(I’m going to assume you’re joking. At least, I would like to think you’re joking. It’s difficult to tell considering what types of inanity the subject of sex brings up.)
Even going with the absurd notion that you’re being serious, I’m not sure why you think that a celibate, prudish virgin who cares very little for sex would be able to write anything equivalent to a good sex scene in the first place. I mean, I knew enough not to write IKEA Erotica even before I read that particular entry on TVTropes, which sadly makes me a better writer than 90% of the Internet by default, but that’s not really saying much. If fighting scenes really are just like sex scenes with “fighting words” (which I wouldn’t be at all surprised if people do), then I’m well and truly fucked since my three-book story probably has more fighting than most of the nine-book one put together (before the seventh book at least).
Even more alarmingly, I’m not sure how someone would…stick their fist into an entire eye socket without breaking something on their end as well, ignoring super strength and the like.
Valaris’s post reminded me that while books are great references as well–and I have no idea why I forgot to mention this when I’m literally surrounded by them–when it comes writing things, you really don’t want to read too heavily for you story during this since that will distract and probably tempt you to heavily edit, which kinda defeats the purpose of doing this in a month.
So if you want to read something, you should probably do it now before November starts.
Or just worry about accuracy and editing after finishing this.
I’ll have a little bit of research done this week, but not a lot. I’m a perfectionist, and if I try to adhere to accuracy first draft, with a month deadline, I will spend more time editing that I realistically should and expect to get this done. I want to have the story done, and then re-read and fill plotholes and inaccuracies with the story itself and reality after the fact.
The Damned wrting a book would probably have the same effect on people as watching the video tape in Ringu. I really do need to read more. Medical shit is always fascinating. Of course you can’t just throw a bunch of jargon in a story for sake of knowing what you are talking about but it helps to make your story sound.
Damn it. I was hoping no one discovered that until after they read the book. Thanks.
Plan B…
Same, though for me, I think it’s just knowing more about proper names for things in anatomy–be silent–and how injuries actually work due to it being the closest thing I found to the combat thing. Which is kinda “funny” because I hate the way real blood looks, though maybe that’s because I get kinda dizzy easily as it is.
LOL, personally,I could watch blood drip onto the pavement all day. I hate seeing the innocent suffer but the flow of blood itself makes me comfortable. Shit is crazy, but it makes go into a trance watching blood spill. Not fake blood in movies, but real blood. The smell, the taste in the air. Shit maybe it makes me feel like I am back in the womb or something. lol
Better late than never I suppose. Kinda meant to respond to this more immediately.
Oh, that. It wasn’t really a reference to that, which I don’t even think anymore after you clarified.
I was just thinking of the first, “easiest” country to destroy that would do the most damage…for a super-villain thing I was considering.
Yeah, for the sake of NaNiWriMo, having a good character or a good set of characters is way more important than a good, coherent plot. I mean, that will ultimately be important, but you’re not getting “graded” for a final project that needs both good characters and a good plot; you’re only getting graded for word count and some vague semblance of coherence and cohesion.
I’ve always wondered it was possible to just write an entire novel(la) without characters just like…describing scenery or anything without anthropomorphizing whatever you’re talking and without it being utterly boring. It seems quite impossible.
There just has to be a reason for a sequence of events to happen. That almost invariably means characters who are capable of taking action and then living out the consequences of those actions. It doesn’t have to, but I imagine it’d be pretty difficult to do it any other way.
Was doing some extended driving in the country and I passed by a confederate flag. Realized that writing a story about Vampires vs Rednecks would be fucking awesome. Well it would be more like Blackula vs Rednecks. This shit writes itself!!!
Wow! Someone brought this up last year in a film class I was taking and it was something I really considered doing. I have a few stories I think I can flesh out. I’m not sure if I will do it this year though (or at least this November) but it’s definitely a goal of mine.
(Just like MvC3, we only have a couple of more days.)
Hunh. Unlike my bigger story, I think I got the biggest problem in my way finally solved while on my walk easier. I really wish the other one was as easy.
Regardless, I need to take the time to write this stuff down and get everything prepped for Tuesday.
Fff…I don’t remember what my password even is, especially since I rarely use the same one twice; I’ve only started doing that recently despite having 20+ passwords to remember and even then I try not to use one more than thrice. I rather hope it remembers…
I actually think that’s rather decent for not having a story, though “do-gooder” and the protagonist’s name throw it off a bit. Still workable, though.
They really do. Having worked at a bookstore, I’ve seen worse. A lot worse.
[Insert tired “Knowing is half of the battle” joke here.]
Maybe it’s cheating, but the official kickoff party in my town was yesterday afternoon (10/30), so I’m going to go ahead and get this shit started right now.
I know there’s not a hope in hell of it happening, but I’m hoping to clear 2500 (or at least 2000) words per day. Best case scenario: I’m done by Thanksgiving weekend. And if the shit hits the fan, it allows several extra days to clean up.
Now watch me get a few hundred for the first few days and collapse under the pressure, like when you’re losing at Tetris.
Meh, if I get a fleshed out story going, and buckle on the deadline, I still intend on finishing. I would like to get a novel done, among other writing projects.
I’ve only got 7 hours left until it officially starts for me, but I’ve got a general idea of what to start with.
I just recently became interested in writing and have 13 ideas for novels so far(3 of them have more than a synopsis). Right now, I don’t know what I need to know in order to write so the task feels like picking up soup with a fork. For the people that are writing novels right now or have written novels in the past, did you already have an ending in your head when you started writing it?
Also, one of the novels I’m trying to write involves a rapist and I’m worried about how descriptive the sex scenes should be. I’ve read books where time was spent describing more trivial things(I know what wind feels like), but what is ‘too much’ and what is ‘too little’? This might just be me being overly conscious of my sexual depravity here.