= NaNo BrainStorming = generating ideas for NaNoWriMo = National Novel-Writing Month, which takes place in November. Someone will explain….
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Finally!
I’m so excited. No idea what I’m going to do this year, however. So doing some BraSto-ing would be a good idea right about now.
THANK YOU GAPAs!
I’m thinking, nea , planing on rebelling this year. I didn’t do script frenzy, so I’m going to write a 100 page script, and say 500 words = 1 page of script.
Yes! I’ve been thinking about this all day. I think I might cheat and use last year’s ‘Nano’, (The novel I started on november third last year, although I didn’t ever go on the NaNo site) for this year. I’m about eight thousand words into it, but I can’t bear for another story to get ahead of it, so I’m just going to cheat.
I still need to work on it, because I’ve hit a bit of a stumbling block, and I’m trying to figure out what the enemies are, and all sorts of other things. Hm…. Random idea that just might work, and won’t make any sense unless you know all about my book.
I prefer the term “rebel” over “cheat”.
NaNo is a personal challenge, and as long as you write 50,000 words, or the equivalent of 50000 words I feel you’ve won.
Equivalency Statements
1 picture = 1000 words
1 page of script = 500 words
others can be added later.
Good point. I’m rebelling.
So am I. I’ll use the Noble Warriors book that I’m writing. It will help me advance it. Although really, I hope to be done by Oct. 17, so maybe I’ll “rebel” with something else.
Does anyone else have a reward system? Here’s what I’m using:
25 pages = 2 cookies = 12,500 words
50 pages = Cartoon History of the Modern World, Part 2 = 25,000 words
75 pages = Here Comes Science CD/DVD (TMBG) = 37,500 words
100 pages = Up DVD and a $25 donation to the Office of Letters and Lights (NaNoWriMo’s non-profit). = 50,000 words
125+ = NaNo Shirt/Buttons/Stickers/Something = 625000 words.
I had a reward system for Script Frenzy. I think for 25 and 75 pages I got a new song from iTunes, at 50 pages I got one of those huge chocolate bars, and at 100 pages I got a t-shirt.
I have yet to decide on one for NaNo this year.
This is exciting! I’ve never done this before, do I have to get an account somewhere?
The novel has to be 50,000 words? I’ve never written anything that long before.
What I think I’m going to do is just start writing from a title prompt, and go from there. Right now, the one that’s on my mind is Soul Fish, which is something my music teacher said. I think. And I have no idea why she said it, she just said, “that’s soul fish” and I thought, “That would be a good title for a book.”
So… nobody steal Soul Fish.
Could anyone please explain this to me?? I’m confused…
*repeats everything SudoRandom said except for the bit about Soul Fish (?) *
And yes, will someone please explain further?
Okay. There’s a site, findable by searching, ‘NaNoWriMo’ on google, (it should be the first thing) that encourages everyone to write fifty thousand words of a novel in the month of November. There’s also a younger version, for if you’re younger than thirteen or not willing to lie about your age, where you can set your goal. And change it, even after you start, which feels like cheating, but anyway…
There’s a bunch more stuff, but I think that’s all the basics.
NaNoWriMo is a writing “competition”/event that takes place yearly from November 1 to November 30. You write 50,000 words of a brand-new (Don’t start early) “lengthy work of fiction” (a novel). Your novel doesn’t need to good.
You can, If you wish, sign up for an account on nanowrimo . org. However, I wouldn’t do that until around 6/7/8/9/10/11/whenever they launch the new site.
does this help?
I’m going to take a break from the Fourhenge epic, as I haven’t figured out the logistics of warfare with Puuks on both sides, and I still don’t know what role Kornephoros and his cronies are going to play. Wavehenge will have to wait.
I’m not sure exactly what I’ll do this year, though. Some MuseBloggers and members of my school’s Creative Writing Club (both in heavy disguise) will probably make cameo appearances, and even expand to major roles if I’m really starved for ideas.
Maybe a contrast to last year’s… Fourhenge is dark fantasy. How about humorous sci-fi instead? Maybe set on a Dyson sphere?
