The dust has settled, the word count is in, and MuseBlog is a winner! Congratulatory pies to all!
If you’d like other MBers to read your finished (or unfinished) oeuvre, email it to gapa @ musefanpage.com (delete the spaces). We’ll post it here.
NOTE: Please use an easily identifiable subject line in your emails so we don’t mistake them for spam!
The novels are set up as individual Google documents, so click the link to view them.
Prarilius Canix Flamehenge
Cinnamon Moon Sunset in Niomahn
Kiki the Great Memoirs of a Teenage Zombie
Purple Panda: Muse Academy
::DandelionsAreWildflowers:: About Me Being Celli
Ebeth [title?]
Beavo the Online Stalker Spy Magic: Handle with Care
I’ll send in mine when it’s finished, but unedited. Well, mostly unedited. I haven’t finished yet though.
Oh, wait. I just read the post. Should I send it in now? I think I will. Can I resend it once it’s finished?
I do not think i will. it is at the start of part two, and I need a bunch of editting.
oh, PC, It is so good! I am just on page 2. I have taken it to a word proseecor only because that Google docs page makes it tough to read.
I am not done yet, but PC, I think that you should have stonehenge be the last of the four.
Well, I have read over my novel and decided that it is the worst thing I have EVER written in my life. It is so absolutely dreadful that it almost makes me want to delete the entire thing. But I’ll try to restrain myself, because that’s what I did to the majority of my NaNovel last year, and now I kind of forget how I finished it,
But basically, it’s the same dialog over and over for each class, and I use the same description and everything. But I’ll send it anyway, because it’s about Muse Academy.
::sigh::
Sorry for the double-post, but I forgot to say a few things.
First: Will you be able to to have paragraphs? In Prarilius Canix’s novel, there aren’t any paragraph indentations and it makes it a bit tiresome to read.
Second: Is there any way I should format my document for the footnotes before I send it in? It has about eleven or twelve footnotes, and I’m not sure where to put them, but I’ll format it before I send it so the GAPA’s don’t have to tediously add them to the original text.
Did you get mine?
(8) Yes.
(7) Pan — Rebecca is posting all the NaNovels, but I’ll tell you what I think looks best on the Web.
I like double spacing between every paragraph, including one-line pieces of dialogue. That’s readable even without indented paragraphs. The quick way to do it is with search-and-replace. First replace all end-of-paragraph/return characters (they’re different in different word-processing programs) with two such characters. Then replace all instances of three returns with two returns, and repeat until no three-returns are left.
As for footnotes, put an asterisk (*) next to the text to be footnoted. Then run the footnote itself after the end of the paragraph. Put it between double brackets, and start with another asterisk followed by the word “FOOTNOTE:” in upper-case. It will look like this:
….words words words words* words words words words end of paragraph.
[[*FOOTNOTE: words words words words end of footnote.]]
Story continues more words more words more words more words…
By the way, we editors often use double square brackets to insert notes to writers or copy editors in the middle of text. They’re easy to search for, because they’re not used for anything else. The notes themselves are written in upper case to make them stand out from the normal text.
4- Thank you!
5- Yes, that was my original plan.
7- Oops. Sorry. I always forget to indent. Grr. My English teacher hates me for it.
GAPAs, post it if you will. It’ll be so cool to have people coment on it and edit it for me!!!!
10- no, I mean make this a four book saga.
12- I think I might.
Where are you in the story?
Robert (9): I love using double brackets! They’re amazingly fun–I use them all the time when editing the school newspaper.
I’m a bit confused about the search-and-replace method. I use Microsoft Word. How do I tell it to replace the end of the paragraph? ::mind spins::
Prarilius Canix (10) – No, it’s fine, I think it was the Google Docs thing that did it.
Kiki (11) – Editing? ::ears perk up:: ::raises hand:: I love editing!
Yay! More novels to read!
I just got the Golden Compass from a book fair and now I’m gonna have to read it in spring break because of all the NaNoWriMos. MuseBlog comes first!
I’ll send mine in when it’s finished. (Or should I send it now? Comments please.)
