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Nov 12 2009

Justine Larbalestier Shares a NaNoWriMo Tip From Me

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36 Responses to “Justine Larbalestier Shares a NaNoWriMo Tip From Me”

1. # Lilithon 12 Nov 2009 at 12:08 pm

   Of course we don’t. We’re far too fucking polite for that shit.

   Lilith in Canberra

2. # Heatheron 12 Nov 2009 at 12:41 pm

   “when I gave it to her the tip”

   Uhm, huh?

3. # Brett Lon 12 Nov 2009 at 12:45 pm

   Of course they curse, we just can’t understand them and think its cute slang.

4. # Nikon 12 Nov 2009 at 12:49 pm

   You mean the interwebs can be turned off? Amazing!

5. # Tim Walkeron 12 Nov 2009 at 12:56 pm

   Australians are remarkable for their restraint that way.

6. # Jeffon 12 Nov 2009 at 1:18 pm

   Nik: on my computer I can do it with a single command:

   ifconfig eth0 down
   +++
   NO CARRIER

7. # Christopheron 12 Nov 2009 at 1:20 pm

   After doing this a few times, I have learned to pace myself, so I frequently take breaks to surf the net. Keeps the brain sharp.

8. # beowuffon 12 Nov 2009 at 1:46 pm

   Any chance we can get a copy of the original posted somewhere? It’s just not colorful Scalzi, all cleaned up that way…

9. # DemetriusOfPharoson 12 Nov 2009 at 1:49 pm

   “Australians never curse.”
   Quick, hide Jim Jeffries from the world!

   @ Jeff
   That seems like a lot of typing. I use ‘ifupdown eth1′, and that covers bringing it back up to. Its a Debian package, FWIW.

10. # Christopher Hawleyon 12 Nov 2009 at 2:39 pm

    While it may be true that Australians never curse, their swearing can blister tarmac and curdle beer.

    Lilith @1: thank you for the rejoinder. Weak aerosolized coffee is great for removing smudgy fingerprints from the lappy’s display.

11. # Sarcastroon 12 Nov 2009 at 2:52 pm

    … [Australian] swearing can .. curdle beer.

    Well, that explains Fosters.

12. # Johnon 12 Nov 2009 at 3:35 pm

    Heh. I was just about to sit down and write, got online, started checking Google Reader… and thought, “I should really turn my wireless off. Well, I’ll just check Whatever first.” Nice.

13. # Deborahon 12 Nov 2009 at 4:12 pm

    Actually, I’d be in trouble with this year’s NaNo if I didn’t have the Intranetz. It’s hard to research Chinese deities and names without access to some sort of giant database. Preferably one that – unlike the library – doesn’t require you to search for five-hundred pages of text for the preferred mount of Xi Wang Mu. Or help you determine the name of an outre and not quite sane deity.

14. # Fraseron 12 Nov 2009 at 4:34 pm

    Fuckin’ aye

15. # Warren Terraon 12 Nov 2009 at 5:01 pm

    Sorry, I’m confused: why is an Australian participating in, or at least offer ing tips for, National Novel Writing Month? Or is it now GloNoWriMo?

16. # John Scalzion 12 Nov 2009 at 5:12 pm

    Warren Terra:

    Australia is not a nation?

    Beyond this, I genuinely hope that you’re not actually serious in the implication that an award-winning author with several novels under her belt should not dispense wisdom to new writers during NaNoWriMo simply because you’re under the impression that she doesn’t qualify for some arbitrary reason you’ve just thought up.

17. # Kevinon 12 Nov 2009 at 5:22 pm

    NaNoWriMo is happening here in the UK too. I know several participants.

18. # Gregon 12 Nov 2009 at 5:34 pm

    I can’t turn off the interwebs. I’m using Google Docs to do my writing.

19. # John Scalzion 12 Nov 2009 at 5:37 pm

    Greg:

    Google Gears can fix that problem.

20. # shaneon 12 Nov 2009 at 6:14 pm

    What a quaint notion. Some Yank still thinks they own the interwebs. Not only has Justine pwnd your nanowrimo she has taken one of your menfolk too.

    Oh, and turn the interwebs off? You’ve got to be kidding. How else would I have found out how Chaucer used the word quaint. Then again my word count for nanowrimo is very low at the moment.

