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April: The Frenzination [NaNoFrenZo]
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April 1st, 2010
The Writer's Block, PA Forums
I'm glad you're here, soldiers! I know we've just recently come back from a campaign in the marshes of madness this past November. I've asked a lot from you. Training hasn't let up since we got back, and don't you think I'll let you so much as pick your boot up without my leave!
Ahem, that is to say. It's April. April is Script Frenzy month. To those few of us not writing scripts and needing an excuse to be proactive, it will also be National Novel Writing Month, Take 2.
Here's the mission, should you choose to accept it: We will be treating April as our very own National Novel Writing Month. That doesn't mean you have to write an original work, several of us will be using the time to focus on revising our books. I, myself, will be using it to do Draft 2 of my book. The point is that we're all going to be buckling down and getting some serious word counts in. We'll also be supporting each other to make sure we get it done!
This is the thread for us to talk about what we're going to be writing and cheer each other on! It's also a thread about revisions. Need to talk about your revisions? Let's do that! Need to ask about a page you just rewrote? Well, post it and if one of us has the time, we'll try to help! Need to just vent? Well, don't we all.
Let's get to revising, writing, and frenzinationing!
Pick up your gear from the armory on your way out.
The Writer's Block, PA Forums
I'm glad you're here, soldiers! I know we've just recently come back from a campaign in the marshes of madness this past November. I've asked a lot from you. Training hasn't let up since we got back, and don't you think I'll let you so much as pick your boot up without my leave!
Ahem, that is to say. It's April. April is Script Frenzy month. To those few of us not writing scripts and needing an excuse to be proactive, it will also be National Novel Writing Month, Take 2.
Here's the mission, should you choose to accept it: We will be treating April as our very own National Novel Writing Month. That doesn't mean you have to write an original work, several of us will be using the time to focus on revising our books. I, myself, will be using it to do Draft 2 of my book. The point is that we're all going to be buckling down and getting some serious word counts in. We'll also be supporting each other to make sure we get it done!
This is the thread for us to talk about what we're going to be writing and cheer each other on! It's also a thread about revisions. Need to talk about your revisions? Let's do that! Need to ask about a page you just rewrote? Well, post it and if one of us has the time, we'll try to help! Need to just vent? Well, don't we all.
Let's get to revising, writing, and frenzinationing!
Pick up your gear from the armory on your way out.
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I'm digging back into my NaNoWriMo project with a fresh beginning. Currently making good use of OneNote to differentiate my characters and iron out a few plot holes. A lot of plot holes.
My plot is swiss cheese.
Forged by Fate, March 5, 2013! (And it's on Goodreads!)
HOORAY ONE NOTE!
Forged by Fate, March 5, 2013! (And it's on Goodreads!)
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But, I also don't know what I'd want to work on this month. Maybe finally the full rewrite of my nano from last year (meaning, uhh, 2008).
I will have to think about this.......
I'm about to dig in to start the next chapter in my Draft. Hoping to get to a point where, by April, I'm ready to dive through it and finish Draft 2 by the end of the month! Fingers crossed that this will be my last full rewrite.
And yes, OneNote! Anyone doing revisions should look into OneNote. It's really a wonderful way to organize your thoughts and plans. It's helped me a ton already, I only wish I'd known about it sooner so I could have used it in the first draft.
Unless you've already written something in Word and you're looking to edit it! Otherwise, Q10 was a great program to do draft 1 in. Lets you just close out the rest of the world while you work.
Not being an official NaNo, there are no SET rules or limits, so I'm wondering what everyone's goals are for April?
Personally: I'm revising my book, going into Draft 2 on it. I hope to average around 4,000 (hopefully more) revised words a day -- or at least two chapters a day, basically. This will probably be Monday-Friday, and then Saturday and Sunday I'll get significantly less words or just work on my notes and planning.
Tomorrow is April already?!
I am totally not ready, but also SUPER ready. I have been mulling over my rewrite of Helen and anxious to being-- but my wrist is still weak! If I get 2K a day, I will call myself fortunate.
I'm thinking about rewriting in first person, actually. But I don't know how well it will work, since I want to add a new PoV. Can I write Helen in first person, and Theseus in third? Is that allowed?
