Nano 2025 - Games & Theory
Anything you like.
Jokes, games, puzzles, random discussions.
There are just two rules.
Rule 1 - No politics. I don't care what is going on in the world, what is going on in your country. You leave it at the door.
Rule 2 - Be polite. If you can't be nice to your fellow NaNos, go somewhere else. We are here for the fun and the craic, not to beat each other over the head.
Oh hell this sneaked up on me! Oh boy.
My usual approach to NaNo is to leave it until mid October and then think about a story.
What surprised me this year - as you'll have gathered - was the fact NaNo isn't a thing any more, at least not in the way it's been for the last 20 years I've been doing it. So mostly the past day or so has been about that instead of the story :)
I hadn't gathered that, because I'm oblivious!
Well, maybe I'll still try to do nanowrimo anyways? Or forget about it and go ohhh nooooo halfway through the month!
As you'll have gathered I'm going ahead with it because I got all excited about it and planned out a story (see another post within this community) and it seems a waste not to. Plus I really don't have a lot else to do - my life is not that full of things.
I just thought I'd keep the community going in case anyone else wanted to join me, and didn't want to use any of the multitude of other sites that have sprung up in the wake of the official site closing down.
Good luck! I'm excited to watch!
Well due to starting a week or so early (this is explained elsewhere) and having a week off work, I am about 7k shy of reaching 50k already, which given I'm doing a screen-play rather than a book is quite surprising (even for me). and I'm only 2/3 through part 1 of what I was going to write, so now I have to decide if I want to actually continue writing part 2.
I realise this all sounds like it is just humble bragging, but honestly - I never thought it would go this far - I was worried it wouldn't be a big enough concept to reach 25k with all six, let alone nearly 50k with just 2 out of 6.
But now its the weekend and that is usually when I write quite a lot, so we'll see :)
On an entirely unrelated topic, five pub quiz type questions because why not :-
How many spirits was Scrooge visited by?
Who cut Sampson’s hair?
What is the longest word you can spell using only musical notes?
As of 2025, what are the only two countries to host the World Cup without taking part in a previous tournament?
Do you know how many people were going to St Ives?
Turns out writing the Jedi fight scene on The Invisible Hand was a bit of a bugger. Less than 1000 words.
So I've been sharing my story with a friend of mine named Christine, and she posts a lot on other sites, and....... I think I broke her.
She's just emailed me this, and it was an answer to a question about Yoda, and..... yeah. I think letting her read a parody of Star Wars wasn't such a good idea.
(It's describing how Luke first met Yoda, and it's kind of based on the Weird Al Song, then it goes off on a tangeant)
"Well, according to Luke, he met him in a swamp down in Degobah where it bubbles all the time like a giant carbonated soda. (That’s s-o-d-a soda).
The being in question was sitting on a log, and - when Luke asked him his name, he replied in a raspy voice “Yoda” (that’s Y-O-D-A YODA) (and not Y-M-C-A Yoda, because that be a very different image , and my word wouldn’t THAT be hard be hard to get out of your head?)
Now apparently Luke had been around but he hadn’t ever seen something that looked like a muppet but was wrinkled and green (kind of like Kermit after he’s been soaking in the pool for a long time). And although he was quite smart (despite - by this time - kissing his sister not once by twice, once with tongue) he had trouble understanding how this little toad could lift him up just with a bit of hand waving.
But he’d only left home a little ways before, and he was just learning about his new vocation. And a ghost of his batty old Uncle Ben (not the racist one from the rice jars - the nice one from the desert who definitely wasn’t a paedophile despite making friends with young boys and having a beard and living alone) had told him to go to a strange planet and make friends with another old guy………….
Seriously - how the fuck was this series of films aimed AT KIDS?
“Hey kids - go to talk to an old guy who lives alone, and wears these long robes, and who is part of a religion, and he will send you to talk to his friend who is another old guy who lives alone and is part of a religion”. That’s not FUCKING SUSPICIOUS AT ALL!!! Fuck me.
(Sorry. Just re-evaluating my ENTIRE CHILDHOOD based on certain things we’re seeing in the press in recent times).
Where was I?
Never mind. I think I’ve answered the question and probably offended quite a lot of people who REALLY like Star Wars by suggesting there is quite a lot wrong with it."
The first time I read it, it just cracked me up because I'd never really thought about it like that.
But honestly? I think with her permission this is DEFINITELY going to be part of Part 2 when I get round to writing it :)