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Any WriMo's out there?
Amber:
--- Quote from: SharonBrown on June 09, 2006, 01:29:19 AM ---Once in awhile I'd like to go back and work on my first year's effort, but I still can't figure out how to finish it. In fact, one of my biggest problems with writing is that I can create a great set-up, but I can never figure out how to resolve the issues that I raise. It's like committing a crime but not being able to solve the crime later on.
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I have similar problems... I get good beginnings, good endings, but no middles. Everything I write turns out about novella-length. I'm too "concise," people tell me... Must be the scientist in me. I spend most of my life trying to fit a word count limit.
FredG:
I tried for the first time last year, and my honeymoon got in the way :)
I'm planning to try again this year, though. I've got a different idea and everything. I'm doing charts, timelines, chapter summaries, all kinds of prep without writing prose.
That's how I avoid not having endings. I know roughtly where my stories are ending before they begin. That's not to say I haven't changed any endings, but I had somewhere to aim at.
What's the setup, SharonBrown?
Todd Edwards:
I've done it twice and both times, I made the deadline and then kept going til the end of the story. I've since edited and polished my 2004 nano into a presentable novel, and I'm shopping it around now.
My first novel took me ten years to complete the first draft (lots of time off and time to learn). My second took a month. Go figure.
jenfullmoon:
I'm a five-year-NaNo. FEAR ME! I finished 4 out of 5 years, too. (The one year I was waylaid by a new long-distance boyfriend and lack of a laptop. I made sure I got a laptop by the next one.)
Last year was the first time I finished a plot within 50,000 words. Usually I hit the goal before the story ends. I haven't done anything with my novels, though. Hard to work without NaNo...I've been trying to do a novel this year and I really petered out in the middle. *sigh*
I don't know if I'll be able to do this year's NaNo. There's likely to be a WHOLE LOT of drama blowing up in my life around that time of the year, which makes me nervous. I'll still sign up, of course, but I'm nervous that I'll even get time to do anything between other people needing me to be their life raft. *sigh*
I think it's nice that they are doing a screenwriting version, but since getting into Hollywood sounds like a hair-ripping PITA careerwise, I have decided never to try my hand at screenwriting. (There's REALLY no hope of getting it published then, eh?)
Mickey Finn:
On a screenwriting note, the first draft of Scream was done in a weekend, and both my scripts I did for college were done in a month.
If you're interested, look into books by Syd Field and Joe Straczynski.
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