Write a novel in a month! NaNoWriMo 2006 for CoH
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Accel,
Posted on: 2006-10-26 14:40 in Multi-Media Fan Creations
*sigh* Chapter 3 is finished (over 2k words in that) but Chapter 2 still refuses to complete and even to reveal its name so far. I guess I'll struggle with it for a while more and then launch Chapter 4. I'm still 1k behind today's quota and there's a party I'm expected to be in tonight. Maybe I'll nick the comp at some point and type a few more paragraphs.
...and now back to crude field surgery in a German foxhole.
973 words so far today, 200 of which are about Ethan eating some toast.
I don't even have chapters, let alone names for said chapters...
I think I'll either avoid them altogether, or chapter-ise next month.
But chapters are words! See:
Chapter 3 - The other woman
Five more words right there.
Now, I could use "Chapter X - Name of chapter, where Coile meets this and folks do that..." approach and by repetition get even more words. Nah, That's for the last day when I panic enough to climb walls.
Wah I didn't write anything yesterday and it's now three o'clock without me writing anything... This is ridiculous, I've planned all my chapters and yet I don't know where it's going!
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...
I only have a basic plan, literally about five word sumamries of each prospective chapter. I'm basically making up the story as I go along. (Or lack of it until the most recent chapter)
I think if I fretted too much about the plan and where I was going with the story, I'd never get anywhere at all.
I'm pretty lucky, the story I'm writing I've had in my head for about six years - so I know where it's going, and every tiny little detail. I just needed an excuse to start writing it, which was NaNo.
Is it wrong to feel slightly sorry for your main character, due to the fact you know what you're going to be putting them through in the next chapter? 
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Is it wrong to feel slightly sorry for your main character, due to the fact you know what you're going to be putting them through in the next chapter?
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Not wrong, expected. 
Coz if you do, your audience will as well
Case in point: How do you think the writer of the Wretch arc felt after writing mission 3?
And chapter one done, at 3229 words!
@FloatingFatMan
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Next chapter's up, and I'm now one-fifth of the way there word-wise. Rather exhausted though, as this chapter's definetly been the hardest to write, as I didn't want it to go halfway into the action and then awkwardly stop. 
Aaand I've ground to a halt again.... I must stop thinking about it so much, I keep getting bogged down in details!
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...
Not many words today but I've made a lot of progress on the overall sweep of the story. Figured out one of the missing characters I needed, he'll be a Cossack who's terrified of horses but can fix anything mechanical. Oh and he'll probably be a drunkard.
I wrote some stuff that'll give a flavour of the climax when I get that far. I'm quite happy that I genuinely hate my baddie. Just a shame I won't be able to play the CoX version of him again after this. He is, not to put too fine a point on it, a [censored].
EDIT: And that's a very bad word indeed.
I put the opening paragraphs up as an excerpt too, there is a bit of ugliness in there but that'll get straightened out later.
Very nice
New Post : The reason for which will become clear in a moment.
As some may know my computer had a collapsed drive just before Brighton, so I've been in dire straits with my weedy little back up system since. Just found out today that my drive and my upgrade disc, that I'd ordered from the friend who built the original, has been delivered and signed for. The problem being that the person signing for it has never lived near them; or in fact is ever known by them; so the delivery of £100 pounds worth of stuff has been made to the wrong person in the wrong house which the Post Office know nothing about and deny haveing ever received any phone calls about despite telling people that they may record any phone calls and have been asked to record these phone calls.
Leaving me on this underpowered kids toy and unable to play CoH properly.
I'm really writing the wrong story for NaNo...
Yipes!! Surely you can contact the shipping company, tell them what happened, and they claim on the insurance and send you replacement goodies?
@FloatingFatMan
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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Yipes!! Surely you can contact the shipping company, tell them what happened, and they claim on the insurance and send you replacement goodies?
[/ QUOTE ] I think that's what my friend is doing as I wasn't involved in the transaction yet, but he said to go ahead with my purchase and he'll sort it out, so thanks to Amazon, who I hope will deliver, Tuesday sees me upgraded back to non-lag
Yay! My cook must secretly be Ronnie Ancona, as she's gone from:
Northern - East Anglian - Cockney - Irish (???) - Scottish
All in the space of about 1,000 words to her name.
Next year - no accents.
Caught up yesterday's quota, now just for the 1700 more words... This is better than three years ago when I fell back to almost three thousand words in the beginning and used the last day or two to catch up. I'm struggling but still hanging on.
I finished the blasted war scene. It's crapola. Maybe I'll add a little stuff and be done with it. I think in the final form of the novel that chapter gets scrapped a like a -10 level minion against a melee/superreflexes warrior woman.
Hehe, I know what you mean there, Coile .
I'm heading towards writing the big romance scene, and I have images of going Bronte on this thing's [censored]. Please, if I even think about using the phrase, "Oh, my darling!" and have anyone running anywhere near the vicinity of someone else's arms, shoot me. Then shoot me again. Then burn my PC.
I've long ago decided that I really should have more respect for cause/effect, so I went to the shops. Circling each Cause, I wrote a chapter then found the resultant effect. Words just coming are out typer than I can fast them.
Words first, Edit later.
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Please, if I even think about using the phrase, "Oh, my darling!" and have anyone running anywhere near the vicinity of someone else's arms, shoot me. Then shoot me again. Then burn my PC.
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That was our second date wasn't it? 
Chapters 1 - 3 ready. Well, broadened at least. They will do for now, time to start a new one. It's ridiculous, I know the whole story and I don't know where to begin this one. *sigh*
My story seems to be squeezing out one of my favourite main characters. It's getting harder and harder to keep him in the role I originally intended without him turning into a Gandalf type character played by Robbie Coltrane. Looks like I'll have to write him out but I'll try to get him in later on. I like him too much to leave out altogether.
I've also hit a familiar personal stumbling block. Having spent much of yesterday tweaking what I've done and finding that I really like most of it so far, I'm getting a little nervous about continuing in case I can't keep up the quality. It is ridiculous of course as it'll be worse not to finish and besides, the reason I started with this is to find a way past that block and just get on with it.
Anyway, I'm off to see a couple of short films at the Leeds Film Festival now then maybe do some cathartic Bruting when I get back.
The show will go on.
Hah! In your face house alarm!
300 more words and I've just discovered how brilliant SS officers are to describe.