(14) If you pick the “show all” or “show invisibles” option from the editing menu (I think it’s the editing menu; might be the options menu), you’ll be able to see the end-of-paragraph symbols. I think that in Word you search for “^p”; give it a try. In some word processors, it’s backslash-p (“\p”).
15-that series is great. You must not watch the movie until you finish the books!
one less mind corrupted…one at a time gim, one at a time…Google Docs won’t let me read any of the NaNos. I sent a request to the “owner of the document” (hopefully a GAPA) to let me access them.
It’s an automatically generated e-mail… I hope it doesn’t use my full name…
I’ve been stealing a few moments from social obligations and hiding in the laundry room to post NaNo novels. No time to fix up formatting anomalies caused by arguments between Word and Google, so please bear with some odd font changes and such. I thought you’d rather see them now than wait. Will try to tidy up when I have more time.
19- Do you have any idea why the stupid Google Docs won’t let me read them?
Rebecca (19): Thanks for putting up all the novels!
I couldn’t figure out how to automatically put spaces between all the paragraphs, so I’m just going through manually and clicking “return” after each paragraph. It’s very tedious and it’s taken me almost an hour so far, but that’s okay. It’s actually not that bad, though, so that’s good.
(20) Sorry, PC. GAPA’s fault, not Google’s. Punishment for trying to do a rush job in a laundry room. I posted the links before I published the documents to the Web. They should work now.
13- my NaNo? I am editing some filter and replacing it with an endding.
I think the font on Kiki the Great’s novel is easiest to read. Why is it different from the other fonts? (Just wondering, you don’t have to change anything, O Great GAPA)
23- No, in reading mine. What part of the story?
kiki’s is interesting. I never read a book in that style before.
25- ah! he is just about to become a chrome man.
27- Oh. So you’re near the end of Chapter Three.
In Chapter Five we find out where HPBs came from.
(24) KtG’s original was in Century Schoolbook which Google converted to what it calls “normal serif.” PC’s is in the same font, and Cinnamoon’s is in Verdana.
Huh? I wrote mine in Arial, not Century Schoolbook.
NB: My novel ends at a cliffhanger (sort of.)
13-You should make it a 4 book series, definitely. Because otherwise it might end up 200,000 words long…
Sorry for triple post, but I just started Kiki’s NaNo and think it’s very good. “Stuffing-mouth time… ” hee hee.
So if I put my novel in “Century Schoolbook” it will look like that? What about Times New Roman? (which is what it’s currently in)
I just went through and fixed all the typos and paragraphs and chapter titles and footnotes. It was really fun!
Wow. Y’all have time to do something besides homework? These are AMAZING and I commend you all highly for your achievement.
I’m currently reading Kiki’s novel, it is a very interesting style.
Again, I need comments. Should I send my novel in now (unfinished) or when I finish it?
wow, kiki. it sounds like a readers theader. wow.
kiki, for a what, eleven, twelve? year old, you are a great writer!
36-how long will it take for you to finish it?
I have just begun Canix’s novel. So far it is pretty good, but…I have to say this…a little bit stilted. I believe Canix has said it as well, so I don’t feel too bad about mentioning it. Other than that, which I imagine will be edited out eventually, it’s good, and my only other complaint is that I shan’t be able to read it or any others until I have gone and worked off my need to write.
It’s very strange, but I literally cannot read something written by a fellow teen or preteen author without having to go write myself.
36- when you finnish it ( i want to read it)
Kiki: I take it you didn’t get to 50,000, but wanted us to see it, or did you really make it somehow? Either way, I skimmed a few little pieces (i. e. I went really fast becuase I knew I would get excited about the story and not be able to stop) and it looks great ( I skimmed the others, too, guys, don’t feel bad!) and even if you didn’t make it to the 50,000, you obviously are a good writer, as getting into Muse cannot be easy.
Red-tailed HAWK
40- The stiltedness is a result of trying to bump up my word count. I noticed it too.
My writing is also too flowery and some of my sentences border on run-on. But that’s a necessary consequence of NaNo.
I cannot write.
I have to write.
I must rewrite.
Already.
