Your Best Worst Notes

Oni-Kita — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 02:10:12 -0400

I'm starting this thread up again, because I loved it so much before the forum wipe. And with the planning I've been doing the past couple of days, I've got some good ones to share. XD [quote]The demon who’s hiding is all “HELLS YEAH” because it just found a snack in the form of a kid who really should have been at home in bed but wasn’t because, well, he wasn’t. I guess he wanted to be demon food. Or something.[/quote] Yes, me, that's exactly why that kid was wandering around his neighborhood in the middle of the night. Because he wanted to be demon food 9_9 [quote]And Yuuto drools in his sleep. I don't even know if that's important, but he's clingy and drools in his sleep.[/quote] This, right in the middle of me debating with myself on whether or not one of my characters is bada$$ enough to not get ambushed by a demon. I really shouldn't work on outlines in the middle of the night after consuming so much caffeine. [quote]Even Ren is in a decent mood. (As noted by the fact that he's not being a complete jerk towards Eichi. Why, Ren? You're being out of character. I wonder why THAT is? God, brain, stop that. Seriously. There is nothing going on there. He's just happy for his friend, never mind that being happy goes against everything that Ren is.)[/quote] Further proof late nights and espresso aren't a good mix when outlining. [quote]I'll figure out what exactly happens later, but whatever it is needs to torment Akiba. Because I haven't tortured him enough yet. At all. I think Eichi will appreciate me turning the torture on someone else for a while.[/quote] Because I've been tormenting poor Eichi like crazy since the first book. It's time that poor guy gets a break. I also have a couple notes that were written in the dead of the night when I was almost completely asleep. I'm still trying to decipher my handwriting, but I'm pretty sure it was something to do with bananas and glitter that I thought was genius when the idea woke me up.

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minionygoodness — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 02:21:52 -0400

Oh, I'm so glad this thread is back! I love these. They're hilarious. I'll have to look through my notes to see if I have any little pieces of gold to post here... By the way, did anyone save any of the good ones from last thread? I was looking at them earlier, but didn't get a chance to save any before the forum swipe. :(

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Legolobotomy — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 02:50:02 -0400

Oh boy. I really embrace that, "write drunk, edit slightly less drunk" mentality, so my notes tend to get kinda silly. They best one I found skimming through my recent notes was a scene outline in which one of my characters, after getting cheated on, gets drunk and wanders around asking businessmen if they know where the hookers are. Somehow I don't think that one's going to make the final draft.

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Amaya — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 02:53:05 -0400

This one was funny [Oh no, the Angels are violent flying elves!] Really, I was asking for it when I didn't give my angels wings really.

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schweinsty — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 03:01:59 -0400

Typing up some old notes this evening - 1. On the top of an almost-illegible page covered in teeny-tiny 'omgIhaveanideaImustwriteitdownNOW' scrawl: "Note to self- make sure the decaf tea is decaf before you drink half a pitcher." 2. "Insert the small schism here" Considering this was written in the margins on a page where my two bff characters find a sick kitten and happily adopt it, I have *no* idea. It is possible I miswrote something, I guess.

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vampyre_smiles — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 03:11:22 -0400

About my setting and (main?) character: Post-apocalyptic steam punk. And the character is sort of a vampire who eats dreams and memories and emotions. But he hasn't told me his name yet. But he has goggles and such.

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angeliclizard — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 03:16:05 -0400

My whole plot description is like this. My main character was friends with some 'magical folk' (way to be vague) and he/she (undecided gender) witness a horrific murder of his magical fold friends and family due to 'some ongoing war' and had his/her memory altered by some all knowing magical folk council. Now he/she is a awkward sort of outcast teen who now is being taken from their awkward/outcast life to go to an even MORE awkward/outcast life where he/she must now go through the traumatizing process of remembering everything he/she forgot by the order of that same all knowing magical folk council.

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stefaneko — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 03:30:19 -0400

Oh jeez all of my notes (both for NaNo and school) are just... ridiculous like this. MY PEOPLE. *embrace* Let's see... *starts flipping through notebook* "Space western mystery comedy...? Oh god I'm insane I'm actually insane" "Also lesbians." "SUDDENLY, ROBOTS." "Initially silenced by Olja. When she starts muttering, Shit Is Going Down." "Michael needs a soul... TRAGIC PAST A-GO-GO"

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Fyrephere — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 04:11:41 -0400

Woah, clicking through my microsoft word... some of it I remember... others I'm quite sure I lost conscious memory of while I was bashing my skull into the keyboard :P "All fall- Death is dying " orly? "being a vampire (things not permitted in church)" Logically.

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lolalinda — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 04:42:12 -0400

I don't have my notes with me because I'm at work but I have loads of good ones...

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CatsEnjoyPotatoes — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 04:47:11 -0400

This is one of my favourite threads. Thank you for bringing it back! I only decided which of the two ideas I was going to work on this year recently, so I haven't had time to build up the off-kilter, mildly insane notes yet, but these are a few dealing with fictional politics and country names. [quote]This is the last straw in an increasingly insane, oppressive haystack.[/quote] [quote]Svelland, but that's Norwegian for flat cake land.[/quote] [quote]It does mean, however, that people living there are Swefflish, which is just silly.[/quote] There's also a file on my laptop in which I demonstrated that yes, typewritten text can be illegible, if you do it when your fingers are frozen and you're in a hurry.

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Lucky Whistle — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 05:14:04 -0400

"She might got a life y'know, stealing with Jamie. But it doesn't matter, because she is the vortex,ifthe world was SHE IS THE SUN is that so hard to understand." What.

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ankhta — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 05:33:03 -0400

Hooray! This is always my favorite thread. Thanks for resurrecting it :D Nothing to add now, but i'm sure I'll be back...

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J.E.Blackworth — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 05:42:38 -0400

The way I word stuff sometimes amuses me greatly: "Drunken stuff in da circus, drunken shenanigans." Also, I still don't know why I have a big-lettered word "HITHER" in the middle of one page of my notes. Hmmmm...

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Sorrows-Laughter — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 05:43:33 -0400

The reason I should sleep when I'm tired and not plot... "To the boy's suprisement, the little girl obeyed." And then scribbled in huge letters over the rest of the paragraph, making the paragraph completely illegible: SURPRISEMENT IS NOT A WORD!

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Aiyandra — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 05:49:41 -0400

I have a 15-page-long Word Document full of last year's Best Worst Notes (and the sequel) :) I just copypasted everything, so it's not always possible to see where one post ends and another one begins. I could send you a PM or something including the document. ^^

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Aiyandra — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 06:05:32 -0400

Okay, I just found some quite ridiculous ones. In the middle of rather serious planning is this: [quote]Crying dragonflies?

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Fyrephere — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 07:25:55 -0400

Something new! "Main point of interest? The nostrils." I actually know what that one was about. "Two boys/teens/sporks are gods of old..." There's more to that one but I think 'spork' really says it all about my mood that day. "fate=seamstress." Had something there... I think.

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Sunerun — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 08:47:02 -0400

"Does the rebellion believe in books?" No, of course not, books are imaginary silly! "Who is in charge of the rebellion? -some guy (gee, that's helpful)"

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astrida — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:07:55 -0400

"Happily ever after? Kill 'em all?" "CP4R" What? I mean, what? "Chai latte is the best thing EVER!" It really is. I'm so glad I wrote this down so I'll never forget. "WHOREslutbagskank" Um... Okay? "Love? Nah, screw that shit" I guess it won't be romance then.

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Silhouette. — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:31:00 -0400

[quote]this person scouts the park in the middle of ______. Central park? I believe so. He goes to Central Park and takes the Branded he finds in a bus to (find somewhere with a lot of woods and few people.. or do I never name where the place is specifically, like Hogwarts? Get a general idea of how long a bus trip would take, can’t be tooooo far from NYC. Actually, I bet it’s a white rapist van. [/quote] Reading through my notes worries me... they're giving me as many problems as they solve. [quote]The plan was to go away, get settled, and send for her. This gets a little screwed up, for reasons that will have to be figured out later[/quote]

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Silhouette. — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:35:34 -0400

Oh, and here's another gem in which I address...myself. [quote] Cale is a human. He has spent his entire life hiding his sister, Celery (Cell), from the ****SNATCHERS!!! OH, WAIT, NO. Look up synonyms for snatchers, Cait. [/quote] And yes, I'm naming a character Celery. Feel free to pity her. I know I do.

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drummergirl325 — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:19:14 -0400

I swear my entire notebook is full of nothing but these. [quote] What if Cecil No, never mind. Wait, can he be a human or can't he? :P [/quote] [quote] Nikuyu? Sounds too much like Cthulu [/quote] When struggling to name a character... [quote] They run on MARY SUE POWER!!!! No, seriously, they do. [/quote] No, seriously... what? [quote] [main character] needs to be genuinely happy in here somewhere. Y'know, just to shake things up. [/quote] [quote] So then later, when he finds her, he "flashes" her (lol not like THAT) [/quote] The hazards of having light-based weapons. And then there are the times where I just completely lose it... [quote] MASS CHAOS MUAHAHAHA! [/quote] [quote] I NEED to flood a city somewhere in here. [/quote] [quote] Rebel blue bathmat of doom!?!? [/quote] [quote] Eheheheh. I'm now chuckling for an unknown reason. My goodness I hope this doesn't turn into a love triange. THEY'RE DIFFERENT SPECIES!!!! [/quote] [quote] ...one of the rebel dudes who isn't actually a rebel because the REBELS ARE NOT REBELLING AGAINST ANYTHING AND THEY ARE THEREFORE NOT REBELS GOSH DARN IT I NEED TO RENAME THESE GUYS [/quote] [quote] So she's all, "You hate me, don't you?" And he's quiet again because I actually can't think of how he would respond to that. "No, I used to like you and then I hated you and now I don't care but I'm starting to think that I preferred hating you because then at least you were actually doing something and now you're just nothing but because I actually do like you I'd rather hate you than not?" WTF kinda response is that? [/quote] Sadly, that last one is... kind of accurate. O_o And then, of course, my only notes on the climax: [quote] SURRENDER TO YOUR EVIL ROBOT OVERLORD TROLOLOLOLOL [/quote]

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faithlessone — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:24:15 -0400

I keep a little notebook by my bed. I woke up the other morning to find "VIRGINS!!" scribbled in massive letters across the top page. Yes, my novel features three very prominent virgins, and the working title is "Parthenos" which is the Ancient Greek for (well, basically) virgin. However, still doesn't explain why I felt the need to remind myself. :)

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torasaurus_rex — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:30:55 -0400

I like the bathmat of doom. I really do. Please tell that's going to make it to the novel

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Aiyandra — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:52:21 -0400

It seems the forum ate more than half of my first post, so I'll try again. Hopefully it'll work this time... [quote]Wuh, they're poor and slums and have no things.[/quote] Apparently the poor are slums. Nice. I always wanted people to be houses. [quote]Looks: See chapter 2, I'm lazy. He also wears blue eyeliner sometimes. But not on screen. That would be just weird...[/quote] Why. Just why. And later on, for the same character we have this: [quote]Personality: Kinda sadistic. Also insecure. That makes not much sense. FIX IT![/quote] I don't have an excuse for this. It was written in the middle of the day and I was perfectly awake, neither drunk nor drugged. [quote]UST VIEEEL UST[/quote] That's German and translates to ''UST LOOOOTS OF UST''. I was referring to Unresolved Sexual Tension. And all over my August Camp notes we have "Figure it out! Like, soon!" or "FIX it!!" ... thanks, past self. I can always trust you to be specific. That's it for the moment - I'll have lots more when I'll get to plan my NaNovel, that's for sure.

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Miss Amyzing — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:59:11 -0400

Oh goodness me, I'm just glad I'm not the only one. Set me up with my laptop/notebook and a good bottle of wine (or Jim Beam) and I'm done for the evening, haha.

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Miss Amyzing — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:00:05 -0400

My favorite note so far this year has been, "They venture off to fight in the darkness and...I don't know, derp until the end of the chapter idgaf." Normally my notes are far more detailed than that, but apparently I was nodding off. xD

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Tom M. Surname — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:00:22 -0400

This thread will be my new best friend. [quote] The entire fanfic is basically the cosmos getting drunk and finding in the morning that its pants are missing and it got married to someone else’s universe in Vegas, so that could be attributable to the sliver of multiverse that actually exists being badly thought-out. [/quote] Somewhere, somehow, I will use this metaphor. Possibly if my characters get drunk in Vegas. [quote] It doesn’t quite work as advertised, but hey, Holy Grail. Are you going to question the Magic Eggcup with Little Wings? [/quote] No. No, I am not. [quote] Remember when this was a nice, happy Sailor Moon fanfic about Bad People doing Bad Things? Neither do I. [/quote] [quote] I AM WRITING A FANFIC ABOUT FANFIC HOW CLEVER I AM. [/quote] [quote] Yep. AUthorth is WHY FANFICTION IS BAD AAAAAAAAAAAH. [/quote] I smell a recurring theme.

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ASongInMyHead — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:34:52 -0400

"Hey Hannah. remember the part about the tower? TAKE OUT THE PART ABOUT THE TOWER!"

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kittenfrommars — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:41:09 -0400

found in my notebook next to a character bio "OMG why is everyone gay?" I don't know how to answer that. That character, and most of the cast is not, in fact, gay.

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megfuzzle — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:40:26 -0400

from my iphone, which I attempted NOT to crash my car, and type myself a note about my novel: "she makes mittens?"

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megfuzzle — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:40:54 -0400

the best part, it's my own darn note, THERE SHOULD BE NO QUESTION MARK.

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Jira — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:26:11 -0400

I don't have any from last year but I remember two years ago what gave me my (at the time I thought) brilliant idea of a novel (that was actually utter crap) was when I scribbled down "TIME-TRAVELING BOUNTY HUNTER ANTHROPOMORPHIC CAT IN A REFRIGERATOR". And, ah, I actually wrote down a great deal of plot related to that only to realize it did suck. This year, I'm writing a really horrifying novel involving Slenderman, so most of my notes are actually just me being freaked out by my own mind. I'm glad I remembered my character's name is Forest, because "FOREST = PROXY?" might make little sense to anyone else.

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Inoru no Hoshi — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:53:11 -0400

I'd worry about anything run on Mary Sue power. o.o

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Fantasyfreakazoid — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:03:21 -0400

"Codes. lots and lots of codes. Don't know what codes... just codes" My book has a lot of codes to access doors, ships, bathrooms.. everything. even the closet door needs a code to open (I really haven't figured out why yet it just is). I found my old short story that I am revamping for my nano and that was written on it haha.

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Dannii — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:28:12 -0400

I don't know if it really counts but... I made all my notes for the main plot really late one night and then didn't look at them again... I finally read through them at the weekend and discovered a major flaw My characters want to kill the prime minister.. they've worked out where to do it, how and whose going to be doing what... then I discovered... There is NO WHY! They're killing the Prime Minister because of... something I haven't thought of yet... wonderful?

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rainstorm. — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:32:45 -0400

"YOU KNOW WHAT?! I'm not naming chapters until I FREAKING WRITE THEM." Okay, calm down...I wrote this one after I got frustrated not being able to find a name for one chapter. xD "Its a picture-esque SPELL IT THE FREAKIN RIGHT" I couldn't figure out how to spell picturesque o__o "Explain further cos im too lazy." What. "Well tomrow youre eleaving. Shes goin coa." ?!?! "And the three go to bed, and wake up in the mornin. " As opposed to not waking up? I don't have too many notes yet. I need more D;

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ankhta — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:41:55 -0400

"also include that other idea. it was really depressing or something." seriously, self, couldn't get any more vague?

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emmanatrix — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:56:00 -0400

My character notes for this year's NaNo includes: "A charming mystical genie. Snappy dresser, too."

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Kitiwriter — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:10:18 -0400

"The kiss leads to fiki fiki...I STILL HOPE NO ONE FIGURES WHAT THAT IS!" "RACHEL IS A SURF TEACHER AND SO IS DAVE SO DON'T FORGET THAT." "...Flying plates. A FLYING PIG IN THE LAST BOOK, FLYING KISS IN THE NEXT ONE." ...eh.

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elixireleven — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:58:54 -0400

I call this, "Pulling a Hemingway."

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AmaraReyi — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:28:04 -0400

I put my itunes on shuffle and freewrote to each song, hoping for some ideas (still no story yet). The first one turned out well enough, with me taking it seriously. Then... I dunno. It fell apart a bit. XD "A guy is on a quest to find the woman he loves. It’s a wacky sea adventure. He meets all sorts of sea creatures and gets distracted a lot but it stays serious throughout. I’m not really sure why he lost her. Just a spazz or something. I dunno. So he’s looking for her ‘cause he loves her even though she’s apparently a regular old damsel in distress without much in the brain department ‘cause she’s apparently been kidnapped by some beastie and I dunno why. Or maybe I just have no brains. Either way, she’s gone and he’s going after her ‘cause it’s what’s supposed to happen. He faces a person who’s all Janus-like and a cyclops and all that fun mythology. It’s basically fluffy camp fun. Only serious...? No. Fail."

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Waylay — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:46:58 -0400

Oh man. Oh man! Most of my notes just delve into a whole bunch of swearing and "because why not"s when I get particularly frustrated. The common "waking up in the middle of the night with ideas" plague has been rather contagious lately, so there's a post it note sitting on my nightstand that I've yet to decipher. But it's something about a ship. I think?

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esperance — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:18:15 -0400

These are great! :D I'll look for some better examples when I get home tonight, but looking through my notes from three in the morning a couple nights ago made me laugh. I had a whole page of random notes and outlining of the story in tiny writing. Then, in the bottom right hand corner I just wrote... 'Yeah, all that except better.' Thanks self. :)

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turntechswaghead — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:21:21 -0400

[quote]Nothing important to the story, at all.[/quote] I wrote this after writing a little blurb about the Hope Diamond for no reason. It's happened three times. I also have a nasty habit of going to the Department of Redundancy Department [quote]There’s a meeting with the Saviors and the President, Ms. Tilma. President Tilma. A male to female transgender. Anyways, a meeting with the Saviors chosen to come, and the president[/quote] And my two personal favorites [quote]Maybe at first they’re thought of as rebel hipster teens who think trying to survive the apocalypse is too mainstream[/quote] [quote]The Bringers are like ******* Dinkleburg up here[/quote]

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crazygirl9310 — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:22:56 -0400

I thought of Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged and the clip where Yami declared this one woman a lesbian and Yugi's like "Maybe she's a virgin" and Yami laughes and goes "Virgins".

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Squaggle — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:29:43 -0400

This thread is hilarious! I only have one really-good one. I have a few that only make sense to me, though! [quote]Andi reappears, they talk and... feelings[/quote] What feelings? The world may never know!

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minionygoodness — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:47:00 -0400

Quote: "I have a 15-page-long Word Document full of last year's Best Worst Notes (and the sequel) :) I just copypasted everything, so it's not always possible to see where one post ends and another one begins. I could send you a PM or something including the document. ^^ " That would be great! Thanks! :) (Sorry, I couldn't get the quote button to work...)

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annafreakingmarie — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:59:14 -0400

Before the wipe, I posted about being completely clueless about my plot. Then I just gave up. [quote]I really don’t want to but maybe I should ditch this plot. or lack of plot. lol. I could do Samragan or one of my fanfiction ideas. Steam or The Sun Sets On a Stormy Day or even Omne quod splendet. naaah I want those to actually be good. Samragan then? sounds good. I already know the plot but I’ll write it out anyways. Bryan (Brian? Is that even his name?), Corey, and that chick are no they’re actually David and Stacy. I think. yeah that’s it. ANYWAYS. David, Corey, and Stacy are the typical Trio de la Awesome. David is the guy who thinks he’s freaking awesome and can do anything but in the end he’s just a big dork. Corey’s the nerd guy who’s small compared to David and Stacy. Stacy is ummm I can’t think of something to describe Stacy. Really they’re not the typical Trio de la Awesome because the typical Trio de la Awesome would be like Harry-Ron-Hermione, but that’s not them. Anyways. Stacy is Stacy. I think it’s from her POV because that would be easier for me to write. Maybe I could switch around POV. YEAH. They’ve known each other for forever and Stacy’s starting to think she likes David. David, of course, is oblivious to all of her attempted flirting. Oh yeah, um… how old are they? 13-14 sounds about the right age. Corey sees it all. SUDDENLY: the new girl. Tulbra Thade who is teh sexies and exotic-looking. David falls for her HARD and Stacy gets mad and upset at him even though she knows it isn’t his fault. when she’s cooled down, they’re all OKAY FRIENDS. I think for POV I’m going to go Stacy-Co no I’m just going to go with whatever feels right. Starting with Stacy though. anyways so Tulbra invited the Trio de la Awesome (TdlA) to her house I guess where they learn her lies about her family and the stuff and they meet her grandmother or somebody and idk you know I’m just gonna quit right now before this gets bad.[/quote] Yeah. I have a reason for wanting to call David "Brian", but still, it's no excuse. Microsoft Word says this was saved at 12:30 AM, which explains the crap this is filled with xD

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ankhta — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 20:17:50 -0400

"sldo connections btw characters and charsatctes in yplay wheateevr" eloquence, it's just not my thing.

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callmeIndigo — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:04:36 -0400

Oh, good, this thread is back. I have new ones practically every day. This is what comes of stream-of-consciousness writing. [quote]The Crowley Association split into two factions years ago, due to a schism, because apparently I'm Lemony Snicket now.[/quote] Figuring out the details of a secret organization, I apparently decided it reminded me of A Series of Unfortunate Events. Solely because of the schism. Maybe it's because I've never read another book that used the word, oddly enough, but even so... [quote]Right, Soul Jar Guy. He's a guy...with...soul jars.[/quote] Way to explain, me. [quote]Don't be silly. Two times zero is still zero.[/quote] In the margin, linked by an arrow to the words "twice as" crossed out followed by "much more practical than Duke". [quote]Because he hasn't seen her in years, his personality isn't too important[/quote] Um... [quote]What the hell is Stewart doing in dark empty stairwells?[/quote] This is the problem with mental images inspiring characters.

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Catwoman1138 — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 23:52:02 -0400

My story is about a group of girls who compete in a classical piano competition. I was trying to think of different challenges they could do, and then thought, “ah ha! Theory competition!” and then I thought how boring this would be to watch on TV. So I tried to fix it: Theory competition – but make it exciting. EXTREME THEORY Yeah, I’m sure that fixes it… ANTI-DOUG I know where this came from. I was reading something about Douglas Coupland and the article mentioned that at one point in his career his works got really dark because of personal events, and Coupland referred to himself at this time as “Anti-Doug.” Apparently I thought it was funny enough to deserve a) all caps and b) to be at the top of my ideas document. Bacon manipulation I woke up one morning with this phrase in my head. I remember thinking it would make a good band name.

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RebeccaJFleming_DemonicDragon — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 23:55:42 -0400

While working on my literature review for my thesis earlier this year, I was listing some issues with eBooks. One sentence went something along the lines of "This is related to the final problem (LOL SHERLOCK HOLMES REF FTW), which is ...*boring waffle referencing some journal article*." Also, I posted this bit in the NaNoIsms thread, but afterwards realised it probably belonged in this one more... A few times this year, while either working on my novel or coming up with ideas for my children's book I'm doing for a uni project, I've woken up in the morning and found a piece of paper beside the bed with a strange phrase scrawled in my handwriting, though I have no recollection of writing it or of what idea/thought inspired it. These aren't technically NaNoIsms since they didn't occur during November, but they still inspire a bit of a "What the?" response when I read them... "sunshine death butterflies" "magic puppy garden toybox" "rainbow goblin dragon" The funniest part is, after staring at them for a while, I did eventually work out what I'd been trying to say and was then able to use it in my story. Don't know what that says about my weird little brain :|

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Millie-loves-Music — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 01:57:05 -0400

I think this is my favorite so far "Okay so the Psychic dude's best friend who he's in love with is another Psychic who dies because of… idk, but it probably should be something related to the SSN, and he's tres devastated because of this. Vampire… maybe he knew the human before but now the human he's in love with thikns he's dead… but what does this have to do with why he starts the SSN? Idk. Maybe he was changed in a weird way? What's his name anyway…." I'm kind of scared for my novel already...

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BritannianAngels — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 04:37:43 -0400

Here's mine. And yeah... I read that crossover... Kidnapped by pirates. Not killed because A Mycroft Did It. And it wasn't even his fault. Secretly bad@$$ at swords and killing people but is angelthing Coat possessed by demon? (My brain is a scary place XD)

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minionygoodness — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 04:41:59 -0400

From my notes: "The Eve thing." Sounds like some kind of monster... "The unseen authoritative Mothers (her weak eyes) makes God feel familiar to her." And the sad part is, it makes sense to me.

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BritannianAngels — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 05:15:01 -0400

And now, not even an hour later: Cam eventually gets PiCap to take coat off and the whole Tom Riddle thing happens S!!! WHAT IF THE COAT IS A HORCRUX no that’d be too complicated what are you talking about self BUT IF shut up I said FINE good ...My sanity. It is lost to the demons of sleep-deprivation. I weep for it. (But this is so much fun!)

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TinAK47 — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 05:26:10 -0400

God, I haven't got enough of a plan to have a lot of story ones, but it's the end of semester and my class ones have gotten interesting. Favourite; WHY MUST YOU DEFINE EVERYTHING?

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Tangerine — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:02:37 -0400

"YES SCHRÖDINGER" I remember getting out of bed in the middle of the night to write that down. Because it was GENIUS. I even took the time to Google "Schrödinger" to make sure it was spelled correctly and everything. And then... well, I went back to bed and in the morning, I had no freaking idea what I was supposed to do with /that/. Still not sure. "CRAZY BIG ASS ASTEROID GOES BATSHIT ON MAAAAARS. S. MAKE THAT PLURAL. ASTEROIDS OF DOOOOOM." ... yeah. "MMC - irresponsible toast-eater" For about a month and a half, that's pretty much all I knew about my MMC. "Food - eggs/meat - reptilians? No, reptilians too complicated. F**k reptilians. Just give 'em a bunch of EMU." "Spunk Ransom The 13th!!!!1!" Okay. Great. Now what? "Dr. Jerk -> B. Cumberbitch" I swear it's a typo. "HMS Wolfstar - last of its fleet - MY SHIP IS UNSINKABLE!!!11!1!" There's a total of 17 mentions of my ship being unsinkable in my notes. "No bananas. Don't even TRY." I won't. I SWEAR. GOSH. "Bananas are extinct. Plus, martian bananas would just be silly. Martian pineapples are fine, though." Of course. "I need a whore." ...

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deasoline — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:33:18 -0400

My notes are terrible. I constantly switch between Swedish and English, write sarcastic comments about everything and never use whole sentences. "Why LJ skolprom not? she glänta, E kmr, AI!!!!!! krashes disk me her mrfr gone and they far to LUDWIG ... may work, men 2 g efter v? LOVE TRIANGLE / tsh." I have 5 notebooks filled with stuff like this and seldom understand anything when I try to read through them.

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PC17 — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:08:58 -0400

Oh man, I love this thread. I haven't read over many of my notes yet for this year's novel, but I did end up finding a little scribble about it a couple days ago. "EDDIE THE YETI!!" That was all that was scrawled out, and I have no idea what it's supposed to mean. Especially because there are no yeti in this year's novel, though I almost wish there would be one now. Just to name it Eddie.

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someenchantedsunset — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:50:44 -0400

I'm typing up some of my characterization notes, and for one of my characters, his description is: Nick Ellis Sommers: Drummer, leader of band, dating Addison, ends up abusing her/date rape I feel like those are the beginnings of a great character...

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turntechswaghead — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:35:24 -0400

Got a new one while writing out notes during school [quote]Cherri grew up with a deep hatred for kittens. This will be important, I swear (no it won't)[/quote]

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fabula_vitae — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:48:40 -0400

The second half of my outline for chapter two has produced a couple of weird notes: - "They're talking about random things that I haven't decided on yet, probably drunkenness and fancy history" - "...but everyone knows they're going to end up being intimate somehow because Selah's just a little sex fiend" And my personal favorite so far, in which I throw in random Fullmetal Alchemist references into my character descriptions: - "Oh and he also uses the name Roy something-or-other now because Roy Mustang is dead sexy in a miniskirt"

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Janks1516 — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:05:29 -0400

[quote] I should check if that's factually large of if I'm just pulling that out of my ass [/quote] To be honest, I'm still not sure. [quote] they are viewed as uncivilized by the main group (who are snobs. Seriously, don't talk to them. Even if you have a monocle they will make you feel like the monocle is made of cardboard and that you deserve to die in the ocean) [/quote] Monocles are serious business.