I’ve decided not to do sci-fi. It requires research, which I won’t have time for.
I feel really stupid, but… my account is still giving me the data from last year (You Are A Winner, etc.). How do I get it to show that I’ve started a new one?
Sometime today in the late afternoon (PDT) the site will relaunch and the data will change.
EDIT: As I was writing this, the site went down. They’ll be back in a hour or so.
The site’s going to be wiped for 2009 sometime this afternoon, and your word count and everything will go back to zero.
I feel like writing some Action-Adventure, but that’s what I did last year. Maybe fantasy. Or realistic fiction, who knows?
This sounds fun… I probably won’t be able to do it… but why not try it!
Hmm, maybe I’ll say what I’ve said EVERY SINGLE YEAR SINCE 2007: I think I might do it this year. Only, I don’t care so much about it being a NEW story, so I’m going to work on Catriona’s story (I have like a hundred words already, but whatever). I still need a conspiracy and then I’ll have more of a plot, yay!
Also, my friend from freshman year came back from a year in central Oregon with a notebook full of tiny handwriting which is her story. I read a chapter. Very misspelt. But maybe she’ll be my writer friend.
Well. I’ve spent years knowingly ignoring cette chose.
I feel for once I ‘ought to try this out. Conform, I say! CONFORM!
I’m somewhat annoyed. When I refreshed the page that said ‘site is down for maintenance’ it still said ‘site is down’ but then when I thought, ‘That can’t be right’ and went to history, it was up again. Which probably means they didn’t put enough effort in to make that page re-direct you somewhere else after they were done with maintenance. Do I really want to do this? Whatever, I’m going to anyway.
You don’t HAVE to register officially. I didn’t my first year, but I still felt incredibly accomplished when I reached 50,000. (But if you register, you get a pretty certificate and lots of cool pep talks from your favorite authors. *entices)
I was joking.
Quick question: How long does it usually take for NaNoWriMo to send you the email? Because it still hasn’t sent me one yet…
I would be prepared to be patient. Historically, the NaNoWriMo folks are swamped the first few days of October. Once they’re settled in, things usually run fairly smoothly.
Okay. I wasn’t sure if it was an automated email, or by hand, or what.
I just set my mom up with one!
I think I’m going to do it without signing up for anything. Just at my own computer.
I don’t even know if I’m doing it this year. It would be awesome, but I have a lot to do…
I think I’ll try to do it this year. One of my ideas was at a boarding school, several years in the future but still close enough to the present not to be sci-fi. It would involve secret societies, solitaire and shadows. But I’m still not sure what exactly the main character will be like and I’m still working on the plot. How much planning is allowed, how much is too much?
I’m also thinking of going with an earlier draft, in the present in Vienna, which involves a sort of time-traveling gang, but that’s ripping of Kiki Strike…
Or I might blow it off completely and do something in the countryside with a sort of wishing creek…
It’s so hard to decide…
Either way, I’m very excited.
I’m doing NaNo this year for the first year ever! *excitement* I think it’ll have to be based on some random culture, as over September for no reason at all I came up with one hundred and thirty two different aspects of culture, all of which most cultures have.
I figure if I create an interesting culture throughout October and also make a few decent characters, the plot may not be hard.
I think my unofficial one is going to be rather depressing. Sorry. It’ll be sorta like LOTF, but everyone will die. You could say I’m not in the best of moods right now.
I’ve decided to write Steampunk this year. Thing is, I’ve never done steampunk before, soI think I’ll read up on the genre as much as I can before November starts to do some good, hard research. This should be interesting.
Has anyone written alot in this genre before who can give me some pointers?
For anyone who’s NaNoed before, are you allowed time to revise in December and plan in October, or is that “rebelling”?
Read the “About” page on the official web site for a good overview: w w w. nanowrimo.org/eng/whatisnano
You can plan in October, but you can’t start writing until November first. And after November 30th at midnight, there’s not really much point in revising because it’s over.
Last year, I messed up. Said I was going to do it and tried and then failed.