Forged by Fate, March 5, 2013! (And it's on Goodreads!)
Yes it is, I've done it before, not that that means much, but as long as the perspective remains constant for the different characters it should work.
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Or maybe I'll be a coward and just keep the third person throughout. I'm just afraid it will be a disaster... I guess the other option is I could try writing Theseus in first person too, but I don't feel confident in that at all. I've never done first person for a male character--though I have a much easier time writing men than women, in third person...
decisions decisions!
Forged by Fate, March 5, 2013! (And it's on Goodreads!)
do i write a new story or rewrite the 2 years ago one? if i rewrite i have soooo much to figure out and it will really be a totally different story...i can't decide if i want to keep it in two first persons (perspective of crazy dude and also of his wife).....oh crap oh crap oh crap
As for me, I have no idea what I'm going to do. I'm not even sure I'll get around to it, considering I've got a hojillion papers to write by the 21st.
Why are all these books written in first person!? perhaps this means I should be writing mine in third, after all, since apparently no one else has.
Forged by Fate, March 5, 2013! (And it's on Goodreads!)
I'm totally writing in first person. I'm such a conformist.
I'm also TOTALLY PUMPED.
Forged by Fate, March 5, 2013! (And it's on Goodreads!)
Forged by Fate, March 5, 2013! (And it's on Goodreads!)
I'm having some of the same problems with my book. That is, I'm a little worried -- I don't see it as a YA title, and sometimes I have to kind of reframe things since my main character starts out so young.
Anyway, just opened up OneNote and started doing brief outlines for chapters. Giving all of my chapters brief lists of goals, problems, and a one to two line summary, along with any relevant notes I want to remember. Think this will help me keep focused!
I'm posting my First Page of first person for the blogfests tomorrow and friday (alternate version and first page, respectively) TWO BIRDS WITH ONE STONE, BABY!
Forged by Fate, March 5, 2013! (And it's on Goodreads!)
NOW
And yeah, he ends up around his early/mid twenties by the end of it, and I'll be adding a lot more time passage in this version. In Draft 1 most of his life in the first half was one year, followed by a big time skip. This time I'm breaking up the time skips throughout the entire story so there won't be a big split.
anyway. Yes. I understand. YA is SO overblown right now. It's just a giant glut.
Forged by Fate, March 5, 2013! (And it's on Goodreads!)
So let's get to it.
Right on.
I am handwriting as we speak! Or, er, right after we speak...
Forged by Fate, March 5, 2013! (And it's on Goodreads!)
The article stipulated the YA was very popular post-Harry Potter because adults realized that reading some YA was perfectly acceptable. Not only that, a lot of them preferred it because the plot in YA books tends to move faster, and they also tend to be shorter because of their target audience, thus easier to fit into a busy schedule.
But yeah. Count me out of the genre. I think 90% of the people who friended me on twitter from #amwriting are writing YA, though.
I think the kids who read Harry Potter are still reading, and still reading YA, in addition to the adults who are shopping there, so that's part of the surge too. But there's a lot of stuff in YA that I think probably should be regular fiction, and would be if YA weren't so HOT HOT HOT right now.
page 1 of Helen in first person contrasted with third is up, btw. And I am going to sign off and go watch some Lois and Clark and be good and not write/type anymore!
Forged by Fate, March 5, 2013! (And it's on Goodreads!)
Should we gather in an IRC room again?
I don't know that I'll be doing sprints, though. Some others might!
Forged by Fate, March 5, 2013! (And it's on Goodreads!)
Forged by Fate, March 5, 2013! (And it's on Goodreads!)
I've had easier times with things, myself. April is a rough month. Clinicals just recently started, as some of you guys know, and I am dead tired nearly all the time.
But that's an excuse and I hate excuses. I've been getting words out, anyway. I'll be staying up LATE tonight and tomorrow and pounding out some chapters. Draft 2 is so much better than Draft 1 ever was. Still hoping to finish Draft 2 by the end of the month.
I'm excited for your draft two, VP!
Forged by Fate, March 5, 2013! (And it's on Goodreads!)
Maybe?
I've been pretty busy with school work, and I've switched projects, and I'm revising my short story again... so yes I am writing, but no it's not on the previously scheduled work.