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StarSammi — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:03:00 -0400

These are some lovely notes that I’ve written recently…. “She had a sibling who died of leukemia. Officially making her Holden Caulfield. Dammit.” That was like the fifth or sixth similarity to Holden that I’d noticed in one of my character info sheets, and I finally got fed up with it. “In reality, the wyverns completely wiped his episodic memory (I don’t know how, don’t ask) and dumped him on a certain flying boat….” Sure, it’s not that bad…until you realize that my novel is kind of realistic fiction-ish, and aside from this, there are absolutely no mention of wyverns anywhere in it. “Fisk is not bicurious. Merely curious. You know what I mean.” …no, I’m not really sure what you mean. And in my physics notebook, just by itself in all caps written at the bottom of an empty page: “ENTANGLEMENT” We’ve never even touched upon entanglement in that class, so I have absolutely no idea why I wrote it, but I vaguely remember it had something to do with a plot that I was struggling with. I’m only about halfway done with my prewriting, so there will definitely be more….

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Ravenwing — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:12:00 -0400

Will it make you feel slightly less crazy to know that waaaay back in the early days of NaNo - probably 2003 or 2004 - the semi-official mascot for the year was lesbian cabbage pirate-ninjas? :P Also, fun note about your character's name - Olja is the Swedish word for oil.

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Ravenwing — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:16:29 -0400

We-ell, the most interesting one I've got currently is: [quote]How do longhaul truckers do their laundry? Also, underpants. Do they every change underpants? Because if not - ick! .... He HAS to change his underpants, or he doesn't get to be the main character of this novel, alright?[/quote] ... Which isn't much.

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Goldenmon — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:41:33 -0400

Found this scribbled in my notebook this morning, misspellings included. -"Christmas presants? A spinning, colorfol, wonderful wooden top! Colors! Colorful! Where's the colors?" I remember this making sense last night.

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AmayaLee — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:43:53 -0400

I only have on slightly off one so far... "Scratch all of the above. Well, almost all. Claire’s death is sudden accident. (Something more original than a car crash, Lyons already has car crash) and is a complete and total surprise to Finn."

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Incandescent — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:49:56 -0400

[quote]And also they wear suits! SUITS SUITS SUITS. AND TOP HATS asdfklasdfljksdfjklsfd yesssss.[/quote] It was apparently very important for me to remember that my characters are well-dressed. This is in the middle of an otherwise normal paragraph about a very serious plot point.

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Serena B — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:53:26 -0400

I love that you ended that brainstorm with 'No. Fail.' I literally lol'ed. XDXD

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Serena B — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:56:54 -0400

Best. Notes. Ever. XD

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Serena B — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:02:26 -0400

Any novel having a bathmat of doom is guaranteed to be a bestseller. :) Seriously, if your notes are this good, I really want to read your novel when its done. XD

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love-bugg — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:03:06 -0400

I literally laughed out loud.

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love-bugg — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:04:41 -0400

OMG YES. You had me at lesbians. But I snorted at the "SUDDENLY ROBOTS". Everything is better with lesbians and robots.

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JamesComstock — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:09:36 -0400

I laughed so hard at that

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Serena B — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:15:59 -0400

Found in my notebook from last year: 'A Tale of Love and Zombies in the post-apocalypse?' I don't know why there is a question mark. I don't know why....anything. Wow.

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callmeIndigo — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:43:39 -0400

At the bottom of a page about my characters' families and relationships... [quote]OH MY GOD A MAGIC SWORD IT'S PERFECT[/quote] That's nice, self. Admittedly it is a central plot point, but even so...

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Morigale — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:35:28 -0400

'Oh god, psychic prostitution' Things were so much simpler when channeling was an underground thing. Now there's probably laws about it, and you KNOW some enterprising psychic has started up a business where s/he will channel your dead lover and you can sleep with them. WHY DO I THINK OF THESE THINGS. 'WHY IS THIS A THING I WROTE. IZZY WHY.' Not related to psychic prostitutes.

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dangerously_dru — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 01:06:28 -0400

I have question marks ending most of the sentences in my notes. As if I'm asking myself, "is this ok?" or "hey Dru, this is Dru. Can I add this to your novel?"

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syikana — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 03:38:21 -0400

[quote]Nicholas Flamel - can not have worked with an 'Albus Dumbledore' okay? not a HP fanfic, not even a central part of the story line maybe you did your time's equivalent of drug trials and that's why there a few immortals out there... that might actually work.[/quote] Right. This makes sense self.

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AmayaLee — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 03:41:43 -0400

"Steps into weird teleport thingy and is teleported to first level. Or is unciouncious and wakes up in first level. Or goes through a door that opens into the first level and then disappears or something."

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Sunnyblob — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 04:23:22 -0400

Your story sounds amazing. I have no idea what it's about, but it sounds absolutely amazing. xD

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syikana — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 05:17:33 -0400

[Quote]Madison Taylor *Killed*- 26, Hotel Receptionist , killed in car crash, maybe not car crash something more origonal maybe drowning, can assassins drown someone? [/quote]

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writerbear — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 08:44:22 -0400

[quote]‘Person in trouble? Sorry I need to buy some shoes. Preferably high heels’. But she’s not a clothes addict because I’m not and researching would take too much time damn it. Has to wear clothes though. UNLESS she has a GREAT body and likes to wear bikinis. Distract her buddy. Maybe strip? No.[/quote] I was planning my MC. Of course she has to wear clothes, me. There's no UNLESS about it. [quote]She can just be antipathetic about everything. Then her sidekick makes her pathetic. LOLWTH PATHETIC NO. FIND THE OPPOSITE. Sympathetic, according to Word. Thanks Word.[/quote] There was also this at the end... apparently I was having trouble with my choice of words.

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Incandescent — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 09:34:57 -0400

That sounds FANTASTIC. I would totally read a book about psychic prostitutes.

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ChickenWing — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:27:18 -0400

A few days ago I was working on my outline and needed to keep in mind, that I wanted to incoperate the FBI. So I make a note on the side: What about the FBI? Well, a day later I changed my colour to red and wrote underneath that: What about them? And in black again: You wanted to bring them in, girl... Finally, when I got the FBI into my outline yesterday, I wrote in red: They're in! Happy now!? I should add, that my outline is written in german and these notes are written in english. Now, I'm just asking myself, with wwhom I had these conversation. My muse?

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CadaeicCicada — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:57:57 -0400

I found a few gems today: [quote] Ottie = Otter. SPANISH! ....? [/quote] These are from last year's NaNo... as you can see I re-thought the Spanish bit at some time after writing that. [quote] Lettuce allergy rant for ___ (Gah, need name here!)[/quote] It makes sense in my head. Two words: filler for word count. ;) [quote] ZOMBIE CULT[/quote] I... I just don't know.

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Riddle — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:12:00 -0400

[quote]NO, NANOWRIMO, YOU’RE NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE CANNIBALS. A HUMAN CULT THINKING THEY ARE ACTUALLY FAERIES WITH KURU IS JUST TOO MUCH. iTunes, just what are you trying to tell me by playing Where Did You Sleep Last Night? Nirvana is not helping right now. [/quote]

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CousinJenny — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:36:01 -0400

These do actually make sense - and one is an idea related to this year's NaNo man carrying false leg in bus queue * ------------------------ Muses train plot bunnies!!! * There really was a man waiting in front of me for the bus last night who was carrying a false leg in his left hand. I looked down and there were 2 feet where they should be, but his left trouser leg did look as if it was covering a false leg. How could I not make a note for future reference?

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snowbug — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:34:08 -0400

Very rough outline: "E vanishes -> E shows up again -> E vanishes again." Yeah.

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DallonWeekes — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:36:03 -0400

"There are so many gay characters on this street. This is ridiculous. You need to somehow make this righ- I'LL HAVE THEM CALL IT A 'GAYBORHOOD' SO IT SOUNDS LESS WEIRD!" Oy vey.

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Alliebunni — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:21:01 -0400

"Special powers? - miscellaneous magic" Really? That's so helpful and not at all vague.

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SweetJuly — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:02:05 -0400

I just found an outline thing for last year's novel, which is full of gems: "Chapter Sixteen: Dorothy goes on another iron horse joyride." "Ilyssa, "wreathed in mist", is all mysterious and poetic again." "They're shocked because Dorothy ain't supposed to be home yet." "The End (peacepeace, and all that good bittersweet stuff) "I'm the blah of the midlife crisis, and the something of something blah"

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ObiKimono — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:14:05 -0400

Maybe it's due to my extensive multiverse use, but I like it.

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Silhouette. — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 19:57:57 -0400

Ohhh, man. This is wonderful on so many levels. And funny :'D

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Silhouette. — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 19:58:29 -0400

This might be off-point, but yes, assassins can drown people. I think they'd rather like the change of pace

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LHSflute — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 20:46:46 -0400

In the middle of my outline: "THIS IS GOING TO BE THAT AWKWARD MIDDLE POINT WHEN I JUST HAVE NO IDEA WHAT’S GOING ON, ISN’T IT?" Because I always hit that point every year, without fail. The outline was supposed to kind of help with that, but apparently not even outlines can save me.

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necropolitician — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 22:56:56 -0400

Slenderman? Awesome! Have you watched the Marble Hornet channel on youtube? :) I found out just the other day that Slenderman might be partially based off of an old German fairy tale about some dude who lived in a forest? Anyway. Yeah. You have no idea how much that made me freak out. Or, rather, taking this entire post into account, maybe you do. :D

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neon.tigress — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 22:57:54 -0400

Yay, I loved this thread last year! As for mine... well, just a couple nights ago I had just about the biggest inspiration lightning-strike I've ever experienced. It was in the middle of the night so I had to use my iPad as a light to write by and... well, it got a little out of hand... This is all written exactly as it appears in the notebook, and all from the same night. Beware: lotsa caps. [quote]- Chase scene (when MC is pretty pregnant) Levi? Then SC kills him? Maybe? - NEED FILLER FOR 4-5 MONTH GAP!!! ARGH. ^maybe just quick thing? No, then the novel's too short. WHAT HAPPENS THEN??? DRAGONS? FAIRIES? DEATH? CD? TRAVEL TO OTHER FREAKING CONTINENT???? OH THE POSSIBILITIES HOLY CRAP AAAH - BUT WHY? TAKEN HOSTAGE (AGAIN)[/quote] There are no dragons or fairies in my world... o_O [quote]But then how do they get back... WAIT. WAIT - After 'final battle' she's captured 'cause the proties [A.N: protagonists] LOSE? WOW[/quote] [quote] - He reappears when SC comes - only way to save her, I mean, it's not the first time he's vanished w/o a word[/quote]

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S.Berry — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 03:08:57 -0400

I was doing some note writing right before bed the other night, and I finally got around to reading over my notes to add to them. I found this sentence: The joint council has to approve a new DQ, and if they feel the current DQ isn’t doing her job right, they can overthrow her and vote in a new DQ. In context, it's not at all amusing; I mean *Dragon* Queens and the council of dragons and humans, but in my barely awake mind, I briefly wondered why I was suddenly writing a story about a bunch of marijuana deciding which Dairy Queen restaurant to keep open and which ones should be ran out of business. Now I'm very tempted to add in a group of stoner restaurant critics somewhere in my fantasy/sci fi novel.

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misslasagna — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 04:23:11 -0400

Proper lol'd at the last bit XD

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misslasagna — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 04:23:21 -0400

Haha, that's awesome.

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misslasagna — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 04:26:31 -0400

This is beautiful.

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S.Berry — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 04:41:03 -0400

Sorry about the back to back posts; I can't find an edit feature, and I found some more that I'd like to post before I forget. If there is a way to edit, please feel free to clue me in and I'll use it next time. These are about the sci fi half of the novel. In 2145, a couple of scientists looking for something else (let’s call it classified so I don’t have to figure out what the hell they were looking for that they found a portal to another reality instead because it makes my head hurt just thinking about it) found a fissure in space/time, and, being curious people, they set about getting funding to find out where and when it led to and if it was something that could be exploited If at first you fail at filling in a plot hole, call it classified and move on. Also, I'm apparently incredibly cynical at 3am. The portal on the other side can be felt, but you can’t see it, and the feeling you get is ‘stay the f*** away from here!’. Of course, a couple of idiots don’t listen and show up back on the modern Earth side, deader than doornails. (How dead *is* a doornail, anyway? Can something be dead that was never alive in the first place?) A bunch more tests show that this other place is basically one great big roach motel: you can go in, but you can’t come out. I can't decide if this is descriptive fail, or descriptive genius, with a side of 'I'm going to have to start totally over in December if my mind is going Week Three on me before nano has even started'. They decide to slowly send the best and brightest to there to start the human race over in a less destructive and world destroying way. Or at least, that’s what the PR guys claim. There really isn't supposed to be a lot of intrigue and conspiracies in my novel -- I hate writing that sort of thing at length. I find it boring as heck to write and generally don't enjoy reading it either. But apparently my muse is determined to make me anyway.

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frauamber — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 07:06:12 -0400

Drunken shenanigans forever. 8')

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frauamber — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 07:10:06 -0400

When I noticed "FOREST = PROXY?" my first thought was: JESUS THE WHOLE FOREST WORKS FOR SLENDERMAN NOW. But luckily it's you character's name. I AM RELIEVED.

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frauamber — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 07:19:31 -0400

Well my favourite must be: "lololo Francisca gets informed by phone da sexytimes interrupted lol" Definitely so.

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shifterous — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 10:28:23 -0400

For as long as I live, I will never forget that one.

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xoxwhoaxox — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 11:45:16 -0400

So, I found this when I was transcribing my notes from my notebook to my computer... [quote][Kerrolin] knows nothing about her birth mom, but assumes she was either one of those '16 & Pregnant' types or a stoner, parce que seriously who names a kid Carolyn with a spelling like that?[/quote] For a brief second, I even decided to go into French when writing my notes. I don't know why- I am not fluent in that language by any means. But basically 'parce que' translates to 'because'.

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RenRentheGreat — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 12:42:54 -0400

All of the following were written in ~~class~~ my notebook and later typed up. [quote]Ar: "I’m here to get you back. So come hither.”[/quote] I've been reading far too much Shakespeare in class lately... At the end of what was supposed to be a long and serious scene... [quote]C: “Well I suppose I have to accept this apology and go back, or else risk getting our author killed by her bff Jessica.” F: “Yeah, basically. Don’t have too much of a choice.” C: “Well fuck it I guess we’re cool again. So long as you remain in character and don’t turn into a douchenozzle again.” F: “Promise. Makeouts?” C: “Makeouts.” -makeouts-[/quote] What the hell, guys, you spent an entire novel to get together, broke up halfway through the next novel and now taking a novel and a half to get back together, and this is what you give me to work with? Though to be fair, F was definitely an out of character douchenozzle... And again, a long and serious scene is reduced to... [quote]Raden’s all “ANGST” and Erius is all “WHY THE FUCK DID YOU COME HERE” and Raden’s like “I COULD ASK YOU THE SAME THING.” While Erius is like “WELL I SAID IT FIRST. WHY ARE YOU HERE?” R: “I KINDA DIDN’T HAVE A CHOICE, ALEISTER ASKED FOR OUR HELP AND FAREUS WANTED ME HERE. YOUR BROTHER’S A BITCH.” E: “HE’S NOT MY BROTHER HOW MANY TIMES DP I HAVE TO TELL YOU? I’M NOT HAVING ANYTHING TO DO WITH YOU GUYS ANMORE.” R: THEN WHY ARE YOU EVEN HERE?” E: WELL FOR STARTES, FAAR AND IVRIX SHOWED UP, AND THEN FAREUS WAS THERE AND I DIDN’T HAVE MUCH OF A CHOICE.” R: “SO BASICALLY THIS IS ALL FAREUS’ FAULT. WHOREFACE." [/quote] Way to converse in caps lock, guys. Way to go. Later on in the same scene... [quote]"I can has answers nao?”[/quote] NO. NO LOLCATS FOR YOU. I spend too much time on the internet, can you tell? [quote]R: “Because being an asshole is the perfect way to save a life. Someone tell The Fray."[/quote] A pop culture reference? In my outline? It's more likely than I thought. And once more the scene ends beautifully... [quote]R: “Well I can’t exactly do a whole lot to change your mind. Fine, if you’re really okay with ending things like this you should just go.” E: “… … … … FUCK IT.” -sex-[/quote] I hate them all. Every last one of them.

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obiwancrazy — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 13:29:13 -0400

I made this one just an hour ago. "When Carter was elected by a landslide, everybody was swaaaaaaaaaaaaaazi." I didn't know what adjective would work there...

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Kerantli — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 14:21:18 -0400

More rambling to myself than actual note "Sam mooching around the town centre – hair dye – what colour would he suit - red/blue/rainbow/PEACOCK??"

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Soupnazi — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:05:26 -0400

I like to imagine that your avatar is saying that. XD

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Aiyandra — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:51:21 -0400

I make up words all the time. Works for me :D By the way, your icon is looove. ♥

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Procrastinator Extraordinaire — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 18:26:50 -0400

Ooh, there are some great late-night ones on my iTouch. "Hellish invocation of the milk entity--INCORPORATE SOMEHOW" Because milk is very hellish...? "Corruption now tobe called Incurable Demonic Pestilence" Okay. "NEW EDEN IDEA. I like the Corruption no finger blah blah blah, but it does not leave traces of magic in Eden. Eden just goes kind of overboard with magic at times because she just likes it and unlike Axis it is very hard for her to control the pleasure priincipal." Now I would very much like to know what the Corruption no finger blah blah blah is. "Pattern of patience." "XXXYUYFSDF is empty and all the devils are here." I believe this accurately showcases what mood I was in at the time.

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Nederlandica — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 21:07:57 -0400

I was reading through my notes from a few days ago and I actually don't know what I was thinking. Big Bad Wolf -> marriage counselor Only helps blonde women with their partners. RACIST Goldielocks prefers pigs over bears (WHICH ONE OF THE THREE? THE ONE WITH THE WOOD OR THE ONE OF THE STONES?) Also; Prince of Rapunzel has the hots for Snowwhite's prince but Snowwhite's husband is STRAIGHT yet Rapunzel's doesn't take the really obvious hints.

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neon.tigress — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 21:13:22 -0400

I love love love your avatar :D Sounds like something I would say.

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Catwoman1138 — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:25:33 -0400

viewer voats. I know how to spell votes, I swear. I actually remember pausing, trying to remember how to spell "votes" and something totally wrong came out. I was trying to think of different ways that girls on a deadly reality show would think of to sabotage the others: -In performance, someone cuts a few of the strings on the piano to sabotage the rest. This only affects Christina (for whatever reason) (maybe she only cut through the strings partway through beforehand because if the broken strings affected everyone, they would realize that something was wrong with the piano, not the player.) By the time it was Christina’s turn, the strings had broken. Is this possible? Who fucking knows. Realism? What’s that? I had an epiphany in class so this is hastily scribbled in the margins of my paper: Nothing happens for awhile so someone is manipulated into murder...HAYLEY??? --> She was sent crazy by Morgan!! REVELATION You know it's a revelation you use all caps... -Fake perky announcer/host person who is weirdly excited to host the thing, but perhaps he is harbouring a secret too (he’s being blackmailed to be there) This one just makes me laugh because I mysteriously mention that the host has a secret, and then promptly reveal what that secret is. -Each participant receives private lessons from a previous winner of the show who also coaches them on how to survive the experience unscathed. If their mentee wins, the mentor goes free too and doesn’t have to coach any more kids. SCRATCH THAT. There is only one girl giving private lessons. This is written in a word document. Apparently I thought it was better to write out another two sentences than to just erase the whole passage. Here I'm describing each character, who are all contestants in a reality show: MADELEINE HILL -She’s one of those bitches who are always like, “I DIDN’T COME HERE TO MAKE FRIENDS.” [...] -The bitch So...she's a bitch, then? Another contestant: KATIE WRIGHT -Age 21 -Nice to everyone. Thinks the key to winning is being honest and forthright. She is wrong. -Killed by Julie. While making notes about a possible sequel: Emily sets it up so that if anything happens to her friend/sister, they can get her out (maybe Madeleine and Charlotte agree to try to take down the competition as well)(except Mad is dead CONTINUITY ISSUES MUCH?) It took me weeks to remember that Madeleine actually dies at the end.

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SweetJuly — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:33:54 -0400

From last year: "They meet at a dance. They’re third cousins, and their families hate each other, so it’s that star-crossed lovers, secret-marriage kind of deal. There’s a wall for them to sit on." 0_o why the wall?

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wombleomlette — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:49:54 -0400

Eddie the Yeti totally needs to be a recurring NaNo dare, like the Travelling Shovel of Death.

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wombleomlette — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:53:49 -0400

Same here! That sounds awesome.

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wombleomlette — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 01:15:59 -0400

This sounds like something I would LOVE to read.

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Marie16 — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 02:50:12 -0400

*bursts out laughing* This thread is awesome!! My current outline includes: "[LOTS OF STUFF HAPPENS!]" ..... Yes, because I have no idea what actually happens between "moving in" and "omg drama". "Work-ideas: during lunch break, Danielle takes Sam to a restaurant close by, lots of insults and meanness while ordering/eating/etc, someone from work or a friend of D's (who doesn't know) is there, questions D's attitude toward S, lots of tension, D refuses to explain but deliberately continues meanness..." What, "Danielle" and "Sam" were too long to write out??

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IamSamThisIsMe — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 06:16:09 -0400

I haven't got many notes, but these are my favourite few. (Please bear in mind they are usually scrawled on a scrap of paper at around 4 am) 'He's, like totally hot. All blonde and golden and hazely, think, like Brian meets Denmark. Okay time to sleep becaus even I know that he sounds like a fallen angel right now.' 'Then he flies, like not literally, obv, 'cos he has no wings, but he likes flies anyway. FIGURE OUT WTH THIS MEANS' 'Tis a tough life the young 'uns lead.' (My story is set in 2012 reality, so why my 21 yr-old MC has started talking like a pirate? not a clue) 'They fall in love, and it is hot and they have kids. Two guys have a kid. Biology of this? Surrogacy? Kidnapping. Idea? Not so much.

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Cecile_Bouquet — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 10:07:32 -0400

In the middle of the notes for my seminare paper (which, you know, is very serious because whether I'm allowed to take my graduation exams depends on this thing): [quote] --> possibly for future-dads/moms? (so they don't have to buy an extra magazine and everybody be like "dude, u preggo?"[/quote] That just totally made me laugh while I read it, though it was worth sharing :)

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IamSamThisIsMe — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 11:01:36 -0400

I do this constantly, except mine are in Spanish. There will be bits where I write: Scott decides to rest to allow his injury to heal y por lo que (because of this) he loses an opportunity. There are also bits where my brain goes entirely mental and I write stuff like this: Hay una incinderadora muy cerca del pueblo y un dia, explota. Au secours, merde et L'enfer sainte main dans un panier. Random language shifting is fairly common in my notes to myself. (For those interested, it says : There is an incinerator very close to the village, and one day it explodes. Help, s**t and holy hell in a handbasket [Yeah, I cuss wierdly])

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imaginepageant — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 12:13:39 -0400

This isn't notes for my own plot, but from an outline of the movie Underworld that I did as an exercise to understand plot structure. It still cracks me up. In one of the early scenes, where Selene comes across a group of werewolves mock-fighting with each other, I described it as: "LYCAN FIGHT CLUB!" And I refer to it as such every time it comes up: "Selene insists the Death Dealers should investigate the LYCAN FIGHT CLUB!"

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TANK Ex Mortis — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 14:18:22 -0400

This thread is so great, and I'm gonna read the whole thing in a sec, but first I want to share my favorite note I've ever made, ever, in history, at least this week. [quote]Holy shit okay, she needs to look just like the girl from the Close to the Edit music video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxidefcsjDc), only a bit older. Hahaha, yes, awesome.[/quote] Also these: [quote]she is friendly, cheerful, unrepentently evil, possibly a vampire or something[/quote] [quote]suicide pacts are awesome[/quote] [quote]the best romance stories end with one party chasing after another on a suddenly-appeared and very convenient horse[/quote]

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Saah — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 14:46:41 -0400

In the file where I keep the ideas I have for future stories that I can't write at the moment but really don't want to forget: "24. Book Store Thing- We know this one already... Who knows why I didn't type this up." With no further explanation. I'm pretty sure at one point it was just "We know this one already" and then I added the "Who knows why I didn't type this up" some time after that when I was looking through my story ideas... And yeah, we don't know this one already... All I know about it from this is that it involves a book store and should be important enough that I remember it. Considering that most of these have 2-3 paragraphs, this is really confusing. Why didn't I type this up? The question remains to be answered.

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FizzyJones — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 14:50:46 -0400

I've yet to delve into my usual insanity in my notes, but so far I've come across these two: "EXCEPT LOL SHE'S A HERO." "hmm... still can do that OMG YOU STOLE MY IDENTITY THING w/ a suave villain type boy..."

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Procrastinator Extraordinaire — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 15:44:53 -0400

Suicide pacts are indeed awesome. XD Yours are great.

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Procrastinator Extraordinaire — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 15:50:52 -0400

I have more. Sadly. But happily for your amusement. (There's one right there, in fact. "Happily for your amusement?") "So the garden is kind of magical and creepy and full of magic. Oops hahaha that’s redundant. So the garden isn’t magical, but it is exactly because it’s full of a magic that isn’t really magic, that is kind of like music, which’s magic lies in its beauty and ability to weave emotions in someone, so that’s the magic. Of the garden. But not really." This was written five minutes ago. I have no excuse. "And there’s an old man who tends to the garden who’s totally a cliche. Is he bad or good? IS HE THOMAS? YES NO!" THOMAS? IS HE? ...Geez. "SO MC has lost a SOMEONE IMPORTANT TO THEM and they are sad. The someone comes back as a ghost because ghosts are cool but why do I have ghosts in every siingle one of my novels? Cause ghosts are cool and I’m cool also." Thank you, past self. That answer is wise: "Cause ghosts are cool and I'm cool also."

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CatsEnjoyPotatoes — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 16:33:00 -0400

Just wait. The wall will become the most important plot point in the whole story. It's always the ones you least suspect.

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TANK Ex Mortis — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 18:34:53 -0400

My suicide pacts are great?

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Wolf Tears — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 19:40:01 -0400

Last year, one of the pages in my manuscript was blank except for this: [quote]SCARVES HERE PLZ.[/quote] I don't know whether to be proud of or concerned by the fact that even though I had no memory of writing it, I knew what I was talking about.

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rosiedoodle — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 20:56:15 -0400

This made me laugh until I cried, thank you :')

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Deps — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:02:11 -0400

Yes! I'm glad it's not just me. It's a fine line: Tipsy enough not to care what you write and not so drunk that it's illegible the next day.

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misslasagna — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:48:22 -0400

I don't have a ton of notes yet so I didn't think I had anything, but I ran into a couple today that made me laugh. [quote]Macbeth, Jesusy stuff, Christmas.[/quote] To put it succinctly. [quote]Kid? B(F)F?[/quote] No clue what a b(f)f is. [quote]Wants to become...? A banshee? Some other sort of complicated profession. Angel/demon? If possible. Highest thingie. I guess.[/quote] Yeah, that. [quote]Demons are angels that failed their exams XD[/quote] Yikes, smiley faces have invaded my handwritten notes...too much time on the internet. [quote]Orbs...? lulz[/quote] [quote]Heaven and Hell are next door...like dorms lolz[/quote] The internet has taken over my life -_- [quote]God and Satan like McGonagal and Snape[/quote] Yes, I totally referenced Harry Potter. This was when brainstorming a list of classes that a ghost would have to take at school: [quote]Philosophy from an eternal perspective (very long lectures!)[/quote] An eternity to talk philosophically about eternity? All of a sudden I pity my characters. And then, halfway down my very first page of scribbled plot ideas, I have "TSOD!!!" in huge, thick letters and underlined four times. I haven't used it yet but this book is the perfect place. Wow, I had more of those than I thought...

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Sydaliance — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:50:18 -0400

My outlines tend to be pretty horrible. Here's a couple from today's planning: [quote]Sara asks “what gang” but Xi tells her to be quiet and order some new clothes or watch TV or eat or “whatever you normal people do"[/quote] -cough- [quote]Ganth, grumbling, mumbles out a request[/quote] He grumbles AND he mumbles! [quote]Someone begins clapping[/quote] Yes, someone, because apparently I don't know. [quote]Ganth crawls his way out of the van and attempts to get away, but he doesn’t have the strength length[/quote] Left. Strength left. I should probably correct that... [quote]Sara is startled to see a young woman (who looks like a teenager)[/quote] Will someone explain why I didn't just say "teenager"? [quote]But then she sees something ominous: a camera[/quote] Oh, the ominousness of it all! [quote]As she is walking home, she is suddenly accosted by men in a black van, who attempt to kidnap her[/quote] I'm not sure why I described this so casually...

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Deps — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 23:06:52 -0400

I don't usually break the fourth wall. However, the fact that I cannot finish my plot after the entirety of it flowed from my fingertips right up to one final point is clearly doing my head in. [quote]  Okay, I know you don’t want me to kill anyone or maim anyone but this is war, it isn’t all happy endings. So who gets it? Look I can’t just finish this book with a ‘and they all lived happily ever after’ it’s not a fairytale and it’s a cop out. I’m sick of you all telling me you’re all dandy. I can see that some of you are standing shoulder to shoulder there blocking out the body or the cripple. There is a trickle of bloody between your toes, I'm telling you! Tell me, right friggin now or you know what? EVERYONE DIES. Didn’t buy that did you? Damnit. [/quote]

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thegreatwhitewolf — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:18:02 -0400

I've had a hard time coming up with a name for my villain so he's become Some Random Evil Dude That I Need For My Plot to Work But Doesn't Have A Name For Lack of Inspiration However I Won't Even Name Him Because This Way Of Referring To Him Is More Wordy. Thanks to Alex Collins for suggesting the name in the first place.

