianChi: sqrt(-1)/50 000

Anima by Kilin: 7 829/75 000

Ghost Runner by Mega: 2 958/50 000

Sogno Echo by Seleney: 9 027/50 000

Writing software

FocusWriter

WriteMonkey

Resources

Online Wordcounter

Rhymezone

Kurt Vonnegut's 8 Rules of Writing

Mark Twain's 11/18 Rules of Writing

And Then vs But and Therefore (Trey Parker and Matt Stone)

If you guys want I can toss synopsiseseseses and excerpts in hide tags below your stuff.

Comments

JuurianChi 10 years, 10 months ago

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If you guys want I can toss synopsiseseseses and excerpts in hide tags below your stuff.

Maybe if I was actually using mine, yeah. :P

Mega 10 years, 10 months ago

Hmm… You can upgrade my word count to 1036 for now. I aim to have written about 2000 words by the end of the day.

So far, my story has a post-apocalyptic city, discrimination against the poor, mercenaries, mysterious men in darkened rooms and ladders. Because ladders.

panzercretin 10 years, 10 months ago

ARGH

I'm supposed to be hosting 64wrimo

it's like nanowrimo but only 3000 words

FOR ALL YOU LOVELYLAZIES OUT THERE

brb making blog

ARGH

Mega 10 years, 10 months ago

Quote:

it's like nanowrimo but only 3000 words

Right. I'm out. I'm joining Kilin in 64Masochism.

3000 words is lightweight.

Oh, and F1ak3r? 1883 words now. Thanks. :P

panzercretin 10 years, 10 months ago

i lied

it's actually

~~SIX~~ ~~FIVE THOUSAND~~ I'M KEEPING IT AT 3,000

dundundunnnn

that makes more sense i guess i forgot how big wordcounts are really supposed to be

F1ak3r 10 years, 10 months ago

I'd actually really dig a six hundred word event. Flash fiction is the shizzle. And the challenge would be using fewer words.

JuurianChi 10 years, 10 months ago

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I'm joining Kilin in 64Masochism.

Fight words. >.>

Castypher 10 years, 10 months ago

Finally got around to updating my novel on the site, but I'll go ahead and post here.

Since I decided to take part of the story from a 64Jam game, the working title is Anima, and it's about a girl who is possessed by a reaper in return for it sparing her life. In addition, an alternate persona awakens inside her and threatens to take permanent control of her body and the reaper that resides within her.

I'm pleased to hear people are making so much progress.

Seleney 10 years, 9 months ago

I'm at 1052, but I've been going all day and need a bit of a nap before doing more.

My novel is a fantasy about people with the power to interact with and change other peoples dreams. (don't worry, noting like Inception).

Mega 10 years, 9 months ago

Writing is addicting…

2958 words now… means I have less to write tomorrow, technically speaking, but I don't know whether I'll hold to that or not.