NaNoWriMo - National Novel Writing Month: 50,000 words, 30 days. Can you do it?
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[QUOTE=XeroG;51242103]Romantic novel with robots. Toxxing.[/QUOTE]
No unban clause? Ooh, daring!
Enjoy your red name!
[QUOTE=NoNameForEvil;51242152]sign me up boiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii[/QUOTE]
Added!
Hoping we can see at least fifty participants before November 1st. We're at 42 right now.
Count me in on this! I'm actually prepared this time around.
Put my words done amount to 506 and the amount of words I have to do to 51,000
Because thats how much ill probably end up doing before november
Already got a (hopefully) necessary amount of notepads.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/cvgoSMF.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE=megafat;51243372]Already got a (hopefully) necessary amount of notepads.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/cvgoSMF.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
Hey, you got the same TV remote I do
[QUOTE=megafat;51243372]Already got a (hopefully) necessary amount of notepads.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/cvgoSMF.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
I don't think I need to purchase any more notebooks, I'd say for at least a year. I'm such a notebook hoarder as it is :v:
Oh hell, why not. Sign me up.
[QUOTE=megafat;51243372]Already got a (hopefully) necessary amount of notepads.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/cvgoSMF.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
Just curious, how do you intend to monitor wordcount without a digital assistant?
[QUOTE=Monkah;51250010]Just curious, how do you intend to monitor wordcount without a digital assistant?[/QUOTE]
Very carefully
[QUOTE=Monkah;51250010]Just curious, how do you intend to monitor wordcount without a digital assistant?[/QUOTE]
It's all going into a word document anyway, i just like the feel of writing something on paper.
Oh cool there is a thread for this. I've been planning out my novel for a few months now and writing as often as I can, I'm pretty excited to get started.
Count me in.
[QUOTE]If so, what're your plans so far? Are you doing any prepwork?[/QUOTE]
I've actually finished my prepwork for like 6 months now, both a vague outline (I don't like rigid outlines) and all the worldbuilding details.
I haven't found the time to actually start yet but I do have a few experimental chapters and some scenes written down.
[QUOTE] Do you actually think you'll make it to 50,000 within thirty days?[/QUOTE]
Fuck no, between college, my job, and general laziness, it's close to impossible. But I will aim for 50,000, even if I don't hit it I'll at least be much farther along than I am right now.
You guys have any ideas as to what you'll write? I have a fantasy thing about rebellions and empires and all the shit you've read a million times before. I'll go into detail more if there's interest I suppose.
I'll join the discord in a bit, too lazy to go down to my desktop and do it right now.
BTW: Since you guys have a week still, I recommend reading The First Five Pages by Noah Lukeman and Elements of Style by two dudes whose names escape me right now. Should help you write faster and better for the hellish month we're about to put ourselves through.
Just trashed all of my current ideas. Starting from scratch. Kind of concerned about myself, but whatever.
I dunno. I couldn't find a way to make it suspenseful. Like, I just legitimately didn't enjoy what I had planned, and I think that's a huge warning sign-- if even the author is bored of his novel, then things have to change, you know?
I'm in God damn it. Toxx me.
It's been my dream since I'm a kid, time to push myself to do it. My clause is that if I'm permad then I can be unbanned when I finish the damn thing.
Right at the start of the exam period..
Damn.
Currently, I am torn between two ideas. Do I stick with Vesta Sanctum, working with a recent concept, or do I tell a tale of the Hunter's Moon, a more familiar setting that I've imagined?
It'd probably be better to do Hunter's Moon. I already have the setting fleshed out, a world where ancient powers have awakened to the celestial melodies of Ghroth, evocative of the works of Ramsey Campbell in the Cthulhu Mythos, but with certain key twists.
Having to move to new topic since my prewriting hit a wall harder than a Mexican heading to Trump Tower
[QUOTE=ironman17;51252921]Currently, I am torn between two ideas. Do I stick with Vesta Sanctum, working with a recent concept, or do I tell a tale of the Hunter's Moon, a more familiar setting that I've imagined?
