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1,294 so far, and it's terrible, but I love the character I'm supposed to draw out as horrible and thoroughly unlikeable. The more I write about her, and she's just a bit character, the more I like her.
I'm cheating though...it is a re-write of Rebecca. I figured I might actually be able do NaNoWriMo if I didn't have to make up the story, but could adapt one I liked for today.
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People have done that with Pride and Prejudice like....467 times! you should be able to do it with Rebecca and get away with it. Posts: 6415 | Registered: Jul 2000
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Yesterday, we had a power outage from 11 am to 8:15 pm, unannounced, so it wasn't like we could plan for it, but the power company said it was for repairs, so suck it up and live with it.
That means that I STILL don't have all my sewing done, and we're heading out of town today, and I need to have my sewing done before we leave. So I've got about three more minutes here before Fahim nags me to get going . . .
Nope, it's started.
Yep. He's nagged.
So I'm off to do my sewing at this terrible hour of 6am when I'm barely coherent in the hopes that I can get everything done in time . . .
So. It looks like I'll get my first words for NaNo written while we're out of town. And no worries on me getting started - Fahim knows the plan, and he can be rather . . . insistent that I get writing.
quote:Originally posted by Nell Gwyn: Quid - yeesh! Maybe you should've gone for the non-motor pedal sewing machine after all.
Now that you mention it, yeah, it might have been a good idea.
The pants didn't work. Long story, involving 25% shrinkage in the wash and desire for using daggers or other long piercing instruments of torture on the manufacturers of the fabric.
On the other hand, other than ironing and a very small amount of hand sewing on the one shalwaar which can be done when we arrive at the other end, the sewing is complete. Yay.
Now I can go pack. And iron said shalwaars. And send out necessary and unpostponeable emails. And finish packing. And clean out fridge from food gone back from the many and numerous and long and extended power outages in the last couple of weeks. And wash any remaining dishes. And download pages necessary to write an article that was due yesterday.
And once all that's done, THEN I can start in on NaNoWriMo.
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3500 words of absolutely terrible, yet somehow glorious, dreck! Look at me pollute the page! WOOHOO!
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Bless you, Narnia. That really does make me feel better. And encouraged. I might actually make it this year!
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About 1,500 words today, and a lot of progress on plotting, which I hope will help the rest go faster.
Excerpt, just for the heck of it:
quote:In Tsuba's office, Hoke went right to the window and breathed a great a sigh of appreciation. If there was anything he loved more than the 'habitants' he husbanded in sub-basement C, it was this view of the city from the 47th floor, and the wonderful realism of its miniature streets.
One might almost imagine he’d gotten himself in trouble just to get here, his breath misting the glass and Tsuba fuming behind him.
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Well, I've broken the 2,000 word mark which is a big thing for someone who avoids writing at all costs despite how good it feels. (Sorta like exercise. I like exercise. I just don't enjoy getting started.)
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I haven't written anything since my last update. I have no excuses other than my internal editor wants to scrap everything and start over and my external procrastinator/slacker thinks that would be too much work and it is easier to just give up.
The battle rages on and I am stuck in the middle.
Maybe I should write a meta-novel about trying to write a novel for NaNoWriMo.
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"The would-be novelist sat down in front of of his computer to begin the daunting task of writing an entire novel in a single month. What he would write was a mystery even to himself. He truly had no idea.
Two hours and several games of Minesweeper later, he still had no idea what he was going to write about. Bravely, he plowed forward with a paragraph about trying to start writing a novel. It was followed by another one about playing Minesweeper. Alas, two short paragraphs were not a novel and no further inspiration seemed likely. The expectant novelist waited. And waited.
Suddenly, a third paragraph sprang out of nowhere!"
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hmmm... hitting a bit of a wall here. I don't think my story is that good (it certainly isn't original) and I have at least 2 more episodes of Firefly to watch to finish the series. I think Firefly wins tonight.
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I haven't had a chance to write today. I'm absolutely SWAMPED with homework. I've been doing homework straight from 1:00 pm today, and now it's 9:39. And I'm not anywhere NEAR done.
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Raia: I haven't even started - haven't even settled on an idea yet. So, there's hope for you, honest.
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Well, the crying was mainly because I'm sick to death of doing all this homework, I'm screwed for school, and I don't know what to do with myself.
But it's because I can't write for NaNo too, of course.
So thanks, CaySedai!
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See... this is why I cry. No buddies. That and the fact that the ball of my foot hurts. I think I have a splinter.
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Wordcount tricks when you don't know what else to write:
1) Divide what you've written so far into very short chapters, giving each one a very long title.
Example : CHAPTER FORTY-SIX : In Which The Horrible Curse Of The Armenian Were-Wolf (Who Was Of Course The Descendant Of Romulus But We Will Learn More About That In This Chapter) Comes To Horribly Bloody Fruition.
2)Also, dedication. Write a long-winded dedication, or more than one, to several different people who are wholly unconnected with your novel and insert after the lengthy title at the beginning.
3)If you are really stuck, insert a profound quotation before every chapter.
4) Write a couple pages of acknowledgements. These must be seperate and unconnected to the dedications, but do not have to be connected to the novel either.
That should boost your wordcount by a couple thousand words, at least. Posts: 609 | Registered: Oct 2004
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I had thought of DH's suggestion #1 as well, probably because I've read the romantic histories by Parfi of Roundwood.
Another trick I accidentally found in my own story, if your writing fantasy anyway, is magical incantations. Make sure that any magic used in your fantasy world requires lengthy, repetitious incantations and write them out every time someone casts a spell!
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4700 words at the moment. I'm hoping to really lay into it over the weekend and maybe catch up to the daily wordcount quota, before slipping behind again once work starts.
So, does anyone else find themselves avoiding compound words, hyphens, and contractions?
Also, I have discovered an unsuspected benefit of telling my story in the first person. My MC is constantly interrupting his own story to make some comment or directly address the reader, then abruptly gets back to the point a paragraph or two later. It's great.
Also, my novel is so incredibly sappy I'm about to puke. I need to skip to the action part in the next chapter now...
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Currently experiencing a form of writer's block.
I know what the next event will be, except... I need to write a transition of a certain length to get there, and I'm not really sure how.
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I'm planning on writing 50,000 words this week, starting Monday morning at 8 am. It's for a book in a week challenge for another email group I belong to. I should then have my NaNovel done by next Sunday night, at least in terms of having the minimum winning amount written.
And no, I still haven't written a word. Sheesh.
What are my current excuses? Well, I have a 1000 word article to write today for a Christmas magazine issue. Um, yeah, that's it. No other excuses. Oh, unless we want to count my puny little headache. And the lightheadedness. But no, we're not counting those.
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I think it's hard to say what would be the most emotionally charged way of revealing that to her without knowing the character.
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quote:Originally posted by dh: Wait, do two words connected with a hyphen count as one word?
MS Word counts hyphenated words as one word. I'm not sure if the Nanowrimo official wordcount thing does or not.
Btw, novelists, if you're going by the daily quota you should have 10,000 words by the end of the day today. I'm at 6000, but haven't done any writing yet today and have no other plans for the evening.
See you in the epilogue, --Enigmatic
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I've been having problems lately, what with working all the time and knowing where I want my novel to go, but not sure how to proceed. I'm just under 10,000. The first couple days I wrote almost double the daily quota. Posts: 609 | Registered: Oct 2004
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