Most Embarrassing Moment while doing NaNo

in LA class, we're doing nano as a progect, and we were doing silent typing one day. i was writing a REALLY funny part, and started laughing really loud. Everyone looked, and i was SOOO embarrased. even my friends looked at me weird.

I've got a couple.

Back when the "NaNoWriMo Ate My Soul" wasn't called that, my sister was walking by my computer, and there, in big red letters on the screen, it said I HATE MYSELF AND WANT TO DIE. And I swear: that headline was huge.

I think she began to worry for my health then...

Oh, and in 2006, I got so stuck (writing by hand, in class, like you) that I had to write a note to a friend (actually, several) so they could get me out of that plot hole. :P It was something like, "Help! I'm stuck in my story... so there's about 30 people, they're immortal, they're stuck in a dungeon guarded by angels, they don't age or die or eat, how can they get out?"

Yeah, it's a good thing my friends already thought I was crazy-weird. :)

Hmm...well, once I got caught writing in the back of math class, and my teacher looked at me and said, "Sella, what are you writing back there? Why aren't you paying attention?" And I mumbled "Nothing" and shoved the paper under my binder. Then one of my classmates, who isn't really my friend, tried to look over my shoulder and was like, "What are you writing?" And then I had to explain to him...

I can't think of anything else right now, just that I space out a lot and my friends think I'm crazy. XD

Aha.
I was sitting in my math class, or my science...and i had my notebook on my lap..and i wasn't paying a hell of a lot of attention. I could hear someone talking but i wasn't sure who it was...
so then i put my elbow on the metal bar and was twirling my pen around my fingers, and my teacher said something so i looked up at her then she asked me what it was and i was like 'Huh?" then i realized she had been trying to tell me something for the last ten minutes...i am so lucky i don't blush otherwise i would have been red...

Also I was walking down the hallway and I was so obsorbed in my writing, that I had in my hands I ran into someone and made them drop their books :/ It was bad :P

I do a lot of typing in my IST class as all my work for the year was finished two months ago, and the teacher is really laid-back and doesn't really care.

So there I was, furiosly typing away, desperate to reach the 15k mark, when I stopped and decided to check word count. I had only just gotten over 14k, and I yelled really loudly, "YOU HAVE GOT BE FUCKING KIDDING!"
The other five people in my class just looked at me strangely than started laughing, and my teacher was nearly crying from laughter.

I was at a non-school related meeting and trying to pull myself out of messy and confusing plot moment, just staring at my notebook, engulfed, but trying to pretend like I was taking notes, even though we were all sitting close enough that the two people next to me could probably see what I was writing. My friend next to me knew I was doing Nano cause I told her I've been using my class time to write, and I guess my sideways writing was obvious from where she was sitting that I wasn't working. She wrote on her notepad, "NaNoWriMo?". I just smiled and she shook her head at me, and I'm sure I blushed and tried paying attention to the meeting.

More than once, I've found myself either muttering dialogue to try out different things, or making faces as if I'm having both sides/all sides of characters' conversation. Stupid enough when I'm at home in my office, but very embarrassing at the local coffeehouse.

I have horrible handwriting, so I never handwrite my story--I always text it to myself when I'm out. One time, I was texting my story while I was walking, and then, suddenly, a dude on a bike came riding down the ramp I was about to walk up. Thank goodness I looked up just in time--I was like, "Whoa!" and jumped to the side just in time, and the dude on the bike was, like, screaming at me.

Another time, I was texting my story during my orchestra class when we had a sub. (we always just sit around and do nothing when we have a sub in orchestra) But, anyway, I was texting my story, and the subsitute walked over to me.

"You're not e-mailing... I mean texting, are you?" he asked me. As you can tell, he was pretty old and had a difficult time differentiating between e-mailing and texting. Ha!

"No," I answered. I didn't really consider what I was doing to be texting, so, technically, I wasn't lying. I was just improving my liter
acy.
"You're just playing a game?"

"Yeah." This time, yes, I was lying. But how dorky would, "No, I'm just typing a novel on my cell phone" sound to a substitute? LOL

After I told him I was just playing a game, though, he started to lecture me about using my time more wisely. He told me that I should be doing homework. I said that I didn't have any homework, though (which was practically true since all of my homework was outside in my locker). Then he said that I should be studying for tests, and I told him that I didn't have any upcoming tests (which, by the way, was completely true.). Then he told me that I should take out my free choice book to read to improve my literacy. I wanted to tell him so badly that he was stupid and I was improving my literacy already by writing a novel. But then he was like, "But I'm not telling you to read--it's your choice." Then he walked away and I just continued typing. He he he ;)

Constantly, though, while I'm texting my story to myself, my friends are dying to know what I'm doing. I've already told most of them that I was writing a novel. One of my friends was really interested, so I told her what I was writing about. After I told her, I learned that she thought that my idea was actually pretty cool, even though I was previously embarassed by it. One of my other friends, though, just wants to know what I'm constantly typing. She knows that it's my novel, but she hasn't asked what it was about, so I haven't told her. She just always tries to look over my shoulder to see what I'm typing, and I tell her that she's being rude and I call her by her full name. Ha ha... =)

I've embarrassed myself several times by talking to my characters. Things like "Sorry, Addie...he's gay." or "Bethany, what the hell? He's a bastard!" my favourite though, was "Evie, what are you doing? No, you can NOT be the main character, that's your mother's job!"

