Write a novel in a month! NaNoWriMo 2006 for CoH
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Posted on: 2006-10-26 14:40 in Multi-Media Fan Creations
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HOW FRUSTRATING!
It's most of the way through day 2 and I still haven't written anything!
I was struggeling to think of a reasonable start, walked the dog, thought of one, got back, was about to write, then my best friend's recently dumped girlfriend rang up. YOu can pretty much workt he rest out. Surfice to say, my day of writing has been brutally murdered! However, I will not sleep until I have written stuff.
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If you're stuck with the start write something from the middle that you've already got a good idea about. It all has to be written so you don't have to start writing at the beginning.
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HOW FRUSTRATING!
It's most of the way through day 2 and I still haven't written anything!
I was struggeling to think of a reasonable start, walked the dog, thought of one, got back, was about to write, then my best friend's recently dumped girlfriend rang up. YOu can pretty much workt he rest out. Surfice to say, my day of writing has been brutally murdered! However, I will not sleep until I have written stuff.
Oh man! Stop scaring me with your daunting counts!
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Read the Dare threads. Perfect. Or Adopt a plot.
In fact : Write a story about a Villain that gets wrongly arrested. What is spending time in the Zig really like? What colour are the pillows? WHo are his room-mates? How does he buck the system? What is he actually guilty of?
What strange song is whistled late at night when everyone else is asleep?
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What strange song is whistled late at night when everyone else is asleep?
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Quite obviously, it's "Show me the way to go home". Or perhaps even "Jailhouse Rock".
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What strange song is whistled late at night when everyone else is asleep?
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Quite obviously, it's "Show me the way to go home". Or perhaps even "Jailhouse Rock".
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And be worried if the cell-mate starts whistling the duel of the banjos from Deliverance.
44,777 words to go. A new excerpt tomorrow I think.
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HOW FRUSTRATING!
It's most of the way through day 2 and I still haven't written anything!
I was struggeling to think of a reasonable start, walked the dog, thought of one, got back, was about to write, then my best friend's recently dumped girlfriend rang up. YOu can pretty much workt he rest out. Surfice to say, my day of writing has been brutally murdered! However, I will not sleep until I have written stuff.
Oh man! Stop scaring me with your daunting counts!
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Read the Dare threads. Perfect. Or Adopt a plot.
In fact : Write a story about a Villain that gets wrongly arrested. What is spending time in the Zig really like? What colour are the pillows? WHo are his room-mates? How does he buck the system? What is he actually guilty of?
What strange song is whistled late at night when everyone else is asleep?
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It's alright - I have a huge story planned. I just couldn't get started! There WILL be an excerpt up this evening. Then I will wirte the Scrull thing.... Doh...
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What strange song is whistled late at night when everyone else is asleep?
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Quite obviously, it's "Show me the way to go home". Or perhaps even "Jailhouse Rock".
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And be worried if the cell-mate starts whistling the duel of the banjos from Deliverance.
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Or:
Time Is On My Side (Stones)
Born Free (Matt Munro)
The Birdy Song (Tweets) (obvious first sign of madness)
Is it time for the dance of joy yet?
Just a scant few words last night. My main character woke up and thought about the battle ahead and the mystery behind it. Tonight, she may brush her teeth.... ooooooh, can you feel the excitement.
(Actually brushing your teeth is an excellent place to remember revelations and dump in plot details - "with the upward brushstroke, she suddenly REMEMBERED THAT THE KEY TO SALVATION WAS HIDDEN IN HER POTPLANT and then she rinsed....."
I may be exaggerating slightly though 
"Idealism is such a wonderful thing. All you really need is someone rational to put it to proper use." - Kerr Avon
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/em whine
I can't go on! I've discovered a deep and utter loathing for at least one of my characters (which is possibly good, as she's not supposed to be a good guy), and a completely joyous love for another - who I can't keep writing about as they have no relation to the plot whatsoever.
The plot itself has more holes than Swiss cheese, the writing style is getting on my bloomin' nerves (stupid Victorians and their stupid, stupid language), I've written close on 200 words describing someone unrelated to anything, baking a cake for no apparent reason - I wrote it yesterday, so I'm assuming I was craving cake at the time, and there are so many green squiggly lines on the document that I can practically feel my grammar tutor of three years ago turning over in her grave. And she's not even dead!
My fingers hurt, my eyes hurt, I can't spell occurrence, and my cat keeps sitting on my lap, obscuring the keyboard.
Oh, and Bounty's (chocolate, coconut affair) suck.
/em optimist
My title's still AWESOME, though.
