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Post by Lily Munster on Oct 9, 2009 12:23:07 GMT -5
Yup. Forget all the beautiful planning and organizing and finding the "right" story. There is no time for that!!
All I ask of myself is that the characters that I start out with, well at least ONE of them, will end up with me at the end of the story. Oh, and that they do whatever they do, wherever they do it, in a dark and gothic way. Could be funny, scary, beautiful, dramatic, stupid, mysterious, whatever... maybe all.
Also I didn't look to see if this is in the right forum. Ah well, I'll move it if it isn't.
So is anyone else winging it this year?
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Post by Nicole on Oct 9, 2009 13:06:52 GMT -5
Wel, i just random signed in two days before it started so i just made up a beginning with a girl and i'm trying to keep it going till the goal.
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Post by Lily Munster on Oct 9, 2009 13:40:51 GMT -5
yeah... sometimes that can be a lot more fun, too. I mean, when you yourself don't always know what's coming next... it can be exciting! and scary, if you're writing horror. Like, what IS that thing lurking behind your basement door? The reader won't know... and... neither do you!! heehee XD
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Post by Nicole on Oct 9, 2009 15:45:45 GMT -5
it is hilarious when you describe it it and make it very scary, and when the person came around corner you see it was very cute cat.
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Post by Vengeance the Dark Mistress on Oct 10, 2009 13:11:19 GMT -5
I ALWAYS WING IT! I can not plan. Even this little bit of research I did about Greek vampires and demons and castles tamped my creativity!!! I started reading Star Girl by Jerri Spanelli ( decidedly NOT gothic novel LOL). However, while I read it yesterday at work, I jotted down lines that sparked some scenes for my gothic novel. I love that!!!!!!!!!!!! So now, I have a whole pages of ideas for scenes. So wing it here I am once again
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Post by Nicole on Oct 10, 2009 14:23:32 GMT -5
i was planning everything into the detail for nanowrimo but that kind of killed the story for me. so i let it lying somewhere. i think it would be an idea to pick it up sometime and look it over. because i don't want to plan it out in the detail.
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Post by Vengeance the Dark Mistress on Oct 10, 2009 15:55:13 GMT -5
i was planning everything into the detail for nanowrimo but that kind of killed the story for me. so i let it lying somewhere. i think it would be an idea to pick it up sometime and look it over. because i don't want to plan it out in the detail. I understand that for sure! Of course not planning ahead means I always have a headache trying to edit. However, it is far more fun to write on the fly, at least to me.
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Post by Nicole on Oct 10, 2009 16:42:14 GMT -5
i know what you mean, make things up what you think will suit at the moment works better then forcing a summary
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Post by Mama D.N. and new baby Jareth. on Oct 10, 2009 17:11:19 GMT -5
I actually didn't even plot this year. I took a dream I had on the 6th and turned it into my story for now. It's turning out to be a Middle Eastern-based war fiction. I took the conflicts with the Sunni and Shiite factions, worked them out, and they became the Sand Region and Ice Region's conflicts. And of course, there are spies, fatima, grouchy old Bedouin with repressed sex drives, djinni, terrorists and military forces...... And some nubile gods, eunuch scribes and hermaphrodites to even out the field of interest. Oh yeah, Fatima al Emmou is going to be an awesome book.
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Post by Nicole on Oct 10, 2009 17:15:53 GMT -5
you've got a nice idea, i would like to read something about it
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Post by Vengeance the Dark Mistress on Oct 10, 2009 18:02:51 GMT -5
I actually didn't even plot this year. I took a dream I had on the 6th and turned it into my story for now. It... And some nubile gods, eunuch scribes and hermaphrodites to even out the field of interest. Oh yeah, Fatima al Emmou is going to be an awesome book. This is an awesome title! Love the idea. I did the dream thing one year for NANO. It was cool! Don't you love it when you can get all excited about your story!!!
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Post by Mama D.N. and new baby Jareth. on Oct 10, 2009 19:23:15 GMT -5
Aww, well, thanks, you guys ~^_^~
I think we should have an excerpt thread...but we should wait until we know how much bandwidth that thread (and the offshoots that would definitely result) would take up. I mean, NaNoWriMo.org gobbles up bandwidth like crazy @_@;;
Edit: I see it now. I'm going to go post a scene/section/whichever I can easily set up for you guys.
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Post by Nicole on Oct 11, 2009 7:30:40 GMT -5
ï would like to see it:)
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Post by Vengeance the Dark Mistress on Oct 11, 2009 10:27:03 GMT -5
Interesting DN. I read your post. It sounds like it will be a wild attention grabbing ride of a read!
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Post by Nicole on Oct 15, 2009 9:08:07 GMT -5
don't you also have sometimes that your planning in your head some tingsd while you actually just need to wing it when your busy with writing instead of schoolwork or soemthing?
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