... an actuary specializing in paranormal insurance wandered into your story AND WON'T GO AWAY. MUST NOT EDIT.
Has anything unexpected and largely unwelcome happened to your story?
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| Rov | Your nano might have gone awry if... |
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45,654 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 13 57
I named a background character because there were simply too many 'he's in the room... then the bugger tried to become a main character. I wormed his way into several consecutive scenes. I forced my main characters to flee the country, and so far, it's worked. I'm not holding my breath, though.
----------Not the sharpest clown in the happy meal.
41,751 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 14 01
Well, I have a bit where the FCC's powers to control "decency" on the airways were taken away after lobbying from media companies tired of paying fines, which was supposed to just be a throwaway paragraph, but it's taken up entirely too much research time.
5,593 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 14 12
The cult that appeared in your prologue has changed their minds, and no longer want to appear in the main plot sequence of your novel.
39,791 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 14 28
I love all three responses so far, but this one made me laugh out loud. That's like something out of Monty Python. "The cult that appeared in the prologue has been replaced at the last minute at great expense..."
78,343 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 15 11
Nothing too wacky in my novel (yet) but my characters are just so pleasant and reasonable. No, no, no, I need more conflict, aaahh!!
----------~Erin
New York City Municipal Liaison
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52,476 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 15 23
Mine has gone awry. I'm 13k words in and not a zombie in sight. I'm too busy making major life style (ahem) changes to my main character. 'Cause it's funny. At 3 am.
----------Teresa
Queens, NY Municipal Liaison
Email: NYCNaNoML@gmail.com
AIM: TeresaNaNo
41,010 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 16 03
Has anything unexpected and largely unwelcome happened to your story?
I LOLed and then showed this to Sweetie. We talked about it for a moment, and he imagined one of them saying, "We won't pay for replacement, but we'll pay for retrieval," when your belongings get sucked into an alternate dimension. I LOLed some more.
BTW this is totally the kind of thing we would talk about for like hours. O DANG.
45,412 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 16 20
My main character wouldn't get out of bed for about 1000 words, it was really startig to bother me, so I jumped to a flashback (flashforward?) scene of him going to visit a friend . . . No idea where it fits, but I'm enjoying the scene.
----------Nano 08: The Lovely Long Ago (Win)
NaNo 09: Lost Along The Way (Pending . . .)
39,791 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 17 18
Has anything unexpected and largely unwelcome happened to your story?
I LOLed and then showed this to Sweetie. We talked about it for a moment, and he imagined one of them saying, "We won't pay for replacement, but we'll pay for retrieval," when your belongings get sucked into an alternate dimension. I LOLed some more.
BTW this is totally the kind of thing we would talk about for like hours. O DANG.
Guess what just got stolen??
32,158 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 20 11
Anne Boleyn has appeared as your MC's best friend. And now your MC is going to give her the sweating sickness. But no one will ever know.
----------When in doubt, pick your friends and use them for plot devices.
51,366 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 23 21
Rov, I will say this... I LOLd. Majorly.
My characters are intergalactic cops. So now there's a situation where....
....they conduct a full-scale CSI-like autopsy. Complete with real-time forensic observation.
....and now I'm tempted to plug that actuary in there.
Oy.
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31,000 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 08 50
My main character had a mental tangent trying to explain why believing in zombies was so much easier than believing in vampires. She's a vampire herself and her best friends don't know, so she's basically trying to convince *me* to not have her tell them that she's a vampire because she doesn't want to 'shatter their world view."
THERE ARE ZOMBIES ROAMING NYC EATING AND KILLING PEOPLE AND YOU THINK VAMPIRES WILL SHATTER THEIR WORLD VIEW?
Also, her shapeshifting soul (don't ask, think Daemon's from His Dark Materials) spent 500 words or so yelling at me about how horrible my writing was and how I should just give up for the day, and he did all this using the psychic link he has with my FMC.
I figured that would be the write time to stop.
31,000 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 08 54
...apparently my subconscious thinks otherwise...*right* time to stop damn it, it was the *right* time to stop
50,113 / 50,000
Nov 8, 2009 - 14 49
I was writing a fictional memoir to begin with (not a fictionalized memoir, a completely fictional memoir of someone who isn't me), and now I seem to have invented a non-existent ghostwriter for my fictional memoir. The narrator is becoming fond of quoting this ghostwriter's advice on writing, as well as exhorting and encouraging her whenever there is a particularly tough scene coming up. This is basically me telling myself not to suck, but at least I'm getting words out of it. As a storytelling device it is beginning to lead me into long parenthetical tangents, however.
----------"Remember, always be yourself. Unless you suck." -- Joss Whedon