This year, I need a good idea to win with. Is anyone feeling creative?
-A
Me = *Fail much?* =(
I say I’ll do it every year and do good for the first couple of days but then just drop off. By the middle of November I’m too far behind in my word count to make it so I just drop it on the grounds that I have better things to do.
But this year…! We’ll see. I’ll still sign up for it, but I’m rather braindead at the moment.
*thinks*
I might try. I have a couple of ideas running through my head at the moment.
– The Denture Story: came up with it about six months ago. An old man dies when his plane is shot down and his dentures rotate in hus mouth and punch through the top of his mouth, whitch ends up killing him. His soul then goes into the dentures and many years later a possibly colledge age person has the dentures and wears them. Mysterious deaths begin to appear in the headlines, of people who were sleeping and killed by a human biting their necks. the person with the dentures figures out that the it is the soul of the old man possessing them and making them kill people and a person who is very close to them is the next one to die.
-a journal of the people who tried to climb Mt. Everest before Hillary and never came down. This would require lots of reasearch
– several seemingly unrelated people die. and there is a serial killer. Um… yeah. I don’t really have much on this one yet.
For 2), do you mean George Mallory and Andrew Irvine in 1924?
Script 1:Optimists vs. Pessimists in a epic Battle of happy and depressing. Where does the Truth lie? (100 pages, a page will equal 500 words)
Script 2: Plant people (same goal details)
Script 3: Hot pink Terror (30 pages)
Script 4: Domination of the Internets (100 pages)
Script 5: All the Native Americans Team up against Europeans (100 pages)
Script 6:
Script 7:
The rest I can’t remember my ideas for.
yes, I’m just writing a lot, ok?
I only have two ideas.
1- Steampunk, set during the Fifth World War between the Southland and the Northlands. Similar characters to the RPG Alternative thread.
2- Coming of age story about a girl who moves to Maryland and finds a strange new group of friends, all of whom have a passion of acting and create a statewide actors’ guild.
Not sure if I still want to continue my story even though I got really stuck last year, or go onto something new. On the one hand it’d be the third year on said story. On the other, I really really want to finish it, and this is the only time I work x_x
Also, I am going to print out flyers for Nano and put them around school/in english classrooms. I have one friend who’s going to do it with me, perhaps I can get more. It’ll be worth a try anyway, and maybe if I get enough people I can have writing sessions at the library or something. Like those ones where you bring cookies, but can only eat one for every 300 words you write XD
WHY WON’T NOVEMBER COME?!?!?!
Okay, I’m good, I’m just not writing any more on my story until November, since I’m not counting words I’ve written over the past year in my NaNo total, and I’m already afraid I won’t be able to make my pitiful plot last fifty thousand words. Okay, it’s not pitiful. It’s my best work ever. It still needs some serious rewriting, which I can’t bear to do at this point.
November’s fast approaching and I still have no ideas. This is bad.
Sometimes it works better that way. In fact, Chris Baty recommends participants prepare as little as possible, since the more advance planning one does, the more important the book becomes in one’s mind, making it that much more likely that writer’s block will set in. A friend of mine, who won every year she participated (five times), never knew what her story would be until November.
Hm. Maybe there’s something in that. My most memorable and loved character (at least, as far as the school Creative Writing Club is concerned) was invented in a five-minute quickwrite.
I do have an idea for a first scene, though… an old man in a hexagonal stone library, constructing something out of spiderweb, a shed wasp exoskeleton, and a small quantity of rune-covered origami paper. He blows gently on it and it flies out of a high window into the desert sky.
I’ve changed my goal. I’m going for sixty thousand this month, fifty on the main site and ten on the other site. I already had an account on the YWP site for Screnzy, so I didn’t even have to sign up. ‘Twas convenient. Two thousand a day is probably over ambitious, especially considering my longest story is eight thousand words after a year of work, but I’m trying. I think I’ll work on a separate story for my YWP, and my currently longest project for my main. I’ll neglect to mention this to my mom, she’s given me some amount of approval, but is very iffy about the whole thing. I’m planning on getting up early to write though, and writing between six-thirty and eight, or so, most days. In the afternoon, once I finish my school, too. What are you planning on doing?
