NaNoWriMo!!!

[naomierosen]

john's hair is a bird. your argument is invalid.

[CharKorbit]

Next year for NaNoWriMo, you should write the story of Little Margo and Little Quentin and magical puppy Myrna Mountweazel.

[zmanzono]

John. Scout popcorn is not good. there are certain benefits to it, like it's (relative to other popcorn) healthfulness, but it is still bad tasting and bad for you.

[dracoscorupasofistic]

I did nanowrimo !! got me book on amazon :D (Assassin 13) <- title 13 year old me

[TheHelkai]

OH LORD, THE PUFF.

[ccconfetti]

REVISION!

[LukeDJoyce]

I wonder if The Fault in our Stars came out of this?

[CounterClockWorker]

@LukeDJoyce I think this was when he wrote Zombiecorns, his zombie apocalypse novella.

[patters22]

2:05 that was a simile not a metaphor ;)

[plushalligator]

pretentious mcasshat is my new favorite insult

[iamacatspy]

This is the first vlogbrothers video I ever saw.

[Thelizzardcat]

Was this where The Fault in Our Stars started? Because about 2 years and 2 months later...

[FlobotsFan101]

And thus, the beginnings of an amazing book ^_^

[LilyTheAnnoyance]

Pretentious McAsshat; Mommy Puff.

I don't think I need to say anything else here.

[LilyTheAnnoyance]

PUFF LEVELS ARE THROUGH THE ROOF!

[SerpentsNightmare]

"Pretentious McAsshat" I love that. I'm gonna use that.

[liamjfloyd]

Was this the birth of The Fault in Our Stars?

[TheHelkai]

make more kerouac references.

seriously.

[AllTheGoodNamesAr]

Stephen Fry wrote a book in 3 days.

[SerPinkKnight]

Clockwork Orange was written in two weeks... but the author thought it was crap and only did it for the money.

[deepfishthebossandaw]

Fahrenheit 451



[12200101]

Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Gambler was written in... 26 days, I believe.

[ChelsieOliviaa]

You did NOT just say sidebar. o.o

[theCRAZYtwizzler]

I've started writing for nanoramyeo 4 next year and it's going to be really good! Also excuse my spelling

[EvolutionaryPsyche]

@theCRAZYtwizzler No, I will not excuse your spelling. You had time before you clicked the post button to check your spelling but you couldn't be bothered to take those five seconds and also the word is in the title of the video! Shame on you for not valuing spelling, shame, shame, shame.

Okay, I managed to keep a straight face during that but i dissolved into giggles right after:) I am not a giant squid of anger.

[PassTheMarmalade1957]

Ladies and gentlemen...WE HAVE PERMISSION TO SUCK!

[Majestyk16]

John got a lot more spiffy in the last 2 years. Also, glad you got rid of that intro.

[TheIndiverselikeyeah]

my friend: why doesn't he blink???

lol. :D

[PhyreManiac]

OH MY GOD I forgot about this intro... its so good!

[twiapoc]

Link in the side bar....lol

[adoorableknobs]

... mommy puff.



[DRMACKIUS]

is this how the fault in our stars was born?!"

[yoyo2850]

thanx you just totally spoiled your books for me :(

[robynisawkward]

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne. Amazing book. Written in a month.

[MrFishes101]

OMG every word of this is true. including the puff bit. every "potential" writer (who doesnt exist because if you write a book it probably came out of the slightly disturbed creative pools of your mind that spill out onto the paper from your ears in a creative massacre and you dont know the definition of 'writing') should watch this. and yes i AM part of NaNoWriMo.

[surfer8alien]

EFF YEAH SCOUT POPCORN.

Just saying...

[ConfusedShipper123]

Oh man. I'm freaking out. You're distracting me soooooooo much. XD

[1kn0wl33tsp34k]

Babysitters club #43 is Stacey's Emergency, Claudia and the sad goodbye is #26.

[ConfusedShipper123]

@1kn0wl33tsp34k You win.

[zizema16]

@1kn0wl33tsp34k Stacey's emergency in your pants?

[RiskyBrothers]

I F***ING LOVE NENOWRIMO

KNIGHTS OF THE RISING SUN!!!!

