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NaNoWriMo anyone?
Matrix Refugee (formerly Morraeon):
I'm signed up as Matrixrefugee on the NaNoWriMo site (excuse the fact that I'm writing a Neon Genesis Evangelion fanfic for this year's NaNo: It's part of a trilogy that I've been pecking away at for a couple of months now)
meg_evonne:
the US Arabian Nationals were just held in Tulsa? Not sure about the Jan 2010 dates, but those would work out well for me. Will PM when I buy tickets. I t.hink the only trip they make to AZ is for the Scottsdale Show. Dang
belial.1980:
LOL. I just signed up for s**ts and grins. My current first draft manuscript is almost done; just finishing up the ending then have one last scene to plunk into the swampy middle. I can finish that in December and still make my goal of finishing the rough draft by the end of the year. It'll be a good little break from it.
Now as far as NaNoWriMo goes I have absolutely NO IDEA what I'm going to write. Eh. I've been keeping a big-big-of-random-thoughts-and-ideas for the past 5 years. I figure I'll go in there, snatch up a few ideas, characters, grab a handful of quotes and write.
User ID is belial.1980. (Which is, of course, the same user ID for my bank, credit cards, work computer, etc. Same password too. :-\) Good luck to everybody!
j3nnee:
I'll be attempting it this year. No clue what I'm writing but I will be in it up to my neck drowning on the writer's block in a sea of illiteracy.
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Kali:
I have a vague idea of what I'm going to write. I'll be taking the original characters from my Laurell K. Hamilton fanfic and giving them their own playground. Some stuff will change. For instance, my werewolves aren't nearly as polite or naked as hers are, and my vampire isn't nearly as pretty or naked as hers are. And my main werewolf has undergone a name change. Damn you, Stephanie Meyers, for naming your werewolf 'Jacob'!
I'm prepared to run screaming and flailing into writer's block. I have near at hand my handy-dandy Plot Hat. Well, it's in a mug so it's more like a handy-dandy Plot Coffee Cup, but still. It's full of plot ideas I can pull out when I get stuck and my promise to myself is that no matter what is going on in the story at the point I'm stuck, I'll have to work in the plot twist. And do so with complete seriousness; my characters will have to remain in-character and react exactly as they should.
So far I have:
- Ninja bunnies attack
- A character in the scene is turned into a dog
- A crazy hobo bursts into the scene and prophesizes DOOOOooooom
- A rogue storm boils up out of nowhere and reduces the building the scene is taking place in to kindling
- The characters in the scene abruptly reverse emotions - calm characters become hyper, happy characters become furious
- An earthquake strikes
Needless to say, some of these will not make it through revisions. But most of them should get me at least halfway through the day's wordcount, whatever else happens.
I kinda hope ninja bunnies attack. The next couple of lines write themselves.
"What the hell is that?!"
"That," she said grimly, "is a plot twist."
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