That awkward moment when ...

That awkward moment when you leave a notebook filled with planning for your erotica novel on your desk, leave, and come back to find a classmate flipping through it.

or that moment when you realize that unbeknownst to you, you wrote yourself!

Exactly my problem xD

or that awkward moment when you try to explain to your sister that the story wrote itself
or that awkward moment when you feel you heart race whenever you see a percy jackson book or cronos chronicls or starcrossed.... aaaaaah!
of that awkward moment when you try to read son of neptune but can't stand reading because you understand the majority of latin words and have to yell out "that;s not how they act!' whenever they mention the Greek gods.

that awkward moment when you keep on basing your male characters off of very cute, artistic guys with six packs and green eyes.

Or martial arts teachers.

The awkward thing is that both of them are my teachers, and I'm 15. Jeebus.

LOL I love this ^_^

... you're writing away furiously during an intense scene, and when someone asks you what you're doing, you answer, "Plotting a murder!" either really insanely with a glare showing lack of sleep or nonchalantly without looking up from your writing. Either way, the glares will be funny until you explain it's for your novel.

I've done this too. It's so so awkward.

... your roommate and you are both nanoing so random evil cackles and running down the hall screaming "I'M BRILLIANT" is actually the norm and then someones boyfriend/friend/parent was suddenly in the house and you get halfway through a brilliant cackle episode and there is suddenly deathly silence and a "Um... X is here, isn't he?"

If i was your roommate and walked in on that, I would decide that perhaps being extra respectful to the insane or genius plotter would be in my best interests for saftey.

You're furiously writing, not paying attention to what you're doing, only to have a waitress ask if all your personalities are enjoying themselves... Then you realize that for the last three pages of writing you were doing character dialogue out loud! ACH, but it was hilarious!

that awkward moment when your at the grocery story or in church helping prepare for a party when you suddenly start mumbling under your breath of little plot things you should change in your story.
or that awkward moment when your moving and with all that spare time you find that the book your planning has a main character whose house looks exactly like your apartment.

I am full of awkward moments.

this, all the TIME. The awkward part... lol.

..... you're talking out loud to yourself *or in my case, I think my posters... shush - I know they aren't real!* and you don't hear the door slam downstairs, so you keep talking out loud about how you are going to kill so-and-so, and a face peaks into the room, saying, "You're gonna kill who?!" GAH!

Ouch. :c

Did that, totally unintentionally, my first NaNo... managed to named a character the same thing as my recent ex's new girl, AND kill her off, without noticing. >.<

Yeah. It was a guy I really, really liked too. Ouch.

Even worse, when you inadvertently name a character after your cousin, whom you rarely see and ever more rarely think about... And the character is brutally, horribly, gruesomely dismembered by your MC... And then your cousin's parents read it. And corner you on a tiny boat in the middle of nowhere to grill you about your violent impulses toward their child, and to ask when your going to stop writing homosexual smut, and do some real, proper writing that actually has a hope of getting published. /shame

I totally unintentionally named a character after my ex within a week of our breaking up. I now can't remember the character at all or what story he was for. :/

I know three of mine. Somewhat bad, seeing as two of them are the MCs.

that awkward moment when you find that with the characters who act a bit like you, you find yourself acting like them.

Oh, if you're serious about writing, you're quite mad. Chuck Wendig refers to being a writer as being a moonbat.

Sorry to barge in and start asking random questions, but is your icon from Mirrormask? And if not, is it Dave McKean's art? It just looks really familiar...

Hello Rai =D I've done that too, I fel so sorry for the MC! xD Except there's no kid.

I've got a solution for that: TSOD. :D

Hey! give her here, I dream of having that happen to my story!

I think I actually hurt myself laughing at that first one.
I remember being pulled out of my staring blankly phases by my mom.

Been there. Dear lord.

I think this thread has established one of the ten commandments of novel writing: Though shalt not name thy characters after people thou know.

"...When you ask your dad how much gunpowder it would take to blow up a building roughly the size of your house."

That made me laugh out loud.

lol, laughed at that last one. The first, been there. My mom's kind of in the medical field so I ask her about stuff like "can you bruise your ribs?" "How do people intenally bleed?"

OK, officially joining the crowd of people who want a like button on NaNo forums now.

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Yep, can totally sympathise with this one. It's bad enough when anyone I know walks into the room while I'm writing because inevitably they want to have a look at what I'm doing, but for them to do so while I'm writing romantic scenes leads to awkward silences and me very quickly closing my notebook and disappearing up the stairs where no-one can disturb me.

Like you, I don't write particularly explicit scenes, but it just feels uncomfortable having other people reading my work before I am ready to show it to anyone.

my dad walked in when i was writing a sex scene once. most awkward i have ever felt.

My awkward moment was when i was contemplating writing the first kiss between the MMC and the MFC.

It was so awkward that in the end I skipped that scene and went on writing as if it had already happened.

Yeah, I know. I'm chicken!

That just made me laugh out loud. William Fillingham is the best name ever. xD

i thought she was awesome at first and I even cried when I was planning a death scene that would never happen, But then during the third book I realised that she's really whiney and really weak... I'm leaving her that way because that's basically the whole building block of the mountain that the plot is.

It's the opposite for me - I've got a depression and I'm bringing my characters down with me. I need to somehow stop this from happening throughout the month.

that awkward moment when you find yourself crying in the dark and listening to sad music for no possible reason., until you realize you've spent the whole entire day writing about the book you so want to be in

What's really awkward is when you have been writing nonstop and unintterupted for hours with the rest of your summer writing committee and you all decide that it's time for a little break, someone pulls out a CD player and all of you start dancing on the tables like idiots and someone bursts in the door with important business for the writing committee. They pause for a moment in the doorway while you all freeze. Someone fumbles for the button on the CD player and the unexpected visitor clears his throat before asking if he's interrupting anything.