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xoxwhoaxox — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 01:04:21 -0400

So, this just happened while scribbling out some character notes for my FMC's birth mom (who eventually comes into the story, just not right away): [quote]- Need to think of a superhero name for her -You're not being inspired by the Blaine Anderson-Stark series of drabbles you read on tumblr earlier -Not at all[/quote] ...I'm an avid Glee fangirl. I have an okay-ish knowledge of Iron Man canon. It popped up on my dash, and once I started reading I couldn't stop. Clearly, it started giving me an influence on my writing. Whoops.

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Morigale — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 01:19:08 -0400

[quote]Also lunch they have to have lunch together, like, most of the time.[/quote] My very first image of the first version of these characters was of a superhero and supervillainess hanging out and eating lunch together. So now even that it's perfectly reasonable for them to be hanging out together, I want my lunch scene. [quote][too stupid?][do it anyway, will it really cause anything i can't take out?][/quote] Self-explanatory... [quote]SO MUCH FUCKING MAGIC FUCK i just wanted a low-magic setting, you guys[/quote] I did, in fact, just want a low-magic setting. You guys. [quote]also this is probably one of those romance cliche big misunderstandings that everyone hates.[/quote] Well if I realize that, maybe I shouldn't put it in. [quote]need a couple of scenes for him to get sidetracked by.[/quote] Ok, I don't even understand this one, because the sentence before this is talking about Eli's sense of humor and the one after is about killing off a minor character...

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Edge of Sanity — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 01:19:28 -0400

I have a giant whiteboard in my room which as of late has been covered in little reminders and notes. This one I wrote a couple of days ago: The story is going to start off happy- all warm and fuzzy, sort of like acid relfex but without the discomfort of poor digestion I don't have the heart to erase it. If I were ever to write a forward for my nano, this would be at the top of the page right before: And something happens after that but before the other thing ---> I have yet to figure out what I was talking about...

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lovely_sparkle — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 01:32:05 -0400

Here are some from planning today: -"They can’t decide whether to raise the baby Jewish or atheist. Or vegan or not." -"B takes to wearing glasses after he gets his job as an English teacher at the end- K likes it. Also, he stopped gelling his hair during his whole downward spiral, and doesn’t re-gel when he gets back on his feet." -"P smokes cigs and skateboards. I need to figure out a way to incorporate this, especially the skateboarding." -"How does K bring up the subject of 'hey my ex was a stripper at that showcase' to E?"

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Syri_Rey4711 — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 01:38:09 -0400

I have this: Little kid feet sensitive. Grow older feet not. Only kid wear shoes. Shoes sign/symbol childhood/innocence. "Burned shoes that day" mean "I grew up." Ceremony? LMFAO "The Burning of the Shoes" There's more where that came from. I'll be back.

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writeswithafist — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 04:09:15 -0400

AaaAAah TOO MANY NOTES "Epic virus bitchfight ensues" "A giant cactus runs by" "The train stops at a town backlit by sunset where everything seems to be exploding" "they're just glad no one's taking pictures this time" "torture by fake alternate sucky reality! total mindscrew FTW!" This is all the same story, I'm not even kidding.

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Rhymer — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 06:13:37 -0400

I would definately read this! Win!

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Rhymer — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 06:21:53 -0400

I adore this note.

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AceOfHearts — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 06:51:59 -0400

I got to the bottom of one of my character sheets and derped. • Hopes: Money. • Fears: No money. • Comforts: Money. • Hates: No Money. • Loves: Money.

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torasaurus_rex — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:24:24 -0400

This isn't from my Nano, but from my History class. We were discussing the fall of the Roman Empire and the development of Christianity. For some reason I deemed it necessary to write "Christians didn't have orgies!" Well, no, I suppose they didn't. Best part is I didn't discover it until later.

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Mistwalker — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:01:02 -0400

This is fantastic

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Mistwalker — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:06:14 -0400

Fantastic

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Mistwalker — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:12:55 -0400

#1 - Amen! #3 - I think this note is fantastic, and I plan on leaving that note for myself throughout my plot line just for my own future amusement (or aggravation, as it might turn out with how fast November is coming around) ---->Also, I'm kind of hoping that the next time you go to that note, magical faeries will have explained the situation further for you so you didnt have to >.>

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Mistwalker — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:13:20 -0400

I legit lol'ed when I read this. Oh how dangerous NaNo forums can be while at work!

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Mistwalker — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:18:57 -0400

Two notes I scribbled into my chapter focused on my Main Villian. Needless to say, the story needs a little more fleshing out 1: "-Starts discussion on the “plans” -->WTF are his plans? I feel like a writer should know this before they start the book, that way the heroine’s can thwart them, just an FYI" " Touche 2. "-As this scene is titled recruitment, I feel like part of his plans should have to do with recruitment" You think?

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korikatamarisan — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:39:24 -0400

Oh, man. I have so many of these. And I'm about to go back through my outline and start expanding on things, planning chapters, etc. so I'm sure I'll be back with more. But there are a couple in the last section that stand out already. Such as... "Then Isaak and William will both shit kittens, that's what." and "NEED A NICE, DRAMATIC ENDING IN HERE SOMEWHERE" Because I have a vague idea of an ending, but not a good clincher yet.

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Tigers Eyes — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:04:26 -0400

First one I actually laughed out loud at xDD

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Tigers Eyes — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:14:31 -0400

These were notes I made right after waking up... I thought the dream might be a viable plot: "We ran and ran and there were these escalators… and the nails place…. And the money donations for doing stuff for different cultural religions. I paddled outon a boat " I.... this one.... well... it was a year ago. And I think I was half asleep while raving about some psychology thing. The doctor isn’t inm y head to read thi and laugh- I WAS ACTUALLy worried he was there and would coe and – arrrrhhhhhghghghghghghghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh-- Ooh look - - - - + no spaces = ----- Damn. Anywayzz. (*in a while*) When you start writing something randomly do you weritr the ost common things You USUALLY WRITE? Or is it the things that are easiest for you to write or the letters wyou write first? This makes more sense when you replace write with type…t and then there were akk sthose people who SEE?>! I keep writing PEOPLE.

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FairytaleHero — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:36:53 -0400

I currently have 5 different clipart pictures of pigeons in the word document for my NaNo outline.

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bookhobbit — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:37:56 -0400

proof that I am entirely too much of a genki girl when it comes to conlanging: "DUDEDUDEDUDE. SO, the roots are gonna be written with a logograph. Then, the extra elements that customize the word will be written phoentically! Yes, that's PERFECT. I love it."

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Tatra — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:25:57 -0400

I rambled a bit of character building during my 750 last night while being a bit distracted by the TV: This is about Milo: Milo is my crack character, because he needs to be. And so, he is the person that is the person who needs to be someone? Um, he is really young. He surprises people at how young he actually is. Because that is what is going on. He started going on things really young. So he surprises people at how young he is because I think that he is even younger than the two MCs. And so then there is someone else, anyhow, they go and rescued him. Yeah, words, will you work? In any case, he surprises people at how young he is because people think that he can't be the legendary Milo, and the people who know Milo are like 'yes, he is.' And then: And this has to do with Milo because Milo says that she can be Ed and he can be Ein. That's right, he says that he can be the dog. He says that it is perfect, because Ein is super intelligent and he is, and so then he also says that it works with going along with Zeke in the truck because truckers can use Dogs as company. So he now equates himself to a dog. Eh, I suppose he can be a dog because as long as he isn't actually a dog. So he can be appearing to be a dog. Or maybe he will suggest that he is a dog. Whatever works.

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elvendork — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:04:12 -0400

So last night I apparently wrote: "Then Jaden is all, you lot stay here while I go fight the bloody resistance. He kicks out the door and leaves." Um... 1. Jaden is not British. Neither is anyone else. 2. There is no resistance for him to fight. 3. They are outside. What door is he kicking?

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Geesafaire — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:13:05 -0400

Why, according to my notes, the song "Invisible Touch" should be on my novel's soundtrack: "Because Time Restorers and Anachronism Hunters should be invisible in their touching of things." *headdesk*

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Mary Chase Anselme — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:17:53 -0400

"perhaps he asks her to do a foreign accent" "plot: long story short" "name changes/Pip's Judaism" "reversed Cinderella moment?" "RESEARCH BIRDS" "at some point in the musical, Eddie/Carson should totally show Sapphira how to tap" -- I promise they all make sense. It's just hilarious to type the most random ones and see what order they fall in. xD

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Mell — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:26:32 -0400

I love this thread! Here are some I found while I was looking for my Nano 2011 notes, although this are from other novels: "This all came from mocking Twilight. So instead of a Damsel in Distress who falls in love with Dangerous Sparkly Vamp we have a strong female lead and a Stalker with a Cruch for her." TVTropes much? "It's a future Earth, sort of very futurely. It's a perfect society where everything is perfect..." "FMC is Gloria, finally! She'll probably die anyway." Gloria is a character I've had in my mind for years XD "Die Vater gives up hope aber die Mutter glaubt sie wird gefunden sein. Die Familie falls apart from the moment Belle's gone" Random language switching? And I'm not even good at German. Later on the same one: "Etc, etc. All her children desert her." "The story es un recorrido through the whole life of the familia"

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callmeIndigo — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:05:32 -0400

I made this note on my phone one morning after an interesting dream: [quote]English water better than Minnesota water for breathing Magic rock[/quote] Right. And more of my absurd character notes: [quote]why is his name Stephen?[/quote] At the end of a string of notes about a character who is not named Stephen. [quote]doesn't want anyone to know THE SECRET THING[/quote] Because it wouldn't do to give myself spoilers.

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explosioned — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:34:46 -0400

I think this one is my favorite. [quote]

The story is, “man-name” is bathing when he’s attacked by bandits, who steal his fine clothes. In the struggle, he receives a blow on the head and a cut across the chest, and is half-unconscious when his manservant Georg finds him. Georg binds his wounds and gives him his shirt to cover his nakedness. The prince rides by while hunting, they get help, he goes back to the palace and gets free clothes and junk (BAHAHAHAHA), PROBLEM SOLVED.

[/quote] (As backstory, "man-name" is the male persona of the female main character.)

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JamesComstock — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:37:09 -0400

I drop in and out of Spanish in my notes at least once per paragraph, and I'm starting to do the same when I'm actually talking with people IRL... stupid college spanish courses are messin with my head

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Morigale — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 23:18:08 -0400

It took several seconds for me to parse 'RESEARCH BIRDS' as 'do research on birds' instead of 'birds that do research for you'. Man, I need some of those.

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manic ragdoll — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 02:33:02 -0400

Freewriting tends to produce...well...to demonstrate, here's an excerpt from an older one: I bite the tongue of the seraphim eldritch esoteria with a hint of balderdash in the caverns of transfixed time transmute the chameleon with the cigarette in hand as a sphinx screams for her lost love and the pyramids resolve to remain in black night with the stars and stripes falling, always falling in the pattern, I take my pills yes I do but I disdain them they ruin me and save me a simultaneous transpiration perspiration flows from my blackened pores as I beat the willocker with an enigmatic beatboxing match which I light and throw into the caverns of time divulging the hidden reality of the esoteria aforementioned as cthulhu renders ruination to minds of mice, so does god render ruination in similar manner upon the hound of the baskervilles and I fear him not but you must comprehend, dear friend, that there is no direction, no resolve, no purpose, merely drifting, as a toucan drifts through the slipstream of nether realms unaffected by the constraints of time and morality and I sit, pondering, reflecting upon the satyr’s words and meals of children, yes mealy mealy children so scrumptious look at them those despondent black rimmed eyes gazing, always with the blasted gazing how I loathe them the bastards, the twats, running about purporting ignorance they know the truth, the diminutive devils, oh how they know but I shan’t chastise them for it is wrong to chastise a child always ever so wrong I must say that I cannot believe the seraphs have yet to notice the plight of their nature their reality it falls collapses implodes for we have attained the power of reason and knowledge and their pocketwatches fail to show that their time is limited merely show that time keeps ticking as they so boldly proclaim it to be but they lie oh how they lie always wit hthe seeds of falsehood sewn amongst the lambs who are in reality devoid of need for a shepeherd traditionally a herd animal they have developed autonomy oh they have indeed and the crane the reconstruction the effigy of progress ruined ruined ruined as it was always meant to be it was always meant to go down in cinders and seethe in the ground for that is the nature of man the chameleon constantly shifting ever deceiving the bastard

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misslasagna — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 04:21:17 -0400

[quote]Hogwarts for ghosts! (Oh yes I did.)[/quote] Like I need to remind myself... [quote]Human![/quote] Yes, I'm glad you pointed that out. (It is actually relevant...) [quote]Sees [ghost] and readily accepts her as reality. His parents (mom only?) think it's just an imaginary friend until weird things start happening (ohai cliche).[/quote] At least I admit it. [quote]Inadvertently brings [human] into the Afterlife with her - Ultimate No-No![/quote] Great description. [quote]Death was her way of life...? So meta.[/quote] That's the hardcore goth ghost, of course. [quote]Maybe she moves on? *unexpected twist*[/quote] Haha, I love it when I surprise myself. [quote]Finally has to ask for help and admit that she biffed it.[/quote] That made me laugh for some reason. [quote]Ending...?[/quote] Yeah, haven't figured that part out yet. My school is also abbreviated in my notes as SSAASSSAN (Saints and Sinners Academy of Advancement for Spirits, Specters, and Spooks of All Natures), which I say really dramatically in my head (Sah-SAHNNNNNN!), so any sentence with that in it gets pretty exciting.

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fabula_vitae — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:45:43 -0400

I'm pretty sure the entirety of my outline for chapter four consists of these. Somehow "SISTERLY SHOPPING TIME!" and "Elle's delicious baked goods" became something of a running joke, and everything just went downhill from there. [quote]And then she goes back into the store to find that Karis has just finished up buying a couple of more books and says "oh btw I'm going to go to Leo's house for dinner because Elle makes delicious baked goods lol." Karis is like "Well, okay, it's not like you could have bought anything else because you spent all your money" and Selah's like "BUT SISTERLY SHOPPING TIME!" and Karis replies "meh, don't pretend to feel bad, we both know you just want to be with Leo. And Elle's baked goods."[/quote] [quote]Leo opens the door and is like "oh hey, you're right on time" and Selah's like "delicious baked goods?" and Leo's like "Cake!" and Selah's like ":D" because who doesn't like cake?[/quote] I swear the story is meant to be more serious than this. >.>

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Mnemophage — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:19:34 -0400

"Current character roster: 4. Current list of plot-necessary deaths: 8. I think I'm in trouble." "As inspiration for writing in Linda's perspective, eat only hamburgers for a week." "Monsters = superficially resemble a member of the viewer's own species, explaining their humanoid shape. That's not what they really look like, though. More like a cross between the sun and a bubble and a black hole, with huge sweeping rays of scanning light touching everything around them like a guy too drunk to see. So, humanoid. Except if you're insane. Or a cow." "explode a vulture in mid-air just to show how cool I am" I wonder what's wrong with me sometimes. And I gave up on the hamburgers after two. Not two days, two burgers.

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Jennifermwcg — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:36:35 -0400

I have a few: 1: Ominous pigeons!!!! YES!!! LILLY FINDS AN OMINOUS PIGEON! or duck or something. Can't explain that one... 2. So Hanna like fixes the elevator, then the pharaoh comes and is like hi and stuff. Um... There is no elevator, and this isn't in ancient Egypt 3. Then someone screams because th evil Villain is doing some evil plot that'll have ta be figured out or something. ... O.O I would assume the writer should know the evil motive BEFORE they have to write it... 4: "so then like OP will how'd by DE and" By the way, it's probably a bad idea to sneak on here during school. It's so hard to keep from laughing.

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thecandiedmango — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:45:28 -0400

[quote] mad haggling skills[/quote] Huh. [quote]he gets way sick and almost dies. this is related to his shit asthma. he has a deeeeep manly voice. like, mmmmm.[/quote] Asthma=deep voice, naturally. [quote]SHOT IN THE SKULL IN HER HOSPITAL BED[/quote] Nope, not morbid at all. [quote]THEY RUN INTO SUPERNATURAL CRAP (such as that scene inspired by “Streetlights”)[/quote] [quote]things the kids do when out in the west lands: build shit ride ponies bake potatoes work on the railways get sexy get lost[/quote] What.

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Breakingchains — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:22:37 -0400

This is right in the middle of a plot analysis: [quote]OH GOD OH GOD NANO IS ALMOST HERE IT'S SO CLOSE I CAN TASTE IT IT TASTES LIKE.... WORD COUNT[/quote] ... Yeah.

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rainstorm. — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:42:36 -0400

[quote] In MY UNNAMED NOVEL. [/quote] So I have a title now, but apparently when I did these notes I was pretty mad about not having one. xD [quote] right after trying to be all "I'm too cool and un-girly for that tv show" [/quote] ... [quote] did not want to get their hoes down [/quote] Uh..haha. I meant to say "get their HOPES down". (By the way, I don't even think that's an actual phrase. I think it's just get your hopes UP.) [quote] I SHOULD KNOW, I'M PLANNING OUT THE NOVEL. >:E [/quote] What is that emoticon? ._. [quote] who hits Lyynn in the head with a shovel [/quote] *Lynn. And also first TSOD death so far! :D (But pretty sure there's only 2-3...and my MC gets attacked by it but survives.) [quote] make them perfecter [/quote] Where is my grammar at 12am? [quote] And you call yourself a likeable character...[/quote] Me talking to one of my characters after she screamed at me and got super mad. [quote] You're supposed to disagree with me, idiot. You're supposed to say "Oh, no, Kaylin, you're so nice!" [/quote] My MC, after I agreed with her that she's a bit rude. (You see why? xD) [quote] Kay "WEL OFGDJGIBJ U N THDE PEDDDAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" [/quote] I can still tell what this was supposed to say ._. Something about pedestals. [quote] cos of bitemates. [/quote] "Because of nightmares". It's kinda sad that I can read most of my illegible notes.

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Procrastinator Extraordinaire — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:42:52 -0400

I refer to all of my characters as numbers in my notes. Why? [quote] 4 then sees five and flips a whistle because five is dead and people don't show up in coffee houses. ___ after some canfoodleshopping they agree that this is awesomefoxy [/quote] ...Apparently I decided to make up some words...

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rehtse — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:15:32 -0400

Excuse the terrible spelling and even worse sentence structure. This note makes very little sense because I am guessing I wrote it very late at night. ;) " if tredan was captured by carnifex at the very very end of the first. a slave(possibly mute) in carnifexes kingdom who attend to tredan. she sort of falls in love with him but it is unrequited and tredan would be basically emo by this point in the story and feels he hurts everyone he loves lol anyways in book 3 i thought she should try to kill soraya out of jelousy but would end up dying herself because of it " Now I get this is pretty hard to understand since there are random characters and stuff you won't know about but basically what happened when I reread it was i stepped back and realized that it read very similarly to a sort of mixture of the little mermaid and the ending of king lear. I scraped this, but i remember writing it and it seemed like such a good idea at the time. ^_^

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Rubyfruit — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:18:21 -0400

On my most recent outline: [quote]b. Maybe there are ninjas? Maybe each MoTD gets a wave of minions of their own or something?[/quote] For Context: MoTD = Monster of the Day. I'm using Magical Girl as the basis of my as-of-now thin, thin plotline.

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lisard — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:48:04 -0400

I just looked over my sticky notes on my computer from a couple nights ago... pg.11 is important enough to mention... pg 11 from what???? I'm not even in the middle of a book right now.

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writeswithafist — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:46:18 -0400

I just want you to know I'm adding "flips a whistle" to my vocabulary this instant.

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Headlights — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 22:33:01 -0400

My character notes for this year's NaNo go as such: [quote]weird uncle call: is really cooky[/quote] Kooky, maybe? [quote]mr. and mrs. call: they're molesty or something[/quote] ...No comment. [quote]julian: he's a sassy badass pyro[/quote] All the makings of a solid protagonist.

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thecandiedmango — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 22:57:08 -0400

[quote=Headlights][quote] julian: he's a sassy badass pyro[/quote] All the makings of a solid protagonist.[/quote] Agreed. Have you ever played TF2? That's the first thing I thought of.

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Zealot — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:02:30 -0400

Oh, gosh. So many. So, so many. Half my notes are digressions or outbursts of emotions. "I’m not feeling the cold. I need to feel the cold. How am I going to feel the cold?" "But see! Here is my quandary! My quagmire! My . . . (hold on; I'm in the English section of the library) . . . Quicksand! Reason to be quashed! Qualm! Quarry! Quarrel! Quahog! Quadruply quaint quadrille! I love libraries. It's the knowledge bank for lazy people. Like a fat man lying under a short pear tree." "But in all sobriety, that may be a good idea." "If I were you and I had a death wish and if I (in my own faculties, not yours) was in a good mood, I (meaning you; confused yet?) would go ask the main characters to tell you the story and hope the Me-I doesn't drop a loose roof tile atop you. Or me. Now you've got me confused! Nothing but 3rd person here on out." "Start with words of FREEZE. Descriptors. Mountains? White? White? MAYBE?!" "March 24, 2010. I'm going to stare at this computer until I kill it or it kills me. Right now, either appears quite likely." . . . .And then there's the necessary battles between future and past selves as the layers of notes increase and Past Zealot's sheer idiocy becomes clear. "Bog lady! HA! Punny! (time lapse) *Exasperated Future Zealot grabs Past Zealot and stuffs her in a barrel of cyanide with a snifter and a pair of socks*" "Um. Gossy-goose was a typo for goosy-goose, but I like gossy-goose. GOSSYPOL IS TOXIC! EXCELLENT! Future Zealot hates me! Future Zealot hates me! (time lapse) . . . Of course, I assume that Future Zealot isn't just as weird as I am. (time lapse) Oh, she is. She's just not as inconsiderate."

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Kaserl — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:30:14 -0400

Please tell me I'm not the only one who thought of "Victory is at our fingertips Quirrel! I can almost taste it. It tastes like.... cool mint." "That's our Listerine, my lord/Voldemort." I can't remember if it's before or after "You can call me Voldemort, we're there!"

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Elfdragon12 — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:33:20 -0400

Just ask Tom Holt. The Milk Marketing Board is the biggest conspiracy makers of them all.

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Deps — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:51:12 -0400

Oh dear, I have no idea what this is: [quote] Everyone has robots? No wait, medieval. Wooden robots? Coffee time. [/quote]

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kwizzitive — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 02:32:25 -0400

I don't have a lot of notes, but I'm trying to give myself reasons for conflicts in a story where several friends live in the same house.... This is one that I came up with. "Mentions of bad breath... Like, sitting together and then someone says something like they can't it anymore and then the other person is like what and the other person is like your breath... and then someone's feelings get hurt and they go to the bathroom to brush their teeth and never come back into the living room, or wherever..."

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Aiyandra — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:30:32 -0400

I recently tried to organise my plot. Apparently 6 hours of sleep confuse my brain a lot, which would explain the constant language swap in my notes. And the lolspeak. And the emoticons. [quote]She's been cyborg'd as one of the first bc her boss made it a requirement... u know, like a BOSS[/quote] I don't even know what to say to this. [quote]She's like "lolwhut" and he's like "hurry up b*tch". alchemists must be incredibly dumb not to recognize an airship probably about twice the size of a house flying away[/quote] Yes, yes they are. Also I censored the "b*tch" in my handwritten notes. I'm cursing like an old saylor most of the time... [quote]Ned joins them and is all like "lulz me is doctor :D"[/quote]Doesn't he sound like a competent doctor? Like one you would entrust your life to? Well, the MCs have no choice. Sucks to be them. [quote]Susu: "wtf me no why whangst bla". [/quote] My dialogue is so fitting for a Victorian Era-ish setting. [quote]Isa's his company, their forced to pretend ROMANTIC ROMANCE MUCH :D[/quote] Apparently I was so delighted by the romantic romance that I forgot the difference between they're and their. I am ashamed. At the end of the page, we have a doodle of a chibi pirate looking sad with "...no sky pirats?" being written next to it. I must admit, the doodle is quite good.

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Rainy — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:04:27 -0400

Oh my goodness. I love this thread! This year, last year. I could never read it without laughing. :) I myself don't have many to contribute due to lack of planning, but I do have a few. On the post-it above all the others: Prequel to Fire and Ash. Same rules APPLY! (Underlined. Twice.) Beside that is written vertically: Don't forget that. Again. And then boxed in the corner of the same post-it: Already F*****. (*teeny tiny handwriting next to it* Cange to suit F&A or VV?... Nah.) Well, nice to know I don't care whether or not the two stories have inconcistencies the size of Texas all over the place. I mean, it's not like it really matters. AT ALL. -_- Btw, I'm pretty sure VV = Vice Versa. "The forgotten will be remembered. Remember that." Except, you know, they're forgotten. I have no clue who they are anymore. On a Character card: Michal; spirit affinity. [VILLAIN] I don't know what he did, but whatever it is must be BAD. SO HE'S BAD. I think he's a god. Or just a big jerk Because the gods are just a bunch of jerks. Of course, that makes perfect sense.

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Hannan — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:35:49 -0400

Love this thread! My notes: 'Pirates definitely pirates and oh there needs to be Christmas as well. Cause lately I’m feeling ridiculously chrismassy must be a sign from the universe! Yes I do realize that this takes place on entirely different planet and that is quite ridiculous for you to celebrate Christmas seeing that is sort of earthly but we also have skittles so might as well have Christmas. Also Christmas is brilliant so maybe Christmas will safe this story. Or else the skittles will. Christmas and skittles will rule!' 'So I guess the cute one has to die.' No, no no! There's absolutely no need for the cute on to die. NaNo has not even started and already I'm thinking about who I could kill, without killing the story to much. Also wondering why my notes are in English whilst my book really is going to be in Dutch.

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emmarcella — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:08:20 -0400

'Could Nat be behind all of the problems? There are to many for a normal month, so is something else bringing in all of the other issues? CORRUPTION! Like in the 1930’s in SP, when the gangsters basically controlled the city!!!!! Ha! Bring in references to John Dillinger!!!!!!!' I had no caffeine before writting that.

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Rubyfruit — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:11:49 -0400

More from me! [quote]Having two endings = higher wordcount![/quote] and [quote]i. Weird that Nicole and Irina’s mooks aren’t Magical Girls, but I have sexy ninjas, so it all evens out. And said ninjas are also magical…ish? ii. And the shoddy fight scenes that ensue.[/quote] And [quote]i. And the horribly written fight scene that ensues. God I suck at fight scenes. I suck so hard at fight scenes words do not express the major suckage that I suck at fight scenes.[/quote] "The major suckage that I suck". This is what happens when I outline and let my thoughts spill upon the outline.

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Rubyfruit — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:12:34 -0400

I wish there was an Edit Key. But yeah. Nicole and Irina are minor antagonists. And yes. Sexy Ninjas have invaded the novel and I haven't written it yet.

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Geesafaire — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:18:21 -0400

"Time traveling procrastinator: 'I'll do it yesterday.'" xD "Amelia helps?" With what, I don't know. "Atlantis. Bulls. moo." What is this I don't even. And then I have, unconnected to any other notes, the words "por que?"

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faerie_kitten — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:47:45 -0400

I'm ratehr worried that recently my notes have all started refering to me as two people, maybe more. I keep randonly putting *evil grin* in the middle of them. but on the plus side, I only have one more project to plan before NaNo starts!

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IamSamThisIsMe — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:28:31 -0400

My new favourite notes that I have scrawled over the last few evenings/ v. early mornings On a Scene Note: [quote] Scott goes to 'Whipped' Kinkeh times? Who knows , what with B being there. He heads off home, potentially with hot future boyfriend in tow. Should he play hard to get? Do guys play hard to get??? FIND OUT' [/quote] ^^ I Need a researcher, just to get through all the bits I have marked as 'FIND OUT' Also, Kinkeh? did I lose the ability to spell? *facepalm* On another Scene Note: [quote] consistency of routine standard. Do we stick a quad in training and ignore it in a routine? does the reader care? do I care? Should he fail, or fly? like a bird, or like a bird hit by a stone? Splat! although Ice doesn't make that noice, more of a crash squeak than anything. [/quote] ^^ It's comforting to know that my brain regresses to early childhood when exhausted. and in relation to the background music I was describing in a scene: [quote] Something with strings. Lots and lots of strings, like a beethoven's 5th kind of thing, with a more epic, Enya meets Two steps from Hell feel, without getting to Weberny. FIND A PIECE. Maybe lack of strings makes the piece more effective? Strings or no Strings? Flutey or stringey? *cue confused music* Maybe silence? Maybe John Cage. oooh 4.33 would be cool. NO! we MUST have music! [/quote] ^^ My brain seems to think that my life has a soundtrack, just like my novel. Also, this lack of terminilogy makes the A-level music student in me depressed, although I do like how my half-asleep brain references Webern and John Cage

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IamSamThisIsMe — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:31:30 -0400

[quote] Time-travelling Procrastinator ~ 'I'll do that yesterday [/quote[ I take my hat off to you Geesafaire. If this would fit with my novel, I would steal it, as it is pure genius :)

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Axael — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:00:54 -0400

[quote]"What the hell does that mean? Formal Dress Days?" "Its the faculty's polite way of saying we all get to look extra super duper ugly on special occasions!"[/quote] [quote](insert inappropriate yaoi dream sequence)[/quote] ... This will be either extremely disturbing or extremely amusing, depending on who the pairing is. [quote]james(older) evolves several hairstyles[/quote] And thats what happens when you write notes while playing Pokemon Gold. All I know is I apparently have MORE THAN ONE James (joy, multiple characters with the same name x_x ) and one of them has an ever evolving hairstyle.

