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Okay -- I'm going to throw caution to the wind and write a . . . *gasp* *whisper* Romance. What the heck -- the "Great American Novel" never seems to come to me in a way that I can articulate as all the inner voices argue over every last little thing. But now that I've stunned them into silence . . . *grin*
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quote:Originally posted by CaySedai: Celaeno: the point isn't to write well, it's to write lots.
I know, but with classes and work, it's just not going to happen. I do think it would be fun to do next year, though.
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quote:Originally posted by Shan: Okay -- I'm going to throw caution to the wind and write a . . . *gasp* *whisper* Romance. What the heck -- the "Great American Novel" never seems to come to me in a way that I can articulate as all the inner voices argue over every last little thing. But now that I've stunned them into silence . . . *grin*
I've always tried to write sci-fi or fantasy, or heck, even literary fiction, and found writing to be a huge chore. A month ago, on a whim, I decided to write a trashy romance novel and found my niche. I know it's looked down on by almost everyone, but I'm having more fun writing than I ever have before, so I don't care.
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I'm in! Haven't finished a single one yet, and probably won't be able to this year with school and work distracting me, but hopefully I'll churn out at least half of the goal.
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The one I'm working on now isn't actually trashy. I meant for it to be, but it turns out my main character isn't a big fan of premarital sex. So no trash. I expect my NaNo romance to have lots and lots of trash though. Sex eats up so many more words than plot.
Mostly what I like about it is that expectations are really low. I don't have to write the Great American Novel. Heck, I don't even have to write well. Not having to worry about whether my writing is any good or not has made it much easier to just write. Plus, turns out that the years I've spent trying to write well left a pretty big impact on my writing.
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I have this same problem with battle scenes in my science fiction stories. I always end up with a plot that's basically just an excuse for page after page of explosions, tactics and action... wonder what that says about me...
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quote:I decided to write a trashy romance novel and found my niche. I know it's looked down on by almost everyone, but I'm having more fun writing than I ever have before, so I don't care.
Considering how many people buy them and read them, um, no, I'd say you're in good company.
Teehee! This is so much fun!
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I don't know about the trashy part of romance novels . . . I mean, I've been celibate for soooo many years, I probably couldn't write a convincing "scene" to save my life . . . *grin*
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I came up with a title and a plot! Sorta. It's kinda like stargate, only settled more around the quantum mirror rather than the Stargate. The idea is we find a stargate-like contraption, that instead of taking us to other worlds through wormholes, takes us to other dimensions. And not necesarily parallel ones. The military of course gets a hold of it and starts sending teams through to explore. I plan to have all sorts of fun with alternate universes. Cause, you know, they always end up on Earth. So I can do a million various of present day Earth, each one with different splitting points. For example: The nazi's won WWII. The dinosaurs were never wiped out. Neanderthals won the battle tween man and thal. Rome was taken out by a metero, or some other nation, before it came to glory. The greeks never fell from preeminence in the mediteranean. The chinesse didn't stop exploring the ocean and go inward. Sooo many I could do! And they could be so much fun, I can devote a chapter to each one and make a bunch of goofy stargate references! I'm so excited, I can't wait to start writing now. I just hope I have time to actually go through with it. Posts: 3295 | Registered: Jun 2004
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Um, yes. *shakes head* A lot of romance novels don't include any sex scenes at all, or even allusions to the hero and heroine ever having sex.
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Shan- There's a thread in the Romance Forum just for people writing clean romances. So you won't be alone.
Truthfully, I think I'd prefer to write a clean romance novel. Especially since I prefer setting mine in a hazy, nebulous past in which I don't think my protagonist would have premarital sex. However, the word count beckons.
Though some of the discussion in another of the threads in the romance forum got me thinking about having my heroine have some sort of inate magical ability. I think magical ability would take up about as many words as sex. But so much more thought!
Oh, the decisions!
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Those romance novels depress me. I sit there flipping throuhg the book vainly searching for all the times they almost get it on - but don't. Almost - but don't. And then it turns out it's vanilla romance and nobody ever gets ANYTHING on.
Also I like how if you pic a romance novel in a used bookstore, it falls open to certain scenes. I can't help thinking it's the femal version of porn, and we should leave th poor boys alone about it.
Anyway - I might be in. Really. I think I should do this every month, anything to force me to write.
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I can't decide whether to get in or not. I think trying to do this had a negative impact on my marriage a couple of times.
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Actually, with my wife, that might have helped. Something about a man and a woman drawn together by their mutual love of a precocious child . . .
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I'm in. Same username as here. Last year I got 5,000 words into it, which is at least far longer than any of my other stories. So this year I want to double that at least.
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Does anyone know of a good site that will allow free backing up of documents? Basically free host space? I used to have this through my university, but no more. I've considered just e-mailing to myself and also putting it in post drafts for my Blog and just not publishing. And of course I can copy to a zip drive. Other thoughts?
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Samarkand... You could password protect the blog posts. Also, I am not sure if it has been mentioned before, but if you have a Gmail account you could use an application called Writely. You might not even need a Gmail account.
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quote:Originally posted by Nell Gwyn: Actually, you're not allowed to start doing any writing until November 1st - all you can do before that is think and plan. And it's mostly just for fun - I signed up for it last year and ended up not writing a single word ( ). I haven't decided yet if I'm going to actually go for it this year.
Me, too. But I'll sign up again as [make that "Claudia.Therese" with the central dot. Old email account, forgotten password].
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Running list of Writing Buddies (just so's we can keep track in one place -- some are from quidscribis' thread at NaNoWriMo and haven't posted in this thread):
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You can add dan_raven to your list. I haven't been back (big things this week) to put my list together.
I have a great, free, begining location for anyone who wants it.
Lone man burrying a body. Its day time in the middle of a wooded area. Its hot. The bugs are flying about. He has a shovel. The ground has roots and rocks and enough debris to make the digging of a fair sized hole a lot of work.
This scene is always skipped in you basic murder stories. Why? Because its boring. Shovel and dig, dig and shovel. How many words can you use up doing that. Where is the excitement? The tension.
But it also has to be mind-numbingly boring for the digger. What can the digger do by think back on the crime, the reasons why, the plans ahead, and curse the #R$#@$ roots and bugs and dirt. Exposition tool at its basic, and a time tool. The murderer is on a schedule. Are the cops back on the main road waiting for him?
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Thanks, CT, for compiling the list of participants across the two forums.
If anyone's interested, and you haven't already read this on the other thread at NaNoWriMo, I'm runnnig a series of NaNoWriMo is freaking me out cuz I have absolutely nothing planned and the clock is ticking challenges starting with this one.
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I've thought a bit more about my possible plot and I'm thinking about doing something from a villain's perspective. Sort of like Magneto, where the villain has some of the right ideas but not exactly the best methods.
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I'm finding their forum overmoderated. I posted in a thread that just got locked. Not in response to anything I said or did, but because the thread had drifted to a discussion of the topic, instead of a direct Q and A about plot realism or whatever. The thing is, that conversation could actually have been potentially helpful to people who read it, and it annoys me that my own post will be lost as the locked thread sinks.
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I have tried this twice in the past only to crash and burn within a couple of days. I am undecided about this year.
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Frack it, I'm in. The thought of a Hiatus novel is too rich to pass up. As TheTick, of course.
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