you love writing about people who dont give a damn about human life. Maybe you’re subconsiously writing about yourself.
I’m borrowing my mom’s computer. The S key is kind of broken. Could be interesting.
Would be the S key.
Especially if you have a sex scene underway.
Fascinating. I’ve just sidelined my main character with a gunshot wound. Wouldn’t it be fascinating if I took him out of the story completely for a few chapters and turned the book into something else entirely until he comes back?
If only I knew what something else entirely was.
And the damn space bar is a little fucked up, too.
I am basically too retarded to do this right now, so I’m proceeding directly to the scene when he regains consciousness. I fully intend to write some sort of side story or B-plot into the cut between the two scenes, just to put him out of the story with his injury for a little while. Hopefully an idea for that section pops into my brain before too long. In the meantime… he was gone, but now he’s back! Already!
(Lol at such a poor attempt, like always, to goad me when the character in question isn’t even actually human and my other story has characters who have actually care about human life but have intentionally killed way more people. Whoops!)
Huzzah! By forcing myself to write two hours and fighting off the urge to backtrack & edit even more than I’ve already been doing, Chapter 1 is finally done! …At 7,698 words. I…yeah. That’s a lot more wordy than I had intended, but I didn’t have to really “fast-foward” anything but the escape and her defeat was believable, if only because she tended to talk to too much–that’s so many villains main weakness, which is hilarious since my villain protagonist doesn’t suffer to it outside of talking to himself a lot.
Anyway, off to Oireland later today! Going to have to try not make my attempts at Funetik Aksent brutally stereotypical.
Stop talking to yourself goody.
But seriously, good to see that’s it going well for you. You sideline the fuck out of him when you edit this or I will personally hunt you down and burn all your Superman comics in front of you.
So how good of an idea is a flashback from a character that was killed off during the prologue?
I’m thinking about dropping that in later on in the book, but right now, it would give away too much of the suspense, the reader will already know too much about what’s going to happen in the book (or at least assume they know too much), and lose interest. But I feel what I’m delving into would be best explained through the actions of the dead character at the time they sniffed too far down the proverbial rabbit hole.
Wish I could write that much in a sitting, but I’ve had trouble getting over the hump lately.
You can burn Birthright and the Superman/Batman books, but I will protect the sundry issues of DC Comics Presents with my life. And I’m pretty sure fire won’t even burn All Star Superman.
I think it can work. Unlike screen media, novels do flashbacks pretty well, as long as they’re not too obvious with the Very Important Information that they contain.
Padding with all kinds of crap tonight. I don’t want to start shitting out whatever just to maintain my momentum, but I think that’s an unnecessary evil in this whole exercise.
(“Unnecessary evil”?)
Meh. At least you got things done. I didn’t type between getting up late, feeling like crap again, trying to finish this stupidly long series of Youtube videos I sagely decided to start watching as November began, being pissed that I haven’t heard back from several things and still not having an idea on how to start Chapter 2 still or, at least, introduce most of other characters.
Sigh. I was going to try to stay up, but for some reason I’m kinda tired. I might just go to bed soon and try (and fail) again in the morning.
Fuck me. I really am screwed tonight.
That’s the biggest drawback of this whole thing. If there’s a day when you’re really not feeling it, you can tell yourself that you’ll make up for it the next day, but shit gets out of control in a hurry. It’s not good to get into that mode where you’re barely on track to finish on time, because it means that everything has to smoothly every day for the rest of the month–and that’s a little too optimistic. Every breather you take, no matter how necessary, gets punished down the line.
NaNoWriMo’s site has prompts and exercises and other stuff like that, to help spark people’s creativity. Might be worth checking out.
Yeah, that’s what I’m trying to avoid. Which is why I’m currently spewing.
Loving the scene I’m on. It went from cheesy to juuuuuust right. My only problem now is that I don’t want to change the protagonist too much too early. He’s really young, and becoming a knight is a big change, but I need to define him first, maintain something familiar for the readers and then let him be changed by the events that occur to him. As opposed to him just changing as a knee-jerk reaction to major plot events.
Oh well, at least I’m writing. Thinking about this too much will get you nowhere.
(I’m aware that the site has prompts and stuff. It’s just I still can’t log in until I hear back from people I should have heard back from a week ago due to the e-mail that account has. I don’t want to make a new one, so at this point I’ll probably just have to call them later on today or tomorrow. Hurray.)
Oh, I’m not pretending that I can make this up later or, at least, I’m not pretending that putting it off now isn’t bad, especially since I generally always feel like shit and I’ve had to rush massively before; I’m not at that point again…yet.
I’ve just generally been right that having all the free time in the world means I just don’t spend much of that time wanting to write nearly as much as I should. My futile efforts at keeping busy would do better if pretty much every other thing I had to occupy my time besides cleaning, taking a walk/going to the store or bank and playing MvC3 didn’t involve the computer; that and if I had more impulse control and/or was generally less incredibly apathetic about things.
For some reason I’m just driven to write walls of pointless text for anything but fiction despite having responsibly solid ideas. Shrug. It would hardly be the only self-defeatist behavior I engage in.
What are your feelings on using incomplete sentences? I"ve gotten infected by Neal Stephenson. They can flow so well!
(I’m oddly curious what the broken image link was.)
“Incomplete” sentences how? Like cutting people off in lines of dialogue? Or are we talking about blurbs of exposition? Because, oddly, as much as I can be a hard-ass about grammar, I’m fine with the blurb thing, at least in moderation; I’m a lot more forgiving about the cutting off lines of dialogue, especially since two or more characters talking simultaneously is almost impossible to convey in writing if you want there to be actual words of dialogue.
(I should note there that I’ve never read any books by Mr. Stephenson and thus am I only even familiar with that name because I worked in a bookstore.)
Speaking of which, I’ve forgotten to ask (or maybe even mention it; I’m too lazy/tired to check): How do people feel about onomatopoeias and onomatopoeias getting their own mini-expository paragraphs?
Because I did at least twice in Chapter 1 and there’s a great likelihood that I will “re-offend” again even if you believe it the most heinous of crimes.
Among other things, writing is an act of design. If you can more effectively convey what you want to convey by departing from the prescribed rules or using sound effect words or whatever, I say go for it. More colors on the palette.
Just don’t do it too much. The more you step over the cliff with one foot, the more firmly planted the other foot’s going to have to be. Audiences need a certain amount of adherence to the rules just to keep them in a frame of reference–something to tell them “No matter how weird this gets, this is still this genre, still fiction, still a novel, still English, etc.”
EDIT:
I have now officially squeezed out the bare minimum number of words that I’ll have to type every day until the end of the month to finish on time. Fuck. Goodnight, gentlemen.
The image was me accidentally pasting in something that I didn’t think was an image at all and then posting it just to see what it would do. It didn’t do anything, it seems. It was text from a mainframe terminal and i was surprised to see it come up as an image.
I see I summoned a black hole somehow… :tup:
Time to become a weapons geek! Write now, research later. So my main character is a knife fighter. Well he’s about to get p-leveled. :tup:
I’m still at 5k words. :tdown:
Hello Everybody.
My senior year I wrote a short stort for creative writing class and ended keep it going until I shipped off to college, so it ended up at about 180 pages 11 font in Microsoft Word. The Story ends is a cliffhanger, and after all the fun of one year of college I’m back to writing it to finish out this part of the story. Currently at page 183. If anyone is interested in reading and giving me opinions of it, I’d really like for you to PM me.
If your a fan of comics/manga you’d really like my story. Age suggested…probably 14-16+