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Mischief Managed. — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:38:14 -0400

Earliest notes on my NaNo for this year: "Crime. Crime crime, always gotta be crime. Maybe with a bit more gung-ho action than anything else you've written? Definitely kill off someone good for a change. (and then as a tiny little side note) *Use the name Timothy, Edward or Alex and you'll die. Painfully*." Newer notes: "So, in this part basically, you're gonna write about how amazing [unnamed suspect] has been at hiding everything. Then he's gonna shoot the living crap out of male policeman 1, who you're gonna be upset about, cause he's majorly fit." "FMC shall be a kind, gentle thing. She shall call everyone by the nickname 'chicken', and make tea for everyone, even though she's not British. Although it isn't only British people that make tea anyway, but...yeah~" (I actually have a really crappily drawn '~' in my notes. I'm a sad act). "Scottish people! Make a Scottish person in it! And make them say that they come from the land of the Haggis and Irn Bru. Godsake, favourite line much?" (There's a wee haggis drawing beside this. I'm rather fond of it. His name is Harry, and there is a little arrow pointing towards him stating that fact.) I can see my notes helping me TONS throughout November...most of them are just me having conversations with myself about things that really don't apply, seriously.

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AGhra — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:29:03 -0400

I often find myself talking to myself in my notes. Apparently I am trying to convince myself of things as well. For example: (About a character) "Is good. No, genuinely." I also seem to write my notes very late at night, and also seem to get tired of planning. For example, when it came to a character who is a priest and will have a conversation about religion with my MC, I wrote: "Just write something clever!"

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crzybndgal — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 20:48:43 -0400

It's after and I totally thought of that too!!!!! ^^

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Sebz — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:35:09 -0400

I will not be plotting at three in the morning anymore >:) "So hes gonna be all romantic and stuff, totally out of character but whatever, and Meira will just be all like... f you. Your mean to me, you push me around, you used me as a human shield, so hell no. I will not be your lover. Oh no she didn't OH NO SHE DIDNT. So I guess they'll become a couple later, if she ever gets over the fact that the Sexy Beast is a complete ahole whose curse causes him to kill everybody he gets closed to. Yea."

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youphoria — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 23:45:46 -0400

Amid Serious Character Planning and Serious Plot Planning I have... [quote]Bullet trains![/quote]

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Morigale — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 04:12:43 -0400

[quote]Wolf can't stay with them because it would be a bother for me to work with, so he has a hotel room or something.[/quote] Well at least I'm honest when I can't be bothered to work something out...

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TeeVee — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 05:52:51 -0400

I have on that I typed into the notes on my phone in the middle of the night. "Banni Glorb the light shines from within it" 'Banni' was the title of the note. I don't even know what that means. As for the note itself...your guess is as good as mine.

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luna_moonsilver — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 07:54:53 -0400

I did *not* think of that, but now I can't stop laughing and clearly need to watch AVPM again...

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Lisa.Vail — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 08:18:24 -0400

On trying to decide my character's name - Name ideas. M...Micheal? Nah, I'd never spell it right. C...Cameron? Too common. Ah! His name needs to be grandios (i misspelt it) to contrast with his moody teenager personality!!! Curio...? Cu.... Cultiv...ato - wtf. That's not even a name! -Tears hair out- Surname Ideas. Harper. Clarke. NO! Surname must be GRAND! Ah. Somover, So...lihull? No, that's a shopping centre. Need a royal, grand surname. Google! Montgomery, Hawthorne... Ooh, Rothschild! Ooh, Gildebrant! Okay, so this novel is taking place in some non existent county on the Welsh border but also by cliffs and the sea! Realism fail. Age... uh, 19. Birthday MUST BE CHRISTMAS EVE. I've been in the mood for christmas lately - he will be a christmas child! A posh christmas child born on the welsh border who lives near a cliff! Yes, this novel is going to be awesome. Reading the notes back again... Hmm.

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Mischief Managed. — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:15:30 -0400

Had a splash of inspiration last night which pretty much re-wrote my plot. The notes were written between two and three this morning, and it's pretty obvious. [quote]Sooo! Police officers and detectives. Let's start with the seniors. Allison and Tom. Tom, who was originally Stephan, who is now a suspect. The Stephan name change, that is. Then you've got junior detectives. Junior detectives, do they even exist? Actually, is there such a thing as junior and senior detectives, or are they just all one big detectivey mass? [/quote] And now onto trying to think of a name for the village. [quote]Pinochie Point. YES. WAIT. That's the name of an area in The Sims. Back to the drawing board~[/quote] [quote] What sort of name is Pentview Point, oh my god. It sounds like the cheesy name for the penthouse room in some stupid hotel. WAIT. How can I incorporate a hotel into my novel. Vikki, you're a genius[/quote] And then this at the very end: [quote] Vikki, just go to bed. Now. Yep, stop writing. Allison and Tom will be waiting when you get up. Put the pen down. Now.[/quote]

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woebegone121 — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 12:08:26 -0400

Found this one in the mass that I wrote last night: [quote]OH MY GOD demons possess old people and revolt in the nursing and retirement homes! Or zombies. Whut? Like, necromancers and stuff? Dude, I don't even know but I want badass old people. Zombie old people would be easier to beat the stuffing out of. Not that I advocate beating up old people. Because I don't.[/quote]

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K. Hinton — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 12:48:57 -0400

[quote] "Sara is startled to see a young woman (who looks like a teenager)" Will someone explain why I didn't just say "teenager"?[/quote] You were just preparing for word-count padding at the Department of Redundancy Department ;)

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Headlights — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:19:29 -0400

No, but if it has sassy badass pyros in it then I want in. xD

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ryder631 — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:26:20 -0400

These were taken around 2 in the morning while eating a large bag of pretzel-shaped gharam crackers. "okay why's he insane? Did his creepy uncle touch him, or what? Or clowns! Clowns are serious shit. Think of traumatizing circus experience later." Later in my notes, I found this scrawled across a page in all caps. "CLOWNS TURN PEOPLE INSANE. NOTE TO SELF: AVOID AT ALL COSTS. BRING CYANIDE PILLS EVERYWHERE IF CLOWNFRONTATION IS UNAVOIDABLE".

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writeswithafist — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:37:27 -0400

Cultivato would be a hilarious name for somebody who spends a lot of time in a greenhouse.

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KathrynMorne — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:08:41 -0400

Apparently I haven't figured out what happens in the middle of my novel. "Shit happens and they kinda like fall in love." "Then more shit happens and their ship crashes to the planet surface which is populated by the Ancient Ones/Cthulhu." "Blah, blah, angst, angst, epic battle." "They get their ship working again." I think I need to do some serious planning...

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SkidPuppet — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:14:29 -0400

"Guy agrees due to a chronic condition known as spinelessness." As he learns later in the novel, his condition is pretty life-disrupting. On a slightly related note, at some point I realized that my MC's placeholder name fit better than any other name I came up with for him, so now his name is legitimately "Guy." In all fairness, at least it's much better than two characters from my previous novel, Noname and Hunoes (pronounced "who knows".)

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rachum_05 — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 20:51:44 -0400

Laughing SO hard.

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rachum_05 — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 21:16:14 -0400

I totally want some Research Birds.

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miss_dede — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 21:45:50 -0400

I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack. I had some real doozys in the last two threads, and to be honest I thought I'd gotten the whole bad notes thing out of my system. Nope. Sure didn't. [quote]She was murdered by her boyfriend. (Why? I don't know, GOSH.)[/quote] GOSH. Stop asking me questions about my story. [quote] No one would notice if M went missing. She was just a lowly thingy, after all. [/quote] I don't. Thingy? [quote]But M's family stole the body back and buried it in a pauper's grave (at least then she would be free of the Baron - he took her life, well technically he didn't, but he was a real poohead so why would she want to be buried in his plot? You know? Not that she would technically care, she's dead. Except for her ghost. OMG. Why can't I stop. I can't stop writing. Flu medication nghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh-[/quote] In my defence, I'm not well. This was all hand-written, and the nghhhh got cut off because I ran out of space on the ppaer. However, looking at my desk today, I can see some of the 'hhhhh' actually written on my desk. When you run out of paper, just use your desk! Genius! [quote]When B discovers that M has been moved, she is angry... but then again, it's been 500 years so really she couldn't give a dude. So basically, that was a pointless sentence. Moving on.[/quote] First of all. Pointless sentences FTW! Second of all, I think 'dude' was supposed to be 'duck'. I think I actually meant another word altogether though.... [quote] REVENGE!!!! SUSPENSE!!!!! OH NO SHE DIDN'![/quote] [quote] So is he horny, or does he just eat people?[/quote] [quote] Does any of this actually apply to the story? NO? WHY AM I STILL WRITING???[/quote] I'm sick, okay? I don't know what I'm doing anymore. [quote] And to be honest, JC was always my favourite NSYNC member, because I just felt like he brought a lot of soul to the group, you know?[/quote] And it was at this point that I decided to call it a night :3

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jenbarosin — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:04:59 -0400

Noname and Hunoes. That is brilliant. Seriously.

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jenbarosin — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:12:18 -0400

My best notes have to be 1. my zombie idea "Using neurogenesis, people reanimate the dead and use them for cheap labor, burning the bodies when they fall to pieces. Creepy, but effective. You should get on this." Who does my brain think I am? A mad scientist? Well, I am, but that is beside the point. 2. my other idea (the one I'll be using. It isn't fleshed out yet. As you can see why) "Fairytales getting loose? Or is that too much like that new show? What's its face? Once upon a time? With Cameron from House! I don't know. I want Cameron's hair though." And here is the one character name that I could read (I have messy handwriting, gosh!) "Coffee Cup Guy [A college-age guy who runs the general store. Always has a coffee cup and a battered copy of On the Road by Jack Kerouac. Acknowledges that being as hipster as he is has consumed a part of his soul. No one knows his name (it's Garth, but only he knows)] I don't have a main character but I have Garth. I feel safe.

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marielaurent_2223 — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:21:58 -0400

The plan for my notes for my Nano novel this year is a GLTBQ Scifi Erotic novel. Dealing with a young female woman born and raised in a lab with escaping to find love and i named the government the strikers which works pretty well for me i think.

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misslasagna — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:30:17 -0400

I love the epic battle one :P

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S O L A R O S E — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:38:59 -0400

"I need a lesbian here" In my defense, it makes total sense in context! See the story has all female characters, but I enjoy a little tension, so I want to make one lesbian just for full awkwardness/conflict/padding my word count.

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S O L A R O S E — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:52:21 -0400

Bits of this sound like something Jack Sparrow would say while very drunk.

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Silhouette. — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 23:05:16 -0400

I was filling out some character points after a ten hour work shift... and this happened. [quote]Losses: Dillon and her dad, for a bit. Permanent? Maybe her mum. Actually, probably her mum. Crap. Now I’ve got to kill her mum. [/quote] Bed time (:

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DhiLoKee — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 03:19:09 -0400

Heh, I've got a bunch of entertaining ones this year... "This scene will include a large amount of screaming, being tackled in the mud, and, like I said, the first obvious use of the sorcerer powers. Everyone facepalms because she bound the damn thing to her gun rather than being able to have PHENOMENAL COSMIC POWER!" "The reason MC’s dragon got into the meteorite was because she was using him like a pig after truffles to make a little side cash. Of COURSE he ate some." "Yes, it’s complicated. It's your own damn fault for making twenty-eight species." "The Orient: Oh god, we need one of these, don’t we? Along with the equivalent of a savage Africa. More thoughts on this later." "Flying mountains, you say?: Flying mountains/islands with cities on them, yes. ALL of these that are found are claimed by the GPS. Lol, GPS." "Guns: We love guns." "Heck yeah she can shoot all sorts of crap out of this gun now, and never runs out of ammo. Fireballs. Plasma slugs. Titanium bullets. YEAH. AWESOME GUN. Lever action rifle. No scope, all dragonriders are trained to 1. know their gun better than they know themselves and 2. shoot with the manual sights with an accuracy rivaled only by modern real-world military snipers. IF real-world modern military snipers could set up and shoot while diving at 100 mph on the back of a moving dragon AT someone else on a moving dragon. BECAUSE HECKYEAH."

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Rubyfruit — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 03:59:04 -0400

[quote]Because Laurel won't cooperate if I call her Laura.[/quote] I had to remind myself of this. Laurel's name was going to be Laura before I decided that I had too many female characters in this story whose names ended with "-a". And... On my Settings Outline, this: [quote]1. Giant mansion with umptybillion rooms and far too many female servants. [/quote] About a character's house. I am not sure how large a number "umptybillion" is.

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Lisa.Vail — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 05:05:03 -0400

And suddenly my muse tells me to add in a groundskeeper called Cultivato. Oh, by the way. In the end I chose the name Merrill, so it turned out not to be posh and rich, but sounding more like a Welsh farmer's boy.

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miss_dede — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 09:36:41 -0400

[quote=Rubyfruit] 1. Giant mansion with umptybillion rooms and far too many female servants. [/quote] Pretty sure 'umptybillion' is now my new favourite word :P

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Geesafaire — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:27:08 -0400

Just found this... [quote]There are more "sleeping rooms" downstairs.[/quote] Try "bedroom," self.

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chel.c.cam — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:11:14 -0400

Quote:the best romance stories end with one party chasing after another on a suddenly-appeared and very convenient horse This^^^^!!!!!

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Scuzzimei — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:52:40 -0400

This is my notes for one of my side character's this year: Hazen Wynstelle is the Crown Prince of Rhodol. And seeing how his father's obsession is hurting the kingdom, combined with the fact that he was raised more by his mother than by Deodar, who's constantly out battling Sard, he gets to be nice. Unfortunately, he also gets to be killed, or atleast that's currently my plan, so he doesn't end up doing much good for anyone.

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Scuzzimei — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:54:37 -0400

That whole "Crap, now I've got to kill her mum", sounds so much like some of my notes. I couldn't help but LOL over it.

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Headlights — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:22:17 -0400

And then the genius: [quote]Shit! Julian needs a job! He works at the supermarket now, okay? OKAY?[/quote] It says this, word for word, in my notebook. I need to stop writing like I'm talking to myself.

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KaityGirl — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:05:56 -0400

This one: Give him a magical weapon. Something along the lines of Excalibur in that it can only be used by The One. Except I don't want him to be The One. He's really not that important. I want him to be The One At The Moment. Maybe The One Born In This Lifetime But Not The Only The One To Ever Exist. TOBITLBNTOTOTEE I then proceeded to spend the next few minutes trying to pronounce that acronym. XD

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rainstorm. — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:55:22 -0400

Clownfrontation? May I just say that that is the funniest thing I've heard all day xD

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agreysky — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:33:31 -0400

While I was taking notes, I described one particularly evil character as a "lying skank wad".

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The-Black-Cat — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:15:29 -0400

I can't explain why I laughed for an unreasonable amount of time and the "IS HE THOMAS? YES NO!"

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Taekwondodo — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 19:14:56 -0400

Aaaaaaaah... So much hilarity! I only seem to have a couple (I tend to write in 'scenes') but here they are anyway. "The beginning is actually the end" Talking about my NaNo for this year where it was going to be that the whole story was a kind of flashback but I nuked that idea. "Zany adventures with Ian" Who is actually called Ayen now, fun fact. For a story I'm writing at the moment, before I knew what was going to happen. But it was going to be zany! Not so zany anymore actually...

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LibraryMouse233 — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 19:45:15 -0400

Julian is beautiful he shone there is practically a halo around his head he is a little puppy one raises in a good home of glowing people who shine brightly like stars and I seem to really be liking this light motif which is kind of funny but oh week anyways he is really sweet and young the youngest of the group he is a little naive but not as much as people think he is and he knows more about the streets of Paris then people give him credit for and I love this little dude he makes me smile he is always smiling and rooms with Auralien which is why he reacts so violently and out of character for himself when A betrays the group which really threw me for a loop since I was expecting to do that at all but anyways he punches Aurelien in the face and the others have to pull him off of him. Yeah totally unexpected and I'm totally ignoring grammar riht now And spelling apparently oh week it make these more enjoyable to read at the end of this whole crazy experience Word for wors what I wrote this morning on my IPod. Small amounts of sleep and early mornings don't mix with writing apparently. And I am appalled by my blatant lack of grammar and spelling despite having acknowledged it.

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bobo_the_bard — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 01:12:57 -0400

Ahhh, here is a good one! "Caliiry, did you take the [insert name of large and extremely powerful weapon of mass destruction] from the [tribe name]?." *pause* "It's not stealing if it's archaeology!" *sigh* "Give it back."

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belle_laide — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 01:21:10 -0400

Just read through this entire thread, you guys are hilarious! I don't really have any beyond trailing off a sentence with "for some reason I haven't figure out yet". Unfortunately there is a high occurrence of this phrase in my notes. :( I do like to punctuate certain notes with *BOOM! when I actually figure out some detail that's been escaping me or *DELICIOUS! when it's something I'm particularly in love with.

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ruokkt — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 02:00:45 -0400

I was reading some notes from a Doctor Who fanfic that was never written, and my favorite note is definitely: "yes I know you can't have memories from when you're days old but she's part time lady so shut it." I tell myself to shut up a lot.

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Aelfay — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 02:21:43 -0400

OH my gosh. Time travelling procrastinator needs to happen. if not I'll steal it. :D XD

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Aelfay — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 02:28:23 -0400

Was 'glorb' supposed to be 'globe'? Like, light shines from within a globe?

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Aelfay — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 02:32:53 -0400

I do love the zombie idea. Cheap, and humane. I mean, exploiting the dead isn't exploiting, right?

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Aelfay — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 02:36:33 -0400

As many as Humpty Dumpty likes, of course. I'm posting an awful lot on this thread. It seems that if I'm up too late I cease to be a lurker.

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Aelfay — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 02:37:42 -0400

I actually was tired enough to read the acronym "TOBEORNOTTOBE" which I think fits the idea rather well. :)

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Aelfay — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 02:38:50 -0400

Well, it's not. Right? Right? ... crap.

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pixie_face — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 03:42:09 -0400

My scribblings tend to be of the losing-my-grip-on-reality variety that I don't remember writing during sleep-deprived, caffeine-overdosed writing sessions. Some notes I can't even decipher. Some are just numbers or pictures of stop signs, everywhere. There's also a lot of cursing at things, but I don't think I'm allowed to post that kind of stuff here. In my world building phase when I was constructing a city that thrives on scientific discovery: "and science and IT SMELLS SO GOOD towards the center of the city like a hot pocket will smell like foot paper on the outside but beefy tender on inside" This was scrawled on the side of a map I drew: "inscrienses? why so valued??? you are not special" Stupid inscriences, nobody likes you. I found this on a hot pink sticky note shoved inside a stack of story notes: "you are a strange large animal man - repeat ad nauseum" In some plotting notes: "hot man + dog walk into sunset. holla back!" "hes moaning because of so much pain. ung ung oh baby." In some characterization notes: "like the pope but with no phallic hat. so... not the pope, then. nvm." And then this thing. It was on another sticky note. I don't... I don't know: "he forgot moms birthday. but there were 32 pizzas and 1 bread. he says, its a possibility of pizzas!"

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blindmirage — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 04:54:28 -0400

This thread is hilarious. I have a few. "Why can't he do it himself NO that f*cks up the timeline. Wee! Time shenanigans! "Then chara A dicks around while waiting for his preganant mother to JUST GIVE BIRTH ALREADY so for like a month they're sent off to do stupid shit and also military police because chara b just kinda walked off or "deserted" because when you're god equivilant says "Hey guess what" you damned well say what." Yeah.

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WrittenWord — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 05:41:20 -0400

[quote]DO NOT succumb to temptation to write epilogue no matter HOW far behind Nov. 30.[/quote] Written very large, circled, starred, and underlined. Evidently yesterday when I was planning I felt this was extremely important. [quote]BFF=Marco-like but totally not named Marco b/c that's too blatant Animorphs ref[/quote] ...Yeah...his name eventually became Kane Malloy. [quote]Jefferson + not-Marco + other friend = Boy Scouts[/quote] With the following addendum immediately afterwards: [quote]Why do I keep calling him not-Marco? I have a book of 140,000 names![/quote] I quit. [quote]Other friend=Alecsei "Alec" Phlegmenkoff (not really, find an actual Slavic surname)[/quote] Bonus points if you get the reference.

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aimada — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 06:20:19 -0400

Oh my god, you're brilliant. What rebel hipster teen wouldn't think trying to survive the apocalypse is too mainstream? Heck, I'm sure most already do. I feel like this concept will alter the world of the apocalypse. Write it!! I need to know more! =D

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aimada — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 06:26:35 -0400

So, I have this sticky note above my desk. "How the F do they get Here?!?!!? I don't know. Which may be why I wrote the note to begin with... unfortunately, I also don't know who "they" are or where "here" is anymore, so the "How the F" part has become somewhat less important at this point.

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Geesafaire — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 09:22:46 -0400

I called one chaeacter "non-Evan" for months. I still do sometimes, even though his name is now Cecil.

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LozzT-In-Time — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 09:26:36 -0400

After browsing my NaNoWriMo folder, I found these killers. Some were from last year, some from CampNaNo and some for this NaNo. 13/10/10: 'Shut up, self. Anna knows how to handle it.' 16/11/10: 'Seriously? Write more, otherwise you'll die!' 12/4/10: 'EDIT EDIT EDIT EDIT!' Aug'11: 'Emma needs the birds' Aug'11: 'Wait, what? Since when is the monster gay?' (<- this one relates to a particularly funny CampNaNoIsm: '"Shall we move before the big scary monster gays us?" Robin asked in a small voice. Emma frowned. "No, I'm pretty sure it just wants to talk." ') 19/09/11: ' 'Alayna' not 'Elena' - she was in other 'Des'.' (I'm not even sure what this means. Des?!) 20/09/11: ' "I like the Stones," - wait, don't put that; they'll think she likes rocks, and that sucks.' 3/10/11: 'Name schl after my schl? M.Jones will think I'm weird writing notes when I should be writing CA stuffs :/ ' 15/10/11: 'Lana? No, not Lana, she was the other idea. This is Alayna nn' James, not Lana nn' Daniel. Or Anna nn' Edward.' (Oh great, now I'm getting my current NaNo'11 idea mixed up with my last year's NaNo and the other idea I scrapped) 20/10/11: '♪♫Loving Cup♪♫ Oh no, not another Stones track. I'm addicted to them. I'M A STONER! :O' (not quite that literally, self) 22/10/11: 'D or no D? Think VD and EG or maybes BM. Rem' that.' (WHAT?! What does this even MEAN?!)

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LozzT-In-Time — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:10:34 -0400

I've got more from today... Quote: 'In Oxford - just wants good grades. J.P wants Claim b/c C.M hates. Claim or no Claim?' <- Huh? Quote: ''Just get it over with' & 'if you're going to do it, may as well do it yourself'' Quote: 'Tasha - popular one' Quote: 'James likes: Reading, listening to music, dancing (properly)' <- This one made me literally LOL

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Lola-Sakura — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 13:29:43 -0400

Oh god I have so many of these. At the moment, my favourite thing that is happening to my notes is that this kind of thing keeps popping up: "The Night find Finch first and turn him INTO A VAMPIRE YAAAAAY, mistaking him for a WEREWOLF YAAAAAY, who would be socially destroyed if he was turned INTO A VAMPIRE YAAAAAAY" I changed the 'subject' of my novel because I thought I couldn't work with vampires and werewolves, so all the notes got changed as well, and then I figured out that actually the plot didn't work at all without some kind of rivalry device and I'm too lazy to add more problems to my plot so I brought them back, thus they returned to my notes inthis format xD

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petrichorandbowties — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 13:59:06 -0400

So far I'm trying to think of a plot. My notes so far run like this: -okay so her bestie is a werewolf...no fail -lesbian vampires? -hell yes -kill ALL the characters ...Needless to say, that plot brainstorm isn't working out well so far

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cjtremlett — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 15:29:48 -0400

"It's not stealing if it's archaeology!" I love that!

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Loki Laughs — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 16:20:08 -0400

[quote] Casey will not sleep with Will. She is a classy chick. --And he is a gentleman. It will be totally non-skeezy. ---She has more important things to do, like save her brother! ----Everyone needs some downtime sometimes. [/quote] Apparently I cannot decide whether my private investigator should sleep with his client or not.

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Franci — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 16:27:42 -0400

LOL'ed!

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bobo_the_bard — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 16:35:07 -0400

Just want to say I love your icon! :-D I have to admit that the tenth doctor's line "I'm a time traveler. I point and laugh at archaeologists!" was the inspiration for this one! <3 DT

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chel.c.cam — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 16:37:54 -0400

I keep writing notes when I get random inspiration: ROTARY PHONES! (also wrist comunicators) (I don't know why that has to be in caps, but aparently rotary phones are important.) This is one of my chapter notes: Quote: Chapter Eighteen: Big huge moment with Dude. Dude is what I'm calling my FMC's potential love interest. I really need to come up with a better name.

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Ilenora — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:17:49 -0400

Trying to write a description for a character... "Godfrey is around 170 cm tall (5'7''), compact, bit like Mara, doesn't look overly muscular but not a complete wimp either. How the fuck am I going to get this across to the reader? He's got dark red hair, sophisticated pale skin, elegant features, beautiful hands. Golden eyes? Reptilian or feline? Maybe wolf-like? Need to make him somehow inhuman in behaviour also. Maybe able to turn into a cat? Meow." ...Yes, I really need to find a better way to describe him than "a bit like Mara", because most readers won't know the correct Mara. xD Also, turning into a cat is very inhuman behaviour. Meow.

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Ashesane — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:33:16 -0400

So the note is as follows: Quote: You need to include these quotes and the ones on that sticky hanging over by that thing you need to give to Nancy, for a hidden giggle. Well..... a giggle for everyone but more so a giggle for you to giggle not others, although you do want people to giggle. I had to Sanitize my forehead I had Blood Juice on me Did you just something in mexican? Those are going to be some epic children - We shall name them Epic. And win. The Clap.... The WHO?

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chel.c.cam — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:33:56 -0400

Luv your icon!

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wyrdwyrm — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:34:45 -0400

Apparently, I was plotting during Spanish because when I went through my notes to study for the test I have coming up I found this [quote]Gratis/lbre disponible volver volver con = go back out with Volver a = volverse= to become Loco? Yay! I like that word... Osana is the guardian of the Mistway. She's a nymph who can harto a la gente hablando de Osana is from the fountain...no, not anymore but she is...and she has blue hair and whitish blue hair and look about twelve. Gustavo - talking about stuff... Talking about gente gay esten en el closet control time? Yes! THat is awesome. She can put people cerrados - closed where they need to be That should be in subjunctive 7 years? 10 years? Apparently, I can't decide if she lives in a fountain or not.

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alliebee_x — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 19:36:24 -0400

"Yüyi wakes up and he's gone. Because the stubborn fucking bitch won't just accept that fact, she has to travel across America to find him. But she's learning shit, because she only just got legs and only just got out of the water. Kinda. Bathtub water, yuck. (Note: did MMC ever change her water?) So she walks and walks and IS NOT amazed at everything she sees. She IS NOT that cliché Disney mermaid. Fuck you Ariel." ^ Planning while on a train. Win. I underlined the stuff about Ariel several times, it's very important. I was angry at my FMC that day too, she was fighting with me about the colour of her tail. I don't have anything against the Little Mermaid btw.

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alliebee_x — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 19:51:00 -0400

Just had a spark of an idea and coincidentally it just left me with this: "Yüyi. Church. Electric Chapel <-- TITLE OF NOVEL FUCK YES FINALLY WORKED IT IN. She gets... married? No. Yüyi wouldn't even know what that is. Something involving an evil spirit? No. Too cliche, and blah I can't write fantasy well enough yet, I can't write some Devil Demon Spirit Thing, a mermaid is hard enough right now. Maybe she crashes there one night? She can't walk too well, so she's probably exhausted, NO YUYI THAT'S NOT PITY FOR YOU STOP YELLING AT ME. The umlaut in her name will really piss me off having to keep copy-pasting it from Google. Maybe it's not a real chapel, it's a strip club? Ooh interesting and she would definitely go there. Fuck I don't know. I just see her falling on the floor and crying." This is what plotting at 1am after working for 8 hours at Asda will bring out.