[LostDiadem14]

@harrypotterrocks1762

1. ur username is exteremely true

2. depends on which ones, but mostly yes :)

[harrypotterrocks1762]

um, I'm 12. Are John Green's books OK for me?? thanks!

[Comocks]

@harrypotterrocks1762

Wait a year or two for maximum effectiveness, esp Looking for Alaska.

[JilleyWillyNilly]

@harrypotterrocks1762

I would say Paper Towns and An Abundance of Katherines should be fine, wait a bit for Looking For Alaska and Will Grayson, Will Grayson

I read LFA when I was twelve, and it was fine, but I feel I would've enjoyed it more if I waited, I understand it a lot better, now.

[harrypotterrocks1762]

@JilleyWillyNilly thanks a whole bunch :D :D

[TheTwoGeeks]

My latest nano was about a future where planet earth has literally stopped spinning on it's axis, and how humanity has evolved and degenarated on a still planet. It was a dystopian at heart, but it did have Sci-fi and post apocalyptic vibes.

[ultimatenerd22]

lol, cub scout popcorn.

[mayedancer]

:D 2 years ago I clicked on this video after searching NaNoWriMo... That was my first encounter with nerdfighteria and YouTube altogether. John, Hank, and nerdfighters have changed my life, and watching this video makes my toes tingle with giddy nostalgia. Thanks for being awesome!

[elliespoonmoose]

Awww this reminded me I miss the old intro

[CoHOCD]

Ugh. I've given up on my nano this year.

[Lekkerpuhding]

@CoHOCD You shouldn't !! Just keep writing. Spend on day writing a few hours and you will just finish!!!

[Freedom4rmUs10]

Great way to steal my thunder, dude. I have exactly 12,344 word to go and now I feel worthless.

I lack total inspiration now...

[LightningStripeDFTBA]

I was going to do NaNoWriMo.

But the first 11 pages of my story are in my English jotter.

My English teacher has it.

I need it back.

Or I can't do it.

[hizachyo]

why am i watching this? I have 800 words to go tonight!

[TikTokRoundTheClock]

Aw... come on! Why did you have to distract me so far!?!? GRRRRR....

[Benjofresh]

"Pretentious McAsshat?"

[mysss29]

I actually thought that the first metaphor was good. :) But then I've never attempted to write anything....

[zerix11]

is this guy on caffeine...

[MsDesignDiva]

@zerix11 probably, but he's also just a very high energy person to begin with. Also this video is 2 years old.

[synchrogirl978]

This already started!!! Ah! No!

[Juliaisundeniably]

My creative writing professor used to use a furniture metaphor for writing! He used to say that the first draft was a chair, but if you had to cut it down to a stepping stool (or in some cases a chair leg) in revision, at least you have that.

[ariellizzy910]

I'm doing NaNoWriMo this year because a while back I watched this video and was like, huh, since John Green did it I should do it too!

That and it's just really awesome to write 50,000 words in 30 days. Just to say you can .

[envase]

It's not supposed to be a GOOD novel. You just have to write it. :)

[kaynanmg]

I'm doing NaNoWriMo this month!!!!!

And you just distracted me...

[Redthewarrior]

So happy that the Babysitters Club series got a mention. Love those books :)

[crazy4hissi]

I'm glad i'm not the only one who needs snacks to write.

[GPMusicc]

nanowrimo isn't about writing a great novel in one month, its just to get a first draft of 50k words in a month then editing and tweaking things later to make a great novel XD

[YourUglyFantasy]

What's a sidebar?

[HannaMadeIt]

I am doing NoNoWriMo this year. And this video is very inspiering. It makes me feel a little bit less sucky about sucking at writing :D

[WeirdGirlParadigm]

you are my inspiration for making me participate in NaNoWriMo! :) Esp from 1:45 onward...

[cocosnow13]

I like the Columbia t-shirt.

[PigfartsIsOnMars4]

It's my first year doing nanwrimo... i have cub scout popcorn in my cupboard... hmm i do think that wasn't a coincidence.

[Gryffindor004]

@PigfartsIsOnMars4 LOVE your username :)

[pixelsofrelativity]

No no no! Na-no-wree-mo!

I know that wri is and abreviation of writing and that we say that wri not wree but whatever.

[CrankDatBabyJune]

Clockwork Orange was written in less than a month! I think. Please don't laugh at me if I'm wrong, nerdfighters!

