What? Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
What the fuck happened to the Delta I used to know? Where's the spirit? Where's the guts, huh? This could be the greatest night of our lives, but you're gonna let it be the worst.
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And it ain't over now. 'Cause when the goin' gets tough...
The tough get going!
"Ooh, we're afraid to go with you Bluto, we might get in trouble." Well just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! I'm not gonna take this. Wormer, he's a dead man! Marmalard, dead! Niedermeyer?
Ended up spending my November willpower getting other (unfortunately more important) things in order, so I think I'll do 50k in December to make up for it.
gotta do 9 pages today to make it up, I'll aim for 6 today and 6 tomorrow, but eeeeesshhh
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I'm going to be honest, here: Day of the Doctor was not good for my productivity yesterday.
On the other hand, I got to see Night of the Doctor, Adventures in Time and Space, The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot, and the 50th anniversary special all in the same day, so I'm not calling the day a total loss.
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I am making a concerted effort to catch up today, I hate being behind so close to the end. Figured if I could write 500 words an hour I would be on target by the time I have to go out this evening.
Failed to do 500 words in the first hour. But I might get to 1000 before the end of the second. Unfortunately I have a bunch of other things I need to get done today as well so it might not work out, but I can at least try.
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Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
Okay, final stretch to go. I still think I can do it.
I'm still recovering from being sick, and I missed a whole day due to Doctor Who, but then I got a bunch of writing done yesterday, so I'm less than a day behind schedule now.
I've stopped in the middle of my third short story because I was stalling out on it pretty hard and so I've moved on to my fourth one (the werewolf one). I did a little research on old trains, but ultimately created a fictional train (and rail company) for my story to take place on so I can have some leeway on the specifics (in case the presence of a werewolf isn't enough of an indication of a divergence from reality).
It is my hope that after Nano I can continue writing (or editing) at least a tiny bit each day, and then maybe by next Nano I will be prepared to try a full novel instead of a bunch of short stories.
You're writing a script right? How many words do you get per page on average?
boy
uh
no idea, actually
maybe 300-400?
I know it's not as intense as NaNo but the format also requires you to be a lot sparser and it's a lot harder to just waffle or take up space with description
I'll count a couple of pages for you and see what the count is
so, an average script page for me is about 250-300 words, but I tend to leave a lot of space on my pages just because it reads and looks so much quicker
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FishmanPut your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain.Registered Userregular
Man, I wrote 1200 words yesterday after football and I'm really hating them. Hate hate hate.
This is why I don't uusally write on monday nights. This is 90% useless crap, writing for word count, the literary equivalent of a cardboard meal. Some people do this all month?
That's unbelievably cool. Your new name is cool guy. Let's have sex.
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Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
Yes hello Fishman do you have an issue with my "creative process"
+1
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edited November 2013
Aaaaah. 42k. Back on target. Record daily wordcount of 4k. One death scene, one MASSIVE chunk of exposition, and one entirely new POV character who wasn't in my plan and is just now showing up 5 days before the end.
I think I'm going to write a story about a boy who's having vivid dreams. He keeps leaving more and more of himself behind as his dreams become more vivid and wondrous, becoming more and more dead to the waking world, and when his mother tries to help him by making him keep a dream journal he starts to recover
But
He also starts to bring some of the dream out with him
Aaaaah. 42k. Back on target. Record daily wordcount of 4k. One death scene, one MASSIVE chunk of exposition, and one entirely new POV character who wasn't in my plan and is just now showing up 5 days before the end.
Well done.
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FishmanPut your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain.Registered Userregular
Is there a good guide for properly writing dialogue? As in, the format for crediting the speaker of each sentence.
I feel I have a lot of:
"Yadda yadda yadda," said Tim.
"Yadda yadda yadda," said Jack.
"Yadda?" asked Tim.
"Yadda yadda," answered Jack.
It gets mixed up a bit, but I still feel I'm falling back on ending with 'said Tim' way too much, and want to try and revise it some next month during the editing phase.
If you have a conversation between two people you really only need to tag the first two pieces of dialogue and from there people should be able to figure out that it's switching back and forth between the characters. I wouldn't use anything other than 'said' or 'asked' because anything else just feels like its there to be different and doesn't serve a purpose.
I also like to stick a tag in the middle of the dialogue when a character has more than a sentence. So it will read like
Flashback to something from a character's past that hasn't been seen yet?
The flashback itself may not survive the editing process, but writing it could help you get a better idea of where your characters are coming from, which can further help when revising the proper story. It would also be something a little more fresh to focus on if you're getting burnt out following the current plot.
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Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
I wrote a dream sequence earlier. That's how desperate I am.
I keep going through these patches where I don't believe I'm going to finish.
Like right now.
There is no way I have another 6.7k of words left in me for this story. I can't even get 100 out.
I just want it to be ooooooover.
