Rah, it hath begun! (this is Chau, btw)
I have a feeling that this is going to be a very...interesting month. So lets go out into the big, wide world of amatuer novel writing and show 'em all how TRF does business! (That is, slowly and with many procrastinatory games of Starcraft). I reckon that between us we could all at least reach the 50,000 word mark, even if its all for separate novels.
Two community-type ideas:
1) Fairly obvious, but...we could all post our author page links here so that we can keep track of each other. Example:
Linky:
http://www.nanowrimo.org/userinfo.php?uid=88493
There also seems to be a 'friendlist' option that we can play around with. Should be fun.
2) I was browsing the NaNo forums the other day and noticed that there are a number of "dare" topics. Basically the idea is that you dare people to include certain things in their novel. Taking example from the sci-fi forums...
Anyway, dares ala Star Trek . . .
Have someone in a red shirt be killed.
--Double points if someone points out the red-shirt-curse beforehand.
--Triple if the red-shirt-wearing-person points out that is from a TV show and couldn't possibly be real. Just before they die.
So I was thinking we could have some TRF-specific dares. Like to see how many Matt Good references you can fit into the dialogue, or to have an evil dictator scream "Kneel before Zod!" or a character named Dolash and the like. Just little things to add some flavour for fun, y'know.
Anyway, just a thought. I'm off to write some shit. They don't have a 'speculative fiction' option in the genre selection screen which kinda pisses me off, but oh well. Current wordcount: 400! Only 49,600 more words to go! Yeah!