Yhe main battle's raging in Chapter 29, yeah sue my non-conformity, 'Name to be decided' has just dropped a house on Cameron, but Clara-Ann thinks they're both still in there. Cameron seems to have the upper hand, but there's a sudden appearance by what?
Must try and make sense of this.
Oh and post 8000 btw
Keep it up, Stase! If you hit a low spot, make someone bake another cake. Why? Because they'll learn a lesson. If they are not doing interesting things they'll be put to cake duty. Maybe next time they'll try harder!
I just caught up with yesterday's quota. The damn WWII scene gets advanced very slowly even tho I pretty much know where it's headed, so it's just laziness. Then instead of writing the opening chapter about Andre's father I started to write about a conversation between Coile and Sword where the basic gist is "if I'm clone and we find the original, I will discard everything we had and leave you". The upside is that I should hit today's quota fast!
The thing is, there is a real good chance that this Nadia is in fact a clone, possibly for infiltration purposes. If it is so then the three month long relationship gets put back to pre-Requiem War era. More words for the novel and also interesting times in-game as Andre never was the pinnacle of mental stability under pressure.
Fun times for November.
Now for lunch.
I've got 130 words.
I win.
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The title's awesome, the characters are awesome and the siggy pic is awesome Stase. C'mon to MSN if you need some more support 
No word count in yet from Gideon, Landlubber, Frozen Rogue, Miss Blue Wind or Overfiend. Doing ok?
One fifth of the way there! 
Edit: New excerpt up, for those curious.
I managed to write 100 words on people waiting for an elevator and going down it. I don't like to call it 'padding' though, I prefer 'elaboration'. 
I class everything that "pads" as character building.... yes, even the description of the lemon wallpaper and the potplant. It build character and proves that our protagonist has no taste
"Idealism is such a wonderful thing. All you really need is someone rational to put it to proper use." - Kerr Avon
Myopic Aardvark on Twitter
Mine has no taste left after this installment, and the Doctor seems to have little as well. {New Excerpt up]
some 670 words to go to meet the daily quota. The clash between Sword and Coile is a goldmine as far as wordcount is concerned. I could write double what I have now, but the basis of the relationship belongs to other chapters.
I'm starting to hate Andre's grandfather and the damn World War II...
1,000 exactly left to go for today's quota. I seem to be in the habit of doing long passages about Ethan driving somewhere, but I promise, as these early chapters are scene-setters, they'll disappear eventually.
I haven't written anything today yet 
I got a bit bogged down in details with my healer's chapter and can't think where it's going without it in front of me, and it's at home on the computer of course.
But I did get ahead of my minimum target yesterday, and I have the weekend ahead of me... I'm hoping to get up to chapter 6 at least before Monday, then I'm nicely ahead and don't have too much to worry about if I stumble later.
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I managed to write 100 words on people waiting for an elevator and going down it. I don't like to call it 'padding' though, I prefer 'elaboration'.
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I wonder who'll have quite possibly the best padding in their Novel ?
I.E Spending the most amount of words to describe something rather insignificant..
Perhaps like boiling an egg... who knows
Chiefette
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I managed to write 100 words on people waiting for an elevator and going down it. I don't like to call it 'padding' though, I prefer 'elaboration'.
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I wonder who'll have quite possibly the best padding in their Novel ?
I.E Spending the most amount of words to describe something rather insignificant..
Perhaps like boiling an egg... who knows
Chiefette
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That would be Stephen King - I mean nearly a chapter devoted to a drop of water running down the side of a glass.... sheeesh.
"Idealism is such a wonderful thing. All you really need is someone rational to put it to proper use." - Kerr Avon
Myopic Aardvark on Twitter
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I managed to write 100 words on people waiting for an elevator and going down it. I don't like to call it 'padding' though, I prefer 'elaboration'.
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I wonder who'll have quite possibly the best padding in their Novel ?
I.E Spending the most amount of words to describe something rather insignificant..
Perhaps like boiling an egg... who knows
Chiefette
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That would be Stephen King - I mean nearly a chapter devoted to a drop of water running down the side of a glass.... sheeesh.
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Or an entire story about an autopsy, but then the patient was conscious but paralysed at the time...
Oh the horrors of research! I told myself, "write a generic swords and sorcery fantasy tale and you won't have to lose writing time on research" and now here I am researching labour and midwifery and breech births...
But on the plus side, this is because I'm writing chapter three of 28, putting me weeelll ahead of my target.
The Purple Party Pagan of Paragon
Globals: @Morgana Fiolett / @Genevieve Moore
Altoholic with too many characters to count now I have all these shiny servers...