NaNo 2009 Signature SNAFU's
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Topic: NaNo Prep

 

 

 

 

 

 

Looks rather innocuous, doesn't it?

Actually, it is a writing signature, or "siggy" that a friend of mine over at WDC (Thanks again, Leger!) made for me. I use it at the bottom of my WDC emails, blog entries, reviews, and other insignaturenificant thingeys around the web.

Tonight(Ok, last night now!), I tried for almost three hours to get this simple siggy into my NaNo signature block. Why? Why, you ask?

I'll tell ya why. The signature block says a lot about you, that's why. It becomes, along with your avitar (small picture by your name) the identifying symbol of your presence in the NaNo world. You'd be surprised how many people have become my Nanobuddy because of my signature!

Everybody needs nanobuddies when you are doing NaNoWriMo! Word wars, coffee chats, and Forums fly like the wind during NaNo. (Are you my buddy yet? It's kybudman, y'all!) The chatrooms are full the procrastination station is brimming over, and headaches abound.

So, I just wanted to paste a little identifyier into my signature.

 

THREE HOURS!

Why couldn't NaNoWriMo.org offer their users a safe, simple, signature testing page? I had to find a reasonably accessible forum post after every change--just to see how the siggy looked. FORTY TWO TIMES!!

"The devil's in the details!" Ohhh, how tuhruuueee!

kybudman

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Topic: NaNo Prep

The National Novel Writing Month is, for several million writers, an annual event par excellence! This year will be my fifth year of participation.

 

This is one of the many nefarious animals encountered during NaNo. They are called plot bunnies, and they can mess up your very best intentions. They play around with your plot, change your words, kill your characters, or create entirely new plot lines you had no idea of using. They love to play with your words while you are taking a much-needed break from the chaos of NaNo. You may be taking a nanobreak with some freshly baked nanocookies and nanocoffee with your nanobuddies in a nanochat room. 

There are lots of "badges" particpants use to announce to the world they are a part of this activity. This year's badges look like this:

You'll see these badges around--a lot. I hope that you will send a note of encouragement to those wearing this "badge" proudly. After all, they have to deal with plot bunnies.