Episode 2:6 - Novellists in Spa-a-a-ce

One third of the way in. Listen in as we fill the void.

• feedback
  • 2 votes for call-in show (sort of) - tell me what you want to do
    
  • a bunch of people have sent in excerpts or permission to read the excerpts in their profiles – keep it coming!
  • Sarah is stuck in the week 2 doldrums

• main course
  • 60second pep talk
    
  • I hit 20K!
  • check out the Second Life group Nanowrimo Nuts - the next meetup is Sat, Nov 11 at 10am PST/SLT

• readings
  • congratulations Sforzie and Josh on hitting 50K!
  • (you both make me sick)
    

• s-s-s-something from the forums
  • creative cussing

Episode 2:5 - Behold! The Terrible Week Two

Day One, Week Two. Still no plot. But there is an mp3!

• feedback
  • I got an email from Nan while I was posting the last show
  • look at Sforzie's wordcount
  • email from Michael – it only takes a day to get behind, and a great tip for names: use descriptive placeholder names, like Toughguy or Bighair

• main course
  • I'm using a modified (10+2)*5 hack (mine's 12+5 X a lot)
    
  • I'm using an app called flextime as a timer for the above anti-distraction plan
    
  • you can disable the flash profiles on the nanowrimo site in your own edit profile
  • do people want to do a call in show? We'd use talkshoe (check it out and let me know)
    

• reading
  • Nan’s email

• promo – Dutch NaNo podcast

• s-s-s-something from the forums
  • character questions

Episode 2:4 - Mad Novelling

Slow going. Listen here.

• feedback
  • Sarah & Steph left comments
  • I got email from Robust McManlyPants, my nano stalkee

• main course
  • my wordcount is okay, but the story is slow going
  • I have trouble with names
  • I've been missing out on the local meetups – this is stupid and I need to stop being stupid

• reading
  • no reading this week
  • send me your stuff! (or just let me know if I can read your excerpt)
    

• promo - The Survival Guide to Writing Fantasy
  

• s-s-s-something from the forums
  • random thing generators
  • random name generator
    

Episode 2:3 - And So It Begins

And, we're off! Listen.

• Feedback
  • You've all been super awesome – but I'm supposed to be the encouraging one!
    
  • Nan writes about using 100 words a day (more on wikipedia)
    
  • I got encouraging email from Michael and returning listener Baron
  • Leslie sent me a voice mail with the most awesome image in it – listen

• What's up today
  • the nanowrimo site is slow as molasses
  • you can now subscribe only to the forums you actually read
  • don’t forget to upload chunks of your novel in progress so we can all read
  • I’d like to do readings, so send me an audio file of your reading, send me text for me to read or just let me know if you want me to read your excerpt

• Reading
  • my excerpt
  
  
• Promo Evil Genius Chronicles
  

• s-s-s-something from the forums – wordcount badges
  • simple one
  • graph
  • another graph
  • the one on my site
  • official nanowrimo wordcount widgets
    

Episode 2:2 - Not So Stoked

Episode 2 of year 2 - the terrible twos! Here's the mp3.

• Feedback
  • Sarah left a comment about I Should Be Writing, and mentions Holly Lisle’s podcast
  • there's an audio message from tomoyan
  • Michael writes that he’s going to cheat & finish something, and he likes my “podcast voice”
  • Steph left an audio comment, and we’re probably going to meet in Real Life
    

• Main Course
  • there's a really useful exercise on forums - the one word plot summary
  • I’m not stoked this year
  • maybe if I heard from all y’all, might help (hint hint)
    
  • nanowrimo flickr group

• s-s-s-something from the forums
  • Ladies and gentlemen of nanowrimo

• Promo - Escape Pod

• Don't forget to change your clocks back one hour on Saturday night

Episode 2:1 - Planning

Episode one of year two - in glorious mp3-o-vision.

• The Basics
  • the theme music is life in a tube by Bjorn Fogelberg which I found on the excellent Magnatune.com
  • check out the chat box, where you can leave short voice messages
  • or call me @ 206-222-2349
  • or email me at darusha plus nanowrimo at gmail.com
  • or leave a comment
  • talk to me!!!
    

• The Plan
  • no daily show this year
  • more interviews and readings
  • I'd love to get other people doing readings, so call me, email me mp3s, or send me your text & I’ll read it

• Nano Plans
  
  • umm... not much
  • I might try a modified version of the snowflake method

• s-s-s-something from the forums (inspired by the show with ze frank)
• google docs
  
• the thread about google docs/writely


• Promo - I Should Be Writing

Hello, again!

Greetings for another year, writers and would-be novelists. I have decided to once again delve into the insanity that is NaNoWriMo, and I'm going to do the podcast again, too. I had already figured that I would, but today I got an email from someone who had just discovered last year's 'cast and was begging (okay, maybe just asking) me to do it again this year. So, I guess I have no choice. It probably won't be a daily show this year; I just don't think I'll have enough time. But, we shall see.

Check back in October for some warm-up thoughts, or better yet, subscribe to the podcast feed using your podcast aggregator of choice. If you're new to podcasting, you can learn all about it here. If you use one of the common podcast services, there are one-click buttons in the sidebar to help you subscribe.

Have a listen to a promo (Yeah, it's just a revamped version of last year's - too bad).