Reminds me, I have to establish goals…
Anyway, I think the main problem will be keeping my ideas flowing as fast as my fingers. I can type fifty WPM at fastest, so that’s twenty minutes per thousand words, which would be five thousand in an hour, but only if I type constantly and don’t get distracted, so it’ll probably be something less, in actuality.
I signed up. I am planning on doing The Denture Story, but it needs a new title, unless everyone thinks The Denture Story is good. I hope I have time. I think this will be my thing to work on in the car to and from school (approx. 40 mins per day) and before I go to bed. I’m excited.
How about, just Teeth? Haha… that would be weird…
Absolutely LOVE the new gravatar by the way. Mervin is pitifully awesome.
Why, thank you.
Teeth. Hmmm. That has potential.
a story about a house that if filled with lost pets and a man that comes to live their?
is, sorry
I am Officially Excited for it to begin. Going to try to reread/skim old story and see if it sets in… as soon as dad gets off the comp it’s housed on –_–
But eeeee. I don’t like the new avatars as much as I liked last years (those ones ROCKED) but they’re still pretty
Well, I need an idea…. Anybody have some random ideas that I can use?
Just wing it. I have a basic ghost story that I might try to work in there somewhere, might not. Who knows?
I have an idea, but I probably won’t do it for NaNo.
Anyone who wants to write the great Prussianian novel is welcome to try.
Well, I think there’s room on the bridge of the Water Hazard for an armadillo-hybrid pilot.
I’ve been wondering for a while; Would a Prussianian Roleplay be possible? Or would that be too painful, or something, for you to watch? I had all sorts of ideas, the only one I can remember being that all characters must be named after medications. (Laxatives and antacids was too specific.)
I think I’ll end up using my library after all (see Books in Progress, I believe 2009.1, but very possibly 2009.2). And, since it has a thousand floors that go on for nearly ever in all directions, I’m going to stick other bits of other stories inside it-random characters, settings, events, items, things like that. Like an evil triumvirate of a miniature universe whose names are Mockingbird, Nemesis, and Phantom. And a three-year-old girl named Dythami Ched who’s going to rule the universe someday. (She won’t grow up over the course of my story.) And a circus called the Stage of Dreams where the conductor lures children to the show and steals their souls. And Snowglass Apples, a demon with a heart that beats outside her body. And glass lions, and sand eagles, and paper sharks, and one-eyed cats that can tell the future.
No idea what I’ll do with all this, though.
Now I really have a solid idea for my NaNoWriMo. It’s not actually going to be depressing. So, at the beginning, the two main characters will find a person, who tells them that their universe is just a cliched fantasy book being written for a contest, and that all their troubles are due to the Editors, who brutally mangle the book. Then, thousands of Balrogs will attack, and take them away to FantasyLand, because the Editors want them to. Eventually, the references to this being a cliched fantasy book and references to other books (LOTR, HP, His Dark Materials, The Dark is Rising*, Discworld, etc.) causes the book’s universe to begin to collapse, and they only have one chance to save it. They don’t. The Universe collapses, and they meet me, the author. And then, they start wandering off, and comment that “I hope there’s a movie version.”
*Person, “Hello, my name is Flellywhenfleynsllly.”
Main Character 1, “Hello, Cat-Coughing-Up-A-Hairball”
That was definitely worthy of the forty-second post.
Genius.
Here’s another snippet of dialog teaser:
“Killing Balrogs is so awesome!”
“Yeah! Funny how we never lose…”
“Well, did Frodo ever get killed?”
And:
“Do you think we’ll die when this book ends?”
“The way this story is going, it feels like it’ll never end.”
I’m going to switch between view points, because in the last bit…
Actually, that would spoil the end. Hehe.
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I think I’ll keep going with my school idea, but tell it from different perspectives… But I’ll resist the temptation to put Carrie in it…Or not. *moral debate*
I’ve decided to carry on with the Steampunk idea. Is it okay if I use some peoples’ characters from the RPG Alt. thread (namely Zinc)?
