NaNoWriMo - National Novel Writing Month: 50,000 words, 30 days. Can you do it?
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Since posting synopses is the current fad,
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* Plot
** Synopsis
An Automancer's Ambition (to-do: better title)
The biography of the Ponashi automancer Nole Becweathe as written by his
apprentice. Servant rebellions sprouting across the wetland countryside
of Pononash brings the kingdom to its wit's end. The Royal House puts up
a bounty for anyone up to putting it down. Becweathe thinks he can end
the dilemma permanently; it is his job after all.
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[QUOTE]Stark Castor is an engineer of little importance to his situation, the year is 2077, the global society that erupted out of the 2058 riots has ignored all warnings of danger and peril, and their world is threatened by their own technology. A lifeboat program is created to save tens of thousands of survivors from the ensuing apocalypse, will Stark Castor be a survivor?[/QUOTE]
Since we're doing short introductory synopses, I'll throw my hat in the ring again. This time in a more concise fashion.
[QUOTE]The world has found itself in the cyclopean shadow of an ancient cosmic harbinger, held captive as an audience to its Music of the Spheres. In the wake of its arrival, horrors beyond memory have been roused from their slumber, bringing civilization to its knees. And in a last-ditch effort to thwart the awakening of an unspeakable horror, six brave adventurers have fallen at the last hurdle.
Yet such a spectacular failure in the face of cosmic horror has earned these travellers the favour of an ancient power, out of opportunism and sheer pity more than anything else. Whether they like it or not, thanks to the Cardinal's favour, they JUST. WON'T. DIE.[/QUOTE]
I finally shook loose my own jacket-blurb of a story I've wanted to see written for a while.
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There is a mythical place that is not quite fantastical, like most places are. In fact it's very boring. It's the place stories go when they're over. They call it the End. The problem is, there are many more stories than you might think, and scratching out a living in the place after happily ever after is a hard job, since nothing is new or original at the End. Eric "Rock" Tredegar, a hardboiled detective from a New Orleans that might-have-been-but-wasn't, will have to navigate his way through a place where being genre savvy is a survival skill and trope awareness is the only edge you've got over last-year's crop of evil overlords.
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Yeah, fuck it. Sign me up I guess. I need some motivation to get going on a story of mine anyhow.
Just for anyone curious, here's a tiny example of my stuff:
[QUOTE]The tavern was a slummy, pitiful looking thing. The peeling plaster walls had holes knocked through them in several places, revealing the wooden infrastructure behind it. One of the two pool tables in the back-left corner of the room had been missing a few pool balls and a cue stick, not that many people really seemed to care. There were some booth tables that seemed to be covered with some sort of unknown sticky material that nobody wanted to go near, let alone be bothered to clean up. The smell of cigarette smoke and something else that smelled like rancid body odor filled the air. And to make matters worse, one of the city’s local groups of ne’er-do-wells, a group of thugs calling themselves the Descendants, had decided to make [I]this[/I] establishment their preferred drinking location. It was happy hour, and things were about to get a lot less happy.
James and Samael casually strolled in, trying to look like just another pair of wanderers, same as any other patron of the fine establishment.
“Geez, James… Did we really need to come [I]here[/I] of all places?” Sam muttered under his breath to James as they walked across the room to the high bar at the back.
“Well we don’t exactly look like we fit in with the rich folk, do we?” James replied, continuing to stay nonchalant as he carried himself across the room.
“Look, we’re new in town, right? New territory. We’ll get a couple drinks, ask for some information, try to get our bearings, and then we’ll figure out where to go from there.”
Right now, any plan was better than no plan to Samael. Still, he couldn’t shake the negative vibes he was getting from being here. He rolled his eyes and nodded. “Yeah, yeah. Fine.” James and Sam took the two remaining free seats at the high bar, the others being filled by some of the rough-looking gentlemen. The bartender of the evening, a tired-eyed young man in his late twenties, strolled up to the two of them, a lit cigarette dangling off his lips. “What’ll you kids be having tonight?” he asked.
“Just a couple beers, please.” James said, pulling out a few dollars out of his pocket and tossing them on the bar counter in the direction of the bartender. The man looked at the two of them, and grabbed the cash off of the counter quickly, before someone else could.
“Nice and simple. I like it.” he said, as he reached for a couple mugs on a shelf beneath the counter.
The murmurs of the local patrons making conversation with their friends had filled the room, but it couldn’t block out the general silence James was noticing from Samael, who was anxiously scanning the room.[/QUOTE]
Somehow didn't see this thread before! Didn't participate last year but finished my novels the previous two, sign me up!