21. # MWTon 12 Nov 2009 at 6:16 pm

    15. Warren Terra:

    It started out in the U.S. but has been international for quite some time now. Anyone anywhere can participate. :) They didn’t change it to “Innowrimo” because it just doesn’t roll off the tongue the same. See their FAQ for details.

22. # Sihayaon 12 Nov 2009 at 6:31 pm

    JohnScalzi @#60, I dunno. Maybe Warren just likes the name GloNoWriMo. I think if I had to come up with a name for a character quickly, I would call him Glono. He would have to save his older brother Nano from the mean streets of some fantastic city where he’d gotten hooked on Pixie Stix (dealt by Pixies on shady street corners). Nano would keep a picture of his little boy Pico in his wallet.

    Of course, specifying which country’s National Novel Writng Month you’re participating in would be fun, especially if it popularized the word “NanoAmerican,” or even better, “NanoBrit,” which sounds like a very confused unit of measurement.

23. # Sihayaon 12 Nov 2009 at 6:32 pm

    Oops, my comment was addressed to JohnScalzi@#16, not some future JohnScalzi comment.

24. # Richardon 12 Nov 2009 at 6:53 pm

    Sihaya@23: See, now we’ll have to keep this going so at post #60 John can ask you a question about Warren.

    Actually, that would highly amuse me if we made it that far without post-padding.

25. # hugh57on 12 Nov 2009 at 7:02 pm

    Warren reminds me of a kid I knew at summer camp who insisted that an organizational name like “United Press International” didn’t make any sense because he thought the word “united” meant that an organization was limited to the United States.

    This was about 40 years ago; I hope that kid has learned better since.

26. # DG Lewison 12 Nov 2009 at 7:44 pm

    Of course, Australia is entirely peopled with criminals.

27. # shaneon 12 Nov 2009 at 7:56 pm

    @DG Lewis

    Hey!
    *Looks around*… hmmm… okay, carry on.

28. # Steve Burnapon 12 Nov 2009 at 11:20 pm

    My advice for NaNoWriMo, learned in 2002: don’t plan to participate the month your first child is due.

    He was born the 20th. My unfinished novel is 35,000 words. I may participate again in 2020.

29. # vianon 13 Nov 2009 at 12:01 am

    To Sarcastro @11.

    Why do you think we export it to you lot? We keep the good stuff for ourselves (Coopers Pale or Sparkling, for mine) , and you, raised on Budweiser, actually drink Fosters, even when no one has dared you to.

    And today is a day for it; it’s been over 30 all week in Melbourne, and it isn’t even summer yet.

    Vaguely on topic: I wish there was an OzNoWriMo that didn’t happen in the middle of final-marking season.

30. # vianon 13 Nov 2009 at 12:02 am

    Where it” in the second para is Coopers, not Fosters.

31. # Jimbobon 13 Nov 2009 at 2:02 am

    John, thanks for this post. I showed it to my wife who is NaNoWriMo-ing for her first time, and she went through the back-posts of both Justine’s & Scott’s blogs and found some of the tips fairly helpful.
    She did 4000 words today and she’s pretty proud of it. Of course, she’s still behind a bit, but not as much!

32. # Joyceon 13 Nov 2009 at 11:21 am

    Australians never curse? The Sydney I just visited must be on some other continent or a different part of the space-time continuum.

33. # Warren Terraon 13 Nov 2009 at 11:38 am

    Hm. I was just joking, but seem to have been taken rather seriously. No offense intended, to Australians or to anyone else. An international endeavour seems more idealistic in any case.

34. # M.A.on 13 Nov 2009 at 1:33 pm

    I actually suggested once that they call it “World-Wide Novel Writing Month”, or WoWiNoWriMo. (Hey, say that 3 times fast!) Nothing came of it, as with so many of my wonderful ideas…

35. # Sihayaon 13 Nov 2009 at 2:56 pm

    Richard @24, dangit, now I’m constantly checking this thread to see how it progresses.

36. # Gillianon 15 Nov 2009 at 7:36 pm

    Does this mean we have to stop cursing to meet your expectations? If we do, there’s only one appropriate response and that is to refer you to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-Y3AsZ19Hc

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