*is super late, ah, screw that, whatever* Sure, go ahead, Flattered.
Alright… Roughly twenty days. Not worried. I swear.
Okay, I am a little tense. But I can do this. I just have to have no life for a month.
As for ideas… I think I need to get a group started at school with some writers, then have a late-night brainstorming party with them right before November. We can all come up with beginnings. That’s what I’m particularly bad at… Beginnings.
-A
I think I might actually just wing it.
That’s always the most fun. (Until it all crashes in a pile of plot-less papers…but, who needs organization?)
I have two ideas: one’s a spin off of Cinderella, and the other one is kind of like A Separate Peace. I’m not sure…I think the Cinderella one might be a better short story. Why does everything have to happen in November?
Can’t wait till November…
Should I type of write? There are advantages to both…
My friend and I have decided to write a NaNo together. I’ll write a chapter and email it to her, then she’ll write a chapter and email it back to me. The story is as follows:
~ ~ ~
It’s the future. Humans have died out, and dragons are now the dominant species on the planet. Dragons live in colonies, a bit like Warriors clans but less organized.
A colony is divided into the Shishka and the Wyff: the Shishka are older dragons with authority over the younger, less experienced Wyff. Some dragons stay Wyff for their whole life, but most apply to become Shishka.
When a Wyff applies to become a Shishka, the current Shiska decide on a challenging quest for en, which is different for every dragon. If the Wyff can complete the task, en becomes a Shishka,
There’s no actual age limit for the quest, but most dragons apply when they’re about 50. (Dragons live to be around 200.) The youngest dragon ever to become a Shishka is Tortan, an aggressive male who was 40 when he completed his quest. He is currently about 100, and still a Shishka. He is respected and admired for holding the record.
For whatever reason, a 25-year-old female Wyff named Rika has applied to become a Shishka. Tortan doesn’t want her to succeed, because she would break his age record and he would no longer be recognized for his achievement. Tortan spitefully assigns Rika an impossible quest, a hopelessly dangerous one that no dragon could survive.
The story is about Rika trying to complete her quest, and becoming a Shishka.
With six days to go before November, I’ve completely scrapped my library idea and decided to write about a Universe Very Much Like Our Own. (In fact, it pretty much IS our own. But I’m going to change a lot of names, like I’ll call Starbucks the Stellaluna Cafe.) Reason for change? I’m bored with the library. Also, I was doodling in class and ended up drawing a guy who I find absolutely fascinating and NEED to write about.
My main character, Emma Hollis, is a punk, as are all of her friends, living in a city that’s a cross between San Francisco, LA, Chicago, and New York. Very tough, lots of crime, lots of hippies/punks/revolutionary elements/anti-status-quo types, sort of the social capital of their alternate America. They hang out in Stellalunas (a.k.a. Starbuckses), drink coffee and smoke, and discuss life. In this alternate America they live in, it’s a time of great political instability (haven’t decided why) and there are lots of riots, sort of like the Los Angeles Rodney King riots of 1992.
Emma is going to meet the guy I drew in class, whose name I’m not quite sure about but is currently St. Jack. St. Jack is the patron saint of destruction and anarchy, the embodiment of destructive chaos. Like St. Jimmy from Green Day’s “American Idiot”. Anyway, he leads Emma into this dangerous world, they participate in the riots, burn things, she goes a little insane and leaves all of her punk friends for him and his crowd, et cetera, et cetera.
Then the government, who in their America is a lot like the government on our X-Files (they disappear people, torture them, repress anti-government speeches, send police raids on innocent people, have spies in the ordinary people, hold kangaroo courts) captures Emma and tortures her a bit because she knows something about a revolutionary movement I haven’t really developed. I’ll involve Emma’s old punk friends again about here. I haven’t planned much from then onward, but there’ll be a very exciting climax scene near the end, and several people will probably die.
I’ve prepared a playlist to listen to as I write it, a combination of Green Day’s “American Idiot” and “21st Century Breakdown” albums. Ideas for other songs to add to it would be welcome…
Wow, I didn’t expect my post to be this long. Maybe that’s a good omen for my NaNo.