I could send my pathetic wreck of a novel to you but it’s not very good yet. I need to rework it, perhaps add another part, definitely add another plot piece, and maybe add about 47,000 words.
14- I don’t, so go edit!! Please? lol.
24- WHAT? They changed my font? HOW DARE THEY.
42- Yeah, when I wrote “the end”, it was only 35k. But that’s a lot compared to last year’s count of 12,000!
PC: Looks great.
37, 38- Thanks!
Can’t wait to read yours, TMFA.
26- Thnx!
36- I know. I wanted to do first person but couldn’t figure out if I was going to do it from Karen’s POV or Hazven’s, so I just did both.
39-January? Maybe?
I didn’t do any work at all today, in celebration of winning. I might do some tomarrow.
Really, my novel took up so much time trying to rack up word count that I’m only now getting to the juicy parts.
Jadestone is, unfortunatly, stuck in a hotel for the night (with no extra clothes
) because of snow. We’re at a hockey tournament in wisconson… so I can’t send mine in yet. Sorry. It’s not finished story-wise either though, and to have it make sense you’d also have to read the 10,000 words I did last year whicch was the begining of this years.
Also, crap. Mine is bacisally one long chapter because I didn’t know where I should break them. Actually wait in the middle there’s one from someone elses point of view that stands alone, but it’s aslo the only thing not written from my characters point of view so is slightly out of place. Oh well.
I will read these as soon as I get home! Can’t wait!
(34) Purple Panda,
I don’t know what it will look like online, but I’ve read it and thoroughly enjoyed it. Where on Earth did you learn so much about cheese?
Cheese? *wants to read Pan’s novel*
11- Edit? Oooh, pick me!
I am on Chapter 4 in Canix’s and have yet to even open the other two. At this rate I won’t have to touch the library books I got today for weeks.
Unless all the editing spots are taken up, I’ll let someone edit mine.
Except for the fact that I’m not done.
Hey! Just because I have editors blood and it comes naturally dosn’t mean I like it!
(49) Pan’s novel is on Google now. Just scroll up and click.
51- Sure, I’ll edit help edit yours.
Robert (48): Really? You liked it?? ::is amazed::
Wikipedia teaches us great things, Master Robert. The Cheese article is especially helpful. Also, other random cooking websites which have recipes for making cheese. Ah, the wonders of the internet.
I’d love to help edit everyone’s! ::bubbles with excitement::
I’m not sure how we would manage it on the blog, though. Hmm…
(54) Well, you did say that I didn’t look too odd. But I think that of the GAPA-characters, Paul Baker had the best lines.
Robert (55): I didn’t actually put much thought into most of the dialogue, even though I should have. Mostly, it was just there to inform. I wanted to make it interesting, while still explaining everything about the school and the classes. Personally, I think it is dreadfully colorless. But that’s just my opinion, after spending a month with it. I think I need to give it some space, and then come back to it in March for NaNoEdMo, with a fresh mind and such. My favorite lines are Paul Baker’s as well. Though I ended basically every line with “he said with a smile.”
All those SPLATs certainly helped your word count.
Aw, Pan’s novel makes me want to go to MA NOW. It sounds like so much fun! Ordinary high school is terribly boring in comparison.
I’m currently printing Pan’s novel. I read the prolouge; I bet if I wasn’t a muser I’d still want to read it!
does anyone what to read a rather bad novel by me? if so, tell me. I will get it up.
by the way PP, thanks to you, I now know were feather was born.
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Robert (57): Yes, the certainly did. At first I only had three SPLATs, but it just wasn’t the same as having a bunch of them. I don’t consider it cheating, though, because overall I got 50,300-something words, and I’m positive that there were less than 300 SPLATs. The same with the quote from the Elvish book.
TMFA (60): Your NaNo? Sure, I’d love to read it!
(63) By the way, that Elvish book is considered unreliable.
Robert (64): Thanks, I think I’ve heard that before. I do like the alphabets, though, which are correct.
Has anyone read mine?
Panda: LURVE. Was I in it? I couldn’t tell. I skimmed some of the classes.