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Aelfay — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 19:59:59 -0400

Aw, thanks. And that's exactly what I thought of, too. :)

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callmeIndigo — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 21:56:50 -0400

[quote]Cole is now 430 years old, because 2011 minus 1611 is four hundred, you nitwit.[/quote] I forgot how to do basic math. This happens surprisingly often. [quote]We do not want another Max, even though this universe is named after him.[/quote] [quote]That...kind of sucks. Huh.[/quote] Apparently I had not considered the fact that Rebecca's brother, who she was very close to, not talking to her for three years would "kind of suck".

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Tatra — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 23:32:03 -0400

Just typed this up, I really need to stop doing my 750 at the end of the day... I think that if they can figure out how to terraform Mars, that would take over a century to do, so if I add in a couple of more, which I'm going to need to in order to get the space colonies and the force fiends. Energy fiends? Wait, that means something else entirely. Well, whatever word I used, in any case, shields, if they have all of that tech, then there needs to be some more time to do stuff.

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Sunnyblob — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 23:46:15 -0400

Oh dear, these are hilarious. xD Mine are on my flashdrive somewhere, lost and lonely and starving... I've got a few in my folder, though. -Althy draws a moustache on the mermaid. He's just that great. Also, it's a pretty scary mermaid. OH GOD KILL IT WITH FIRE -so they fall asleep and then THEY END UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SEA. On a raft. With no provisions but a crate of doorknobs and a Rubik's cube. They're like "WHAT THE HELL". -I hope Althestain doesn't read my story. He'd be like GOD DAMMIT WOMAN DO YOU PAY NO ATTENTION. MY EYES ARE PALATINATE. NOT CERULEAN, PALATINATE. WUT. Yeah. He's a douche. -Sneak into factory like total ninjas. Castle explodes. -WOAH THIS PEN IS BLUE -Collie gets all the retarded lines. Why? 'Coz she's an idiot, that's why. Stupid slut. -I GET SIDETRACKED EASILY. Man, I need to stop insulting my characters. D:

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Scuzzimei — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 00:02:27 -0400

Found this one from a previous year: Okay, but how did she get a wereowl half-brother older than her? But be fully related to Tiverus? I guess...say, the queen, ya. She got mad and went upworld for nearly a century, returned with Tome, and she and the King patched things up and had Islana. Let's leave it at that, ya... This was me trying to figure out how the middle child of my netherrealm rulers was half-sibling to the other two...and another race. And that's what I came up with. That's pretty sad.

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Elfdragon12 — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 00:52:32 -0400

I was reading over the notes I had made of my antagonists so far, I came across this. "Denhaden, age:54, father of a (still living) family, broad, has a broad..." Well, being married, he does have a 'broad', but I meant that he has a BEARD. There's kind of a difference here. Also had to remind myself his family wasn't dead yet.

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FreyaKnight — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 00:52:40 -0400

"ROBOTS???????? because robots are cool and this is like the future" "future" wow, not vague at all "maybe it’s the government" it's always the government "man travels" also not vague! "personalities so far are david [the rockstar?], tom the astronaut, and a female french maid" it makes sense to me, but to others without context it probably seems kind of silly. :p "something historical... like... 1920s america or something" "also this one has a gay guy." "also this person with a curse is a lesbian" "LESBIANS. for the sake of lesbians."

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Tsukasa — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 01:42:57 -0400

hm. None of mine are as funny as these . . . I'll post more if I can find them later. (in describing a character) "and he ponders peeing in the tourists' cocktails." WHAT. (after 3/4 of a page describing the plot) "So, where does my plot come in?" Um . . . in the previous 3/4 of a page you were just writing? Maybe? "I need my *map*." No explanation. No nothing. I don't even have a map, and apparently I need it. (in a plot I discarded in September) "MC is (male) immortal dude . . . " Redundancy is redundant. :) Also, "immortal dude" makes me smirk. (in the discarded plot again) "'cause you know that watching all your friends die is *not* fun." No, self, I thought it was the equivalent to a walk in the park. Geez. And not really a "bad notes" situation, but rather the funniest thing I've ever misread: "stargazing pajama pants." (I was flipping through a notebook and somehow the line "straightening my pajama pants" translated into that.)

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Nakor — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 01:59:18 -0400

My best worst note is something that I put in my "Novel Ideas" folder last November and then promptly forgot about until a few months back. It is now the concept for my entire novel this year. It was exactly three words. In fact, those three words were actually just the title of the file... the file itself was completely blank. This was the note: Bearded Lemming Pirates.txt

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Rift Of Hecate — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 02:33:32 -0400

Oh my...I have way too many of these for my novel's good. But here are a few: "Slack jaw: not just for...wait, who the hell gets slackjaw?" "...but if you want to blow this up, that's okay..." "So caffiene causes blood vessels to constrict. That explains why caffiene helps my headaches." "Just a little wonkey." (That was written upside-down, and the J was backwards..) "I'm afraid this pen is going to explode. Or something." There's enough usable material in my notes that it makes the stuff that has me worried about my ability to pull this together almost seem tame. But theer's still that element of "panic" lacing it all...

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candle.city — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 07:46:51 -0400

"So Hubris channels his inner Political Science major and Silk channels her inner Economics major and they butt heads about how Machiavellian policies and the sudden collapse faux-fur market are ruining their relationship. Also, the cat is either the dream or the feverish delusion, whichever's more convenient." Now, I can vaguely recall which scene I wanted with the first sentence, but I cannot for the life of me remember what the second one was about. I do not recall any cats having any important roles in my story.

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candle.city — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 07:47:32 -0400

This is the best idea ever.

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rainstorm. — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 11:36:00 -0400

Hehe, while I was doing notes for my NaNo I was also doing notes for a school assignment and got this somehow: "Leaving destruction and dead cattle in their wake." "We're going to work together my lovely Americans. (That sounded so much less creepy in my head.)" "Or else no food and no food means MORE DEADLY DEATH DEAD. We don't want that. At all." "And let their families grow like... well like growing things."

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sleepyredgirl — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 11:55:58 -0400

My favourite from my husband while critiquing my synopsis: 'Isaac Newton with an electron microscope, or Picasso with an air brush?' Not particularly crazy, just made my day.

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petrichorandbowties — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 12:09:22 -0400

This made me giggle way too hard. I'd read that.

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alliebee_x — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 19:33:11 -0400

epic win.

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TANK Ex Mortis — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 20:40:16 -0400

break the cutie break the cutie break the cutie break the cutie break the cutie break the cutie break the cutie break the cutie break the cutie break the cutie break the cutie break the cutie break the cutie break the cutie break the cutie break the cutie break the cutie break the cutie break the cutie break the cutie break the cutie break the cutie Good advice.

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LouAnnGee — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 21:12:12 -0400

Surprisement should be a word. Love this!

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Nakor — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 22:12:21 -0400

You should then. For laughs I'm posting the entire thing online as I go. XD http://www.beardedlemmingpirates.tk/

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sleepyredgirl — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 01:19:19 -0400

How frightening. XD

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Morigale — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 07:00:49 -0400

spiders everywhere, gets dragged to the hospital due to injury while spiders. The character in question is not turning into spiders, just summoning them. I know what I meant, but I sure didn't write it down coherently... oh man they talk to his roommate! Go add some scenes with roommate in Wolf's outline Gee, I was really excited about this. Thing is I never bothered to add those scenes... I should do that now but probably won't. So they head over to whatever town Nick lives in and there are some scenes where they do shit. I don't know. SO INFORMATIVE. GOOD GOING ME. This is probably the first of his stupid decisions, because I imagine he's got classes. So he's just skipping town in the middle of the school year. This is probably a plothole, but I'm just hand-waving it as Wolf being a complete idiot. he doesn't really realize he's affecting people with his powers because he is a dumb. ... and if I don't stop that nobody's going to be able to take him seriously as a threat.

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misslasagna — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 07:47:07 -0400

Dealing with the problem of a physical afterlife and what it would mean if ghosts were physical, whether they had physical needs, etc. [quote]Orrrrr ghost food! Hmm.[/quote] [quote]Ghosts cannot be killed. (Now that's original.)[/quote] [quote]Bodily functions...? -----> NO![/quote] No, my ghosts will not poo and pee and that is final. [quote]Okay so stuff.[/quote] Yeah, that.

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Volunteer — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:27:21 -0400

"because of several stupid reasons he won't be able to graduate, because fuck the system." "Man this is more difficult than I thought. We'll get there, dude, bro, I promise." "24 is like pink and red" "This sounds just really stupid and this idea is horrible, but I'm going to use it anyway." "Yeah a sentence. But what?" I tend to try and encourage myself while writing down the details of the story, since I always make it more complicated than I thought. And all the other things are totally relevant, though a little silly.

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Taekwondodo — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:04:29 -0400

There is, of course, the note that simply states: "INABILITY TO SPELL!!!!!!!!!" I think that speaks for itself, I'm just surprised I managed to spell inabitiy properly... DAMMIT!! :/ (That is an actual spelling mistake. I just decided not to correct it.)

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LemonyFool — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:25:38 -0400

Most of my notes read something like this: 'Anyway and then some other shit happens. And then shit goes down because the world can't FUCKING.STAY. SAVED.' I swear so much more in my notes than I do in real life...

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rainstorm. — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:10:22 -0400

Heheh tvtropes >:D

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collide — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:18:05 -0400

An entire page from my notebook: morse code somewhere maybe in jail but idk how they'd morse code or how they'd even know morse code oh well at least they're not getting rained on like they were in _________ (enter name of city here). but of course that resulted in mad awesome grocery store fight (cue watermelons) and human microchipping, and also sleeping bag sex. Does that make ANY sense to anyone but me?

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WolfieLove — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:46:11 -0400

okay... Quote: "What I really need are some proper character names, i think i will have to scour online later or something, because it is a vital problem for the majority of characters to not ave a name at all... Okay let's give it a try - True Name; Siran? too close to Sira. Start with an 'F'? (5 letters ideal, make chapter names out of them?) tempted by 'Finas' too plagarised?? 'Falon'? nope 'Fiton'? maybe as a joke 'Faril?' sounds like Marill "Squil?" nope, sounds like a fish. I think I need to check out baby names again, because this is not working." Goodness me I can ramble!! XD

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somuchforendings — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:24:47 -0400

My notes are usually paragraph-form, but a couple days ago, I guess I got tired and this is what I found when I woke up: burlesque & spontaneous combustion with PIRATES IN SPACE?!?! Knife fans! -make up for it with clothes

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Tigers Eyes — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:39:45 -0400

Where is my pet rhinoceros?

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Lady September — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:20:39 -0400

This made me giggle.

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Lady September — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 14:09:03 -0400

That last one made me laugh. It was the "continuity issues much?" that got me.

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Lady September — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 14:09:36 -0400

This is so epic.

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Anoulie — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:17:24 -0400

I always censored-swear in my notes when I feel I've come up with something semi-decent... like this year, when I'd been planning to send the MC to Medina, and then read on Wikipedia that non-muslims can't go in there. So I wrote: "Ok, a different city then... Bagdad's too far away, how about Cairo? Alexandria? but she was already there, so... OMG her LOVE INTEREST freakin' SMUGGLES her in there because DISGUISED AS A MUSLIM!!!"

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rainstorm. — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:17:02 -0400

I once wrote something in my notes about "vegetable elf postcard", and then, when I looked closer, I realized it was actually supposed to be a note about two characters getting married. ...I really don't know anymore...XD

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flowerdrumsong — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:44:48 -0400

One of my characters was not-Finn for a while. There's quotes next to his name like "Curse you Glee for making Finn so popular!!"

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flowerdrumsong — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:52:05 -0400

A quote from my notes about my female vampire: "Lips is a vampire. A rip-your-effing-throat-out vampire. Just because she's also a prostitute doesn't mean she's complete sex-on-a-stick. She is not PAM [of True Blood]. ...OMG. Pam used to be a prostitute! But still. Lips is not sexy. She is dirty and dead. D-E-A-D. Like, her arm could fall off at any time." in conclusion, Pam is a BAMF, but my character is obviously not based on her. She's not. Also, she is apparently decomposing...

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Jennifermwcg — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:28:15 -0400

"And then I shall kill louis and the cows. I lik cowws, but I have to kill them. SORRY COWS!!! D: But its for he plot so I suppose the cows wont mind. ^-^ Cows are awsome!" Um... I guess I like cows...

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callmeIndigo — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:05:14 -0400

"Wait, is this actually to save the world or is that just Cole's schtick? Isn't he also trying to, you know, get his freaking body back? Wait, but his body is sort of dead. I don't even know anymore, we'll see if there is an actual plot twist or not." Nice to know I have some idea of what the plot is going to be.

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Faeiri — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 00:11:16 -0400

Scrawled in my notes from April: GHETSIS' HAIR IS LETTUCE LEEEEEEETTUUUUUCEEEE ...yup. This solves all of my problems.

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gadzooks97 — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 05:15:30 -0400

I don't even know what I was attempting to say here.. i wrote it about one of the prompts I had in a list of possible ways to start my story... '"I have something to tell you. Now, don't freak out." – hehehe good prompt – maybe comedy scnee? With Sl and Demi? Or others in PH …maybe Alyys .l.lily not dead? She in human world? School? He finds.. and stalks? wonders/// she … maybe Sl in H with M? M thinks he’s other Arch but he’s not…. Linne use to tell truth …? Ooh maybe M knows Demi? He says line.. is surprised when doesn’t freak! MUAHAHAHA EVIL MUCH!!Q' It's soo confusing.. I have no idea what Sl, H, PH, M or Arch means..

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kapoww — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 09:29:25 -0400

"Make it touching! TEARS!" This is underlined many times. I think I wanted to make the readers cry, but haven't really given myself any hints on how to do this, just TEARS! "OMG they are talking and then Damian's bro's like: Dude gtfo also I am busy about to throw stones @ the police, join me" This is typical of my excellently worded notes. Also there appear to be more and more exclamation marks as I get further on in my notes (and as it gets later). Some of the sentences are actually quite scary. !!!

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SweetJuly — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 09:44:44 -0400

"Mostly I'll describe roads." Pfft, well, that sounds fascinating. It'll totally sell. After one of my best paragraphs, I just randomly wrote: "[Sword.]" and I don't know why I did so. "The great American novel/road trip/something".

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smithk654 — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:12:20 -0400

I had one when I was outlining the other night. "Insert romantic drivel here." I sure do sound enthusiastic about that chapter, don't I?

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written_dreams — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:05:55 -0400

Late night planning left me with this: "Phoebe joins revolution and gets weapons. But what weapons? A gun? Knives? Both? I don't know anything about guns, I'm normally a fantasy writer for goodness sake! But yeah, guns and knives. And grenades. Grenades are good." Apparently, at two in the morning I develop a fetish for grenades. "Jack Lloyd has short brown hair, freckles and pretty goldy-brown eyes. In short, he's a bit of a babe." I also develop godly skills at describing, it seems.

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MarthaBechtel — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:19:07 -0400

Hmm, best note… *ruffles through piles of colored marker adorned papers* Ah-ha! "Note: Suffering must have a point, otherwise readers will go RAR." Runner’s up: "I name you COLORS!" -- I couldn't think up names so I just assigned people to a marker. "Note: Elf is not for comic relief. That is all." "Put Timey-wimey here (No Doctors Allowed)" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In Dreams of Trees - 2011 NaNo Novel! Martha.net - Writing, Model Horses, and Warcraft... because you can never have enough hobbies.

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ArtemisLiCa — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:55:23 -0400

I have: "Well, unless you can ___ then you've wasted your time coming to ___." Depending on what's appropriate for the timeline, it may involve tongues. "You're supposed to be crazy, not stupid!" Zombie apocalypse-Only gay. And NO zombies. ->To continue the zombie apocalypse w/o zombies theme-there may be biting. A couple (group?) of normal ppl (from real world likeness!) find themselves in this alternate universe-thing. Randomly written across the top of a page: HIGH CLASS BURGLARY!!! "Random (not so random?) woman decided to help" In large letters at bottom of page: Subplot?! I need one of those!

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ArtemisLiCa — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:15:35 -0400

A couple more I just came across: -Finlay befriends him; he must die. - [see garden scene #1] (I have no idea what this refers to.) - BEAT HIM! Later. Possibly twice.

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callmeIndigo — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:19:12 -0400

[quote]There should be dinosaurs. No, there shouldn't.[/quote]

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Craic agus Ceol — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:23:19 -0400

"Also lesbians" seems to be a recurring theme in my novel notes for the past year or so...

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Craic agus Ceol — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:33:28 -0400

My novel was originally going to be a series of interconnected short stories about a group of people working at a convenience store, with an overarching plot about a robbery. My notes were written accordingly, but at the bottom of the page I found this: [quote]HAHA what if I do a story where Gwendolyn Gray, minimum wage extraordinaire, somehow ends up in a steampunk pirate universe? BY MAGIC OF COURSE. But more like science. Science-magic. BEST OF BOTH WORLDS?[/quote] I went with it.

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Xrosfire — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:48:03 -0400

I couldn't think of the phrase "medical professionals" or anything like it. So instead I puked out "doctor-type people". Also I'm making a list of all my characters and everything I know about them so far, and the only trait I have for one of them is "He will have impressive sideburns".

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St.Germain — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 21:02:36 -0400

"Dude gtfo also I am busy about to throw stones @ the police, join me" I am laughing so hard I can't breathe and I'm crying. At least you got your TEARS!

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St.Germain — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 21:19:40 -0400

Not from my notes, but rather, last year's NaNovel: "And so they flying devices tried to round them up and separate them from the crowd." This has nothing to do with the plot whatsoever. I was on the verge of falling asleep, and though I had what I wanted to write all figured out, this is what my fingers chose to give me. Useless. From my outline: "The Job, or 'Ciarán, what have you gotten yourself into this time?'" Also, in some class notes, I wrote the phrase "Cosmic Muffin," because the prof said it. I was too busy being amused to notice what that was supposed to mean. I don't have many notes yet; hopefully I will have more (better!) in the future.

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Ignis_Fatuus — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 21:31:05 -0400

I love this thread. It makes me cackle. :D SURPRISINGLY (oh, and I do mean I am surprised), I've been writing notes with a modicum of sense lately. Like legit notes. "Let's talk more about the project involving Craig, Liliane, and Chuck, Ben, and that kid who's name I can't remember because obviously, I don't like him that much." "She's eating food and they're engaging her in conversation and unfortunately, it gets a little Twilight on dat ass when they start to give her a rundown of different people in the school."

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ankhta — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 21:34:20 -0400

found these on my phone from last night. i seem to be taking notes in my sleep: "nudist missle policy" "caution tape dubmle" "dont write any til he takes his clothes off" "motivsssssssssssss indicAreds" "theyre in someones theater ina a abaseemtbnt" "tcall a docgatcher but uh cats" :| i'm at a loss

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Ignis_Fatuus — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 21:35:37 -0400

I laughed especially hard at this too. XD (still laughing...)

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Ignis_Fatuus — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 21:39:19 -0400

Oh, I just found these: "He breaks her heart. She breaks his mind. She feels bad after." "Sex between her and Jason amazeballs. He gets sprung."

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QuiSaitRien — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 21:51:08 -0400

I haven't done any notes this year (oops), but these are from a story a while back: "Jack is cursed. Everyone tries to kill him constantly. Also, Liz kicks him in the chin." "The beetles are evil and will eat his hat." "The baker wants him dead. Liz wants him dead too, but thinks he'd taste bad if made into muffins." I may or may not have been on cold medication at the time.

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natalieparisi — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 21:56:56 -0400

I'm writing a mystery story. Naturally, it should include: "Late night brainstorming! In a storm!" And since I can't be bothered with real plot points this early in the game: "Talking about the mystery for a while. Joseph goes home. (Or is hit by a car or something)"

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oneirokinetic — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:39:57 -0400

I have a white board hung up next to my bed so that when I get ideas before I sleep/from dreams/in the middle of the night, I don't have to grab a notebook (especially because I sleep on the top bunk). Of course, this sometimes results in some really weird notes. I also write in code so that my roommates and guests won't look at it and question it (MUST HIDE ALL WRITING - I do take some weird notes... xD ) Well, this sometimes results in stuff I can't read or can't understand that I myself wrote. Namely this, as much as I can make it out: "Curl up a s And s against Sed - heard scals - " Your guess is literally and completely as good as mine. It kind of bothers me...what was I THINKING?!

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Mossy Toes — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:48:46 -0400

[quote]Vampirism as an STD[/quote] [quote]Not all rhymes compliment each other. For example, "broken glass" and "in the ___."[/quote] [quote](MC being lectured by teacher) - Characters are not people. Write people, not characters. - Make them suffer. Make them despair. Make them sweat, cry, and bleed. All the better, make them perspire bloody tears. [/quote]

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Kikaxlot — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:18:35 -0400

"Magic mother******* bananas SEXUAL TENSION LOTS OF IT" I don't know guys. I just. Made notes on my phone. "Blair's all kawaii desudesu throughout the novel. pointless Bianca desudesu" Japanese class why have you forsaken me? ;A; "AND STEVEN IS JUST LIKE 'LOL ANISE GO SAVE THE WORLD I'LL JUST DO MAI HOMEWORK. I don't understand myself, "Silly schizo necromancer" Uhm. "Greg Man mahoshoujo yes." Gregory (Greg Man) is actually the main evil dude what. "I can't even take this seriously." Norly self.

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Asteria — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 03:21:57 -0400

I swear these made sense at one point... "Peanut butter and salmon hair gel. HAIR GEL TASTES DELICIOUS!" "Let's go paint the snails with nail polish after we bury her, yeah?" "PSYCHEDELIC KITTEN FROM SPACE! YES YES YES YES!"

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tinocka — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:00:23 -0400

My notes are a mess, because my brainstorming method is freewriting >.> [quote]. Also, no purple. Just no purple. You´re making it sound like spce is one big puprple thing. Yeah. No pruple. Purple is forbidden.[/quote] At this point, I decided I was overusing the color purple... [quote]anyway. plot. why the **** ate they there? ate? ATE? what did they eat? actually... they should eat something.[/quote] [quote]That would turn into a chase. And you have two chases in there now. Ooops? Maybe not a chase. Maybe just like stoned? Like, in death not drugs. [/quote] I swear this made sense... [quote]Now they have bridezillas and sacrifices.[/quote] This still actually makes sense... [quote]Butterflies made of butter. With tuna. And sandwiches. I think you are hungry.[/quote] This was probably the moment my brain gave up on me o.O

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DaxBenny — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:05:19 -0400

[quote=stefaneko] Oh jeez all of my notes (both for NaNo and school) are just... ridiculous like this. MY PEOPLE. *embrace* Let's see... *starts flipping through notebook* "Space western mystery comedy...? Oh god I'm insane I'm actually insane" "Also lesbians." "SUDDENLY, ROBOTS." [/quote] Over the top Firefly meets Castle? I would read/watch the hell out of that.

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starblack — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:22:30 -0400

This is too funny. lol My contribution comes from my outline when I was intentionally trying to be a wise cracker. After a funfilled day in Hell Dameon takes Larina back to the neutral zone. Everyone knows it is totally possible to have a funfilled day in Hell! What? >.< lol

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starblack — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:25:33 -0400

I did too. That's epic! lol

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kapoww — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:54:18 -0400

Hahahaha, this is so typical of my decision making :D

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Catwoman1138 — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:28:40 -0400

Mr. Ray This was written in the margin of my history notes. I think my prof talked about someone named Mr. Ray and I thought it would make a good villain name. Gwen finally admits that she doesn’t want to be queen and she doesn’t actually love the prince. The prince is like “eh, whatevs” and she goes off to find Sebastian. The prince is really chill. The king asks the witch, who does some magicky stuff and informs him that this prophecy is real. “Magicky stuff” is the technical term. FIX: Make Sebastian into a wolf???? And have her fall in love with the wolf instead of the prince????!!!! Or. Or! Make him into a werewolf. OMG YOU GUYS!!! LIKE, THIS IS SO EXCITING!!!!!

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Jelly.Belly.Girl — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:53:06 -0400

OHMYGODCANIREADITPLEASEPLEASEPLEASE?????

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Jelly.Belly.Girl — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:12:35 -0400

Just 'cause they can?

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evil.mastermind — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:35:04 -0400

Your notes are legendary.

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Rift Of Hecate — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:35:56 -0400

So yeah..found some more: "There is a major caalystic event-thinie!" ..good job, me. Because a minor catalystic event-thingie wouldn't've been note-worthy.. "And he also instates a policy where the punishment for worshipping is death. (That bitch." "They then realize the "enforcers" of the anti-worship act are actually...erm...how does one word "minions of a psychotic outcast god" in a novel? They'll need a name. Eventually." ...come to think of it, the outcast god needs a name as well. "Fenrir is there in wolf form. There's some sort of an exchange in which Bob resolves to do right by the world. Or something." Bob - my FMC - is becoming the decisive ruler-type goddess I'd hope'd she'd be this close to the first. Lovely... "Hi, I'm Rift. But most of my friends call me crazy." Yes, I'm writing to my notes now... "NaNo is 4-ish days away. Handstands is still the placeholder title, and my FMC is still Bob." And by seemingly popular vote, her name may stay Bob...

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Jelly.Belly.Girl — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 21:21:35 -0400

Okay, I don't have any excuse for writing like this just now. Even if this is how I usually take notes. [quote] Characters: ~Emma ~Mary/Anne and Anna/Marie ~My stupid feminist anti-chrononaut anarchists (lesbians?) ~Maybe a famous physicist? Or Gabby. Maybe Gabby is a famous physicist or something. Yeah. I like that. And she’s a double-agent. Who dares people to lick [radium] and [lamp posts in the dead of winter]. Settings: ~Okay, there’s gotta be an airship and some ray guns here. This is gonna be sexy. ~Uhm… top of airship? ~Bungee jump in midair from airship. Dr Gabby flies through on a paraglider, not laughing, which means Shit Just Got Serious. (SJGS) 1. Gabby is all, GTFO SJGS IZ GONNA FOOM!!!, and Mary/Anne is all lolwut and then she gets flamebroiled like a Harvey’s burger. 2. Anna/Marie (Anna-Marie?)is like O_O OMFG and Super Paraglider Gabby cuts their ropes and they fall to their deaths and the story ends and whatnot. (Wait no I lied. There’s gotta be like a giant trampoline (conveniently-placed zeppelin? Why not?) and they bounce to safety) 3. The rebel ship explodeses as Anna/Marie/Anna-Marie and Emma walk into the distance like total bosses. (Oh by the way, Mary/Anne and Anna/Marie were kidnapped too somewhere?) [/quote] But gosh, I love planning your novel at the last minute.

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Jelly.Belly.Girl — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 21:45:18 -0400

Nah, you just misspelled supermegafoxyawesomehot ;D

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Jelly.Belly.Girl — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 21:50:20 -0400

OHMYGOD YOU'RE WRITING STEAMPUNK TOO??? :D

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Jelly.Belly.Girl — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 21:54:06 -0400

ME TOO. CAN I USE IT TOO? Even if you say no, I'm using it anyways.

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books1017 — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 22:54:57 -0400

Ah this thread... got me looking into my notes for last year. Some gems- "OMG, Morgan could have a spell in her body HOLY S***! DRAMA!" (What on earth was I talking about?) "Rowan is like afraid of real blood.... she loves drawing morbid things but can't stand the real thing apparently." "Story changed a lot but just some mechanics" (At least I know what this was about, but still... wth?) And now for this year's- "'Hey' says Prime Minster 'I'll start taking some powers now.'" (on what happens before the plot....)

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whoa_is_me — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:38:35 -0400

"Damp-haired temptresses; he remains stoic." Says it all, really.

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Jelly.Belly.Girl — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:58:39 -0400

OH MY GOD YES.

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kkylie — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:40:09 -0400

Just because I'm kind of ticked that my MC, Ivory hasn't been very clear on who she is, I was working on her description and came up with this lil gem.: [quote] Ivory is about half a millennia old, which is about 29-20 human years. She has long, silky, golden hair that shines like the sun. Her eyes are the color of the sea, ever changing, and seem to glow like brilliant stars with sparkly twinkles. She rather has no personality at all. In fact, she's particularly one-dimensional and incredibly boring. Like Edward Cullen, only female. And definitely not quite as whiny. In fact, she's actually cute in a boring way. She likes to ride her magical baby water dragon and when she falls through a magic portal into humanland, she harnesses a rogue taxi to ride instead. [/quote]

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RebbieChan — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:08:54 -0400

I was looking through the outline I stared a few nights ago and for CH5 all it says "That drama ensues" >_> What does that mean?!

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kkylie — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:11:04 -0400

I just realized I put "29-20" DOH! I already have my first 2011 NaNoism and I haven't even started writing yet! I meant "29-30"

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DendritesRCool — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:59:19 -0400

I started asking myself questions about where my plot was going in an effort to get some answers. (Answers, what answers?) Is M. alive or dead? Dead, for now. Making her alive smacks of deux ex machine. How will we seque into the past? Via files? A hit to the head? Presumably, it is going to America. It might not.