[B]Cross of Steel[/B]
[quote]France, defeated. Belgium, divided. England, safe. America, surrounded. In 1917, after the defeat of the French, Italians and Russians at the hands of the Central Powers, the world spins for a new order. Now, with the only threat to German dominance, the United States, lies across but a single ocean. With newfound allies to the south, the German Empire plans for the ultimate attack: On America's soil itself![/quote]
Leviathan Rising (yes i'm aware of the book Leviathan wakes)
[QUOTE]A socially awkward ship-chopper named Kyle has his life turned upside down when a regular mission to scavenge for technology on a Desert world goes awry. Now having released an ancient alien being from slumber, Kyle now has to deal with the fact his body is now a host of this alien being. A fugitive on the Rock (an asteroid turned to a gigantic mobile city), the most wanted individual by a two thousand year old Galactic Despotic Empire, and dealing with an Ancient alien inside of his head. Kyle must survive as everything that was his regular life has begun to fall apart.[/QUOTE]
So expect massive Derelict ships in the desert, Space battles that compose of thousands of ships, a shit ton of aliens, a socially awkward dude who becomes a threat to an ancient Galactic empire, and titanic sized machines and drones used by said galactic empire. So im attempting a Space Opera through the eyes of a socially awkward dude who slowly transforms with the help of the Alien in his head into a badass who takes on this Empire. But, even the empire of the story isn't even the real threat waiting to happen.
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If you guys don't want to procrastinate by going on Facepunch or Facebook or whatever social need you desire, use this:
[url]https://getcoldturkey.com/writer/[/url][/QUOTE]
Trying this. Man, an average of 1667 words a day is harder than i expected. I imagine it'll be difficult to keep that pace up.
[QUOTE=megafat;51287254]Trying this. Man, an average of 1667 words a day is harder than i expected. I imagine it'll be difficult to keep that pace up.[/QUOTE]
It's probably best to write even more than the average, so that if something happens, you wont be so far back. Better be safe than sorry.
Shit man, I have like a few ideas springing up in my head from time to time, but then I lose interest when I think too much.
A novel can contain multiple stories can it :v:
[QUOTE=Swebonny;51288428]Shit man, I have like a few ideas springing up in my head from time to time, but then I lose interest when I think too much.
A novel can contain multiple stories can it :v:[/QUOTE]
I just has to be 50 000 words long I think. That's what I thought I heard.
Oh hey I should probably start an outline so I don't get banned.
If this is your first time writing a novel, this can help.
[video=youtube;3UW4Y3svkA8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UW4Y3svkA8[/video]
I've thought about doing this for a number of years but I never have any ideas and I've never written anything like a novel. This year I actually have an idea but it's extremely bare bones right now, not sure if I should give it a go.
[QUOTE=Pelf;51289796]I've thought about doing this for a number of years but I never have any ideas and I've never written anything like a novel. This year I actually have an idea but it's extremely bare bones right now, not sure if I should give it a go.[/QUOTE]
Give it a crack. The worst that happens is that you fail to meet a specifically arbitrary goal set within an equally arbitrary timeframe, which only you are the beneficiary of.
That is, "it's only your own time you're wasting. So why not."
It's officially the 1st of November, so get cracking!
So far I have: 1 word written. I wrote -placeholder- under Chapter 1, so it counts!
[editline]Oh[/editline]
Wait, two words! Chapter included. Do we keep people up to date on word counts at the end of the day here, or in the discord?
[QUOTE=Joekirk;51290518]It's officially the 1st of November, so get cracking!
So far I have: 1 word written. I wrote -placeholder- under Chapter 1, so it counts!
[editline]Oh[/editline]
Wait, two words! Chapter included. Do we keep people up to date on word counts at the end of the day here, or in the discord?[/QUOTE]
Due to the tremendous number of participants right now, it'd probably kill me to update all 50 of you guys every single day.
I'll write your final wordcounts up there instead, aye?
[QUOTE=Monkah;51290521]Due to the tremendous number of participants right now, it'd probably kill me to update all 50 of you guys every single day.
I'll write your final wordcounts up there instead, aye?[/QUOTE]
Ah damn, you mean I can't flood the thread with updates to up my post count? :v:
[I]Kidding[/I]. I'll keep any posts strictly to the trials and tribulations of writing something I have no clue about.
Also, a few of us are sitting in Discord voice right now. Come and join the fun!
2,384 words written, cold turkey program helps a lot with focusing on writing.
Edit: Now at 3366 words. Just under thousand words into the second chapter.
Time to get started for me, wish me luck!
I dont know if im writing good, if im writing bad, or if im writing the new Stephen King. But hey, if i finish a shitty novel, then i can make a good one.
1038 words
Stayed up last night
Chapter 1 complete
Words written since last update: 2790
Words written in total: 2790
Read chapter 1 here: [url]https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SeWDaNjQLolNHf4lqxwvsc149jDdJi8ZyGtRrHbug_g/edit?usp=sharing[/url]
Hope y'all are having as much fun as I am
Haven't started yet. Will do after dinner!
[QUOTE=Swebonny;51291777]Haven't started yet. Will do after dinner![/QUOTE]
The famous last words (before procrastination)
I'm already 3000 words in.
I'm still doing a little set-up at the moment. But I'm confident that I'll have some words ready by midnight. After all, this is an idea that's been brewing in my mind for quite a while.
Fair word of warning, don't try to burst through like 5-10k words at a time or you're going to burn out before we've made it through the second week. Especially if you aren't used to writing in large amounts frequently.
[QUOTE=WitheredGryphon;51291934]Fair word of warning, don't try to burst through like 5-10k words at a time or you're going to burn out before we've made it through the second week. Especially if you aren't used to writing in large amounts frequently.[/QUOTE]
so what's a good way to pace yourself then?
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