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— Robert Heinlein
Not sure yet! But if there is a time to try and fail, it is Nano! Ideally, I'd like to write something that doesn't end in total tragedy, but... well, I have to comb through his myths still, like I said, and see what mini stories there are to explore.
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I enjoyed doing something like this in one of my creative writing projects. 3 separate stories in which each protagonist was a hitman in the same city, but one of them was a mouse! The stories stood on their own but it was very fun to throw in references.
Thanks for the reminder, i might really enjoy doing something like that again.
If you haven't seen Crash (2005 film), definitely check that out.
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BAHAHAHA.
You two were insane. I was in, what, the number three or four spot and I didn't get half what you guys did.
GRUDGEMATCH PART TWO.
Let's do it, VP! Then we could write a short story together HERO vs HERO after! or something.
Forged by Fate, March 5, 2013! (And it's on Goodreads!)
... I'm going to have to learn a lot of things about the history of Ireland between now and November.
Forged by Fate, March 5, 2013! (And it's on Goodreads!)
Also Skyrim comes out in November and that may be the biggest spanner-in-the-works in the entire history of spanners, but we'll see how things go.
— Robert Heinlein
Definitely don't buy a game you want before December unless you are ready to fail.
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I can almost guarantee that I won't have the willpower to do this. I have it pre-ordered and everything, Steam will install it on release day and I am weak. It's a great idea and I'd like to say I will try but I would probably be lying. I will try to try.
All depends on how you look at it, smof. Skyrim will be there in December for you, unchanged, patiently waiting. Nano only comes once a year.
— Robert Heinlein
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I'm gonna use the environment from the SE++ phalla I ran, since I had a lot of fun doing that.
"Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but it dies in the process."
Imagine all of my posts being spoken by Alec Baldwin
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And who knows? Maybe those insanely boring shifts at work with absolutely nothing to do will prove handy. Now I just have to come up with some sort of plot because right now I've got absolutely nothing.
Yeah, this. I have come up with a character I want to write about, now I need 50k words worth of stuff for him to do. But at least he's the most interesting character I've ever managed to come up with (Quoth your NaNoWriMo blog posts were really helpful for that so thanks!)
This does feel like a crazy thing to try and do, since I'm basically going from not having written anything to attempting a novel. I have no idea what I'm doing. But I've just joined the modern era and bought a smartphone, so I can now type away wherever I am in any free seconds I have, which hopefully will help.
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What I found that really helped in my third year (first year of ever finishing it) was to envision that I was actually reading this novel. Not that I was writing it. I would mentally read what I wanted the book to say and it helped me build a novel-length piece much better because I wasn't telling everything so quickly that it was all over before I'd truly began.
This afternoon a friend came over and I was able to actually get an idea for a piece that would be awesome to read. Now I'm just trying to figure out how I'd really write it. The issue is that the story would (I think) work much better as a comic than a novel. But it's National NOVEL Writing Month not National COMIC Writing Month so... I guess I gotta work with what I got so far.
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It's kind of fun, actually, speculating on what kind of worlds would be colonized and how their unique environments would influence the evolution of each colony.
I spent all of yesterday trying to come up with a premise but I haven't got it yet. Stupid brain.
Don't go for a full premise, then.
Just take your protagonist. Drop them in an awful, awful situation. And laugh as they struggle to escape.
— Robert Heinlein
My conflict circulates around two "unknowns" in the digital system, someone using it to contact individuals (emails, texts, phone calls, without trace-back information) to warn them of various ominous events right before they happen, and another using a similar system to murder people under the guise of other people, with all cameras automatically "blurring" him. Ideally it's going to run less of a cyberpunk thriller and more of a modern version of Mothman Prophesies/Slenderman Mythos using mostly existing technology to achieve a similar end.
Problem is I can't decide on main characters to follow. Everything I come up with seems way overdone or not fitting the setting.
— Robert Heinlein
Whenever I try to build a character I try to look at the situation and then think about who would be involved in the situation and why. Not an exact "who" but more of a general "who", because there should always be some sort of a link between a character's personality as well as whatever else (circumstance, profession, connections to other characters, etc) is bringing them into the plot of the story. You can easily flesh out a character as an individual once you understand WHY they are there. Does that make sense, I guess?
— Robert Heinlein
On that note, I'm aiming for a full novel output this year, something like 90k. Even if that means starting a second piece (depends on whether I'm doing something fresh from the start or finishing my current project).
Either way, I'll be trying my hand at YA Fantasy; it'll be set in my space-opera-but-with-actual-magic universe. The mundane will be the sort of your typical 'poor kid finds out he has ridiculous magic talents, goes to magic school deal. The fantastic/twist will be the setting (magitech and futuristic) and the hero himself: a heroic asshole who never gets over the arrogant and imperious thing, even if he does soften up (not too fantastic, but at least a little less mainstream).
I figure my simple, over-the-top, sometimes-animesque style will work well in YA.
Have fun with that, Kamar.