[oregonbry]

Freakin' awesome!



[ohheyitsstargirl]

Sidebar. lol

[hinata4312]

I think I'm too much of a perfectionist for NaNoWriMo its taking me forever

also hooray for comments on an old video yah!

[hello2656]

@hinata4312 Yeah. I'm not gonna do very well, I think.

[HorrificanStudios]

2:06 - 2:16 My seventh grade teacher made us do that as a writing project.

[Lightavion]

Fahrenheit 451. Written in a few days, I believe. While it's not a novel, it is a book. And It was a great book.

[LaploShow]

I want to write a book. In fact, I'm writing a book. But it's taken me a year to write like 2,000 words. so.... no NaNoWriMo for me :L

[gwriterk]

"What NaNoWriMo does, for writers young and old, is gives us permission to SUCK."

I LOVE IT.

[luvforpuppies]

THE PUFF

[blomlie]

Demian by Hermann Hesse?

[mastermind42ful]

I pretty sure Mary Shelly's Frankenstien's Monster was made in less than a month...

[SuviLove]

I have nothing to write on !!!!

[richardidntwantodie]

@katherine9997 damn it I'm only on 2297, well done! ^_^ good look

[MissLynnielois]

Pretentious McAsshat. My best friend and I call each other this all the time. I am trying to get her to become a member of Nerdifghteria. She's doing NaNoWriMo right by my side this month.

(Also, Claudia's Sad Goodbye is NOT number fourty three.)

DFTBA everyone.

[BeatrixNemesis]

I've watched all of Kristina Horner's NaNoWriMo videos ten times each, so I decided to come search the Vlogbrothers. What does John, my favourite author EVER, tell me?

"Your book is going to suck! No matter how long it takes, no matter how hard you work, YOUR BOOK IS GOING TO SUCK."

I dunno, maybe I'm just a pessimist.

[RapunzelNames]

I use NaNoWriMo as a way to get a very rough (and bad) first draft done. Then in my writing club, we pull apart all of our NaNoWriMo novels and just revise them. This year, I am entering the Scholastic novel writing contest, so I need to finish this book in a month to allow for the months of revisions done by my writing club in school and by yours truly. :-) Wish me luck. Well, it's a good story, so it's easy to write it. :-)

[katherine9997]

2,934 words in on the first day ^^ I am over-achieving!

[kiwiwhatmango]

Let the games... BEGIN!!

[missannacole]

Great, now I'm distracted!

[djpj22]

PRETENTIOUS MC ASSHAT!! LOLLLL! Best insult ever!

[SuperChalek]

Does anyone else know which vids he updates about Nanorimo?

[OohButterfly]

I actually found NaNaWriMo a couple days ago and signed up. I'm very excited!

[TheLightsandcandy]

A year ago, about this time, i was searching for nanowrimo. I found this video, and thus found the youtube channel of one of my favorite authors on the planet (and his brother)

[MegaKooala]

Cub scout popcorn is a WIN!!!! :D

[grouch314]

I still haven't decided about Nano. I really ought to make my mind up, seeing as I have a week

[Qwillk]

Does John still do Nanowrimo?

[JCBlake123]

...I like the puff

[rebeccayep]

"link in the sidebar".

the good ol' days.

[Brownbirdfeather]

I wonder if TFiOS came out of this? I mean it has been 2 years...

[MissVerityDarling]

SO weird to hear someone say it NaNo(rye)Mo! I first heard it from Kristina Horner/ italktosnakes and Haley G. Hoover, who both say NaNo(ree)Mo :D ANd now so do I...

[dolphin64575]

NaFoYBIMSCOM?

[KurtMcFry]

Puff envy. ¬¬

[singerrock1213]

too bad you probably wont participate in NaNoWriMo this year. I can't wait for TFOS :)

[c1ickh3r3]

NaNoWriMo 2011 :D

[wx6qzgold]

if you hadn't noticed, people are still commenting at this video

[Mononokenausicaa]

Hey! Hey! So what about this year?

[ssbfan2]

IT IT ITS FAULT IN OUR STARS

THE NANOWRIMO BOOK IS FAULT IN OUR STARS

[ALLCAPSfan98726]

John,It toke Jo a year to vvrite the final HP book.And you are saying a good book can't be vvriten in a month?

