So, back in the day, there was an old cheer I learned that made fun of the ditsy blonde cheerleader stereotype. It's a fun cheer for those who are feeling a bit absent-minded, and what better place to feel that then in the middle of a paragraph when you can't get out that word or phrase or concept you desperately need to up your word count by another 5 or 10 words! :)
Thus, while cheering each other on during a Skype-based write-in, I belted out a somewhat modified version of that which was quite lame, but more appropriate to NaNoWriMo. With a little retouching, I think I have made it a bit less lame and a lot more fun to shout:
Go, go, write, write! Gee, I hope I type all right.
This screen, I swear, it's picking up some glare.
Like, totally, for sure, it just might be literature.
Sixteen, Twenty-one, I don't know what page I'm on! Uh-ha!
(The original, for those who are wondering:
Go, go, fight, fight! Gee, I hope I look all right.
This sun, I swear, it's bleaching out my hair.
Like, totally, for sure, I just had a manicure.
Sixteen, Thirty-four, I don't even know the score! Uh-ha!)
Go Writers! :D You can do it!
-C. K. Muehr
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Nov 11, 2008 - 19 11
Bwahaha.
How deliciously annoying. I plan on singing it a lot.
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Nov 11, 2008 - 19 54
Oh boy.
This one is going to be stuck in my head all night.
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Bella, The Danger Magnet --- Twilight
98% Human, 2% Bird WE SOAR --- maximum ri
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Nov 11, 2008 - 21 18
This makes me quite happy and giddy!
----------Check out my dragon!
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Nov 11, 2008 - 21 30
Hee hee. I'm glad. :)
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Nov 11, 2008 - 21 34
I'll probably write it down and read it as a chant when I'm in between classes and having to write by hand. xD Because I really need to get up to date with all of my writing and such. Course, what would make me happy right now is going to sleep. But that's not happening for another half an hour when I kick my old roommate out of my room. So I continue to write.
----------Check out my dragon!
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Nov 13, 2008 - 07 54
We had a different one, though it was quite similar:
[can't remember the first line]
The sun, I swear, it's bleaching out my hair!
Ninety two, sixty four, I don't even know the score,
Go team, fight fight fight - gee I hope I look alright...
God I haven't sung that for about six years now! Loving your NaNo revamp of it though :P
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Nov 13, 2008 - 08 25
Ours was pretty similar except for a couple of lines:
" "
The sun, I swear, it bleaches out my golden hair,
...
thirty six, thirty four, I don't really know the score!
Go go fight fight, gee I hope I look all right,
Go ME!!!
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Nov 13, 2008 - 08 36
HA HA! That's awesome! Totally brought a smile to my face!
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Nov 13, 2008 - 09 12
Just keep writing writing writing !
a simple Finding Nemo flashback, except insert writing instead of swimming. Can do it with a lot of things(running for ex.)...but for this:
JUST KEEP WRITING WRITING WRITING! =]
----------My first year here!! SO AHH!!!! I am actually getting pumped. Hope I can pull it off. GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE!!!
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Nov 13, 2008 - 09 28
even to someone from England, where football chants are something completely different (drunken songs involving a lot of swearing) that is very, very funny... Cheered up my day!
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Nov 13, 2008 - 09 38
My Nano buddy and I use this cheer..
"OOH UNGAWA we have writing POWAAAH"!
It is so corny but it keeps us laughing.
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Nov 13, 2008 - 10 48
How about this old chestnut?
If you're happy and you know it,
WRITE A SCENE!
f you're happy and you know it,
WRITE A SCENE!
f you're happy and you know it,
then your text will surely show it:
f you're happy and you know it,
WRITE A SCENE!
To be sung with variations (eg, "blocked" or "angsty" for happy; "add some verbs" or "exposit" for write a scene).
Enjoy.
----------"Many a little, makes a mickle."
-- Poor Richard's Almanac (and my wordcount)
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Nov 13, 2008 - 10 51
If you're happy and you know it,
WRITE A SCENE!
f you're happy and you know it,
WRITE A SCENE!
f you're happy and you know it,
then your text will surely show it:
f you're happy and you know it,
WRITE A SCENE!
To be sung with variations (eg, "blocked" or "angsty" for happy; "add some verbs" or "exposit" for write a scene).
Enjoy.
This is stuck in my head FOREVER now. Hahahaha. I think I prefer the "if you're blocked and you know it, add some verbs" variant. =)
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Nov 13, 2008 - 10 58
HAA! That's great! Now I feel the urge to procrastinate on my NaNo by adapting some of my old softball cheers...
Kind of a fun one:
There was a little froggie sitting on a log
Cheering for my plot to die, he had no sense at all
He fell into the water and bumped his little head
When he got back up again, this is what he said:
"Go, go, go, you mighty, mighty writers,
Write, write, write, you mighty, mighty writers,
Win, win, win, you mighty, mighty writers,
Go! Write! Win! And get those word counts in!"
An echo cheer:
Down the road there's an old cemetary.
That's where this first draft is gonna be buried
Six feet wide, seven feet under.
When we type, we type like thunder!
When we write, we write like lightning!
When we stop, it's kind of frightning...
Chant-and-response (Okay, this one's kind of awkward):
----------I am a writer and you know what I got? (WHAT DO YOU GOT?)
