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[Bongo Bill]

Four hours and 2,343 words, and I'm about petered out for this session. Maybe I'll get some more down later today. I've managed to invent a really fun group of characters, and put 'em together with a plot device that just won't quit. Feels like they're practically going to write themselves.

Yeah, it'll be shallow and disposable. It'll also be awesome

[Detonator]

REAL MEN post excerpts of their novels here.

Don't care how bad you think it is.

[Bongo Bill]

Just a little bit of expository narration, as I seem to have failed to include any especially succinct and iconic moments of characterization thus far. The story is that we have a Five Man Band of Professional Treasure Hunters! operating out of a real-world HQ, but with fantastic destinations.

Well, I told myself, Abbot was gone, freshly replaced - and I was on the team now, too, and that meant I still had a lot of work to do. I like to joke that Macsen and Li have the hardest job to do, using tools they could carry to collect as much as possible of what we find, dislodge it, and load it in the vehicle quickly. But that's because they've never had to worry about accounting all of it, navigating the gray areas between various laws and regulations governing salvage, archaeology, imports, and the like, finding ways to disguise income of a sort that no taxman ever dreamed of in a way that kept him away from most of it.

Not to mention calculating the paths through spatial distortions that would lead us to something valuable. (Most people experience spatial distortions entirely on accident, any time they get lost. This phenomenon, which leaves you in an unexpected location, can be harnessed as a highly efficient, if unpredictable, means of travel. My great-grandfather discovered it; after failing to have his findings accepted for publication in any scientific journal, he vowed that if that's the way they were going to be about it, he'd just keep it to himself, then, and phooey to all of them. This has been the basis of Dyson and Co.'s enterprise since the very beginning.)

Well, these days I had a computer program that could run those numbers quickly, but it seemed as if the universe compensated by making our work harder to classify than ever before. It seemed that the amount of paperwork necessary for the seemingly simple act of finding and taking abandoned shiny objects was to remain constant, with just the relative proportions of mathematics- and bureaucracy-induced headaches ever changing.

[Fredward]

Hey life? Fuck you. No, I do not want to do a chemistry midterm. No I do not want to write a ten page psychology paper. No I do not want to find eigenvalues. I want to write bad science fiction, so fuck off for like thirty days, k? Thx.

long story short I haven't really started BUT I am going to try to catch up tomorrow 

[Brentai]

I'm most of two days behind right now.

More if you count my NaNoWriMo.

[Bongo Bill]

Although I risk eternal damnation as a quitter, I'm thinking I might drop out. I like what I'm writing and the characters flow nicely, so I don't see myself abandoning the manuscript... but the time limit makes it feel like work. I'm way behind - haven't even updated my wordcount in a few days - and the biggest consequence of participating in the event seems to have been that all my other projects suddenly seem much, much more interesting than they were in October.

[Brentai]

Oh, I haven't written one page.  Or rather, I have, then thrown it out at least three times because I refuse to write anything that feels even the slightest bit like Katestory.

A problem for me, since I'm a naturally comedic writer who can't seem to maintain a fourth wall to save his life.

[Shinra]

I've been on a bit of a lovecraft kick lately. Maybe I'll take a shot at doing eldritch horror for NaNoWriMo. I completely missed the last three years without realizing it, maybe this is my year to shine.

[Classic]

I wonder if the options in a CYOA book count as breaking the fourth wall? You'd think they'd be an exception.

[Fredward]

writing's not so great
I'd much rather
masturbate

[Fredward]

So did anyone win?

[Arc]

<obvious>

Yes. Everyone who didn't participate.

</obvious>

[Brentai]

Considering I didn't even touch the thing past Nov 1, I'd say that makes me a winner.