(Wow, I haven’t posted here for so long. x3 Blame me coming back on a homework assignment involving Muse.)
I’m currently in a NaNoWriMo “help my plot is completely nonexistent and my characters and muse all hate me ahh!” mood. I’m serious. I have a premise but I still don’t know what to do with it. And I’m being attacked by plot bunnies for a fanfiction satire that will never work out.
Chances are that I will ditch my plot last-minute and do my fanfiction satire.
I’m really not cut out for all of this plotty, dark fantasy dystopian stuff.
None of the stories I’ve ever written turned out good, but my friend suggested I try a NaNoWriMo. I think I might do a story about these kids who are descended from pixies (the evil kind) and shape shifters. They are in prison, break out, have a war, etc. If it doesn’t turn out good, I’ll make something up on the spot.
That sounds really cool. Except “ect.” kind of scares me, just thinking about the diabolical plots you’re probably thinking up…
Triple Aces -5. I’ve finally settled on a plot (sibling rivalry/daring aerial rescue/counterrevolution), characters (bitter, seditious, imprisoned columnist/loyal daredevil captain) and world (alchemy/steampunk/Reign of Terror/declining nobility with weird talents/noble trolls and savage elves/airships). My goal is to write 3,333 words on every weekend and holiday, so that I won’t have too much on weekdays.
Terminology:
WoCo: Word count.
Triple Aces: 1/11, First of November, N-Day, The Starter’s Pistol.
Royal Flush: November 15th, midnight. You ought to have 25,000 words by this point.
Dark Thirty: November 30th, up to midnight. AKA Triumph and Sugar, or Soul-Darkening Despair, depending on your WoCo.
Oh, and the name of the airship: Blunt Instrument.
Airships, eh? I like this story already. Maybe you can find room for a few armadilloes.
I’m thinking of making the “Mars diary” I talked about in the Writer’s Notebook thread a sort-of prequel to the Sci-Fi RPG, with it being Zerzura’s journal as a teenager on Mars, and then at University on Earth when Tamf begins to take power.
I’ve finally decided to completely rewrite my story. Painful. Very painful. But it needed it anyway, so I have to do it. See, my current story line goes somewhat like this:
MC 1 & 2 walking through forest.
MC 1 knows most everything currently relevant to the story.
MC 2 knows nothing, and isn’t being told anything.
*Scene of minor excitement*
MC 1 is joined by MC 3, who also knows everything.
*Long scene of nothing but dialog*
*Scene of somewhat more major excitement*
*Scene of mostly dialog punctuated by minor excitement*
Me sitting around asking, ‘Right, I’ve reached the end of my plan. Now what?’
And it’s eighteen pages long. And I’ve already finished off my former plan. And I’m really not crazy about having the excitement taking such defined turns with talking. And, to top it all, it’s supposed to be the first of a three-book epic, and it hasn’t reached twenty pages.
Anyway, I’m debating my options. I am, of course, running out of time, but I think I can do this.
Oh, and my planned support in my immediate circle turns out not to be doing NaNo, not officially anyway, so I’ll have to rely on MBers for support. You’ll come through for me, right? Of course.
Okay. Done with whatever that post was, besides meaningless and incoherent. And I don’t even have an ‘it’s late’ excuse. How pitiful.
Hmm…. Now I have another awesome idea. I couldn’t use both…
I’ll save the other one, which I have more material for, for later.
If you don’t want it, I don’t mind talking it!
No, I want it, but you can also take it.
Oh, and I have to tell you what AM is doing for his NaNo. He’s doing what’s basically a fanfic for 1984.
I’m thinking about a story about a virtual reality video game thing…I’m thinking the main character gets sucked into the game and finds out that the electronic characters have lives of their own, beyond the game…
But does that sound too cliche?
It’s been done, twice. Try looking up the books “Epic” and “Saga” by Conor Kostick. Sorry…
I’ll lend you an idea if you’re fresh out.