I definitely want to read all of these now, but I don’t know how, since I can’t print that many pages out.
I am going to read all of the novels and I just sent mine in, mine is really bad…I cannot wait to read all of the other musebloggers’ novels!
60- Of course!
63, 69- then I need to get the filler out! 1000 more words.
I realy like muse acdemy, but why do the muses send letters? why not use IA?
can I make a sudgetion? for PP: durnig thing “most popular langage” line by rossane, you forgot the atofiacl langage, what is it agian?
is the books name… mostly harmless ?
Cat’s Meow (67): Can you read them online?
TMFA (71): I’m not sure what part you’re talking about, but it might have been before they invented IA. The novel also has many inconsistencies, so that could be a factor as well.
TMFA (72): Atofiacl language? What?
74-in the start, when crraw deliveds the letter? why not IA?
74-(agian) my spell check is not working. it is something like espranasa?
74-I could, but I don’t like reading online. I get distracted too easily.
TMFA (72): I don’t remember the atofiacl (artificial?) language! Is my memory failing me? Very possibly, yes. Would you clue me in?
::DAW::- A lot of filler. I suggest you get rid of it. But the story seemed good.
77- Esperanto, maybe?
79- yes, thank you KIKI.
80- Welcome.
Ms. Panda, may I say that It is great and you must continue.
but it is still funney to say “to be continued”* note: it may or may not be continued.
AHHH.
I just got a message on the computer saying “There is not enough memory or disk space to complete the operation.” When I tried to copy PC’s nano into Word (easier to read). BUt I tried it without having it unformat the text so now it’s okay. Thank god we’re getting –
AHHH I FORGOT I HAVEN”T TOLD YOU ALL YET WE”RE GETTING A NEW BIG MAC COMPUTER FOR CHRISTMAS!! YAY!!!
So there will be a ton of memory space on that.
TMFA (75): I guess they just wanted it to be more official.
Kiki (78): I agree. All of the “toy boats” and gibberish were tiring.
TMFA (80): I didn’t forget it…I just didn’t add it as a most popular language. I can, though, when I edit it, if you want me to.
Jadestone (83): Yay! Flamablamablous Macs!
83- Yay! With a camera, yes, so you can videochat!
I’ve just saved (or resaved) everybody’s nano, so i will start (or continue) reading those! even people who don’t want to post theirs still have to email it to me or i shall hunt them down with a small army of hot pink bunnies and force them, at pie-point, to hand it over.
I’ve already saved everyone’s NaNo.
I think when I finish the chapter I’m working on, I may send it in early, because it may never finish anyway
Uh, Pan? Suggestion: The words “It was fun,” “It was cool,” and “It sounds fun,” were used a bit too much. Perhaps a theserus would be a benift to your library?
[title?] is a lovely name for my nano, thank you GAPAs
actually, if any of you intrepid readers have any suggestions, that would be fantastic, because i can’t name things to save my life
I just sent my unfinished NaNoNovel in.
Ebeth, I look forward to reading yours! I really liked your first, despite the rant on marshmellows. They really are better burnt.
Beavo (87): Yeah, I say that way too much. I also end basically every piece of dialog with “s/he said with a smile.” I was more going for the word count, and hardly thought about what I was writing. I’ll fix those when I edit. Though I absolutely hate thesauri, so I don’t think I’ll add one to my library.
I do too.
78, 84- yeah I know, but for me it is almost anything to get the word count up. I had to give up on the Gibberish name though because somehow it would recopy the whole story. The toy boats I will definately be editing. Alot…
I have read only the Muse Academey but everything seems to be good so far. I will be reading the others shortly.
I’ve been reading PP’s novel. It’s so much fun! I teach poetry! cool!
oh how I love the poetry class room. and I love that I’m late.
Has anyone read mine? Do you like it?
I skimmed PPs and PCs, and I will read all of them later.
95-I skimmed through yours, I’m planning to read it after PPs and PCs. Just so you know, here’s my reading order:
Pan
PC
Cinamoon
Kiki
:DAW:
Ebeth
Ebeth, I can’t wait to read yours. The one you posted before was wicked.