My most embarrassing thing so far has been calling people in my classes 'little one' who are younger than me. In my story, all the angels call those of a later generation 'little one' as a sort of term of endearment, like sweetie or honey. What makes it funny is that I'm shorter than most of the people I talk to so they end up giving me weird looks.

Beyond that, I've taken to acting out scenes I'm stuck on, almost anywhere. But that's not embarrassing since I've been talking to myself since I was little.

I'm in a production of The Nutcracker Ballet, and during rehearsal for the Battle Scene (I play the Mouse King) I brought my laptop in and wrote. I'm only in the last quarter of the scene, so I would write for most of it, then put down the computer and get up to leap onstage.
Well, I was writing an intense scene, and I totally missed my cue. My teacher had called my name twice, and I ended up missing 2 eight-counts- oops.

Luckily I'm usually in my room when I'm scheming for NaNo, but I have this awkward tendency to mimic the expressions of whatever character I happen to be writing... whether they be an evil villain torturing an MC, the poor MC, a character bouncing around asking all sorts of curious questions, annoyed, frightened, laughing... what-have-ya.

The biggest problem (which hasn't occured with this story yet, thank goodness), is if I'm walking down a crowded hall, imersed in story-thought, and accidently find myself muttering, out-loud, the rantings of the bad guy and the comebacks of the good guy while I'm trying to figure that out once.

I wonder if anyone ever noticed.

Probably during my politics class last week, when, completely absorbed in the murder/massacre scene i was trying to step out on my page, the teacher asked me the answer to a question i didn't hear. Everybody was staring... so he rolls his eyes and picks up my sheet and begins to read it aloud.
He stopped after 'the mangled mess of delicious human body gushed with sugary-sweet blood that poured down my chin as i drank, beyond reason, unable to stop'.
Let's just say he questions my emotional stability now.

Uggg. I was in a terrible mood the other day, being seriously behind on my word count (which I have just had to reset after restarting *headdesk*), and, after have drank far more caffeine then I should have, kind of bit my friend's head off.

She understood. I think. :P

Umm...I don't know if this has to be NaNo related, but the other day I was doing laundry and had a pretty interesting moment. I took my clothes out of the dryer and placed them on the table to start folding them when this guy who was also in the laundry room was like, "are these yours?" I turned around and he was pointing at a couple pairs of my underwear that I'd apparently dropped on the floor, one of which was my hot-pink striped thong. That was lovely. And then I had to answer yes, which was the wrong answer since I obviously should have been like "haha, no, I've never seen those before in my life". Oh, god that was awkward.

I was completely absorbed in my writing and I wasn't wearing any pants at the time (as all good stories begin). I didn't really see a need to wear pants since I was curled up in a chair in the privacy of my own room so I'd pulled off my jeans because they were a bit uncomfortable. Anyway, enough justification, you get the idea.

As it happens, I'm an EMT and I happened to be on the pager rotation for that night (meaning the backup crew in case the crew that was on duty was on a call when another came in). Lo and behold, halfway through my writing, a pager call came in and I forgot that I wasn't wearing pants, so I ran out the door to my car then realized I hadn't put pants on. Bigger problem: my keys were in my pants. I had to call my sister at 2 in the morning to come round and open the door to bring me my pants.

Lesson learned: if you're going to forget your pants, make sure you have your keys.

mine isn't too bad, and I've only just started so i haven't had time to accumulate a truly embarrassing moment (perhaps I should be pleased?) but the worst so far for me is that I have a tendency to, when I'm thinking over dialogue, do the gestures that go along with it. For example, if my character is explaining something, I might wave my hand and tilt my head to the side, and it's REALLY obvious that I'm "talking" to someone... what's worse is that my boyfriend, who is really used to how i get when I write in general, immediately asks "Who ya talking to?" and it's gotten to the point, over the years of my writing, where I now just answer seriously, "Warren."
"What were you telling him?"
"I was just trying to explain where Riggs is coming from, is all. He doesn't get it, though."
"Maybe you should show him somehow."
"Yeah, yeah... that's a good idea..."
XD hahah. it's more embarrassing when other people see me doing it and are like "uhh.....?" but luckily that hasn't happened yet for THIS story.... haha

I literally fell asleep in government class -- still sitting up.

I woke up to the sound of my teacher's voice urging the boy behind me to, "poke her."

Yeah, beat that. xD

Haha.

I act out my scenes sometimes. During while people were talking once, I said "She'll be simply fabulous!" in a strange voice while flicking my hand. A few people looked at me strangely, I'm sure.

I haven't done much embarrassing things, but last year I read my entire NaNo out loud while writing it, which I don't think is so weird, because mostly no one was around. Sometimes, though, my little sister would sit in my room (she does that all the time, and sometimes she watches TV so you remember her, but other times she just plays with her phone and spends some time with her thoughts or something), so I would forget about her and dramatize my of course very intriguing novel, and then turn around to see her laughing at me.

