Camp Nanowrimo!

[spicy_sweets]

Although it's april fool's and Easter (happy Easter, by the way!), another nice thing happening today is Camp Nano's first day. Any participants? I'm aiming small, at 10k words.

[Nebulous]

I'm doing it (properly) for this first time this year too! I hope i'm ready, as i've been planning this for months now. Unfortunately for me, I'm aiming for 50, 000 pray for me pls

[SEHarrison]

I'm doing it! I'm working on a comic and a novel this year. It's my fifth time doing it (I don't like the November one, but I always do the camps). I'm going for 25K on my novel and ~30 hours on my comic, which I can't verify, so I'm doing it on the cabin chat and making my cabinmates hold me accountable, haha

[nekhcore]

I am! I have a 6 year streak of doing NaNo three times a year to uphold so I have to participate. For the first time I'm working on a comic script, and it's going a lot better than I thought it would! I have my goal set at 50 pages (comic pages, not document pages) but I'm going to have to pause at some point to continue writing my synopsis. Unfortunately I can't count both pages and words...

[daeofthepast]

may I ask what Nanowrimo is?? :3

[nekhcore]

it's an international event where people sign up on their website and try to write a novel (50,000 words) in a month! the main event is in november on nanowrimo.org, but during april and july there's a more relaxed version called camp nanowrimo where you can set your own goal that can be measured in either words, pages (for scripts), lines (for poetry), or hours or minutes (usually done by people editing a previous work). you also get to be in a 20 person chatroom called a cabin if you so please. you can use your nanowrimo.org account for camp but not the other way around (i think). the camp website is campnanowrimo.org. you track your goal in a little text box on the wbesite and it gives you a chart of how much you did every day and how much you need to reach every day to finish on time.

[daeofthepast]

That sounds like fun! :0 I could participate to motivate myself to keep working on my comic script X3

Do you have to join their website to be part of it?? :3

[nekhcore]

yeah you have to be registered to track your progress and all and then you need to set up your project but all of that takes like 5 minutes

[daeofthepast]

I have registered I also have added the project, but I was wondering how I add how many pages I've done to keep track of my progress?? :0

[nekhcore]

Since the event has already started you can add it in your project info in the box that says current progress or current something count, or at the top of the website on every page there is a little box where you write your new number and click update and it will update and show you your stats.

[daeofthepast]

Ooh thank you! I'll aim for 50 comic pages for my script >:3

You're working on a comic script too right?? How is it going?? :3

[nekhcore]

Good luck! I've done 8 pages out of 50 so far

[daeofthepast]

Nice! Almost 1/5th of the way there :0 If you reach it will you make a second goal, to see if you can reach it?? :3

I think I did 6 pages yesterday :0 I hadn't realized I did so many. I wish you luck too!!

[nekhcore]

Yeah, you can change your goal whenever you want until the last week when validation opens. That's when you get an option to paste your entire manuscript into a little tool on their website and their algorithm counts your "real" wordcount, excluding like chapter titles and repeated stuff, so it's not like you just copy/pasted a sentence a bunch of times.

[daeofthepast]

Ooh, when's the last week?? :0

And that's cool! Do you know if the pages would have to be labeled 1 to 50 or if its fine to have 1-21 plus 1-16 for separate chapters?? :3 I am writing all my chapters in separate documents lmao >.>

[nekhcore]

validation doesn't work if you're not counting in words, since it's kind of hard to confirm that.
on the main page there's a little counter that says how many days until validation begins. this is a month long event, so the last week of april.

[daeofthepast]

I see :0 Well that's alright, it'd be interesting to know how many words in total went into the script X3

So what kind of comic are you making?? :3

[nekhcore]

yeah nonstandard counts don't have the validation option, but you could always put it all in one document and see.
i'm working on a sci-fi about a post ww3 world where music is the new main weapon. it's kind of like jojo part 3 in that the people fight using projected "spirits", except mine are controlled by music

[daeofthepast]

Fighting with music?? :0 That sounds amazing!

Oh man, so are they humanoid spirits only controlled by music?? :000

[nekhcore]

they're basically entities made of nanomachines that are controlled by the users, who also play instruments made of nanotech, and they can come in a lot of forms. so far it's mostly animals and humanoid creatures and one anthro. they also have ai so they can act independently of their users.