Tell me what you think of my [unfinished] novel! If you want to read more maybe I’ll write the end.
PP, I followed along on the Elvish lesson in my copy of the book as I own it. Hehe. Yours must be the $14 edition because the Tengwar alphabet’s on pg. 46 in mine and I know someone whose is $14 and mine’s $16 so between the two the page numbers might be slightly different.
96- i’ve printed off 23 (out of the 44 pages i squeezed it down to with small font and margins) and am going to read it as soon as possible!
So here’s what i’ve read so far, and my response…
PC-first ten pages were flamablamablous! kind of scary…reminded me of neil gaiman actually. can’t wait to find out what happens
Cinnamon Moon-also first ten pages, very interesting, and again, can’t wait to find out more! really nice setting/description-y stuff
kiki-first ten pages. to be honest, i kind of liked last year’s better (it was really good :D) but this one is good too! you can kind of see where it’s going from the beginning, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. (and knowing nano, it’ll turn out completely different than i’m expecting anyway) i’m excited for this one too!
PP-AAAH flamablamablous! first 20 pages so far, and loving it. MA FTW!
DAW-first 10 pages. i LOVE monica, she sounds like a fantastic character. the typos were a little distracting, but i guess that’s nano for you
Beavo-yours wasn’t up when i saved the rest, so i shall do so now and start reading it!
for everybody else, i’ve read however much you’ve sent me…
monty-well ok, i’d read the beginning of yours before, but i went back and re-read it just for fun. HILARIOUS
“earth is the frat house of the universe” very douglas adams-y. love it.
julia-wow…yours was depressing. and deep. it was very good, and very thoughtful. i liked how you would pick up descriptions and backstory about random people around the area, and just give you the whole picture.
And then there’s me of course. i read my first 10 pages too, just because i didn’t really remember them, and found out that i didn’t hate them quite as much as i thought i would. it had nothing to do with the end story, of course, but that’s me…
i won’t do a long post like this every time i stop reading, just this one at the beginning and then another as i finish them
so you can breathe now GAPAs!
99-Oh, you must ask them on the behalf of the MuseBloggers who love them so to send their novels in. I read the exerpt of MG’s (I think it was hers…?) and it looked very interesting. Please, please
peck them and send them virtual whoopee cusheons until they agree to send them inask them nicely?AGGHHH
Beevs… i… do… not… likez… PLAGIARIZM!!!!!!!!
*gets self under control*
Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. Mine is a bit of a ripoff of Leven Thumps, so I shouldn’t be talking.
Quewhat? Plagiarizm? *shifty eyes*
99- Thanks for compliment.
Ooh, I just finished Kiki’s. It was very interestinglike. I enjoyed the mushy end, I always like mushy ends.
I especially liked the part where you described it as one of those romatic camera shots.
104- Haha, thanks. I tried to come up with an ending that wasn’t mushy and more sci-fi-y, but none of them worked out so I did the mushy one.
There is an inconsistency in mine. Anyone who catches it gets ten tonnes of virtual chauqlett.
Ohhhhhh, Beavo.
PC is right.
Has anyone gotten to the part in mine with the hot pink bunny?
108-Uh, I got to the part about Maura’s shoes…
109- I thought I’d only allude to them in that scene, but by Chapter Five, they start appearing more. (Well, one in particular.)
110- I only read about that one they took.
111- He begins to play a more major role later on.
MWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!
Beavo, I forgive you all plagiarism because of my appearance in your story.
I think next year I’ll write something humorous with lots of Muserly elements in it.
Who, the book?
e~a (yes it is your shiny name feel special :D)-fantabalous! short, of course, but i got an idea of how the story would go. it seemed very genuine and believable. next year, write more wordddddssss! *cheerleads*
PPerz, i’m almost done with yours
115- No, the aichpibi.
116- Well, the first thing I noticed was the use of Muggles.
beavo- i love your book. i’m only on chapter 16 but already i am soooo drawn in. although there are some odd moments were a sentance doesn’t make sense but i love it!!!!!
