Yeah, so I braved the traffic jam to get to 1 Utama MPH last night (the traffic wasn’t half bad) to attend the first Malaysian nanowrimo meet-up.
It turned out to be quite a fun event, actually, got to finally meet up with Sharon, who gave a good intro about the history of nano-ing.
Some bloggers were there, finally had a chance to say hi to minishorts and eyeris, and quite a few other nano-ers.
i learnt a few things last night:
- I’m NOT the only one who does not have a plot ready yet… (phew!)
- 50,000 words IS A LOT of words! An average posting on my blog is about 200 words, so that’s like 250 blog postings in a month! It took me like 8 months to reach 250 entries in this blog, so go figure… (I have to say that my Top10 lists have far lesser words… eeep…)
- Sharon is such a sweet and nice person…
- I’ve got to convert my novel from Word document to a text file before I submit. That means I can’t use basic formatting like bold and italics. Damn.
- In person, minishorts is one hawt chick…!
Looks like I have to get cracking if I’m going to complete it this year. I think I’ve got the opening line down pat:
“It was a dark and stormy night…”
Good, eh? I can’t just see it winning the Booker Prize!
10 Comments
Sashi
Dang! You were there? Sorry, I didn’t get round to talking to everyone.. Plus I left at 8.15…
Maybe we’ll catch up at the next meet, eh?
cyber-red
susan or sharon now?? make up ur mind =P
viewtru
Oh heck, I was going to use that opening line as well. Okay, never mind, you blogged it first, so you get to use it!
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bibliobibuli
Nice to meet you too.
You can do any fancy things you want with your font for the novel – when you convert it to send it the special effects will be lost in that file … but then no-one is going to read it in that form anyway.
minishorts is something else, isn’t she? ;-D
I like your first line … it’s as good a start as any!
magic
selamat ber-nano!:)
simon
sashi – no problem… sorry you had to leave early.
cyber-red – darn, i keep getting it wrong, susan’s a plot character, she’s supposed to kill the talking hamster.
viewtru – pssst, i copied it from somewhere, but you can use it also…!
sharon – true. but i’ll probably stick to CAPS for emphasis, and a few bold and italics only where necessary. if not it’ll to distracting, right?
magic – thank, and selamat hari ray to you!
eyeris
alamak. you’re gonna kill the talking hamsters TOO? sigh… poor Jesper…
simon
mmm… not sure yet… i’ll let you know if jesper is still alive by 15th Nov!
Charles
Very nice site!