It'd probably be better to do Hunter's Moon. I already have the setting fleshed out, a world where ancient powers have awakened to the celestial melodies of Ghroth, evocative of the works of Ramsey Campbell in the Cthulhu Mythos, but with certain key twists.[/QUOTE]
It's up to you really. I'm not partial to fantasy so I can't say.
[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;51253767]Having to move to new topic since my prewriting hit a wall harder than a Mexican heading to Trump Tower[/QUOTE]
Yeah, join the club. Turns out, space operas aren't my thing.
[URL=https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1N9-QFIoF0TdP9ofF6hBdTUSkT8-ILjT18gtDgMEq83k/edit?usp=sharing]Made a quick chapter planner for whoever wants it. Enjoy![/URL] (file -> make copy)
[QUOTE=Swilly;51254110]It's up to you really. I'm not partial to fantasy so I can't say.[/QUOTE]
I'm set on it. Besides, it's not gonna be pure fantasy anyways. It's more of a fusion of gaslight and cyberpunk with a mystical factor, more in line with something like Darkest Dungeon, Grim Dawn or Bloodborne, but with an undercurrent of high technology from centuries past, machinery that could arguably be described as truly alive.
The technology behind them is understood to a degree by the peoples of this world (mostly thanks to the Sidhe clans), but they still hold some mysticism in how they were made and how they still worked so many thousands of years after they were built. And while old mysteries and miracles have been made mundane by scientific eyes, new mysteries continue to crop up in the wake of the hitherto unexplained "Expression" that started around 1860, causing young children to begin expressing mystical abilities as they came to understand the world around them.
The protagonist himself, one Benjamin Liddell na Pendragon, is born into this post-Expression world, and thus has grown up with the "expressive powers" that typifies his generation. In spite of nearly three decades of research, the science of psionics is still poorly understood. Even the current generation, who grew up with these preternatural talents, only know that knowing merely enables power, while exerting their will was key to making the magic happen. The only other thing holding one back is one's constitution.
But as the world is plunged into darkness, brought on by the Hunter's Moon entering Earth's orbit, darker mysteries emerge from their resting places. What is known begins to pale in the face of the looming, gnawing, bone-crunching unknown, but the need to know has not been drowned out by the need to survive. Ben himself ends up on a journey of discovery alongside the Warren family of explorers, even though his path is littered with berserk automata, antediluvian horrors, and more than enough salvage for a man to retire off of. Most would have gone mad if faced with such a journey, but in a way, Ben was already mad. Just the right kind of mad needed to survive the horrors unleashed... by the Hunter's Moon.
I personally detest plotting and planning my stories.
In fact, I find if I do anything more than a vague web of ideas that the task ends up feeling like a bloated project. The biggest issue being that I end up feeling 'responsible' to the idea that I committed to, rather than flexible and able to work around what develops.
I think the longest sustained piece of writing I've done was built entirely on a two or three sentence long thought that I wrote down, then wanted to explore some more.
The longest thing I've written is a peice of trash fanfic on Half Life 2 where I self inserted friends and myself. It was fucking dumb.
Alright, I made an account on that nanowrimo website, username is '[insertfuturealiashere]'
Add me I guess? I'm not entirely sure how it works, or even what the point of it is.
In case anyone hasn't seen them, Brandon Sanderson is a must watch for the inspiring writer, especially if you plan on writing in fantasy / science fiction. He just released the last of his 2016 lectures not too long ago.
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4ZDBOc2tX8[/media]
That's #1 and just the course overview (it's a recording of the class he teaches), the rest delve deeper into it.
Just added a voicechat to the Discord. Come and join the fun!
I'm inspired to write about my experiences with mental illness... But I don't want others to think that I'm copying 'Reasons To Stay Alive' by Matt Haig :/
[QUOTE=Steam-Pixie;51263269]I'm inspired to write about my experiences with mental illness... But I don't want others to think that I'm copying 'Reasons To Stay Alive' by Matt Haig :/[/QUOTE]
Considering that everyone is different, your experiences might bring something different to the table.
[QUOTE=megafat;51263380]Considering that everyone is different, your experiences might bring something different to the table.[/QUOTE]
I like to think that :smile:
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