[singerrock1213]

@ALLCAPSfan98726 she actually started writing parts of book 7 while she was writing the earlier books (i saw it in a documentary)

[boxerini]

If your books take three years to write... how do you live if writing is your job?

[MyLIfeStudios]

@boxerini cause once he's finished writing that book it keeps selling , even now he is making money of looking for Alaska

[iwanttodanceallnight]

@boxerini people keep buying his books? royalties? books aren't an one payment thing

[HannahIsUnoriginal]

@boxerini He gets paid to make youtube videos (he gets a cut of the ad revenue)

[AkemixMiyano]

i finished nanowrimo last year. i'm gonna try a mystery novel this year. and OH YEAH!! it'll be good

[Voidmaster05]

Doing it this year. I am SOOOOO PUMPED!!!!

[mollyjo50]

dude i am reading an aubundance of katherines and havent gotten to that part

[nearthe2nd]

I want to take the challenge of NaNoWriMo but I'm already writing a book, about zombies that is only at chapter two but its the second revision, yet I want to write another book to make my life even more difficult what the fuck am I thinking! UGGGGGGH!!!!!!!!!!

[MEG4nerd]

I wonder if what he wrote was Fault in Our Stars

[Gryffindor004]

Ahhh I don't like the way John says NaNoWriMo. I heard of it through the fiveawesomegirls, so have been raised to say it NaNoWreeeMo :)

[awkwardfour]

@Gryffindor004 Hmm I always said it like John because the "wri" in "writing" makes the same sound.

[Gryffindor004]

@awkwardfour Yeah it definitely makes more sense your way. Ours was invented by a mispronunciation then people taking the mick out of that mispronunciation. Then again, the 'mo' in 'month' doesn't sound like 'moe'.

[awkwardfour]

@Gryffindor004 Haha if we do it that way it would sound something like na-naw-wriy-muh XD

[dreamcutie32]

@Gryffindor004 same

[omgcowshaveudders]

@Gryffindor004 elllllghhh people like you disgust me!!!! Just kidding, love you fellow nano-er. However, it does annoy me when people say wree-mo, because WRI-ting is pronounce rye-ting...so NaNoWriMo should be pronounced NaNoRyeMo

[Likeflames]

@omgcowshaveudders I disagree with that argument, because by that logic it should be pronounced Nahh-Nuh-Rye-Muh. Because that's how they're pronounced within the words for which they stand. Right? (Read that in the least snarky, most reasonable voice possible, and that is the voice in which it was written.)

Good luck in NaNoLand!

[omgcowshaveudders]

@Likeflames That's true, I guess...but Wree is the most different so I still prefer to say Rye

[Likeflames]

@omgcowshaveudders I mean, like, sure.. you can say it however you want. Just IMO, people should say "Oh, yeah, I pronounce it this way" and not "It should be pronounced this way".

[Sliv20]

@Likeflames Well, I think that since Chris Baty came up with it his pronunciation would be the correct one. So, using that logic, "rye" is right.

[LudicrousPlatypus]

@Gryffindor004 do you pronounce writing 'wreeting' ? No? so why would you say Nanowreemo?

[DreamingODaisyChains]

@LudicrousPlatypus Agreed. I always get confused when people call i NaNoWreeMo. @_@

[MJLongman]

@Gryffindor004 But if it's National Novel WRIting month, then surely it should sound like 'writing'? After all it's not pronounced wreeting.... :/

[Gryffindor004]

@MJLongman Well the mo in month isn't pronounced as 'moe' :)

[MJLongman]

@Gryffindor004 Very true. So it's Na-No (as in knock) Wry-Muh?

[Gryffindor004]

@MJLongman ...pretty much, I guess xD but haven't got the time to think about it. I'm writing :P :)

[joseph240791]

On the road IS a great book! Jack kerouac (did i spell that right?) wrote the book over seven years mainly as his travel diary and then decided to turn into a book (which obviously was published) but you can also get a hold of xhat is known as "the original scroll" which was written in a month, on a typewriter on the floor of his freinds house(alan ginsberg i think though i may be wrong)

[CherWarner]

I think you should participate this year!!!

[TheHyperTheory]

I hate to disagree with John, but IT'S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY by Ned Vizzini was written in a month and that book rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ThePoppyFlight]

I except your challenge!!! XD

My Nanowrimo book shall be awesome!!!! Runs to prepare... wait it's not november!!!!!! (Noooooo!)

