Comments on: NaNoWriMo 2007–Many Happy Returns http://dalewriting.dhemery.com/2007/10/nano2007/ Dale Emery on Writing Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:41:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Dale Emery http://dalewriting.dhemery.com/2007/10/nano2007/#comment-52 Dale Emery Sun, 02 Dec 2007 01:03:01 +0000 http://dalewriting.dhemery.com/2007/10/nano2007/#comment-52 For now, I say: I'm tired, I have a cold, and I still have no plot. I'll have more to say later. For now, I say: I’m tired, I have a cold, and I still have no plot.

I’ll have more to say later.

]]> By: Dwayne Phillips http://dalewriting.dhemery.com/2007/10/nano2007/#comment-51 Dwayne Phillips Sat, 01 Dec 2007 23:31:53 +0000 http://dalewriting.dhemery.com/2007/10/nano2007/#comment-51 Dale, Now that we are in December, I see that you made it over 50,000 words on NaNoWriMo. Well, what do you have to say? Dale,

Now that we are in December, I see that you made it over 50,000 words on NaNoWriMo. Well, what do you have to say?

]]> By: Dwayne Phillips http://dalewriting.dhemery.com/2007/10/nano2007/#comment-50 Dwayne Phillips Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:48:47 +0000 http://dalewriting.dhemery.com/2007/10/nano2007/#comment-50 Oh no change at all. Government project managers erase their memories everyday when they leave the office ;-) Oh no change at all. Government project managers erase their memories everyday when they leave the office ;-)

]]> By: Dale http://dalewriting.dhemery.com/2007/10/nano2007/#comment-48 Dale Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:52:31 +0000 http://dalewriting.dhemery.com/2007/10/nano2007/#comment-48 Interesting. Anything a writer wrote in those 29 hours would vanish with the next loop. Only readers' memory of it would survive. The time loops offer no possibility of taking months to write a novel and more months to publish it. So... the best publishing medium would be blogs! A writer writes a new episode and publishes it on a blog, and readers read it before the end of the loop. Next loop: a new episode. Because the blog posts vanish at the end of each loop, readers would have to keep up. Or... each day a few readers might retype yesterday's episode from memory. Thanks, Dwayne! This gives me further ideas about some of the larger implications I've been pondering. A related idea: How would this affect, say, a project manager in a government organization? Interesting. Anything a writer wrote in those 29 hours would vanish with the next loop. Only readers’ memory of it would survive.

The time loops offer no possibility of taking months to write a novel and more months to publish it.

So… the best publishing medium would be blogs! A writer writes a new episode and publishes it on a blog, and readers read it before the end of the loop. Next loop: a new episode.

Because the blog posts vanish at the end of each loop, readers would have to keep up. Or… each day a few readers might retype yesterday’s episode from memory.

Thanks, Dwayne! This gives me further ideas about some of the larger implications I’ve been pondering.

A related idea: How would this affect, say, a project manager in a government organization?

]]> By: Dwayne Phillips http://dalewriting.dhemery.com/2007/10/nano2007/#comment-49 Dwayne Phillips Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:52:08 +0000 http://dalewriting.dhemery.com/2007/10/nano2007/#comment-49 Dale, here is a possible character. A person writing in the NaNo WriMo month. How would that work or not work or confuse or inspire the person trying to get out 1,500 words? Dale, here is a possible character. A person writing in the NaNo WriMo month.

How would that work or not work or confuse or inspire the person trying to get out 1,500 words?

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