118-Ah, yes. I was planning on changing that (notice how I temporarily changed the spells; don’t worry, they’ll come up with completely different names. later.) but I was busy writing. I was thinking of calling them something like the Nonilumi. But I never got around to that.
Seriously! Stop that laughing.
I seriously have to read these, now. 0.0
I’m reading all the NaNos in order from top to bottom, starting with PC’s. I just finished Chapter 2, and while the formatting happens to be a little hard to read, it’s a really good book. Good job, PC.
ooh, pecan! (pracan, I’m calling you that now as pracan looks a bit like pecan…) I really like yours so far. I agree with ebeth, it is a bit like Neil Gaiman, especially Sandman.
PC: Hey! I’m another fan of your novels. I read the nightmare part where his family “dies” in his dreams. That’s all I can remember now, but I read a bit more.
124- Yeah, that was a slightly morbid part, but I wanted to make the Nightmare Key a real burden to carry.
Yes, I understand your reasoning. That part seriously scared me though. I was kinda glad for Max when it was just a nightmare. But it was an awful good attention-grabber.
I am currently working on the Encyclopedia for Magic: Handle with Care and I’ve officially replaced the word “Muggle” with the word “Nonlumi” in both plural and singular forms.
126- Good.
I guess I didn’t realize how scary it would be.
101- I do not like overuse of the letter Z.
I’m going to read Cinnamoon’s next.
128- What’z
wrong with it?
He didn’t overuse it, lots of peepull call me Beevz or Beev.
Yup, Cinamoon’s is after PCs!
129- It’s purposeful misspelling and therefore I disapprove.
130- Yes, but plagiarism doesn’t have a Z.
131- It’s fun on occasion, but I can understand how it might get annoying.
Ooo.. lots of people about to read mine! Exciting!
NOBODY IS READING MINE I FEEL UNLOVED.
dur.
I read yours and posted a comment! To save you the trouble of post searching, I can say it over again.
I think it was very good and I haven’t ever seen that kind of writing before. I enjoyed the diary-like way it was written in, the way it thinks their thoughts.
134-I just haven’t gotten that far. I’m reading them in order.
And, for the record, my brother is now going to read these as well. Right now he’s reading Beavo’s, but he’s going to read PC’s next.
Ooh! He’s reading mine!
Tell me what he thinks..*rubs hands*
Kiki- I’m reading yours when I’m done with Cinnamoon’s. I’m reading them in order too, although I did get a bit distracted by MA.
Here’s something to think about:
published: adj. Formally made public.
Therefore, if you send in your NaNo, it automatically makes you a published novelist. How flamablamablous is that?
139- This is something I’ve thought about a lot. It does mean that it’s published, but it’s not a glue-and-paper book (you can yell at me for being environmentally unfriendly if you like). Also, it can ruin your chances at making it into a glue-and-paper book, since some publishers won’t accept what has been previously published and no one is going to go buy/wait for the library to get a book that they can find by a simple internet search. So I’m wary of posting too much of my work on the computer.
Omg, PC, your book has changed the way I think. xD I’m on Chapter 12, and when I woke up this morning I automatically thought “Hmm, that was a weird dream I had”. The next thought I had was “But it made sense, so it must have been a Fantasia”
It was so weird.
PC, I just finished your book. YOU NEED TO WRITE A SEQUEL! It is soooo good.
So now onto Cinamoon’s, I suppose.
Cinnamoon- I’m not done yet, but it’s very good so far. (I’m about three fifths of the way through.)
I’ve finished PC’s. It was absolutly wonderful, I agree with peeps when they say GAWD IT NEEDS A SEQUAL!
I am basking in your praise and quite literally grinning like an idiot.
Look for the sequel, Windhenge, in November 2008.
I LOVE YOU ALL AND I’M READING EVERYONE’S RIGHT NOW BUT THEY WON’T BE DONE FOR A WHILE SO JUST CHILL AND ASSUME THEY HAVE ATTAINED FLAMABLAMABLOUS STATUS IN EBETH’S EYES (because really, they are good. i really look forward to getting my hw done so i can read them
(or post reassurances on the blog i suppose…))
Grinning like an absolute simpleton now.
