First Snowfall! (and Vermont Vaudeville, Scary Movies, and Daggone Tamlin)

[dawn_felagund]

We had our first snowfall last night. Around nine o'clock, we began to spot the first fat snowflakes among the rain, and by eleven o'clock, it had changed over to all wet snow. It was sticking a little on the ground by the time we went to bed around 1 AM, but when I eagerly peeked out the window this morning, I was disappointed because it had all

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[dawn_felagund]

they always had some movies I wouldn't have thought existed

So true! Especially when we watch horror movies in October, we just browse the horror section. Since a lot of them are independent or limited release, we find a lot of stuff we might not have even known about otherwise.

As for Nano: they changed the rules a couple of years ago so that you can add 50k to an existing work.

Okay, you are so totally my NaNo lifesaver this year! You can probably tell I haven't done a NaNoWriMo for quite some time now. :D

I had noticed in reading about the YWP that I didn't see any rules about starting from scratch, but I assumed that was unique to the YWP (or I was just overlooking something). I know some of the kids who are interested in participating have already started stories, so I was hoping for their sake but had no hope for myself!

Welp, "Tamlin" is now my NaNo project. Maybe I won't add 50K words, but I'll have a good excuse to keep adding a steady word count to it in any case, and if it doesn't have another 50K in it (I want to say it doesn't but it's already at 25K and I feel like I have so much more story to tell so who knows!), at least I'll be finished by the end of November.

Thank you again SO MUCH for the help you've given me! :)

[indy1776]

You're welcome! Sometimes I think Nano's my third fandom; I can't drag myself away from it. I'm even rebelling this year and researching for fifty hours rather than writing (my writing goal is a 1815 word story to get my lifetime Nano count up to 725,000 words) and yet I'm still hanging out on the Nano site.

I know pretty much nothing about the YWP other than what I told you earlier, but I doubt they'll have stricter rules than Nano itself.

Yay! And you are very welcome.

[dawn_felagund]

YWP seems to be NaNo but they can set their own word counts. There is no separate set of rules. And the separate section of the site, from a webmaster's perspective, seems mostly to keep the program compliant with the U.S. Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, which forbids websites from collecting information from children under the age of 13 without parental consent. As a teacher, I can act as a parental proxy for my participating students, but I suppose they need a separate part of the site to make that work.

It seems NaNo has relaxed a few things since I last participated. I noticed they are no longer hammering on the idea of writing without rereading/editing either, which always bothered me (since rereading what I last wrote is part of how I get in the mood to write more).

725,000 words! WOW!

[indy1776]

I wasn't sure about the different rules or not; one of my writing group does the YWP (she just turned fifteen), but we've never really talked about the differences.

I think it's not just to comply with that act (having a seperate section would make that easier, I also think), but also to keep kids from stumbling across, say, the erotica genre forum or other adult topics the main forums can discuss.

They have relaxed a lot over the years. To me, it's been gradual changes, but once they became a non-profit and after the founder left a few years ago, things began shifting. I hadn't realized how much until you started talking about Nano.

725,000 words! WOW!

I began doing Nano in 2004 and with the exception of 2013 or 2014 (whenever Lyra and I ran the Silm reread and I deliberately aimed for a low goal), I've reached 50k and some years I went for more. I did say I'm a mite obsessed… But the "crash it out and edit later" really works for me.