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QuiSaitRien — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:09:35 -0400

This is all one paragraph, from late last night. The particular part of the Apocalypse that hit here doesn’t like him, and he’s running from some sadistic St. Elmo’s Fire. (Fire is sadistic?) Monologuing about essentially ‘what the hell?’ (So he has enough breath to monologue and run away at the same time?) he makes it to his tiny Ford thingy (Ford Fiesta!) (Because what else would a professor drive?) and basically drives away as fast as he can – there’s lots of cars in the way, so it’s not very. He’s FREAKING OUT. (CAPS IS NECESSARY.) There’s a celestial battle between good and evil going on overhead. (Of course.)

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Cierva4 — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:30:31 -0400

I love you for this.

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Aelfay — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:31:34 -0400

I have pages upon pages of these. And for some reason I cannot seem to type "pajes" correctly. [quote] Kein has found this out, as well as realizing that they murdered his younger twin brother while still in the womb, attaching his blood and fetus to the placenta that fed Kein. (Man, this is gory, where do I come up with this? Oh yeah, the Bible and modern science.) [/quote] Yeah... Kein and Abel. In the womb. With abortion. *headdesk* [quote] Titus and Sebastian trigger Sean's memory. Booya! Plot development right there, guys! HA! (Hyptonysm?) (SP?) [/quote] Apparently hypnotism is in there somewhere. Spelled badly. [quote] So when they go to a coffee shop after the zoo to discuss stuff, they notice a young fellow who is noticing them... (noticing you, noticing me...♫♪) [/quote] I sing to myself in my notes. And right after that, it gets better: [quote] anyway, this dapper fella (cause he has to be dapper cause I haven't got a dapper character yet but it's not the Doctor which is sad) -dapper fella is trying to hack into Kein's webcam....[/quote] Ehehe. Dapper. [quote] And Kein asks why and mystery dude comes over and it turns out he's doctor dude's son because XXX company killed Doctor. Not THE doctor, though. Just Doc-man. So the THREE OF AWESOME AND PERSONAL AGENDAS IS FORMED.[/quote] I love how I'm so concerned that I should know the Doctor is not in my novel. Also... Doc-man? And I love the title of my tres amigos... [quote] Between Evan and Kein (can I change it to Eavan? Yes, I can. MORE DAPPER)[/quote] I'm also very concerned with Eavan's dapper levels. I use the word 'so' to start off a lot of paragraphs... and notice it... [quote] So (second PP in a row starting w/ 'so', this is brilliant writing)[/quote] [quote] SO (the almighty SO) [/quote] Ok, that's enough for now, or I'll just type up all my notes into here...

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carlsbadmom — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:31:48 -0400

I just realized I have a character named Matt and a character named Damon in the same plot thread. Fail!

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carlsbadmom — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:33:38 -0400

Yada yada yada... Insert brilliant writing...

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Aelfay — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:43:12 -0400

I read that in the 11th doctor's voice. I can totally picture him with a pet rhinoceros.

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Cierva4 — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:47:13 -0400

[quote=Tangerine] "MMC - irresponsible toast-eater" For about a month and a half, that's pretty much all I knew about my MMC. [/quote] This made me LOL at work. Thank you.

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Aelfay — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:51:14 -0400

I cannot help but put this with your icon. Sherlock: (Seriously) There should be dinosaurs. John: No. No, there shouldn't.

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Aellio — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:30:14 -0400

Aellio Likes this.

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hannah.t-d — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:32:24 -0400

The best worst note I've ever found, was on an ancient post-it note. I still keep it to this day, hoping one day I'll remember what the hell I was talking about. The note simply reads: Gretel was getting fatter. I do not know who Gretel is. Was she one of my characters? Not to my knowledge. A character from another book, or tv show or movie even? I don't think so. I look at that scrappy little note, still pinned up on my writing board, and wonder who Gretel is, worry that she'll never have a voice, because I never gave her one. And I feel bad, because all I know about her is that she was getting fatter.

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TANK Ex Mortis — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 02:18:56 -0400

Shit Just Got Serious should really be the name of this book. Or the name of SOME book. If you don't write it, I will.

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TANK Ex Mortis — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 02:27:11 -0400

I'm back, now check this shit out: [quote]when shit gets melodramatic, shit flies through windows (not literally though, that'd be gross)[/quote] [quote]they see cass still waiting (they saw her earlier yo)[/quote] [quote](that may be really lame, i'll think about it later)[/quote] [quote]this chapter sucks, fuck[/quote] [quote]holy shit holy shit holy shit. okay. she's obsessed with death and wants to kill everyone, right? because she's dead or whatever. but listen. she's also totes hot for her sister, which creeps _her_ out to no end, but like at the end when she actually _does kill everyone, or mostly everyone, it's really a happy ending because she can live happily ever after with her sister's corpse. yesssssssss what the hell is wrong with me[/quote] This one isn't a Worst Note, it's a Best Note: [quote]one of the major figures in the 8th grade speaks entirely in rap and requires someone to beatbox before she speaks[/quote]

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TANK Ex Mortis — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 02:33:57 -0400

YES THERE SHOULD

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Arya Svit-Kona — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 03:02:40 -0400

[quote]Denji attack and normal fighting stuffs, trust, yada yada.... wait.... WHAT THE HELL ARE DENJI?![/quote] I still don't know what they are, but I think they're some kind of demon....

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Aiyandra — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 03:09:26 -0400

I might know who Gretel is. Have you heard of Grimm's Fairy Tales? Hansel and Gretel is one of them and a quite popular one, too. Basically a witch imprisones the two kids and tries to fatten Hansel so she can eat him later on. Your note might be about Gretel getting fatter instead of Hansel so the Fairy Tales' plot changes? :D (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansel_and_Gretel sums it up better than me.)

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TimeBomb — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 03:20:47 -0400

Rounded up from various notebooks and word documents.... 'Gets interrogated. Blah blah blah.SLOWLY DEVELOP LOVE!' 'Pretty much based around the word -beautiful-? I guess. Not really though.' 'WARNING THE NEXT STORY IS A TWISTED BOYxBOY' 'amputee?' 'turns out to be lesbian, he kills her in the end' 'death will be 99.8% likely' Okay this was a whole idea for a story...I dont even.... 'Guy wants girl to love him. Rapes her thinking she will love him because he's kinda messed up in the head, after that she does. Put into mental institute/asylum whatever you want to call it. Girl put into mental institute/asylum whatever you want to call it. Girl under close attention lalalalala Guy wants to see her. Can't. Eventually get to see eachother girl is let out because they think she is "OK" Girl finds out she is preggo is like OMFG and gets depressed that she having a child. Drinks a lot of alcohol. Kid is born blind. ABRIEL IS THEIR CHILD' ......

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NicoleD — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 04:23:50 -0400

Well... I have a couple of mercenaries, who happen to be married, in my cast. That's all I know about them. They don't even have names. I've just been calling them Mickey and Mallory after the characters in Natural Born Killers... they haven't ~objected to that yet, so they may well end up being Mickey and Mallory right up until I start editing. Sigh....

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Morigale — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 04:58:41 -0400

I changed my entire plot last night and so my entire outline is now one big 'worst note'. The title is 'Oh fuck' and the previous outline has been renamed 'Outdated outline because oh fuck'. And some of the notes within it: [quote] this is a darker variant of Isabel than the one in the last plot, this is 'I want to watch the world burn'/Diedrich Isabel.[/quote] Referring to Gaia Online, where the NPC named Diedrich is... strange. He is very, very happy to impart horrible factoids which may or may not be true. [quote]Meanwhile, Vi and Nick get their grubby little hands on one/some of the artifact(s) and are in danger of getting... I don't know, killed or turned into weasels or something.[/quote] Or turned into weasels. Or something. [quote]Vi, being the little leech bastard he is, swipes the thing when he runs off. You little bastard.[/quote] I love the character... but he's kind of a dick. [quote]No. Vi's GIRLFRIEND. For extra 'is he gay or not' action.[/quote] Actually, mostly because I thought 'evil businesswoman' was slightly less cliche as the shadowy baddy than 'evil businessman'. [quote] the cops can be all like 'Wellll we could un-curse you... if we had the whole book. So good going there, sparky.' [/quote] I don't even know. I also reiterate basically the same thing (Isabel tries to steal magic book, ends up damaging it, bad things happen) in three different ways.

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novoamor — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 08:22:57 -0400

I think my favorite is "Let’s get back to world domination.", though "How would they survive being blown up tho? Plot holes everywhere!!! :(" is a close second.

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ZeruZeru — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 10:37:48 -0400

[quote]Okay, so Benjamin is SUCH A CLASSY DUDE. And you know what classy dudes like him do? They invite the people with INSCRIMINATING EVIDENCE AGAINST THEM to dinner and I'm going to write about that dinner and it's going to be amazing."[/quote] ...I really need to stop describing important scenes when I'm tired, I think.

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NicoleD — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 13:25:50 -0400

I bring a new offering: 'Possibility for sudden lesbian showgirls here. Or sudden gay showboys, considering Vincent.' Vincent, btw, is my gay vampire illusionist who lives/works in Las Vegas. His stage name is Vincent Blood. He's a combination of light relief, MC's best friend and the obligatory Sassy Gay Friend.

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.fayrenaissance — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 13:32:35 -0400

Triply quadrupal-y seconded.

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.fayrenaissance — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 13:37:22 -0400

Your actually legitimate plot aside, I just lol'd so hard.

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franticfanatic — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 13:40:52 -0400

I found this gem in my notes.... *spewing nonsense* Im not sure who its in reference to...a character...or me? No idea. Farther down the page I have Big Conflict written, and underlined twice. But no conflict is written, but there is a resolution to a smaller conflict from a previous chapter...so I am at a loss.

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.fayrenaissance — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 13:54:24 -0400

Is this a word? It's definitely a word. "Gayborhood" is now for sure definitely a word.

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.fayrenaissance — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 14:04:58 -0400

[quote]But then she sees something ominous: a camera[/quote] Oh, the ominousness of it all![/quote] I just laughed so hard XD

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.fayrenaissance — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 14:45:46 -0400

[quote]how do two goats carry around a house? note to self: invent better goats[/quote] dear self, I doubt even the best of artificial goats can carry around a house. [quote]NO ROMANCE GHHHRRHRGRRRR HERRR GERRR[/quote] OKAY OKAY OKAY I get it no need to shout. [quote]it seems to me that maybe Michail will go marry his long lost fiancee or something, and then El and Michail will still be friends, but she’ll have a new guard who is also her love interest WAIT I SAID NO LOVE GRRR well whatever idgaf, and then later Michail’s wife dies and El’s guard dies and they end up together again so asdfghjkll but NO LOVE.[/quote] Several problems with this. 1. Michail doesn't have a fiancee 2. wtf is this new guard and where did he come from 3. way to change your mind about romance super easily (this was literally two paragraphs down from the last quote) 4. this whole thing is completely pointless and can't even fit in my story at all. [quote]I think that the antagonist should have all these dead corpses just like in his closet, or he’s got a basement and it’s all clean and shiny and shit, like a stepford wife kitchen, but actually there are corpses lying everywhere. So it’s like, you enter this house and it’s like, WHY, this is a really lovely house! It’s very clean! And such! But when you go to his workplace it’s like “GOODNESS, how many people have you killed and WHY ARE YOU CHOPPING THEM UP?!”[/quote] That was in the middle of an otherwise normal paragraph about gardening.

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Badly Drawn Girl — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 15:35:08 -0400

In the context of my otherwise extremely detailed outline I found the lack of detail on this quite funny: "He explains his theory on the meaning of life and goes to bed." Right, so I'm going to need to invent a theory about the meaning of life off the top of my head around the last week of November. Great. This is not the sort of thing I'm good at.

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callmeIndigo — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 16:20:04 -0400

[quote]Rosaleen is cool, even though she sneezes fire.[/quote] This is the only thing I have written anywhere about this character.

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callmeIndigo — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 16:37:48 -0400

Oh dear. I just found this... [quote]I refuse to write a paragraph about hugging. Ace would never write a paragraph about hugging. Which says more about him than that paragraph would. But I doubt Saturday would, either. Well, he might under significant stress or duress, maybe, although that would be a fairly bizarre situation. But it does serve to make the same comparison.[/quote] I wrote a paragraph about a paragraph about hugging. And compared two characters who don't share a storyline and will never meet. And some of my characterization notes are just...bad. [quote]Edmund, whose name is sadly not Edwin, loves Trigger's van.[/quote] No comment. [quote]And he calls it [the van] Georgia because why the hell not? Edmund is apparently kind of weird. But then again, his employer is secretly a dog, so...you know.[/quote] Actually I don't. How does Trigger being a dog give Edmund an excuse to be weird?

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MashaBGD — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 16:48:42 -0400

"Sophie has brought some flowers to life, to replace the ones Ellie drained. (Also angels. =) lol no, some bunnies and shit)" Bunnies and Glee references. Joy. "Fucking Hugo ruined my book." I gave up one that book after I spent days trying to think up a name for a very minor character, now known as Hugo. "Charlie the hipster! SHE SHOULD BE AWESOME!" Yes, thank you.

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DaleyNotGeorge — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 17:29:30 -0400

My best terrible notes are the notes that I wake up to, having written something while half asleep in the middle of the night. I recently awoke to an entire page taken up by the phrase "human head teapots."

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Taekwondodo — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 18:09:14 -0400

"The last thing she knew was the butt of a file against her head - not a rifle though, don't have. Club? Baton? Policeman's thing, what's it called?" I remembered later it's called a truncheon but I decided to go with baton instead.

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Jazmine82 — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 18:21:21 -0400

Character description: "Penny, rather regularly, does not understand regular human stuff. Such as the purpose of bubble gum. And she does not accept the idea that anything does not have a purpose. And she enjoys bubble wrap. And she was mad omniscience skills. And she gets drunk off of root beer. But she is not the TARDIS. Well, maybe combination of Ziva and TARDIS." That's what three cups of hot chocolate in one day does to me...

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IndividualityRules — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 18:43:52 -0400

Sadly I don't have any hilarious notes yet, but I had to read through my notes three times before I realised that while I'd given the names and ages of my hero's three children...he doesn't have a name yet. I've managed to word my synopsis subtly so his name never needs to be mentioned, but this is a major fail for the romance novel I'm meant to be starting on Tuesday. I'd better come up with a name ASAP.

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QuiSaitRien — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 19:22:56 -0400

So this is a character reaction to a dramatic revelation - [quote] James is like ‘seriously?’ and Lucifer’s like ‘seriously.’ [/quote] Seriously. [quote] Erin calls a camp-wide meeting over the intercom (yay good setting!). [/quote] I'm now congratulating myself in my notes. [quote] So they decide to hold their own mini round up. That will work great, guys. [/quote] Talking to my characters in notes. It's not even November, yet. *headdesk* [quote] Hollow is going to be th ROUNDUP MAN EXTRAORDINAIRE [/quote] Why is that in capitals? It's not that exciting.

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Meghan_Grace — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 00:24:22 -0400

I have yet to come up with a name for the law enforcement in my novel, so in my notes they're referred to as the Wizard Cops. The novel's set in a non-magical universe... Damn those wizard cops

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Kaserl — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 01:08:58 -0400

You have to keep that..... make wizard an acronym?

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Cenlyra — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 01:24:31 -0400

I was working on the religions of my fantasy world and pumped this out without thinking about it: [quote]She told them to use the demons as protection only, but you know... some people are corrupt and crap.[/quote]

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Cenlyra — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 01:33:04 -0400

And I can't believe I also just typed this: [quote]How humans got to be magic-fied[/quote] Magic-fied? Really? Well, I guess it suits its purpose.

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Cenlyra — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 01:34:42 -0400

Think you can manage to write your novel without mentioning his name? I dare you. That is pretty hilarious, actually. Join the crowd!

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Xrosfire — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 01:52:34 -0400

Oh man Wizard Cops is cracking me up. I'm picturing a reality show where there's these cops with long grey beards chasing the suspect down the street in the middle of the night yelling "YOU SHALL NOT PASS" as they finally corner him

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Mungolian — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 03:27:50 -0400

SUSPENSEFUL SPACE WALK SCENE Yeah, real descriptive there, self.

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mandiiminx — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 03:40:14 -0400

LOL

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thatollie — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 03:53:48 -0400

There's these cherries and they're, like, cathartic.

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eccedentesiast — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 08:12:49 -0400

describing what will happen at the start of part 2: "so it's like, a month or two after the end of part 1. and kate and emma are still all "but i don't WANNA make a record D:<" and everyone else is getting annoyed. so ash is all "we're going on a roadtrip!" and then they go on a roadtrip. in a van. for a month. (note to self: at some point, decide whether they all live in USA or england)." i am going to end up deciding they live in england then have them go on a roadtrip to new jersey, because that's just how i roll.

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RemiMayier — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 09:13:39 -0400

[quote]They are mercenaries, but not really. You know, the more I think about the more they are like a regular army…just different. Wait, what?[/quote] Yes, I seconded that. What? [quote]Sniper / California – 6’2”, blond hair, dark skin, green eyes. Oh God, he is an Al Bhed.[/quote] Just don't give him spiral pupils. Oh wait, Zyk has those. Crap!

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mjelfman — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 13:30:22 -0400

Hooray! It's so nice to see other drunk writers hahaha

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mjelfman — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 13:30:33 -0400

LMAOOOO

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callmeIndigo — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 15:37:46 -0400

I would watch that show.

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Loki Laughs — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 17:13:44 -0400

"We are gonna F. Scott Fitzgerald the hell out of this." - a note next to a short poem I wrote in order to give my title some context. Great Gatsby jokes, anyone? Also, apparently I'm referring to myself in the plural...

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treblezen — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 17:21:08 -0400

I frequently text myself in the middle of the night with little ideas. Half-asleep, of course. Some gems: [quote]"docial classes, mgmt families, nice jacket, sex scne, coldness"[/quote] ...No clue. [quote]"brown film thinly veiled contempt smacking"[/quote] Um. [quote]"fingertip on wall crevice, hand through wheat field"[/quote] Hrm. [quote]"gambit, legs, psychopath, dakotas"[/quote] ...Dear Lord, I hope I never drop acid.

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Taekwondodo — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 17:45:34 -0400

It could be wizard as in the (old) British slang for superb; excellent; wonderful.

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MerryMarmalade — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 18:09:36 -0400

[quote]Important: At some point, he has to ingest some of her blood. Just a little. For science.[/quote] [quote]Unaware of the imminent danger, innocent people go on partying like idiots.[/quote] [quote]you just ate a guy's head, why are you giggling like a schoolgirl[/quote] [quote]It's hard to be the protagonist... With a knife in your stomach.[/quote] I'm starting to rethink my decision not to write a horror novel.

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callmeIndigo — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 18:09:56 -0400

[quote]Duke and company run into the Electric Show and gain something important from them, because Ace will not leave me alone. The something important is Ace's puzzle box, which contains something important [???] and the clue to their next task.[/quote] Hey, do you think there's something important involved? Now if only I knew what it was...

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12quez — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 18:15:33 -0400

The best I've gotten was when I was trying to map out my fantasy world before I had actually named any of the locations. A vast majority of landmarks ended up being labeled like this: "TOWNS TOWNS TOWNS" "Village with a name" "Another village over here...somewhere?" "Mountains, perhaps." "Island of something-or-other" And at one point I realized that it wouldn't all fit on one sheet of paper, so I drew an arrow to the edge and wrote "OTHER THINGS" in large capital letters. I also have "Add more lakes" scribbled in one corner followed by far too many exclamation points.

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MerryMarmalade — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 18:20:57 -0400

But what about creepy forests? Fantasy worlds need creepy forests. c:

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lizfltn — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 18:41:19 -0400

"Paparazzi in the club gets mafia'd" 'To mafia' - now a verb, apparently.

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rachum_05 — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 20:37:33 -0400

I've got all sorts of these to myself in my outline this year! [quote]Finally, after a few months, and enough photographs for evidence, he took his discovery to .... whoever doctors take their medical discoveries to, and then whatever needs to go on to make this thing into an actual thing; happened. [/quote] [quote]Her first date with Parker is an interesting one. It's March, but he insists they go for a walk along the Chicago river. Holy cow, she freezes. That's a bad date idea. Don't do that to her, Parker. Take her for pizza or something. Peter Piper's Pizza with Parker. Take her to one of your shows. Then you wouldn't get to pay very close attention to her. Eff, I suck at first date ideas. [/quote] [quote]He grabs her shoulders, looks her right smack dab in the eyes...Where did the phrase 'smack dab' come from? It's such an odd phrase. [/quote] [quote]He puts her in a cab and .... well, how does he get home? Maybe she drove. She can't drive on their first date. She would hate that. He doesn't have any type of vehicle. Maybe Paul let him borrow the van. They could have a discussion about the origin of the Ragamuffin Tops. He could tell her about his tattoo. Yes, that definitely happens. So he drives her home.[/quote] [quote]Where on earth does she live? She can't live with Bea AND Eve, and they should definitely live together. Maybe Holly does live with them. But she'd like her space. Maybe she lives in the same building, different apartment. That's it. They live in apartments. Bea had to sell the house when Frank died. I guess his name was Frank. [/quote] [quote]Lila wakes up in the morning, she and Denver have some sort of altercation. This is going to take up way more words than it has just now. She shuts a cabinet door too hard and it sets Denver off. He starts yelling at her, grabbing her arms and shaking her. She cries out and he slaps her, then picks up the plate of eggs and slams it to the ground. He demands she clean it up right away. I guess a plate of eggs materialized. Not really. She cooked them. [/quote]

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scammer — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 22:46:06 -0400

When my MC is exploring the Air shrine: [quote]They make their way up the winding staircase (heh, get it -- Air shrine, winding)[/quote] I'm here all week! Well ... all November, actually ... yeah.

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luckydicekirby — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 23:27:55 -0400

My last three NaNos, including this year's, could probably be summarized with "Also lesbians."

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St.Germain — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 02:05:46 -0400

Apparently Mt. Dew and cold medicine create... interesting results, which led me to churn out a description for my still unnamed antagonist. This is gonna be the best November EVER. "Name: Baddie McBadface (working name) Occupation: Evil Lackey, Cthulhu's Plaything, oh and Museum Curator Character Description: Possessed/Coerced by the Old Ones to do their bidding on this existential plane. I imagine him to be the curator or something of the museum housing the jewel. He was possessed to gain access to it, but it was stolen before he could do anything about it. My god, this seems so obvious! How did I not think of it sooner? Or did I? Anywho, he then tries to track our intrepid hero-thieves, while not drawing the attention of the constabulary. Until he becomes desperate, towards the end, I imagine. Honestly, I blame Egypt Central. Seriously, this is a fantastic band." Honestly, I just like saying "constabulary." And apparently I REALLY like my present music choices.

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thecandiedmango — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 04:00:08 -0400

No, never fail. This is the best of wins.

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thecandiedmango — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 04:23:04 -0400

Back for round two, this time with fresh action from my outline. [quote]We see Eva doing her creepy stalker thing. She is in her room doing research on Dr. O’s research.[/quote] Yo dawg, I heard you like to--- [quote]Dr. O gets his shovel when they're running around the countryside and get caught by the crazy family that tries to feed them placenta or something. They want to get Dr. O to stay because they need a husband for the babymomma daughter, and they try to dispose of Eva and Dr. O is like FUCK NOOOOO.[/quote] Indeed. [quote]Cue the sad, lonely sigh.[/quote] Clearly this is a soap opera. [quote]someone is captured [/quote] Very specific. [quote]SUBCONSCIOUS SPEAKING 'appears that everyone is FIGHT' maybe that means something[/quote] Spelling errors always mean something. [quote]Bryce is being lazy and pissing people off a bit.[/quote] [quote]Namrah/Priya/Ramita/Sunita/Marala is murdered. [/quote] Identity crisis. [quote]Eva goes to class. Dr. O tells errbody that HEY we have the opportunity to go on a mothafuggin research trip.[/quote] [quote]HOLY TITS IDEA. Maybe Dr. O works for the UT while working for the AEC? Crazy shit.[/quote] I astound myself with my cleverness.

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MystShadow — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 05:02:44 -0400

Oh yeesh... i'm a bit concerned with my thought processes if this is anything to go by. [quote] Do dance with me. She's tracking down someone (or something?) for revenge or some other reason.[/quote] Yeah... reeeally specific me. [quote] What do you do when you can no longer do what you used to do? [/quote] Other things i'd assume. [quote] Comes from a normal family. Normal for an alien. Normal is relative. Lives with other relatives? Maybe that's normal. Scratch that, she's orphaned. As an adult? Is it orphaned if you're an adult? Orphaned little adult rich girl alien.[/quote] Yeah... i got nothing.

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Reuna — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 06:37:47 -0400

I... find these in me notebook with ONLY FOUR PAGES WITH NOTES IN ATM HOLY OMGS I NEED MOAAAAR! [quote]And Mundaneworld was invaded by a huge allegory.[/quote] That happens when you read (and write) academic stuff on fantasy literature. You end up knowing that fantasy is just an externalisation of different feelings and stuff. Yeah. [quote]There be crack in the dimensions! Druggy drugdrug...[/quote] *shrugs* [quote]"BARKLORD RISING! (religious funds jizzing, y/y?)[/quote] I... think I've read too much My Immortal =D And funds? Great way to shorten the word "fundamentalists"... [quote]MC's fried kidnapped when little ==> QUEST later because of... gasp... PROPHECY! Fuck cliché[/quote] Yeah.

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JeffDudley — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 07:57:23 -0400

How do you get 'sophisticated pale skin' - I want some.....

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Alianora La Canta — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:50:57 -0400

I have notes saying: "The Cabinet is being interviewed. A sheep wants the final word." Which is fine except there everyone in the cast is human, there is no magic or other plebotinum that would enable anyone to know what the sheep was thinking - and the Cabinet are supposed to be a bunch of politicians who deliberately don't talk to the press anyway (it's not exactly election time at any point in my novel...)

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Dakisawesome — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:31:39 -0400

Most of my notes have sounded pretty sane - though I did find one gem which made perfect sense to me at the time: [quote] An unusually L-like character is intergtal to the plot for some reason cuz I wanna describe him q lot and stuff[/quote] 3am does weird things to my brain.

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callmeIndigo — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:32:45 -0400

I'm probably posting here way too much, but I discovered these this morning: [quote]Iris is totally on a train YES[/quote] [quote]NO IT'S ABOUT THE CITY YOU IDIOT[/quote] [quote]Anyway, he meets Mars on the train. A train. The train. Whatever.[/quote] [quote]It's old and has actual compartments, because I like those trains, and yeah. Why did I continue that sentence?[/quote] This one happened because I looked away from the page, then looked down and found that I'd written a comma and "and" when I thought the sentence was over. And finally... [quote]Amanda does not look like Iris. Not that Iris, although she doesn't look like him either. The other Iris. Who is not on a train. This is becoming a problem.[/quote] At which point I finally gave up and put my notes away.

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Oooh_Napkins — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:44:06 -0400

"The regression takes a painful hold of Maxwell and he is traumatized by his bodily functions." True story.

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Cam-eraObscura — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:24:47 -0400

Because of reasons? Maybe because he's corrupt, or maybe they just want to figure out if they can get away with it, or...? (Good luck!)

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VampireAngel13 — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:29:54 -0400

"Arg I hate the word SOMEHOW it sucks" No idea.

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Cam-eraObscura — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:40:40 -0400

<3! Day of the Tentacle! But I digress.

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Cam-eraObscura — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:42:34 -0400

Oh. My. Goodness. My personal notes are lacking the Fullmetal Alchemist jokes. THAT'S why they're not working for me! (But honestly, your use of the "dead sexy in a miniskirt" (and the fact that I now heard that in Ed's and Envy's voices) make me so very happy. Thank you for that.)

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Cam-eraObscura — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:44:43 -0400

Wild! Also, I like the idea that he'd get the boot just because he isn't practicing hygiene. (But if you're actually wondering about this, I'm pretty sure truck stops have showers for use? In which case, yeah.)

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raunina — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:08:43 -0400

All of my notes tend to be full of obscenities and keysmashes, so. They're not terribly effective. These are some bits from this year's planning: "Oh god. If Asel plays the devil and Isa plays God, does that mean I’m writing God/The Devil slash? I CAN’T HANDLE THAT. I CAN’T HANDLE IT YOU GUYS." "BUT THEY DON’T BECAUSE THEY’RE ACTUALLY IN LOVE BUT THEY’RE AFRAID OF THEIR ~FEELINGS BECAUSE IT’S WRONGGGG OH NO wow man when did this story become so lame I mean shit"

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Cam-eraObscura — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:17:25 -0400

Your entire quote and especially your questioning of it makes me belly-laugh, no kidding.

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author-person — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 03:07:45 -0400

My notes at the end of my Its-midnight-omg-it-has-begun-november-is-here writing sprint: [quote]Next Scene, Matteo goes out to lunch at his fave café, complete with paint splotch-ies on his handy-hand-hands. Make sure to mention his appearance.[/quote] fave? paint splotch-ies? handy-hand-hands?? Is that like chinny-chin-chins from the three little pigs??? And since I've already gone out of my way to mention the paint and the hands, I think mentioning the appearance is already covered...