Have Buddha decided that the number of trials and tribulations your character have been on is not a lucky number so magically whisk them off up into the air and drop them in the middle of an event.
This is literally what happens in Journey to the West.
One of the best or, at least, most elucidating things I've heard on the writing process, came from the gal who wrote The Poisonwood Bible. She said that she doesn't write pages from 0 to 100. She writes pages from -100 to 0.
You're going to lose some stuff. You should also listen to the BBC's World Book Club. It's never not engaging.
I've found a good way of writing. Don't. I just stare at the blank page until it starts to shiver in fear. After a while it writes itself. At least that's the theory.
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Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
I have been sat here with my word document open since I woke up and I haven't written a single bloody word.
Keep going @smof! I am cheering for you! Write a prologue, or an epilogue, or another dream sequence, one of your characters could have a psychotic break.
That's unbelievably cool. Your new name is cool guy. Let's have sex.
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Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
edited November 2013
Didn't write anything yesterday. But I got out of my funk today and managed 2k. Only 4.5 left to go.
I will try and do another 500 minimum at/after work tonight. Then tomorrow, aim for a big 4k day like I've had a couple of times this month. If I can do that I'll be finished a day early and can relax.
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What? Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
What the fuck happened to the Delta I used to know? Where's the spirit? Where's the guts, huh? This could be the greatest night of our lives, but you're gonna let it be the worst.
Why I fear the ocean.
The tough get going!
"Ooh, we're afraid to go with you Bluto, we might get in trouble." Well just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! I'm not gonna take this. Wormer, he's a dead man! Marmalard, dead! Niedermeyer?
Why I fear the ocean.
gotta do 9 pages today to make it up, I'll aim for 6 today and 6 tomorrow, but eeeeesshhh
On the other hand, I got to see Night of the Doctor, Adventures in Time and Space, The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot, and the 50th anniversary special all in the same day, so I'm not calling the day a total loss.
I wrote no words yesterday. But not a big issue for me as I have a buffer, but @Fishman is behind.
75 out of 90
christ on a goddamn bike, you guys
good thing I came up to a big action sequence
Failed to do 500 words in the first hour. But I might get to 1000 before the end of the second. Unfortunately I have a bunch of other things I need to get done today as well so it might not work out, but I can at least try.
You're writing a script right? How many words do you get per page on average?
You can do it, etcetera!
Read this and know that you only if you don't keep trying
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I'm still recovering from being sick, and I missed a whole day due to Doctor Who, but then I got a bunch of writing done yesterday, so I'm less than a day behind schedule now.
I've stopped in the middle of my third short story because I was stalling out on it pretty hard and so I've moved on to my fourth one (the werewolf one). I did a little research on old trains, but ultimately created a fictional train (and rail company) for my story to take place on so I can have some leeway on the specifics (in case the presence of a werewolf isn't enough of an indication of a divergence from reality).
It is my hope that after Nano I can continue writing (or editing) at least a tiny bit each day, and then maybe by next Nano I will be prepared to try a full novel instead of a bunch of short stories.
boy
uh
no idea, actually
maybe 300-400?
I know it's not as intense as NaNo but the format also requires you to be a lot sparser and it's a lot harder to just waffle or take up space with description
I'll count a couple of pages for you and see what the count is
so, an average script page for me is about 250-300 words, but I tend to leave a lot of space on my pages just because it reads and looks so much quicker
This is why I don't uusally write on monday nights. This is 90% useless crap, writing for word count, the literary equivalent of a cardboard meal. Some people do this all month?
But
He also starts to bring some of the dream out with him
Well done.
This is going to be close.
I feel I have a lot of:
It gets mixed up a bit, but I still feel I'm falling back on ending with 'said Tim' way too much, and want to try and revise it some next month during the editing phase.
Stylistic preferences will differ on this point, though
I also like to stick a tag in the middle of the dialogue when a character has more than a sentence. So it will read like
"Blah blah blah," said Tim. "Blah blah blah.
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Like right now.
There is no way I have another 6.7k of words left in me for this story. I can't even get 100 out.
I just want it to be ooooooover.
The flashback itself may not survive the editing process, but writing it could help you get a better idea of where your characters are coming from, which can further help when revising the proper story. It would also be something a little more fresh to focus on if you're getting burnt out following the current plot.
Have Buddha decided that the number of trials and tribulations your character have been on is not a lucky number so magically whisk them off up into the air and drop them in the middle of an event.
This is literally what happens in Journey to the West.
Satans..... hints.....
Just put mine to bed. Not exactly my best work, and it'll need a ton of editing to even get to decent, but done has a satisfaction of its own.
Why I fear the ocean.
You're going to lose some stuff. You should also listen to the BBC's World Book Club. It's never not engaging.
I am screwed.
...ladies.
I will try and do another 500 minimum at/after work tonight. Then tomorrow, aim for a big 4k day like I've had a couple of times this month. If I can do that I'll be finished a day early and can relax.
We'll see...
wheeee