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
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Yeah, I've signed up.
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BUDDYYYYYYY.....what name mate? 
We built this city on Rock and Roll!
I'm keeping that tightly under wraps. Since I can't use my old pen-name (sodding rules of the Creative boards means NC Soft and Cryptic own it, now) I'm using my ooooold pen-name - the one I used for Star Wars fanfiction.
Yes, SW fanfiction. Everyone can shut up.
PM me yours, and I'll PM you mine. 
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Entered last year. Slammed into a block after chapter 2. Got a plan this year. 
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Copying "Mostly Harmless" verbatim doesn't constitute a "plan", you know. Just because very few people have read it doesn't mean you can co-opt.
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I'm keeping that tightly under wraps. Since I can't use my old pen-name (sodding rules of the Creative boards means NC Soft and Cryptic own it, now) I'm using my ooooold pen-name - the one I used for Star Wars fanfiction.
Yes, SW slashfiction. Everyone can shut up.
PM me yours, and I'll PM you mine.
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Edited for my amusement
"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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Luke and Han stared at each other, naked, under the soft glow of the lumo. "Hey, kid." Han mumbled, more nervous than he would let on. "That's a pretty big lightsabre you've got there."
"Let The Force flow through you, Han." The tow-headed Jedi Knight smiled.
"The Force? Is that your nickname for your..."
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Tonights' nightmare brought to you by the letters F and G, and the number £81.07
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Luke and Han stared at each other, naked, under the soft glow of the lumo. "Hey, kid." Han mumbled, more nervous than he would let on. "That's a pretty big lightsabre you've got there."
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Tonights nightmare brought to you by the letters, F and G, and the number £81.07
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What's scarier? The fact that you might have copied that from a bookmarked website or the fact that you may have just thought it up off the top of your head?
Oh yeah, I think I'll be taking part, at least assuming that Weasel's Maelstrom thingy releases my creative block.
Got this thing in my head involving Unicorns and Hyperspace (honest, it's not as bad as it sounds).
"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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What's scarier? The fact that you might have copied that from a bookmarked website or the fact that you may have just thought it up off the top of your head? Or the fact that I got totally turned on by it?
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Edited for MY amusement.
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What's scarier? The fact that you might have copied that from a bookmarked website or the fact that you may have just thought it up off the top of your head? Or the fact that I got totally turned on by it?
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Edited for MY amusement.
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Heh.
*Jots down notes on the slaughter 'em list*
"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
I'm not afraid! 
I start my new career in a book shop on Monday, so I have 2 days, and access to lots of reading material for plot inspiration!
I've signed up! Photographer by trade, but I'm leaving CoH for a while so I can replace my time with this!
...and I get to buy a new pen! Stationary! Woop!
I'll buy 40 pens, 10 post-it pads, a stapler, staple remover, crayons! Glue!! Sparkles!!! GLITTER!!!!... Then I get my Blue Peter Badge!! *drool!!*
No, no... Must keep my eye on the task...
My plan is, 2,000 words per day. It doesn't matter whereabouts in the story they end up - just as long as I hit that daily goal.
Some days I'll write more, I know - but I'm not letting myself write any less. So from the 1st, I'll be carrying my trusty "lucky" notebook around (what? It's blue and fluffy and has an Eeyore on the front) - and looking like a complete nonce as I try to write in bizarre locations.
Warning: If my forum posts during November make less sense than usual, it'll be because I've used up all of my creative juices and will be running on lighter fluid.
And I'm signed up to the site, it shouldn't be too hard to find me - the name might look a bit familiar .
Having been there before, I'll pass on some tips
<ul type="square">[*]Get a whole array of food in. Treat yourself once you've got 2000 words.[*]Get a new book to write in, one of those big bags of pens, a highlighter and some index cards. Try not to get anything else as you'll constantly be buying.[*]Try and do more than 2,000 in the first week, store some extra as you will start to falter around week 3 [*]If you hit 'the wall', write about it, that tends to get ideas flowing.[*]Find one of the cheap books in your house and look how awful that is. You CAN write better.[*]Shampooing the cat, Cleaning the Toilet etc. CAN wait.[*]Save often if using a computer, they're rotten.[*]Let your family and friends know that you'll be less than available (Not hard for us MMORPG players)[*]And, directly from the NaNoWriMo book, write a cheque for 100 pounds to an organisation, like NC-Soft. If you don't reach 50,000, post it. [/list]
Good luck all.
Synaesthetix:if your mum wasn't already dead I would go kill her for bringing
you into the world
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`He shuddered, awash in adrenaline, his sphincter pulling unpleasantly tight as he recognized his own youthful scrawl on the outside tab. ... and he felt an ache, a curse of time racing across the ridge of his knuckles.'
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The worst part is, I've met people who think that style of writing is acceptable.
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`The agony went on and on as she threshed about the room, oblivious to nothing but the pain.'
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"Oh look, shiny things!" *thrash* "I must dust that counter, it's filthy." *arm falls off* "Blimey, when did I buy that?" *spontaneously combusts* "Oh, now, look at the mess."