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esama — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 06:13:47 -0400

I was looking through my old nano files for inspirations when I ran into this. [quote=]Sky is pink and grass is blue and all the butterflies in the world hate you [/quote] I have no idea, but it got a chuckle out of me.

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KedaseDerragar — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 06:21:03 -0400

[quote]fighter/investigator knight type person[/quote] Believe it or not, this is one of my more-fleshed-out characters.

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Reuna — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 08:07:32 -0400

Haha, you made my day =D <3

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Sionainn — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 09:24:34 -0400

I'll post stuff from novels I've planned out years ago because my notes back then were more amusing. I have since learnt that they are hard to make sense of when I actually get to the stage of writing however. [quote]Alex/Robert . . . Allows for much HOO HAR. YAY![/quote] I do actually remember what this one means, and it's not a pairing or anything. The two characters were simply to be mistaken for one another, thus allowing for the "HOO HAR" [quote]WAR NOW[/quote] For some reason this note needed to take up an entire page of the notebook. I guess I got over-excited. [quote]Well accept for maybe vampires[/quote] This one has about zero context. None of my novels are about vampires or have vampires in them. I have never planned anything with vampires and doubt I ever will, I find them boring.

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candle.city — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 09:29:08 -0400

[quote]So technically, Hubris is actually five people: I-want-to-kill-my-grandmother Hubris, Let-me-hide-from-the-police-in-your-closet Hubris, Asymptote Hubris, Norse-mythology-and-robots August, and Asymptote August.[/quote] Musing to myself over how lazy I am and the fact that I recycle characters far too often. These five are all different iterations of the same character, just a little bit warped over time and set in different stories.

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Sionainn — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 09:32:46 -0400

Oh, I just found this one: [quote]At one-forty-six in the morning on the nineteenth of the ninth, I decided I did not like my protagonist anymore. I do not know what my mindset was at that time, and I do not know why I suddenly decided I hated a character I have been developing for over a quarter of my lifetime. What I do know is that I felt strongly enough about this to jot it down alongside the time and date.[/quote] What a strangely proper note.

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raunina — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:27:35 -0400

Pahahahahaha! That is the best.

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raunina — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:33:27 -0400

I just found this while going through my notes, and figured it probably belonged here. [quote]come up with a fancy space word for parent because yeah also sire sounds stupid also that is a snake word it is sire and dam i think and asel is not a snake he is a bird birds eat snakes i suppose snakes also eat birds but that’s not really the point.[/quote] I should note that sire and dam are not 'snake words', whatever that means, so. I don't really know what is going on with this, especially considering my main character is not a bird.

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misslasagna — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:38:45 -0400

[quote]Mr. Grumpypants[/quote] This is the only description I have of this character. [quote]Bridget dies (sad day)[/quote] So sympathetic.

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Miikaan — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:56:10 -0400

Oh goodness I love this thread. Here are some of my notes;; "I hope I won't come to the point where I have to make them both screw" and written in the margin of my paper (right next to a little drawing of a ziploc bag full of nerds) says: "I need nerds. Now." aaand "then the mary-sue FMC accidentally helps the enemy soldier when he asks for it right next to that one guy that everyone hates who slaps him for it" "that one guy who everyone hates kills the FMC at some point because this needs moar angst and death" "this needs more chatzy, desu, angst, and I need more nerds" . . . . orz

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thecandiedmango — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:56:34 -0400

Based on how many of these I've had in the last week I think the whole NaNovel will be an overly long 'best worst note'. [quote]At first they just invade his space and he's all "NO. GTFO." but then he calms down and enjoys it because HEY. FRIENDSHIP. This is nice.[/quote] [quote]In this situation he will tell Beck to chill the hell out and start gathering his leetle cheekons together with the tiniest of boks. bok bok bokeeee[/quote] [quote]and FREAK OUT (bom pa nom bass line) [/quote] Why? Just... why?

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IamSamThisIsMe — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:56:40 -0400

My favourite after a late night of novelling: [quote] He was my physio, and he was drop dead gorgeous. {HOW SO? FIGURE THIS OUT SOON!} [/quote] [quote] I was determined. He had totally underestimated how amazingly determined i was {Here he sounds about 5. Please, brain, try and remember that he is actually 23, or possibly 19 or maybe 21. Hey! Maybe we should see an age here?!?} [/quote]

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Miikaan — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:59:46 -0400

xDDD That first one. I can't stop laughing.

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Lola.B — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:03:06 -0400

Okay I have two notes that I found funny but don't know if they are or not. "epic battle ensues lives are lost (this isn't Twilight people) " AND Kai trying to kill lily and Adrian is killing kai because lily is knocked out (however she wounds kai because she's kick ass and can fight unlike Bella swan). (Also the wound probably would have killed Kai anyway but why would I write a whole chapter of him dying plus it's more meaningful and emo-ish to have Adrian kill Kai. More depth to Adrian CHEERS!) I have no idea when I wrote that...or how I even understand it :P

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preytonone — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:57:19 -0400

"Connor leaves home and OMFG SHEXY FUNTIMES" .....sigh.

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QuiSaitRien — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 20:37:19 -0400

[quote]Then zombies attack. Hollow’s basic reaction = ‘Goddammit.’ [/quote] I agree. [quote]General idea is that they’re either both on LSD, the really good stuff, or it’s Armageddon. They both prefer the first one because hey- atheists. [/quote] My characters prefer week-long acid trips to Armageddon because hey - atheists! *headdesk* [quote]Bob gets eaten by a (grue) Blaspheme[/quote] It's dark. You may be eaten by a (Blaspheme) grue. [quote]They’re also insanely suspicious of everything, because a tree they camped under last night tried to eat them [/quote] I'd be suspicious, too. [quote]She says that while she appreciates both their interest and thinks they’re both cool guys, she isn’t ready for a long term relationship – it’s not them, it’s her. [/quote] This is talking to two gods about to whom she would give her allegiance. Yeah. [quote]She says it’s because she doesn’t want apocalyptic psychic goo on her property. [/quote] Such descriptive language, here.

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SilverGryphon — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 20:45:44 -0400

Holy shit YES

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callmeIndigo — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 20:46:38 -0400

[quote]ALL HEROES HAVE CURLY HAIR.[/quote] At some point this morning the stress of impending NaNo made me lose my mind, apparently. Gosh, that was fast. [quote]He'd resolve it himself BECAUSE KILL YOU[/quote] [quote]and because violin.[/quote] QED.

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LaylaWrites — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:32:37 -0400

I think that last bit needs to be in the final draft. Please?

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emberwing — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:39:25 -0400

"Technically she was forced into this job as a community service thing (her teenage years were ones of minor crime) but she didn’t seem all that unhappy with it because she only threw three cars into the cheif's office. Everyone knows that five or more cars means true dissatisfaction." It's a legit system

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LaylaWrites — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:43:52 -0400

"pencil jar = pi$$ jar" It's a good thing i know what that's for. "Strobe light in the closet "'I like the night life.'?" and my favorite, "dead alien fetus in a jar in fridge" I think that's self-explanatory.

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LaylaWrites — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:53:12 -0400

[quote=StarSammi] t. “Fisk is not bicurious. Merely curious. You know what I mean.” …no, I’m not really sure what you mean. [/quote] LLOL (that first "L" is "literally). Like, for serial.

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LaylaWrites — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:57:27 -0400

I like them. Concise.

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berrigan — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 23:14:16 -0400

They fight a lot, huge messy fights with flinging of cutlery and gadgetry. Deuko accidently kills Pip at one point when he throws a Vahoy probe at him. I don’t know what a vahoy probe is. Probably something for probing orfices that humans don’t have. (metaphor of their relationship?)

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thecandiedmango — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 12:39:31 -0400

I squished those last two together like they were a single sentence and it was hilaaarious.

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sarah_hart — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 13:30:52 -0400

[quote]Abraxas is killed (Big Epic Battle, what what!).[/quote] I have no idea why I wrote that, I never say what what! in real life. I think I was just trying to get major plot points down. [quote] Sort of like Aragorn and Frodo, but with sex![/quote] I also just found this, and have no idea what it references. Heh, oops.

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ankhta — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 20:37:35 -0400

"nonono he takes the FEMUR onto the roof, not the umbrella" "shugos worldlike seeitng thigns thogvhh dry ice" "meat shop mel hates it" i think i've all but abandoned grammar and spelling on the side of the road

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ladyhadhafang — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 08:52:28 -0400

That second one just made my day. XD

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queenoftheoutlands — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 09:54:38 -0400

I just wanted to say that my Novel is being annoying at the moment and this thread just made my day. Erm, okay, let me find some amusing notes so this post isn't completely pointless: "Sky is a horrible person" and, in connection: "Dawn is smug some more" "Horrible" and "Smug" appear to be these characters defining characteristics. Maybe its a good thing that I kill both of them off fairly quickly. "Gray really wants a drink (before being distracted by a pretty woman. The rest of the band are really no help at all, but the violin player is very loud" Yes, I'm sure loud violin playing is a huge plotpoint. "The jazz band beat him up because, hey, they're awesome." The "him" in this situation is my antagonist, by the way. He gets beaten up by a jazz band. Obviously jazz = badassary.

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xxCoFxx — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 10:02:10 -0400

These are some of my notes: "Possibly have the main character seduced by a transvestite? Then the talking ferrets find out and don’t let him live it down" I actually incorporated something like this in my idea haha

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Caitlin20 — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 10:09:17 -0400

I just opened my outline to see what is going on in today's scene and there is only one thing written: Scene three: Liz does some wibbly wobbly corporatey worporatey stuff. (by the way, my handwriting looks really weird today) This should be very helpful for my writing quota. Sigh.

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Summourn — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 14:06:45 -0400

Haha. From one of my character profiles. [quote] Core Needs: The swift removal of criminal scum from the privilege of existence. How does s/he deal with those needs? She has a baseball bat. Coping Mechanisms / Problem Solving Style: See above (read: baseball bat.). [/quote]

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MontyPythonBunnies — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 14:28:54 -0400

[quote] The girls... and Robbie... confer and decide to give up their trip to Greece (who needs falafel anyway?) to "escort" Evie to Laggan House. (read: they drug her with cold medicine and load her into the car. Really officer, she's just got a bad head cold.) [/quote] Wow... this was the second night without sleep to get my outline ready for Monday... so yeah... Go cough medicine... Boo falafel, apparently.

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finchgeam — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:03:27 -0400

I found this in between lines of my NaNovel ... [TIMETRAVEL MACHINES WILL BE INVENTED 30 YEARS LATER IN 2372... Sequel fodder much] I wrote that in a sleep-deprived state so I don't remember this ... my subconcious is already thinking of sequels ... LOL

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callmeIndigo — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:14:24 -0400

[quote]Switch second and first scenes, you dumbass.[/quote] I insult myself a lot in my notes. [quote]The trio snoop around in bookstores for a bit, and something interesting happens which may or may not be important later.[/quote] Clearly I know exactly where the plot is going. [quote]It is good and friendship-bonding-y.[/quote] You have no idea how many things I describe this way. It's pathetic.

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IamSamThisIsMe — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:22:55 -0400

Just found one that made me laugh, embedded in the plan for a scene: [quote] In which Brian goes against his sexy beast nature, and arranges a Romantic evening for himself and Scott, to help move their relationship past their previous troubles. [/quote] Okay. Where did the 'sexy beast nature' come from. He's been described as cold, aloof, dominant, controlling and an utter b*****d, but never a sexy beast. Note to Self: DO NOT plan after Midnight. You have no control over what ends up happening.

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xLookinGlass — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 20:32:55 -0400

Eventually Victorian? Edwardian? Elizabethan?! HELL IF I KNOW BUT SHE GETS TO WEAR A FANCY DRESS. Also she can have a little pet dog because she is French originally and it amuses me. Hahaha Gautier has to wear fancy shit and he doesn’t like it because idk why. But the idea of him in fancy stuff is lol. Also TOP HATS FOR HIM. I know what I'm talking about, but absolutely none of this is important. To anything. At all. I'm afraid of my NaNoWriMo this year...

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selinedun9 — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 21:10:23 -0400

Ah, I found a few: [quote]One was a servant, a personal body guard which he well knew, and the other was that of a younger man―but Hakeem could not place it.[/quote] Um. No, " a personal body guard" and "which he well knew" is Redundancy Department of Redundancy. :P [quote]Servants hurried to and fro, brandishing lighting sticks and stopping momentarily to put them in the holders that lined the sides of the walls.[/quote] "Brandishing lighting sticks"??? Ah. No. Just no. That would be dangerous!! [and what's a lighting stick, anyway?] *headdesk* <--- THIS is what happens when writing after 9pm each night. :P

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Sunnyblob — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 01:34:29 -0400

[BLARGH. STUFF ABOUT BALLS. LIKE DANCING BALLS. YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN. She meets Jakkito and crap. But he’s called Timothy in this story. Damn you Sunnyblob, stop making mistakes and then talking in third person to yourself. HE IS TIMOTHY NOW. NOT JAKKITO. BLAAAARGH. Awkward stuff happens. Yeah. I adore balls. Shut up, you know what I mean. LET’S GO TO THE NEXT CHAPTER.] [Haha. Chair and despair. That rhymes.] [Schimmelpennick. SCHIMMELPENNICK. That sounds cool. MUST USE HHHNGH] [Also, the author of this story is half asleep so I have no idea what the hell I am writing. This is probably really out of character and crappy but I'm not really concentrating. Mmm, flying elephants. I really want a bagel right now.]

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Ramblejack — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 04:07:58 -0400

I think the winner right now is the little post-it note that says "Pros/cons/why? corn/herbivore human interaction." Okaaa-aay. Sounds like some sort of bizarre alien popcorn experiment...

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theindefiniteone — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 04:14:27 -0400

I don't have many bad notes, but here are two that stick out. [quote]and then PAPER FLOWER ASLKFJLSKDJLKA ANGST[/quote] Yes, very insightful, self. And here are some lines describing a character: [quote] [...]She's a Yandere. -Yandere. -crazy for MC Psychological Disorders: She's a goddamn Yandere.[/quote] Yes, she's a Yandere. You have already established that, self. Don't go to the Department of Redundancy Department.

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Bovver — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 18:34:27 -0400

I was super tired and doing a word sprint to hit 10K before midnight last night. I wrote the following: "She appeared Human, but yet, something was off about her. Her feet were bare and she walked with an animalistic grace, like a panther striding along a branch. She had a bunch of other interesting features that I have not thought about yet, and those will be described here as well." Then I wrote a note to myself to remember to come back to a spot I need to fix when NaNo is over. I wrote: - Make the whole poisoned soul scene just a million times better than it is now Ugh....

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Taekwondodo — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 18:57:58 -0400

"I really need to figure out why what they are doing is such a bad thing. Apart from tearing her from her family. GOT IT! They all have goatees, even the women! = EVIL!!!" Yeah, need to rethink that...

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nome_de_plume — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 19:03:54 -0400

[quote] the song ended with the telling words you hurt me, and then she was done. Her everything hurt. Could her everything hurt? She didn’t have a good answer. All she knew was that she was so tired. [/quote] Way to forget the type of narration....

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Sabulana — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 19:35:47 -0400

My notes contain such phrases as: "Passion for sciences - chem and bio - explosions and nature! :)" "ordinary day ordinary life ordinary ordinary ordinary - note to self, find out what ordinary is." 'Ordinary' doens't even look like a word to me any more. "give the boy a name, you can't call him 'Spooky kid'" In futire notes about this particular kid, he's named Spooks. I think I need to give him an actual name. "check TV Tropes for that thing!" What thing, I no longer remember. But at least I know where to go once I do remember. Though I'll likely lose half the month to TV Tropes if I do...

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Aelfay — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 02:54:05 -0400

Dude, we're the most BA cops out there. Yeah, man, freakin' wizard. Doughnut?

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sarcasticcinders — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 03:57:00 -0400

My notes for this year's NaNo: [quote]Try not to to make a Itsumi a brooding, angsty bastard. None of that "Woe is me, my life is hard abloobloobloo BS" this year.[/quote] Well, brooding angst is very abloobloobloo [quote]No, there will be no Jack Harkness...don't care if he makes everything better.[/quote] But it's Jack Freakin' Harkness, self [quote]DEMONIC FROGS!!!!! Can frogs be demonic?[/quote] o.O [quote]What is a three way slide??? Does it fit in the universe? DOES IT!!?[/quote] A question to which there is no answer, since: 1. I still don't know what a three way slide is 2. Therefore, without knowing what a three way slide is, I have no effing idea if it fits in the universe 3. Stop being so pushy, self

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Syri_Rey4711 — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 04:17:02 -0400

Little kid feet sensitive? Get older not hurt build up callus? Only kid wear shoes? Shoes symbol childhood/innocence? When get rid of mean grow up? Ceremony? Coming-of-age thing? LMFAO "The Burning of the Shoes"

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sarcasticcinders — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 05:47:16 -0400

Another one i just found as I was working on a scene: [Quote] DEAF-MUTE!!! Wait! How do you write sign language? :( [/quote] This is why I shouldn't write down stuff when I'm half awake.

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St.Germain — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 07:39:58 -0400

These were actually IMs to my friend as I was trying to name my villain. [quote]"I want him to have a very posh, yet academic sort of name, like someone who would enjoy waterchess."[/quote] Waterchess is a fictional sport (created by the friend in question and/or his buddies), enjoyed by fellows with proper British accents, who attended top notch universities. It's like polo, but posher. [quote]"I'm thinking something along the lines of Leighton Blackmore, but I think he needs one of those hyphenated last names for maximum waterchestitude."[/quote] He wound up being Leighton Edward Blackmore the Third, which I think has sufficient waterchestitude.

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Indigo Green — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 00:03:29 -0400

"Just remember you are going to be rewriting the whole story starting in December, so swear all you want just note it all has to go" This was after I promised my grandfather he could read my novel.. xD "Rewrite in 3rd person later I hate Rose right now the only way to fix it is to write 3rd person."

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nerrdygrrl15 — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 08:15:54 -0500

HOW LONG IS A SPACE DAY? HOW MANY ARE 24 SUNS? MAGNET HAIR Yeah, usually the things I write in all caps are the most hilarious.

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Cam-eraObscura — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:54:07 -0500

Your whole "Yo dawg I heard you like to research so we put research in your research so you can research while you research" thing slays me. I can't remember what breathing feels like, I've been laughing so hard.

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xxCoFxx — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:58:14 -0500

I think this was my worst idea to date: [quote] Have Warren get back with his wife and the makeup sex is so horrible he leaves her for Clarissa? [/quote]

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Druidblue — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:50:01 -0500

Planning some names out... in this particular case, the name of a space colony's small military-based force... Terran Navy } Earth Defense } DERP! United Earth Navy } NOT ON EARTH *headdesk*

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lifelessmind — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:31:06 -0500

I have multiple notes for sections that need to be changed in December that say, "This is not supposed to be a euphemism." Either Jude's mind lives in the gutter, or mine does, because half of what he says could be misinterpreted as innuendo!

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kat17 — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:59:08 -0500

A couple of days ago at like two in the morning I accidentally killed my MC. Being too tired to really figure out a reasonable solution and too stubborn to, you know, go back and write the scene so that she survives instead I wrote this: [quote] And now I’m just going to introduce a time traveling deevice, cuz those things solve problems and such and I accidntly just killed my main charcter whoops. BriNg on th Tardis. [/quote] and continued on with the story. A couple pages later I was writing a sort of climactic scene, but I guess I decided to take it in an entirely different direction because I had been killing so many of my characters: [quote] I walked down the hallway cautiously and gasped when I saw keep the body count down a little puppy sitting there. Then the puppy wandered off and I kept on walking down the hall. [/quote]

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Reuna — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:27:32 -0500

[quote]Make MC less stupid? Brain surgery? [/quote] If only I'd remember what he did to make me write that... [quote]Why put his daughter in an orb? Carry Aith around his neck/on his staff (whoa. No. Literally his MAGIC STAFF) [/quote] I dunno why I had to write that O.o [quote]Step 2: Go to Gooh-land. - why? O_o ==> 'cause there be this AWESOME guy who can do... something? Right? Right? Why do they need the awesome guy? Aith be messing around? NO. NEED - BETTER - PLAN! 3. ??? 4. Profit[/quote] I so fail at planning... And scribbled in very small letters in one corner of the notebook: [quote] I has done some planning wheee [/quote] ... how happy I am~~~

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BrittanyAnne89 — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:07:04 -0500

My notes for NaNo year one(2009) consisted of just this "It's like pretty woman only way more awesome and he either dies at the end just after they get married or maybe just before. Or he's cheating on her with hookers in other cities. Either way, he dies." Year 2(2010) "Fiara, oldest princess girl, going to meet her betrothed. Finds out father is not really her father. Is demon in disguise. Ugly demon too, has horns and stuff" "Brea, youngest princess girl is only five. Kicks demon in shins. Do demons have shins? Yells at demon "YOU ARE NOT MY DADDY YOU CAN'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO" goes off and eats cinnamon puffs." Sidenote: If anyone knows what cinnamon puffs are, can you please tell me? This year "Modern day Hansel and Gretel, parents die of drug OD, get sent to orphanage. Orphanage wardens are eating the children. Hansel and G burn place down. Living children survive. Wardens burn. H and G get sent to Juvie." "Stockholm syndrome????????" in bright purple letters "mental illness? don't eat the pork!"

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BrittanyAnne89 — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:16:13 -0500

a 3 way slide seems to me a slide that you go down one tube at the top but can choose one of three exits which each land you somewhere totally different. since this seems awesome, i think it should fit in the universe

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callmeIndigo — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:42:59 -0500

[quote]So apparently Duke is 6'5" again. I give up.[/quote] He was originally supposed to be six feet tall, but he decided to be taller and screw up my lovely height ratio. [quote]There are no Daleks in the void![/quote] There is no void. Also, what?

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Zoey2070 — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:58:01 -0500

I really don't have many notes, but I guess I have some good ones. [quote][i]aw, crap[/i][/quote] No. Seriously. I wrote bbcode on paper. Then, I have this: [quote]X wants to be tortured very creatively detailededy tortured[/quote] I've been wide awake when typing and writing, yet I don't know how I missed the redundancy there. [quote]Cyclone isn't anything interesting, just an assassin. Kills english boys with her boobs.[/quote] Being an assassin isn't that interesting, I guess. Well, no, it probably isn't when your entire novel is about an assassin. That second line. I don't even know. I don't write very many notes. ;-;

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LaylaWrites — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:21:39 -0500

Cinnamon Puffs? Sounds like a cereal aimed at kids.

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Taekwondodo — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:27:40 -0500

Written during a write or die session when I got sidetracked from writing the scene I should have been writing and ended up writing an outline for the rest of my novel instead. (A lot of writing in that sentence, maybe I'm trying to tell myself something?) [quote] Watchers all "What have you done?" I'm like "Suck it bitches!"[/quote] Yeah... [quote]takes me to trial and say blah, blah blah, blah some stuff about stuff. [/quote] Yup... Those trials always have so many people saying stuff about stuff. [quote]the machines have come back up now and there are new souls! Rejoice! They're all like "Soz, lol, here's your family back. You can go home now, we got it all wrong, whoops!" and we go home and live happily ever after[/quote] So you know it's a happy ending at least. XD

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rampantpanda — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:47:40 -0500

I just realized that I haven't even looked at most of my notes since I started writing! I guess with notes like these that's not such a bad thing... "The helicopter they are in when they crash should be an MH-6. It could crash due to poor maintenance, but environmental factors would be better. Cal picks the pilot because he's good, so he'll crash it in the most survivable way possible. And f*** if I don't want to have her have a go at trying to fix it as they're going down." And my favorite bit of backstory: "Robin Hood and his band cooperated with wood nymphs to evade capture during the reign of Richard I."

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rampantpanda — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:51:16 -0500

I love your icon!

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Mysterious Shoe — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:16:17 -0500

"Graphic description of a purity ball" is my favourite. Also, "he opened it up and scraped its insides out. at what point did it die?"

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CadaeicCicada — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:27:14 -0500

I found this on my phone today: [quote]Scouting called off. Seen the fences? Go look I'll wait.[/quote] I wish I knew that it meant...

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Kookaburra17 — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:49:39 -0500

In my notes, in the middle of a dramatic scene with lots of tension and plottiness, I doodled a pirate with a gigantic beard shouting 'yarg yarg yarg'. ...I don't even...

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Hoshi Niccon — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 22:03:58 -0500

His behavior seems somewhat normal save for a few small abnormalities like watering anything green and growing and his larger then normal appetite. only reason this is so Epic is I forgot I wrote it and just a bit ago I was wondering why said character was always hungry and eating so much >>

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MidAbsentia — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:15:40 -0500

"Go straight from dream/haze/drifting what-the-heck first chapter to instant ship crash. BLAM BLAM BLAM BBBBBBOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMM" Weirdly enough, my first thought looking back on this is "packets of instant Ship Crash(just add black hole) for only 99 cents!" "Trilogy. I think. Ish. Trill. Trillllll. Trillish." "Others too, but mostly John because see section A, paragraph thirteen in my manifesto with which I have gone into needless detail and this is quickly becoming a pointless run-on sentence but screw convention." It's funny because that manifesto is a mass of tangled thoughts, and I don't even remember what I was talking about.

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nerrdygrrl15 — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:54:27 -0500

[quote=nerrdygrrl15] "Once i convinced my captain to bludgeon her interface to death with a shovel." a lesbian rogue ai. yes. [/quote] I don't even know what I was thinking at the time.

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mixolydian320 — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 01:52:10 -0500

I've just got: "What kind of canned food did they get?" Um...does it matter, self? Apparently, it does. Idk. I'm tired.

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PhoenixSempai — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 02:58:36 -0500

My friend and I are both writing in the same co-worldbuilt universe, so we frequently check in with each other to help out with plot conundrums and inconsistencies. But when both of us are caffeinated and sleep-deprived, the following conversation results: Me: and then nazar comes into power and is all HEALZZZ BLAAAH Me: just like that Friend: and everyone's all "YAY NAZAR" and Ariks' all "COMA-D" We were talking about the new king Nazar's plan to put the old king into a coma so he could take over and implement health care reforms. In a 15th-century-style fantasy. Apparently "to coma" is now a verb and everyone speaks in lolspeak. What's sad is we re-read these notes later, and they actually make some semblance of sense.

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SweetJuly — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 03:18:59 -0500

"(with reference to that scene in Little Shop of Horrors where the plant is singing about all the great things he'll give Seymour and Seymour is just rockin' out to the music--until the plant throws in the line about killing people, at which point Seymour yells, "Wait, wait, wait!" and shuts everybody up.)" Thanks for telling me that, me, I wouldn't have gotten my own reference. "The Crowd is delivering Francis messages about Dray's…uh, bedrayal." Poor Dray, first I give her a stupid name and then I make even stupider puns about it when I take notes.

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Impact_Elite08 — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 05:53:55 -0500

I was sprinting just now, and in a burst of inspiration, I decided to make the last name of a very minor character my grandma's maiden last name as a sort of tribute. The problem was, I couldn't remember her last name. Frantically, as Write or Die got increasingly more frustrated with my lack of typing, I typed out this gem: "A week later Anton 'Gamndamas alsst name' walks in..." Definitely meant to type "Grandma's last name" as a placeholder. Whoops.

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Piper the Perfect — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 06:00:11 -0500

I don't do many notes, and when I do they usually make sense. I just typed this a couple of hours ago. I'm getting a bit annoyed with myself. [quote=misslasagna] Other possible ending? My god! When am I going to decide on one? There’s the one above this which is all nice and everything but the way I’m thinking of everything it doesn’t play out. This is one added on to the wedding, which would work more. Anyways here we go: Other possible ending(and this is so counting into NanoWord count). [/quote]

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Piper the Perfect — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 06:02:20 -0500

Crap didn't mean to reply in the middle of forum. Ugh! >.> And the "misslasagna wrote" was a quote mistake. I click on quote on other's posts because I can't remember how to type the end bracket thing right.

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Piper the Perfect — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 06:50:53 -0500

Ow! Ow! My side! So. Much. Laughter!

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Turdlock — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 07:36:19 -0500

This makes me happy. I don't really have a lot of notes that I think anyone else would think are funny, but I'll put a couple. :D "Basically what we got now is the Tower which is explained above (just like Peter's reading) then the devil is his own powers (or whatever I can't think to explain it properly right now XD) and basically coming to terms with it and more things I can't think of, then Death which is a huge change and the death of old ideals and thought patterns and things are going to go to hell in a handbasket, then the three of swords meaning grief, depression, everything is going to suck, Then the ten of swords which means everythings going farther down hill and someone really is probably going to die and worse shit, then the eight of swords reversed and that means he's growing up, seeing the light coming to terms with himself and being a GD man." ^^Summarizing a tarot reading for a character. It's sad I still understand it. "WOW MAN! Action chapter. Maybe a death? Who the heck knows? Not me!" ^^I write random crap before I start typing a chapter. I like this one. :) I was also looking through my old notebook and found "Naruto Valhalla" written in the margin of a scene, surrounded by scribbles which were meant to be my signature. In other related notes, while writing information about a character I wrote "Think prissy Sasuke" for one of his character traits. :D

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tchaikovsky — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 08:09:44 -0500

omg so true

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stephogroove — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 08:33:21 -0500

I tend to leave myself notes everywhere----on my phone, post its on my work monitor, on the fridge, etc. Frequently there is no context. "Bananfesto!" "Sandwich...the bacon ham Lincoln?" The fun challenge is to work those into the novel when I'm running out of actual plot.