145) Good. I was feeling like I wanted to strangle you when I finished reading your first section! Gosh! I must know what happens next!
Well, I’ve got it figured out partly.
SPOILAZ BELOW
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Max and Chara survive the drop into the Pacific and drift up on the shore of Ande (which is equivalent to southern Chile). Most of the book is taken up by the arduous trek across the Americas to the city of Phu Jeryk. Max also begins to learn more about controlling Dream.
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i’m 5 pages away from the end of beavos book! and then….. i move onto kiki’s!
150-Didja like it?
PC-I am so looking for Windhenge. But that was the most horriblest cliff hanger EVER. Or the best, depending on how you look on it. If I were you I would be grinning like an [amazing book writing] idiot too.
The cliffhanger wasn’t actually too awful. It’s weird, but I didn’t feel like I was dying of suspense at all. Cliffhangers are like that. Sometimes I can walk in a bookish daze for weeks, slowly perishing from the suspense, and other times the cliffhanger doesn’t kill me or even bring me close to the edge of death.
It’s like in the sci-fi story. E2MB was bellowing at us about a cliffhanger, and I was looking at the story thinking, “Where?”
152- It’s all about the timing and the implications. Mine isn’t really a cliffhanger. After all, it’s revealed earlier in the story that Max can fly, so they will probably survive the drop.
If I’d had my way, I’d have ended with them landing on Canberra Isle, but I still had two thousand words to go. So I cooked up that stupid khenhundter plot twist.
I’ll probably severely rewrite that entire sequence- maybe even put it at the beginning of Windhenge.
Which brings me to a peculiar dilemma. I want to edit Flamehenge, because there are several inconsistencies, not to mention sloppy prose whichever way you look, and I want it to be my best work, because it’s a story with a lot of potential. But every time I pull it up and try to start editing, I feel like it’s a crime to change this beautiful achievement. It might be because I did some minor rewriting during November, and I consider rewriting part of the writing process. So when I start editing, there’s a voice that screams “CHEATER!! CHEATER!! NOVEMBER IS OVER! HOW DARE YOU TOUCH THE SACRED NANO,” and I chicken out and leave it alone.
Anyone else have this problem? Advice?
153- Here’s my advice:
Make a copy. Then change the copy, and leave the original novel alone. That’s what I always do.
But it’s still the same novel. Keeping one in a pure form doesn’t help.
145-Too long. -weeps-
(155) Maybe you just need some time away from it. It’s amazing how both one’s work and one’s attitude towards it can shift simply by taking sufficient break at the right time.
I think I will.
Ah wow I need to read these. Curse my limited computer time. Too bad they’re to long to print out too…
Yes, I definitely need time-away-from-novel. By the end of November, I was about to kill my novel, literally. (*magical delete button*) But I didn’t, which makes me happy. During NaNoEdMo, I’ll edit it with no mercy. Then it might be decent!
Today I’m printing out Cinnamoon’s. I read part of it. And then my black ink ran out.
But ANYWAY.
I’ve already decided to take some away time from my novel, think of some new twists. I added my favorite character in the chapter that follows the other chapter before the skip in the novel posted on here. *pant pant gasp gasp* WATER! *gulp*
I’m going to put them on my laptop, so I can read them at leisure without my eyes giving out.
PP’s is really good. I just finished it. I only have two comments;
• The overuse of the word “fun”. Every class is descibed as “it should be really fun” or “It was really fun.”
• Also, especially at the start, you switch from first person to third: “I knew she was going to love it.”
But overall, it’s great! Pc’s next.
I like Kiki’s. Its a little creepy, actually. Karen and I are SO similar. (I don’t own a plaid skirt or have a boyfriend though). We have the same name. odd.
PP… *smiling huge, slightly creepy smile* You wouldn’t possibly consider… Writing more? Would you? Please?
164- Thanks! Lol, I made her kind of like me though.
151- yup! NOW I WANNA KNOW WHAT HAPPENED BETWEEN THE TWO LAST CHAPTERSSSSS!!!!!! *sobs* HURRY UP AN’ FINNISH!!!! *sobs harder*
167- Are you talking about my story, or Beavo’s?
