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NaNoWriMo anyone?
Kris_W:
I’m going to do NaNo this year. I’ve gone to a couple pre-writing meetings, met with people over coffee, done some pre-work. I have a title, synopsis, and opening paragraphs. I have a pretty good idea of my main character’s voice, and what several minor characters are like. I’m doing great on the setting!
…and
…and
…and now I have this other idea.
Arg.
meg_evonne:
--- Quote from: Kris_W on October 28, 2009, 07:44:57 PM ---I’m going to do NaNo this year. I’ve gone to a couple pre-writing meetings, met with people over coffee, done some pre-work. I have a title, synopsis, and opening paragraphs. I have a pretty good idea of my main character’s voice, and what several minor characters are like. I’m doing great on the setting!
…and
…and
…and now I have this other idea.
Arg.
--- End quote ---
Oh dear! Well persevere Kris_W. I was reading your first paragraph and feeling this great commonality of writers and how they proceed. I didn't expect that last part. I do wish you well! No chance to combine them?
j3nnee:
I am working on my one character it will be based around... finally have a bit more meat on him.
He's basically my male counterpart. I don't know how he came to be but one day as I was writing a mental fanfic for some show I liked in my sleep, he just sort of showed up and crashed the party with MacGyver or something in a story I was dreaming about. I've been using him ever since when I had to write a story. He's extremely handy.
Murphy's Stunt Double:
Am I the only one who's going into this completely unprepared?? :o
Okay, so maybe 90% unprepared. I'm writing a story that I began roughing out almost 20 years ago, and originally wrote on a 5-1/4 inch disk. (God, I feel old). Obviously, the 5-1/4 disk didn't make it through my multiple relocations, and I couldn't get the text off it now if it had, so basically, we're going from scratch and a swiss cheese memory.
Needless to say, the plot is simplistic, the characters total MarySues, and I have no idea how it will flesh out. BUT!! I have the beginning, and the climax! Whoot!!
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
3800 words done last night, finishing the chapter I was working on, so November is go as NaLastChapterOfThisDamnedThingMo for me.
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