I’m in again. I’ve done this <mumble> years, and always ‘won’ in the sense of cranking out 50k words but I have NEVER managed to get to really complete a book during the month.
(Well, it doesn’t help at all that when I finally finished the novels they came out to be from 90,000 to 240,000 words.)
So this year I have deliberately designed a short plot and a limited cast of characters and I SWEAR I will end the month with a complete rough draft, all the way from Chapter 1 to “THE END.”
And with no skipped over intermediate sub-plot chapters, either.
(waves hand around) Me! Me! MEMEMEMEMEME@! And what about YOU???
(sorry… just got kind of caught up in all the excitement.)
Seriously, though, there MUST be a lot of other people here who are participating in NaNoWriMo. But if there’s a thread, I can’t find it. Let your voice be heard!
Here’s why I got confused! This thread was predicated on the theme of NaNo not having yet arrived. (But I can get confused very easily anyway… ’
Our Portland kickoff party was yesterday! Yay! LOTS of people. There had to be at least 100. For some reason, most seemed to be working on various scifi ideas. I can’t say if it’s the NW thing, or if that’s been happening a lot in NaNo anyway. I can honestly say, though, that nobody else is doing a romance erotica paranormal mystery. (Whether this is a good thing or not, I don’t know… but there it is.)
I’ve wanted to do this for a while, but never have tried. I may give it a go this year. My schedule is packed, but I do have the whole week off for Thanksgiving, so I can get a lot done then. I may need to get a keyboard for my iPad.
Giving it a shot. I didn’t even know there was such a thing until I read this thread. First step will be to figure out what to write about, as I wasn’t planning to write a novel just now.
I went completely insane with outlines for Death Train. But that was before I accepted that Satan is a major character. And… (looks around surreptitiously) DT is a kind of magnum opus presaged in lots of other stuff that’s been written already, sometimes years ago. I’m a cheater, cheater, pumpkin eater (takes pie out of oven. Have y’all ever tried pumpkin pie with hot brandy butter sauce?)
I have a title: Patchwork Riddle. This is going to be a crazy quilt of reminiscence and general comments.
In honor of that decision, I have stayed up too late but I have finally finished my Petition to the Muse. It could probably use an edit, but it’s finished. I’ve been pondering that thing for years.
Now I need to go to petition row in the Davis Farmer’s Market and collect signatures. But first, I need to buy or borrow a camera.
I’ve got a working title - Building Bonds - but it will change if I find something better. I’ve got the beginning and the end pretty much worked out, but the middle is rather vague at this point.
Last year I didn’t do it because I went to Istanbul for a week in November. This year I was planning on doing it then we just got tickets to go to Barcelona over Thanksgiving. (These are the kinds of problems I don’t mind having.)
I’ve got two competing ideas:
The first is a bit complicated but I’ve got it mostly worked out. It’s a trilogy of simultaneous stories each with a POV of the protagonists who are the antagonists in the other two stories. Clues are left in each story that will end up explaining the true answer to the lady-or-the-tiger type ending that each story alone would have. It’s a total gimmick, but I think it would be fun to try and do.
The second would be a satire book based on an idea that just needs more research to get moving. This would also be a total gimmick, but would probably be a lot more in my wheelhouse.
I’m just going to wake up on Thursday morning and if I bring my laptop to work that day, I’ll start one of 'em.
The White Knight - comic book.(Just about all the characters I’m doing for the 30 Characters Challenge are for this as well). I have seven stories written and three specials (illustrated text and side stories). I want to get at least three more stories done before I start looking for an artist (I could do it, theoretically, but I draw too slow).
Very Dirty Porn Story (I actually do have a title for this, but I plan on publishing it under a pseudonym so…). No more to be said. It’s about half way done, I think (I started it last year).
Untitled scifi/fantasy thing. This will probably never turn into anything. I have no real plot for it, just a few scenes that wouldn’t get out of my head. I just want to get those scenes connected to each other.
Untitled Superhero Romance. I’m not planning on doing much with this. If anything, I might make it a web serial or something. I want to get the major bits written for it so I can set it aside and work on the first two projects. Two of the character designs are the main characters of this.
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