Eh, don’t worry about it. How many times do you think Romeo and Juliet has been used as a plot line?
Whether a plot has been done before is probably the least important question. EVERY plot has been done before. The more important question is whether the story will interest you enough that you want to spend the time writing about it. Whatever you do, don’t worry about whether your story is a cliché. That’s the quickest way to shut off your creativity.
Roar. Whenever I have ideas they’ve already been done. *frustration* What if the characters came out of the game and battled humans?
Oh god oh god so so so not ready
also my parents have this idea that they can ban me from Nano. If my college apps aren’t all done by saturday, which is not going to happen.
Because of this I may only be able to sneak on the comp and might not been seen for long periods. x_x
!!!!! that is a ridiculous demand ugh blargh oh jeez, good luck to you, and I mean that sincerely cause dang I’m not even half way done UGH
*boots self of internet for good*
NANO IS SUNDAY!!! 3 MORE DAYS LEFT!!
I am totally not ready either, chiefly because of the plot problems I mentioned above, but I’m ready anyway, you know?
I can’t take part in the sitting and waiting for midnight with everyone else, unless I do it on our ancient computer, which is amazingly slow. Doing that isn’t that big a deal, anyway. So I’ll be fine.
61-Join the club; I don’t even know how I’ll get the computer time… I think I’ll go with my secret society, except that I’m not quite sure if I might put a very futuristic vibe to it… I’ll see how it turns out. The setting is a tad dystopian, but I want it to end well. I´m sick of pessimistic endings.
59-There was a very good book by Wolfang Hohlbein about that; I have to look up if it’s translated into english and what the english title was. It’s about a boy who plays his father’s experimental computer game, which brakes in to the real world. Unfortunately, he also ends up in the computer game, not as his amazing, superpowered character but as himself. It was kind neat.
I’ve just realized that the story I described above has died due to overplanning. Maybe I’ll just wing it… Midnight is an hour that has always inspired me.
Ha! Join me! I still need an idea for mine. We can brainstorm together… psychically. MB’ll be asleep, too.
Maybe I’ll do something post-apocalyptic, like Cinnamoon did one year. Problem is, most of the interesting apocalypses (apocalypti? apocalypsi?) have been done already.
I actually have a good science fiction idea, but up until now I have rejected sci-fi out of hand because it requires so much research. Perhaps I’ll be able to get away with it.
I don’t have a plan either! Not even a ghost of a plan. I am beginning to be worried. Winging it’s all very well, but I at least need some sort of inspiration…
*already has most of plan* *is smug*
Tomorrow’s NaNo!
Except I’m somewhat worried, because tomorrow we’ll be out most of the day, and won’t be home at all after we leave at nine or so, so I’ll have very little time for writing, so I’ll probably get behind on the first day which does not bode well for the rest of the month, unless I wake up really early, (Read: six thirty, which is the earliest that getting up would do any good, for complex reasons) which I actually can do and have been doing for a while, and am planning on doing most of the month, but I was hoping to be able to sleep in on weekends. But I’m probably going to anyway. Might sleep till seven, if I’m feeling daring, but probably not.
And I still need to figure out the agents of the main antagonist. And how early to introduce the main antagonist. And all sorts of other things. I think I’m going to start the story earlier than it was in the first draft, for added word count. I’m probably most worried about having enough story to last me fifty thousand words. But I might stretch out the story longer than it’s currently planned. Hm…
Anyway, wrapping up a long, rather unplanned post which says much more than it needs to. Writing posts like that is getting to be a habit. I should work on that.
I want to do something with sweeping grandeur, awful mystery, and compelling characters.
We’re at N-minus 5.5 hours and I still have very little idea about what I’m going to do.
A Chinese take-out meal gave me an idea for an opening scene- “You will attend an unusual party and meet someone important.” It also gives me the tentative title for my novel- Fortune Cookie.
Isn’t that the opening of LOTR?
Both the beginning of the book and the beginning of the plot, yes. Don’t worry, mine seems to be shaping itself into an urban-fantasy masque ball.
Darn Halloween! I haven’t even started yet!