I got a book that's hotter than hot! (HOW HOT IS HOT?)
Plot holes and paddings too, (UH-HUH, UH-HUH!)
I'm gonna write the whoopsies outta you! (THE WHOOPSIES OUTTA YOU!)
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Nov 13, 2008 - 12 11
God, I haven't seen that original in years, though I remember when we (the marching band) used to chant it at the football games when the cheerleaders did something stupid (we had quite a bit of animosity between the MB and the cheerleaders, and we particularly hated some of their more obnoxious cheers , most of which included spelling errors).
I really like the NaNo version :)
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Nov 13, 2008 - 14 22
If you're happy and you know it,
WRITE A SCENE!
f you're happy and you know it,
WRITE A SCENE!
f you're happy and you know it,
then your text will surely show it:
f you're happy and you know it,
WRITE A SCENE!
To be sung with variations (eg, "blocked" or "angsty" for happy; "add some verbs" or "exposit" for write a scene).
Enjoy.
I can't wait to annoy my friends by singing this over and over and over again.
Thank you.
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Nov 13, 2008 - 14 36
I have writer's group at my library today. Most of them are also doing NaNoWriMo, but I'm still going to use it. They are going to get SOOO very annoyed.*drums fingertips together with an evil smile on her face*
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Nov 13, 2008 - 15 07
I needed that. Thanks.Com eon everyone we can do this. I finally feel caught up.
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Nov 13, 2008 - 15 07
Oh, I love "If you're happy and you know it"! That's going to be very handy.
I need to make one up for a old 70s cheer that Adam Carolla does:
HERE WE COME A TRUCKIN' IN
shh shh shh shh shh
BET YOU WONDER WHERE WE'VE BEEN
shh shh shh shh shh
WE'RE A TEAM THAT CAN'T BE BEAT
shh shh shh shh shh
'CAUSE WE'RE FUNKY ON OUR FEET
shh shh shh shh shh
(You can hear it here: http://www.dolland.net/loveline/sound/songs/index.html)
Then again, I need to make one up for David Allen Grier's "DAG cheer" too. Hmmmmmmm........
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Nov 13, 2008 - 15 10
I love it! Though while reading it an alternate version occured to me.. the same except instead of 'Gee I hope I type alright' 'Gee, I hope I type all night' XD
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Nov 13, 2008 - 15 36
Omigosh. As a softball player, I *know* all these, and they are *all* going to be stuck in my head for the rest of the night. XD In writing and/or softball form. Thanks.
Here's one my official cheerleader wrote for me and my army:
"2, 4, 8, 10, Watch Wordcounts go up again!
12, 13, 14 too, Write that plot, it's good for you!"
(Yes, I have an official cheerleader and an army this year... we rock. XD)
-----------"...loneliness is this world's worst kind of pain."~Gaara
-"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein."~Red Smith
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Nov 13, 2008 - 16 11
Hey I remember that cheer!
I used to sing it when I was like, six, it was fun.
I think your version is way better though.
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Nov 13, 2008 - 16 54
Too funny! Thanks for the laugh. I needed one tonight.
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Nov 13, 2008 - 17 26
This was great I needed a pick me up! ^_^
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Nov 13, 2008 - 17 29
Ola ola ay!
(Repeat)
Write it, write it to the beat now!
(Repeat)
I don't know
(repeat)
Just what it is
(repeat)
But Wrimos get funky
(Wrimos get funky!)
And Wrimos get crazy!
(Wrimos get crazy!)
How funky is your wordcount?
(Repeat)
How loose is your concept?
To the tune of:
Ola ola ay
Roll it, roll it to the beat now
I don't know
just what it is,
But [insert team name here] get funky
And [insert team name here] get crazy!
How funky is your chicken?
How loose is your goose?
(I don't know how many people actually use those last two lines, but... I tried)
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Nov 14, 2008 - 01 22
Wow, I wasn't expecting it to hit the front page. :D I'm glad it's made so many others smile and contribute their own NaNoWriMo Cheers! Whatever motivates you to get those words out, keep on writing! :)
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Nov 13, 2008 - 20 19
Are you writing, are you writing?
Sister Sue, Sister Sue
Nightingales are singing, nightingales are singing
Get it on, get it on!
(to the tune of Frere Jacque)
*spirit fingers!*
----------The pen is mightier than the sword... but who's ever seen a knight in shining armor brandishing a pen??
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Nov 13, 2008 - 20 43
lol, that is totally awesome. It's going to be stuck in my head all night, along with "If you're happy and you know it write a scene" XD
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Nov 13, 2008 - 21 30
hey, i think i have a cheer to contribute. i think i i'll use it the next time i am doing a five hour challenge with my writing buddy and i get stuck in the same sort of scene:
This is the scene that never ends! It just goes on and on my friends. I just started writing never knowing what it was, and now I'm stuck writing it forever, just because! This is the scene that never ends! It just goes on and on my friends! I just started writing and my friend has already won! It would really be better if I gave up but because! This is the scene that never ends! It just goes on and on my friends! I just can't stop writing because it's simply too much fun! But in writing it my sanity is gone forever just because! This is the scene that never ends!
And it goes on like that for awhile. Mainly because it's based on "The Song That Never Ends".
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Nov 13, 2008 - 21 33
That's freakin' great!
----------Dum spiro spero.