most extreme novel elimination challenge.
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intertribalGod help us. It's almost November, and we all know what that means:
hide from the internet. nano is back.
Why do I dislike the phenomenon nanowrimo? Not sure. People get really annoying and frantic around nanowrimo. I suppose I'm similar around exam times, particularly at Barnard, where I actually have exams. But, see, that is pertinent to life, and I don't think I'm that outlandish about it. I think I also mock nanowrimo because none of the participants strike me as "real" writers, because they get too much of a kick out of it, and they don't have the motivation to write unless they have a deadline and a group of stupid, stupid people urging them on. I think I see them as "poseurs". "Scenesters", if you will.
They're also more likely to ask other people on the internets how to, say, write a sex scene that is "hot" but not "porny", instead of just reading the perfectly good sex scenes other people have written, or, gasp, learning by trial and error.
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ugh! Eva Mendes is talking about how she told her family to get to her new movie, We Own The Night, 10 minutes late so they don't have to see her in her first ever "love scene" (tender, this one) with Joaquin Phoenix. I hate her. Not really, she actually seems cool. The hatred is simply on principle.
hide from the internet. nano is back.
Why do I dislike the phenomenon nanowrimo? Not sure. People get really annoying and frantic around nanowrimo. I suppose I'm similar around exam times, particularly at Barnard, where I actually have exams. But, see, that is pertinent to life, and I don't think I'm that outlandish about it. I think I also mock nanowrimo because none of the participants strike me as "real" writers, because they get too much of a kick out of it, and they don't have the motivation to write unless they have a deadline and a group of stupid, stupid people urging them on. I think I see them as "poseurs". "Scenesters", if you will.
They're also more likely to ask other people on the internets how to, say, write a sex scene that is "hot" but not "porny", instead of just reading the perfectly good sex scenes other people have written, or, gasp, learning by trial and error.
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ugh! Eva Mendes is talking about how she told her family to get to her new movie, We Own The Night, 10 minutes late so they don't have to see her in her first ever "love scene" (tender, this one) with Joaquin Phoenix. I hate her. Not really, she actually seems cool. The hatred is simply on principle.
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Date: 2007-10-11 03:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-11 03:06 pm (UTC)"Porny" is how most ff.net lemons go - man and womanhood and such.
A good sex scene is obviously somewhere in the middle.
Come to think of it, I have not read a good sex scene in a book... none of my favorite books contain them, but none of my favorite books have, like, romantic relationships either. Well... Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Isabel Allende. Latin writers aren't bad.
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Date: 2007-10-11 03:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-11 03:19 pm (UTC)Masses of people who don't otherwise write participate in an internet forum-community thingy trying to write a "novel" of 50,000 words in the month of November alone.
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Date: 2007-10-11 03:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-11 03:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-11 03:48 pm (UTC)