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`He lifted her tee-shirt over her head. Her silk panties followed.'
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`He lifted her tee-shirt over her head. Her silk panties followed.'
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Over her head? Ouch.
"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
That's a wedgie and a half.
I'd enter, but short stories are more my thing, not hulking big 50k word behemoths.
I'd really love to do this, but I worry that I'd just give up and go and play some more CoH or something. Then I'd be really disappointed when I didn't finish it. That and the fact that I can't think of a story or anything.
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I'd enter, but short stories are more my thing, not hulking big 50k word behemoths.
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Ahh, but if you wrote a series of short stories, all with the same characters, but using a different character as the lead each time, over the same period (telling the same story from different perspectives) then edit them to mix them all up, I'm willing to bet that it'd add up to 50,000.
I'm not starting any notes until November 1st - simply because that's going to be more fun, at least for me. I know a few people are putting their notes together now, and fair play to them. However, to me, "writing a novel in a month" means going through the entire process, including note making. The fact that my character bibles usually take 2-3 pages of A4 per character, and the synopsis takes between 10-20 pages, then the timeline can take an extra page or so (depending on what's going on - Bloodlines took four pages just for the timeline) is neither here nor there. However, anyone watching out for me (Coin) will expect to see nothing for the first week or so, and then a mad flurry of words for the last three. Plus, since I'm still waiting on my new PC, and I'm stuck on the laptop, with its' tiny tiny hard-drive...
No movies.
No music.
No games.
No job.
No money.
Plenty of time.
I've got a basic idea for a story in my head -it's going to be an interesting change for me, as it's not a genre I've tried properly before. It'll be a challenge for me to write, but since this is a new thing for me, might as well try a new genre.
"I knew it wasn't going to be a good day", thought Emily.
Emily took pretty much anything as a bad omen for her day - gloomy clouds over the river, suspicious pigeons loitering in groups, the cat spraying over her pillow again.
"The great thing about being a pessimist", she'd said once, "is that you get plenty of nice surprises when things go right, and you're never disappointed when they go wrong". People had laughed, and she'd laughed along, but it was true. However, this was turning out to be a disappointing day even by her standards.
The ground was rough, sticky, and dirty. She hated wearing suits, but Emily had just had this one bloody cleaned and couldn't quite figure out why she'd wanted to lie down in it.
There seemed to be a lot happening around her, but she couldn't see or hear very much. Insubstantial bodies seemed to flit in and out of vision, and there was noise - a great, round, ringing, roaring noise - that filled her ears... but it seemed comforting, like a pillow pressed over them. She couldn't hear what people were saying, but there seemed to be a lot of activity.
Emily needed to get to work. This was making her late, and she hated being late - it was embarrassing, dropping her eyes as she scuttled through the workplace with catcalls and questions if she'd finally got lucky.
But the invisible pillow seemed to be pushing into her chest now, and the ground wasn't as uncomfortable as she'd thought. The only bad thing, in fact, was the taste. Salty, like cheap smoked bacon, with a faint trace of rust.
A face suddenly appeared in focus - right up close. So did a hand. And a voice.
"Lady, we gotta GO!"
She held out her hand and he took it, pulling her upright, and that was a mistake. Violent waves of pain shot through from her legs to her shoulders as abused muscles started making their presence known, snapping her mind back to where she was.
Oh god.
Working quickly, blocking out all but what needed to be done, the pair of them gathered up more people - a guy in a suit, incongrously draped over a bench, a pretty girl whose blond hair fell around her head like a halo as it rested on the wall, and a young guy in a turban, still clutching his courier bag like a shield.
That was the first day that Emily, Michael, Lance, Francine and Terry met. It wasn't a great day. But that was the day.
Okay, here we go. 50,000 words in a month works out at 1700 a day, which is a lot...
Is it time for the dance of joy yet?
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50,000 words in a month works out at 1700 a day, which is a lot...
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Naaaah. It's only, what? 2.5, 2.6 pages a day. Of course, once you get into that groove, you'll do a large stretch of wordage. Back in '99, I did 30 pages in a week...and that was when I had a deadline of six months.
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Luke and Han stared at each other, naked, under the soft glow of the lumo. "Hey, kid." Han mumbled, more nervous than he would let on. "That's a pretty big lightsabre you've got there."
"Let The Force flow through you, Han." The tow-headed Jedi Knight smiled.
"The Force? Is that your nickname for your..."
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Tonights' nightmare brought to you by the letters F and G, and the number £81.07
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Now those jsut breing distubring images to my mind.
I'm so tempted to scrap my original idea and try to write some erotica. Just so I can include the amazing over-the-head underwear and as many stomach churning snake analogies as possible.
Really tempted.
Do it! for the giggle!
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Do it! for the giggle!
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Yes! Especially with the serpent analogies. Write a chick lit romance/erotica based on two people crossing a desert.
His Snake On The Plains.
Yeah, I've signed up.