167-Why, thank you! Should I take your sobbing as a complement of the awesomeness of the novel, or annoyidness of how slow I am? *worried* BTW, it’s more than two chapters in between the skipped part. More like eight.
168-I think mine, she was replying to my comment about whether she liked mine or not, and I was replying to yours by telling you that I liked yours better than mine.
I make no sense.
Whoops. Forgot. Sorry. Choklit for you, my friends.
I’m reading Cinamoons. The only suggestion I have so far is how the two peoples (P&S) fell in love so fast and so early in the book. Isn’t that supposed to happen a little later? Mine happened early, but you have to consider that L&D liked each other long before D asked L out.
170- They don’t stay in love for long. It becomes more of affection instead of love. And then… Well, I won’t spoil it for you.
171-Good, I’m still reading it. But so far, it’s very interesting.
I thought of a torture machine similar to the constrictor at one point in my disturbed childhood. Just a fun fakt.
149) Oooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Hey, I’ve resolved to finish my novel by March, which means I need to get a MOVE ON.
Oh, by the way I just added a character named “Hawk Redtail” who can siphon colors. I wonder where he got that name? Hmmm, let’s THINK.
I love NaNo.
Cinamoon- Is the city’s name really ~~~~? Or does it have another name? Seriously, it dosn’t matter; I can’t pronounce any names in your novel. But I like it that way.
So, who has read mine, other than Kagcomix? *needsfeedbacknowpleasethankyou*
176- No, it isn’t. I was going to look up the Nepali name for everest, but I didn’t get round to it.
176- i really enjoyed it. it really sucked me in. all i could tink about when i wasn’t reading it was “i need to finish it wanna know what happens”. the only things i think need to be fixed/changesd are the spells. you need to make the spells your own and more originaly named. and perhaps less referances to hary potter.
178-Thankyouthankyouthankyou. *deep dish pie*
Anyone else?
Cinnamoon– please finish your novel. It’s good!
was agagabagabag doing one? i seem to remember him syaing he was but that may be faulty memory on my part. have we even seen Ag recently? i miss him.
181-No, we haven’t seen ol’ Ag in a while. Agag! Aggy! Where are you? Agitha Aggity Agrim! Where ARE you?
I just finished Kiki’s. It was good, really good actually, but I couldn’t help but feel that Karen and Havzen were a little younger than fourteen. Dunno why.
Beavo-
First of all, your story is quite good.
Second, it would be better if it didn’t bear such an UNCANNY RESEMBLANCE to Harry Potter.
Third, I can’t read the end bit because it is my strict policy never to skip to the end before I’ve read the middle.
So, my conclusion:
Your story would be wonderful if you edited it and finished it.
There.
183-The author is younger than fourteen, I’m pretty sure.
Thank you, Alice. I’m stuck on that dammed Writers Block *curses* so it’s currently collecting dust somewhere deep in the junk pile I call “my documents”.
185- yes kiki is eleven or twelve.
Twelve, I think her birthday is a few months after mine.
180- Thanks, I have. I’ll send it in when it’s ready.
6- I hear you. I’m about done editing and then I will send it in… Probly like next week sometime, though possibly later.
I haven’t touched my novel in a while, I need to get working on that.
Oh, and I’m reading Ebeth’s. It’s wonnnerful.
I have an idea for my NaNo next year, and I was wondering if it had already been done. It’s like the RPW thing where everybody writes letters instead of right out omnipotent action, but mine would have letters, diary entrys, emails, that sort of thing. Has it already been done?
The Nepali name for Everest is Chomolungma.
192- OH. Thanks! I’ve got to file that somewhere… soon…
191 – Similar things have been done, but if you had an original plot line, it wouldn’t matter.
I never got around to reading all of these. Just Flamehenge.
Oh, and wouldn’t “NaNoNovels” translate to National Novel Novels?
(194) The official name for them is NaNovels, but it just doesn’t sound right.
OK. I just found this button on here that sends me to random threads.
It’s freakishly amazing!
*cough*