[PirateJeans]

gahhh i remember reading babysitters clubs books when i was little... nostalgia!!

[Lindinoxx]

@thedoctorbob7 EXACTLY!!

[thedoctorbob7]

Hmmm... two years revising it... Tfios?

[awkwardfour]

@thedoctorbob7 No, he's been writing TFiOS in some form since before Looking for Alaska.

[DontBeIrrelevant]

@thedoctorbob7 Nope. It was Zombicorns. :D

[nerdfighter009]

can you say PUFFFFF!

[Kikomechan]

The correct way to say it is this:

The rough draft is like the first pancake, it always sucks. But the more you make, the better they get.

[Twefrence]

I use way too many metaphors in every day life and my friends think I think too much =P

[thePANDASgirl13]

Little Women was written in about 6 weeks. I love Louisa May Alcott. <3

[ReKrisB]

Omg, Puff Distractions are my favorite kind of Distractions.

P.S. NaNoWriMo is a lot of fun, participated twice, won this past November, plan on doing it again ^_^

[djpj22]

hahaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!! PRETENTIOUS MC ASSHAT!! What an insult!!

[MrCorkBoard]

Clockwork Orange was written in 3 weeks! Or was it? I thought it was... Maybe I'm just being a pretentious asshat.

[Ravenclaw797]

omg i miss babysitters club....

[scribbledjoy]

Claudia and the Sad Goodbye was number 26, John. Duh. XD

[quoththeraven929]

"THE EXCEPTION THAT PROVES THE RULE" IS THE MOST POINTLESS PHRASE EVER TO BE COINED IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE!!!! BY USING THAT PHRASE YOU ESSENTIALLY ADMIT THAT YOUR RULE IS WRONG BUT STILL DESPERATELY CLING TO A DESIRE TO BE RIGHT, SO MUCH SO THAT YOU CANNOT SEE THE TRUTH AT ALL ARRRGRGRGRGARRRRLLLLLBLBLBAARR­GG!!!!!

Giant squid of anger moment over. Other than that, love the video! :)

[clockworkcorvid]

@quoththeraven929 I believe the idea is that, since the exception is so, well, exceptional, obviously it's not the norm. Like how whenever a bat bites someone and gives them some crazy disease, it's on the news. This shows how little bats actually transfer deadly diseases, because if it happened all the time, it wouldn't be newsworthy.

It is an over-used statement and is often used in a manner as you described, but i don't believe it's a pointless phrase if used how i described.

[weirdlittlekid]

Clockwork Orange was writen in like a week. bitch

[JoelCornah]

Is 176,912 words too long for a novel?! :((

[Dramaismyife]

@JoelCornah

Never!

[JoelCornah]

@Dramaismyife It's over 200,000 now. I think I'm getting carried away...

[Dramaismyife]

@JoelCornah Whats it about? I'd read it!

[JoelCornah]

@Dramaismyife It's fantasy. It has dinosaurs. And dragons. And penguins. It's not as weird as it sounds!!

[Dramaismyife]

@JoelCornah Dude. I have to read this. Are you on YourPants?

[JoelCornah]

@Dramaismyife I was on the old forum but never got around to making an account on the new one. I'll do so when I'm done with this draft, I think.

It's called "The Dinosaur Prince". So look out for it! :)

[Dramaismyife]

@JoelCornah Will do! If you ever get around to getting on to YP, add me, I'm DramaticSlytherin. :D

[kikiann11]

Me love NaNo! Oh, and @danakaDent , you can plan a draft for your novel before November, but you can't write any words of your first draft (or later drafts....).

[omgasmallbox]

Baby puff. baby puff. mommy puff.

[Adonvara]

2010 was my first year doing NaNo, and I won! It was probably the best month of my entire year. I loved it so much and I can't wait until November 2011!!!

[danakaDENt]

i'm cheating for NaNoWriMo i sorta started first draft/plot outline last month

[dolphin64575]

I was more distracted by the dark eye bags than the puff. Get some sleep, John of November 2009!

[singlexfilexisxlove]

this is why my books take 3 years to write HA

[howaboutschy]

cough cough stephanie perkins cough cough.