But it's my sister, so she's used to it anyway. :P

I tend to come up with great dialogue in the shower. However, my whole family shares one bathroom. So while I'm taking one of my incredibly long showers, my mom and siblings will often come in and use the bathroom. The shower curtain's there, and it's got a blanket cover, so it's not too awkward - they can't see me. However, when my sister overheard me acting out a dialogue piece between my guy characters in the shower (one of said guys also happens to be an Italian Don Juan-type character)... she burst out laughing. That was awkward.

I felt a right arse when I quoted the name of a book in one of the forums and got it completely wrong. I was so tired. I got the author right, but the characters in the story completely wrong (and it was a well known book at that). My only excuse is that I read it so long ago now and my memory obviously isn't as good as it used to be! Someone pointed it out and I felt a complete fool - I should have gone and looked for the book, but was too tired to. Oh well that's life! I will be more careful in future.

Annie

Nothing too embarrassing has happened to me yet, luckily. The worst was the other day when I was writing in the library before class and a friend came in. He knows I'm doing NaNo, and asked how far along I was. I told him I was hoping to get to 10K by that morning. Now, I'm really shy about people seeing my writing. I post fanfiction online often, but I NEVER let anyone see it before I edit it a TON of times and *choose* to post it online. But I was feeling really out of it and was like, "oh screw it" that morning. So I un-minimized the document, (I was at a scene where one of my characters, Kyuu, is begging the phone to ring, becomes certain that the phone is mocking him and smacks it, knocking it to the floor, where he panics and picks it up praying it isn't hurt. In reality he was hoping for a very important phone call. Taken out of context, my character seems like a total nut. I can only imagine what my friend thought of him.), and checked the wordcount and saw that I was at 10,006. And I pointed at the screen and yelled, "HA! Ten thousand and six!"

And the people around me all sort of glanced over like, "WTF??" xD

Earlier today I was in my Communications class and was suddenly hit with a really great idea for a novel that isn't my nanovel this year, and, without thinking, said (out loud), "Oh, god, not now!" I didn't yell or anything, but considering we were practing presentations in the auditorium at the time, it echoed. And, as I go to an all-female college, my professor was kind enough to ask me if it was "that time" and "did I need to be excused from class momentarily?"

I was so horrified at this I could barely speak, I just goggled at her for a moment and then had the sense to mutter that it definitely didn't need to be excused (except maybe to have a good argument with the Muses) and that in the future, such outburst from me should be ignored.

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I'm starting to wonder if I was amanduhrae's sub... :-)

This year, I suspect the kids in my study hall are wondering what the heck I'm doing so intently on the computer while they're trying to text and play games (I still catch 'em even when I'm writing...)

It's interesting to note that NaNoWriMo has significantly increased my substitute-teaching business. I don't know if this is because of the perversity of nature (I need time to write, therefore I get more days of work to get in the way) or some of those other teachers are doing NaNo on the side...

Ha, that made me laugh.

I keep muttering to myself, and once or twice I've been all, "YES! 13K! Whoo!" and then I remember my family's in the house and go, "Oops, hope no one was sleeping."

But not too many embarrasing moments for me. My mom thinks I'm insane for doing it, and frequently comments about quality over quanity. I promptly ignore her and mutter to myself, "1,000 words to go..."

Yeah, was in my science class writing the other day and anyway my teacher has been really bad at teaching us anything at all, but low and behold on the first week of November he decided that he was going to be a teacher. And well, I was sitting on the broken heater ('cause I am the only one that pays attention and was the one teaching the class so I get special privileges) and I was writing as we were watching a movie. Little did I know that he stopped it and asked a question, and because no one else could he expected me to answer. Well, I was in this really intense scene and so I was getting really tense and when I realized that he was calling my name I snapped my head up and hit it on the wall behind me. Yeah, not the best of ideas, then of course I began shouting to my MC (I do that all the time) and well.... I got some really weird looks.

He should know better though really, He knows about nano and he even did it once!

Just a few moments ago was pretty embarrassing. So I'm somewhat stuck so I left the computer and went into the kitchen. My little sister is making pancakes, it's 8:31 pm xD, and I got myself some painkillers for my headache. I had a cup in my hand with water in it, so my cat Dhira walks into the kitchen and I start talking to him...."So Dhira, do you want to inspire me!? Do you want to be Zarek? Help me out honey!" My cat stands up and sniffs my cup and then walks away as I glare at my...MY siter at this moment is staring at me and says "Your losing it man". I was just really embarrassed I'm really tired, hungry, and stuck on what to do next in me story, so yeah I have kinda lost what was left of my sanity...

This one's from last year. I went to the midnight kickoff and started really hot, got up to like 2000 words in 20 or 30 minutes. (I don't normally type that fast, let alone write.) We were at the local Denny's (one of the few all-ages restaurants open at that hour), there were like 30 people there, and we were having a race, so I kept shouting out my word count. Everyone else was several hundred words behind me, and they got annoyed with my speed, so they started pelting me with bits of Halloween candy (which our MLs so considerately provided).

Can I just say that this thread absolutely cracks me up, and there needs to be more of it?