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Masquerading with Shadows — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 09:30:54 -0500

Listening to my ipod probably doesn't help. "Can you come over?" WOO CAUSE YOU'RE A HOT MESS AND I'M FALLING FOR YOU AND I'M LIKE ~HOT DAMN I'M LOVING IT HELL YES! OH GOD WHAT AM I DOING WHY DO I READ FANFICTION WHY DO I EVEN HAVE THIS REMIX? *insert irrelevant sex scene here because clearly someone is distracted here i am rolling my eyes at myself as we speak* - My only excuse is that it was 12am at the time. It is not 1.30am and very little has changed.

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thewordlover — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 10:33:05 -0500

"She doesn’t want to remember the night he died… It has been a year, and she has withdrawn into herself even more than before since then." Probably my favorite twisty sentence. "Not cruel, but firm and not empathetic, thus she seems to Alexandria to be completely uncaring. The real answer is just somewhat." Just somewhat... okaaay.

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Piper the Perfect — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 03:52:28 -0500

This thread needs a little bump. I love these freaking notes. XD

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Piper the Perfect — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 03:53:59 -0500

Deadly death dead! We don't want that. XD Made me giggle. And then. "Well like growing things." All out laughter.

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Piper the Perfect — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 03:56:19 -0500

No. No it does not.

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Piper the Perfect — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 04:48:55 -0500

The last three. The last four. Especially the last one and your reaction.

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LaylaWrites — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 16:37:58 -0500

Oh my goodness, that's gold.

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Star-Gidget-chan — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 17:03:59 -0500

I was trying to get the outline of my 8th chapter, so I could start writing, but my MFC decided she would write it herself, writing each scene in a way only I would understand it, I guess it turned out sort of funny: -Le wtf!, what happened last night? (Or: this is worst than hangover). -Please don't hate me so much (Or: how I could not come with a good explanation). -Oh fuck my reputation is totally screwed (Or: how everybody is being a bitch). -Pijapa party at Carlos' (Or: Babbysitting my new BBFF 4 ever). -Get your hands off o him or I'll bite your head off, pleaseandthankyou (Or: this is going to be a nice catfight). -Back at the airport for daddy (Or: are you serious, Carlos?). -Unexpectedly funny, to compensate (Or: weirdly matched). -And this is exactly why I love you so much (Or: I owe you my eternal devotion, Marcos). -But odds are not with me, ever (Or: seriously evil cliffhanger, Or: I hate my fucking life).

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Red Mosquito — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 19:17:48 -0500

This is sort of sadly funny - I'm not using an outline, but I have lots of scribbled notes. I had one page that sort of loosely figured everything out. And then NaNo started and I lost the piece of paper. I just found it. My best bad note is "L pretends to be J's ho (funny)." I don't even know what that means.

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Piper the Perfect — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 02:26:44 -0500

I've got hilarious ones now. Writing as fast as I can, so I don't forget the genius that has spilled into my head. One of these days I'm going to find my muse that just spits these things out at me and leaves, and when I do I will gladly thank her/he/it! Anyways! Here we go! [quote] They look at a book of history people. They’re not really historic people, just a record of people in history. I know what I mean! [/quote] [quote] and they discover his name is (insert ominous name here). [/quote] I'm so glad I understand myself. [quote] stands up and pounds his fist on the table.“Of course!” (Giles librarian moment!) Like the moment where he slams the table and he’s like. “SHOULD HAVE KNOWN CUZ I’M THE LIBRARIAN AND RAR RAR RAR!” Cuz, you know, in case I don’t get my own reference…………MOVING ON! [/quote] [quote] .” Lyanna spoke, looking up at him as his eyes moved back and forth as if reading the wall, his thoughts moving ever so quickly.(BETTER SENTENCE THAT ISN’T A RUN ON! No time to fix, must continue exposition!)[/quote] [quote] (bleh, better sentence later!). [/quote] I usually don't insult myself in my notes like this. MOVING ON! [quote] And other explanation thingies! [/quote] Way to get overly hyper, me. [quote] She comes back, big long fight scene. End of book. Happiness and joy![/quote] I've known this much for years, why I stated it to myself? I'm not sure. In case I forgot? Which....I won't.........*shrug* [quote] causes it to shake ferociously for five seconds. Can the ground shake ferociously? I don’t know, continue writing plotty stuff! [/quote] And the very last two words at the end of all of my notes. [quote] YAY plottiness! [/quote] Most of it is actually sensible stuff, I just got carried away and got overly happy. I'm still really happy. I have not had sugar or caffeine. And I'm not really tired. I have no excuse except I'm on writer high! Must go and write plotty stuff that I've written! YAY NANOWRIMO! *Eye twitch*

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Piper the Perfect — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:03:03 -0500

Bump?

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Piper the Perfect — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:14:54 -0500

I'd love to know what your MC did to make you think of putting him through brain surgery. XD

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Piper the Perfect — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:17:53 -0500

"abloobloo" XD Makes me laugh every time.

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The_Quillmaster — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:59:24 -0500

I thought at first "The portal on the other side can be felt" meant that the portal was fabric. XD

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RaventailBlacktalon — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 19:10:17 -0500

WARNING: Swears ahoy! A direct copy-paste from my notes document: PLAWT Pro lawg. Jathe comes back from some thing or something idfk THATS NOT IMPORTANT HES BACK NOW AND SHITS NOT GOOD. and the person he put in temporary charge of Linaria didn't do his damn job and took her out of his sight. In fact, he left her alone in the library simply because she asked him to. and, oh look, rythen is there too. alone with her. in the library. BOW CHICKA BOW WOWbut srsly who am i kidding they didnt do anything wrong, but that's not important, that kid is in deep horse shit doodoo cakes because one mr. jathe thein's career is on the line because SHE CANT BE OUT OF HIS SIGHT EVER. so he chews the kid out something fierce and then scolds Linaria and tells Rythen to go the fuck home because -- "But Sir Jathe, I am trained with the sword and perhaps am more capable than being a temporary guard for her than that boy." -- BUT HE DOESN'T FUCKING CARE BECAUSE IT ISN'T RYTHEN'S GOT DAMNED JOB OR BUSINESS AND THE FUCKER NEEDS TO GO THE FUCK HOME. Jathe is not a happy camper. And Rythen goes home and Linaria gets all teenage-girl syndrome on Jathe because "nuuu we didn't dooo anythiiing and i was fiiiine and whyy can't you truuuust meeeeeeee" kinda shit yeah. But enough of this summary I need to go write this shit.

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RaventailBlacktalon — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 19:12:19 -0500

I especially love where I interrupt myself and then proceed to insult my characters.

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JacenTheBard — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 19:16:00 -0500

I've been making color commentary in the form of footnotes as I write. Most of these are in order. - There have to be other adjectives besides dangerous. I mean really. - This could have been done better I suppose. But I don’t want to go into inches because this is a respectable book – don’t you give me that look, page-with-the-dead-girl. That was all Eon’s doing. - Clearly the heavy emphasis is completely justified. - Why are they so suspicious of these guys? I mean, I know they’re bad, but they didn’t do anything to arouse suspicion from the party. Fix it. - It probably would be a good idea to mention that this whole place is lit with torches or something. - Why….? - I should probably describe this earlier. Also he needs to turn back to being a non-badger.

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callmeIndigo — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 21:05:58 -0500

Occasionally I get distracted while making notes, which leads to...this: [quote]Jasper Wilson, get out of my novel. You are a doctor. You do not own a bookstore. Chill. You'll get your novel in time.[/quote] [quote]Duke says things like "fortnight" because he is cool. Not because I have problems.[/quote] [quote]Deceit is effing CREEPY.[/quote] [quote]But Constance, once you've made someone British you can't un-British him! That would just be cruel.[/quote] And when annoyed with the way a scene turned out: [quote]Edit this scene later with fluffytiems. We must have fluffytiems.[/quote]

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Vedfolner — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 22:31:44 -0500

"IT WAS...THE BUTLER!.. WITH THE TSOD? mwhahahahahahahahahahahah" For a story I will be doing after NaNo... Apparently, the butler did it, but... I DON'T EVEN HAVE A PLOT YET. Oh, yeah and my note on my MC's missing last name xD: "PI Paul Somehtingsomething said " I need a surname, dammit!" And puts on his sexy smhexy sunglasses...."

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Turdlock — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 01:43:26 -0500

Me too. :D

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Turdlock — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 01:48:34 -0500

I'm naming a character Blank. I am NOT ALONE! :D

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Astrid indeed — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 02:28:41 -0500

I found out some of my notes were in terrible, gramatically offensive, French. Why? Because I was drinking hot chocolate from a bowl. Roughly translated I'd written "possible, but burny." There was a point where I simply wrote: "how the hell did Johannson get in here? Get back in your short story! Also, does he have a first name?" Eight pages later there was a note saying "phone Erik." I didn't know who Erik was so I made it Johannson's first name. "My "F" button hasn't worked for 10,000 words... FIX BY PRESSING HARD!" My favorite is a margin that details "The Story of the Cult of the Illustrated Prophets and the Fox King Under the Hill" in a fullhand scrawl over several pages.

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Turdlock — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 03:42:02 -0500

I wrote a random plot idea down a few hours ago. As it was on paper, it's kind horrible. :) **So this person was really sad, but she got happy with help from friends. Her sad self travels to the future and starts killing people. Yay! ** This is when I was doing a recap of what I had just written. **Lily kills wolf. Falls asleep with Marty and Peter wakes up with them. They're naked. ** While brainstorming what my ending might be. **She kills him herself and disappears. Peter doesn't get much closure, but everything rests and anxiously. She will be the main villain. Yay! ** When writing with paper my grammar goes extremely down hill. :D I also tend to use "Yay" a lot. :)

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sovay — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 07:41:45 -0500

My narrator is going on and and on about buying Christmas presents with her pocket money: "Then I spent the money on chocolate, and not a fuck was given."

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Piper the Perfect — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 02:14:12 -0500

SUGAR! Doesn't do nice things to my brain. 0.o Just wrote this lovely tangent piece. And yes. I'll censor the cursing here. [quote] *CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE* Alright, be as descriptive as I can here so future idiotic me doesn’t get confused. :P Yes, this is Tori speaking. So gosh, why didn’t we think of this before? We have a great pace and lots of fight fight here, and it’s simple, all we do is.....kill the batman. XD Sorry had to, but seriously, cut the conversation with Anthony and Lyanna, it’s unnceccesary and they have plenty of time to talk while on the other ship. Instead Lyanna stays aboard, getting soaking wet. OH RIGHT! G*D D**N IT! We forgot to give The Captain a hat! Also do that! We still haven’t really decided on a hat have we? UGH! D: Why must you be so annoying. Anyway, The Captain and Lyanna have that “connection” moment that’s already written. Why don’t I cut it now? DUH! Word padding! So make the official decision in December if you want it or not. I think we should just cut it. But whatevs!......I really shouldn’t have drinken that can of mountain dew at 11 at night. [/quote]

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Geesafaire — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:39:42 -0500

The entirety of my character notes for Erin: "The kind of person who wears jodpurs. And rocks them." And then I have a doodle that is (hopefully) unrelated to my novel, of a lobster holding a gun. It is captioned "Lobster/mobster."

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murphyslawyer — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 18:38:35 -0500

I made a very hurried note on my phone when I was struck with an idea while lying in bed. That note's title: [quote]Right Now! Write Me! Me, me, meeeeeee![/quote] I think I was channelling the minions from Despicable Me. Then there's the note itself: [quote]Brenna swimming naked when Aedhan comes to apologise. Ahahahahaha awkward ensues![/quote] And as if it weren't enough that I'm delighting in the awkward, there's this underneath: [quote]Aka the writer is a douche[/quote] Yes, yes she is. As for what happened when I made notes on ideas a fellow NaNoer had given me... welp. [quote]

Jeremy: "reason" with Brenna, give it up?
Brenna rescue Jeremy? Take him to house? Aedhan can't stand him?

[/quote] Me writer. Me speak good English! Sadly, it got worse. [quote]

Dubhlainn harass/kidnap/kill Jeremy?
Brenna goes on a run/drive/walk? Look for trouble? In over her head?
Aedhan has to rescue her? Hurt pride? Emotions?? All da feelings! FEELINGS, I say!!!!!
Early start with Dubhlainn here and there? *pink panther music. Daaaaa duh. Daaa duh...*
Brenna leaves? Forced back? Run into each other on a hunt?
Fae attack an entire town/someone unconnected? (Sorry unknown random innocent bystander/bystanders)
Brenna tempted to give up? (Hey hey hey, what do you say, why don't we give up and go awaayyyyyy)

[/quote] I'm not sure what's worse, the fact that I burst into spontaneous song twice, exclaimed over the feelings, or the fact that it all makes sense to me!!

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murphyslawyer — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 18:39:34 -0500

Also, major brownie points and Murphy love if you get the second song I burst into. XD

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ObiKimono — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 18:45:15 -0500

Even sadder, it made sense to me, too.

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murphyslawyer — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 18:47:08 -0500

I think the truly sad thing would be if it didn't make sense to you, seeing as, you know, you're the one who gave me these ideas in the first place and I was making notes directly from what you'd told me. XD Oh, and that reminds me, I think I've settled on something... }:D

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ObiKimono — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 18:51:06 -0500

No, the truly sad thing is that we're holding this conversation as if in an entirely different spacetime continuum from the one we're holding on Twitter...

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murphyslawyer — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:00:23 -0500

Have we not accepted by now that we're going to do the time warp forever??

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Chestergirl28 — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:01:02 -0500

When I was younger, I wrote this note to myself in the middle of the night and it literally said Clover Emma Kate Flowers Horse Jenny I woke up the next morning, read it, and went berserk trying to figure out what it meant. Five years later and I still can't remember.

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Turdlock — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:41:16 -0500

Lobster/mobster makes me very happy. :D

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murphyslawyer — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:40:09 -0500

I found moooaarrr..... Written on my whiteboard: [quote]Bitch-slap-o-rama![/quote] (Clearly I was in a great mood.) Along with classic gems like these: [quote]Ronan, how do you exist?[/quote] [quote]Writer does not understaaaaand.[/quote] Comforting, I am not. [quote]Epic dance party?[/quote] Is that even a question, self? Of course epic dance party! [quote]Ronan subtly bullies Brenna?[/quote] One: Why do all my nice characters turn into bullies!?!?!?! Two: How do you subtly bully someone?! Mind, if it can be done, Ronan's the one to do it, but still! Jeebus. >.< [quote]Branded? Hehehe. Ouch.[/quote] head/desk [quote]Iain loses his mortality! Nehehehehe.[/quote] If there's one thing past and present me have in common it's that we both need more sleep.... Yeesh.

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quietfox — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:13:34 -0500

Oh, in 2006 we had NaDruWriNi. That is the night I learned that I am no Hemingway. I'm pretty useless as a drunk writer. Good times, good times.

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SweetJuly — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 23:20:20 -0500

"THOM IS A FATALIST" ...okay then. This required all caps...why?

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Geesafaire — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 09:14:44 -0500

[quote] aahf-taah moo feyn-ohd-dey kee-ney-zee-kaah[/quote] I THINK this was my attempt to write something phonetically in… French? German? Swahili? There's no context to it at all.

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JamesComstock — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:28:40 -0500

When I woke up this morning I found a crumpled piece of paper in my sheets. Apparently I woke up in the middle of the night with a brilliant idea and tried to write it down before falling back asleep. "Perfect ending! They go..." there's about a full line of writing that's not even legible, plus it was in pencil so it got smeared around in the night. When I can start reading again is says "RCC needs ore, fire swamp trees, catharsis." then another half a line that's impossible to read Whatever my idea was, it turned into a combination of work, minecraft, and insanity. PERFECT ENDING!!! XD

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Fiona W — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:51:39 -0500

I found this in a notebook full of three AM scribblings: —> that in itself was scary, the way they felt about her, the way they seemed to worship her, as if she were a perfect angel sent from heaven, that was scary bee. That's how it ends, I swear! What's even worse, I'm not really sure who "she" and "they" are supposed to be...

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buhbyebirdie — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:28:42 -0500

Sooo...this is in my outline. [quote]They stop, holding each other and hardly breathing for what feels like ages, it turns out to be an animal or something I don't know I'll figure it out[/quote] In all fairness, I DID figure it out. But hello, October Me. Glad you left me that little time capsule.

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SadieB — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:50:21 -0500

I found this as a reminder about what I should write next: "They suck and that they are together only sucks more because they are sucky. I’m running out of stuff to write about here."

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PastExploits — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 03:08:22 -0500

I have a list of things I need to change (these are all handwritten): -What does Gabriel do in his free time? WHO IS THIS GUY! All I know is he's Ana's brother. WHATEVER BYE. -Was this supposed to be rape? (I don't even have a rape scene wtf.) -WE NEED MORE SAINT CONSTANTINA. -Everything. Just everything. You can't write and if you're being honest with yourself, you're a fraud. Pack it in. -30k of nothing. -Remember to look up demons and their names and why you can't say them and whatever you'll remember. -Are we sure that Guiseppe is even a word? -Do these people ever eat? Menstruate? Cough? Leave the house? -EDIT LATER: WE NEED PARENTS. Yeah, I don't know what I'm talking about either.

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PastExploits — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 03:19:07 -0500

Also, at the very beginning of the document, in white text, I typed: Don't worry, no one's gonna read this crap anyway. Thanks, self.

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Geesafaire — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:01:01 -0500

I just found this. It sounds like I'm writing CSI: San Francisco, but I'm not even sure of the context I had in mind... (San Francisco. Police find a human heart without a corresponding body) "Looks like somebody (puts on sunglasses) better call Tony Bennet."

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clynn07 — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 19:49:33 -0500

So, this makes sense until the end... • James goes ballistic when he realizes that this is the guy who killed his brother, vows to kill him. (Greg: “LOL RIGHT YOU ARE USELESS”) I giggle whenever I read that point on my outline. Also, I describe the final battle as a "superepicmagicalshowdown." I sound like a five year old girl high on candy "-.-

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shockvaluecola — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 19:59:00 -0500

I know what these were about, thankfully, but I don't remember writing them at all, lmao. "smell things more, fuck" "COCKY SHIT AHHHHH"

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murphyslawyer — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 14:34:49 -0500

My whiteboard: [quote]NAME THE FAE FUCKER! (Not Aedhan)[/quote] Good to know the Fae I need to name isn't the one who's been present in these books since the first one and is now my MC. head/desk

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lolalinda — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 04:33:04 -0500

suddenly a wild mage appears. it's super effective. ... don't know what to say ...

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roonerspism — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 06:19:27 -0500

[quote]But Ianto is mad at Jack because Jack loves Jack, who is the current Jack not the old Jack, as the old Jack has a thing for him, although he likes himself too. [/quote] I wish I knew what that meant. And also why I needed to write 'Jack' so many times in one sentence.

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roonerspism — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:06:35 -0500

Oh, also? [quote]Except Owen is developing feelings that make him feel a bit uncomfortable about feeling them.[/quote] I'm really good at repeating words over and over, it seems.

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sycelia — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:11:46 -0500

My notes as I try desperately to get through those last couple of thousand words until a pretty purple bar: - So then they leave - And then rumbling, emanating from deep within the mountain - And something is coming up from the deep. Omg wat is it - And it's a huge... - a huge... - dammit All out of ideas.

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Spuggey — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:46:25 -0500

UM... ANYWAY... THEY GO TO THE BASE. That's in between them getting off a plane and arriving at a military base. It was late and I couldn't be bothered to write it properly, so... o.O

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Sabulum — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:05:37 -0500

There is a common theme in my notes... A) Yelling at myself IN CAPS; B) Saying I need to do things "in December," as if I'll forget; and C) being totally wired. As such, I have a lot of good ones, or at least I think so. Like this, from my outline: [quote]Note: highlighted parts are what I've done already. THIS OUTLINE IS SO OUTDATED! Things aren't working like this. OH MY GOD. I need to rework ALL OF THIS come December. Note to self: rework this![/quote] Or this, from my tentatively titled "Important Notes" page (which I employ far less often than I should): [quote]Note to self: MAKE MORE NOTES! And put in the "Document Notes" section, honestly… things need corrected and YOU NEED TO BE ABLE TO FIND THEM when December comes around. Don't just spread them out all over when the mood strikes you, ORGANIZE ffs![/quote] This synopsis is also quite amusing. The "scene" itself is equally vague: [quote]Meanwhile, at a secret compound which is secret... Teaser, trailer, sequel hook and foreshadowing all in one. Ricky + Anna and Red Flag stuff, discussing... pertinent things. Ricky has a brother? RICKY IS A GOOD GUY. Oh my god.[/quote] ...I amuse myself sometimes: [quote](Side Note: Wendell is awesome in this fic.)[/quote] But other times... jeez, seriously. I mean, come on?: [quote]There may or may not be another huge chunk of story here.[/quote] Then there's this, which is basically the whole purpose of my fic summed up in one sentence: [quote]Re: the Vincent subplot, there is a scene full of extremely awkward interaction between Brennan & Gary, because THIS HAS TO HAPPEN![/quote] And continuing my trend of disturbing vagueness in my note-taking: [quote]Then Sweets gets kidnapped by the crazy Alpha chick. (Taken from home, the crew only discovers this hours later, as he was due to visit the lab.) Also, she has a bloody shovel. And she apparently killed the caretaker with it or something, I don't know, THINK OF SOMEONE FOR HER TO KILL![/quote] ...But hey, Traveling Shovel of Death! ...Oh, and then there's this, from my actual fic (later edited out): [quote]Brennan scowls, but gets out and shuts the door without further complaint. Also, it's cold. Just FYI.[/quote] God. Seriously? How did I even get this far? :P

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drummergirl325 — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 01:29:48 -0500

I posted some of my worst notes at the beginning of the month… Now it’s time to go back over the rest of them and see what other craziness has popped up. I really should just post my entire notebook in here... [quote] Either that or she can fall out the window cactus-style xD [/quote] Apparently cacti fall differently than other things? I dunno. [quote] Of course it takes something like a falling anvil to hurt them, not just a hit with a baton or something. [/quote] My novel has turned into Looney Tunes. [quote] What helps her think straight? Or, rather, what CONFUSES her? Healing? Talking to normal people? [/quote] Also, my MC has some serious social problem going on here. [quote] The people need hope, even just a little, and all they need is someone to give it to them. Whoa that’s pseudo-deep. [/quote] [quote] Is light pollution a problem in the city? If so, I could make another pseudo-deep metaphor. Eheheh. [/quote] …Light pollution? I was so stuck for plot the best I could think of was LIGHT POLLUTION? [quote] He’d already befriended Evi, and she, having free will, left with them. [/quote] Glad I specified that my main character has free will. Because, you know, she totally wouldn’t have otherwise. O_o How about making some PLOT-RELEVANT NOTES, past self??? [quote] I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god. [/quote] Aaaaand Socrates enters the novel. Just for the record… nobody is dying. [quote] I need something genuinely sad. Something happy. Something more than the same-old confused sarcasm. I need emotions here, people! Work with me! [/quote] My plot is so well thought out, don’t you think? [quote] This way when/if she decides to embrace who she truly is, it’ll happen closer to the end and I can have enough freaking symbolism to give [beta reader] an aneurism. :P Sorry, [beta reader]. [/quote] [quote] I will NOT pull a Disney death – if I kill someone they will be DEAD unless I want to get into the psychological horror of reconstructing someone from machines, which will be played for horror much more than anything else if it even happens at all and probably lead to them committing homicide/suicide. ANYWAYS. [/quote] [quote] Her: Well, that’s all right then. And bloody screams fill the air. DUN DUN DUNNNNN [/quote] I’m sensing a little bit of a discrepancy. [quote] Need to mention how their healing properties work – time plus Jerry’s work crew. [/quote] There is no character named Jerry. There has never been a character named Jerry. There are also no work crews. I have no flipping idea what I meant by this. [quote] ULTIMATE NERD RAMPAGE!!!!! [/quote] [quote] 8DDDDDD Evienne’s name is SO FREAKING SYMBOLIC HOW DID I MISS THIS [/quote] [quote] Cecil’s workplace should be somewhere cool. Not a boring office. Think Aperture Science! [/quote] [quote] This %@&$ just got serious, man. [/quote] It literally says” %@&$.” [quote] I DON”T EVEN FING KNOW GLARSRSOPIRGSHOFISPOAFHSIPGHPAFSOGHPOFSIH FSOIPFH P [/quote]

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Outasync — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 03:54:34 -0500

*groan*

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murphyslawyer — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:41:30 -0500

..... [quote]- Smut (always with the smut, self. Really? Yes really.) - Dubhlainn being a dick (business as usual, really) - EMILY KNOCKED UUUUUUUUUP - Jeremy trying to get Brenna to come home (he briiiiibed, he gonna diiiiie) - Brenna wants to leave; Jeremy or her dad ends up dead? WHOOPS! XD -Seelie Queen stirs up some shizzit[/quote] I have no words.... my characters are flipping out. But this is how I'm getting my last crop of words! XD

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lionhuntermo — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:29:12 -0500

Not exactly notes, but it was when I was supposed to be writing… [quote]Tired Never sleeping Always writing, thinking Working until collapse, un- Conscious [/quote] and then: [quote]Writing… NaNoWriMo… Only fifty-thousand… Only fifty-thousand words left… Coffee… [/quote] (I don’t even drink coffee) then later… [quote]Boredom Procrastinate These poems make no sense I’m just babbling on and on… No life. [/quote] this makes only the slightest bit more sense in my own mind than in yours… [quote]Ch31: -Smith comes down to shoot her -Explanation? -Smithiness? [/quote] hmm… [quote]Tracker Tech (or Tcch)? Blood “She would know soon enough, if all went well” Log from… Apr 24 2019 36.4566, 98.6182 Toulouse, Oklahomaland >:D [/quote] and the very last line in my plot: [quote]---- Whoops… [/quote] There are also at least one hundred Ks, Ms, and Es from me figuring out the POV of each chapter; fifty-ish dress designs (two of which were drawn on a cow and a pig); a trillion random coordinates, word counts, ages and dates; the word SPORK under chapter 27; and the name “Lucy” surrounded by hearts a few dozen times (he’s not even my character!)

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CrystalCattail — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:37:39 -0500

One of my characters is described like this: "Loren is meant to look like a cross between that guy from the Psijic Order and the dude with the goggles on the cover of "The Alloy of Law." Since he doesn't play much of a role beyond getting sick, falling into a coma and almost dying, that's probably enough background for him. I thought about having him join as a permanent cast member, but as nephew of the Arch-Mage, he's got more important things to do. For what it's worth, I imagine his uncle looking like Savos Aren."

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callmeIndigo — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:03:37 -0500

[quote]This is why I never specify.[/quote] Specify what? There is nothing surrounding this that makes sense in this context. Immediately following four paragraphs about winged people: [quote]I have no idea why I wrote any of this. Or why I was British when I came up with the idea.[/quote] I decided I was British (which I'm not), I guess, because I inexplicably called something a "bloody brilliant" idea. Which it was not, by the way. It was about universities teaching people to fly. [quote]London is in the wrong city.[/quote] All of my notes about this are like this. It's like I'm trying to be cryptic so I don't give myself spoilers. [quote]Don't specify where they are this time. Then you have to deal with geography.[/quote] All these are followed by two pages of drawings of eyes.

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lionhuntermo — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:11:39 -0500

I was trying to get down another random idea that I got about halfway through November, and I was attempting to think of how my one (zombie MMC) character died. [quote]Grey---> how? WITH BEN OMG Ben died by lamp, stupid. Alanna is just another mission->♥ so... how did he die?? Ben---> Stalker, lamp thing[/quote] yep. I argued with myself on paper. I'm thinking this is a new low for me... There are also bits and pieces written in code, including one character's name, because I realized that the kid who sits next to me is named Tim as well...

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IJustHadThisGreatIdea — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:36:40 -0500

I humbly offer: "Hot chicks get on a bus (also: angry feminist mime who may or may not be vaguely french)." Yeah, this is going places -_-.

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The_Quillmaster — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:35:42 -0500

YES. SIDEBURNS FTW. And Zhao too. (Obscure reference. Ignore me.)

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The_Quillmaster — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:43:54 -0500

Still. I had no idea millenium were only 60 years long. XD Brilliance.

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The_Quillmaster — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:36:52 -0500

I would follow it religiously.

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mixeduppainter — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:29:45 -0500

My favorite note thus far is: "Opening the window has unforseen consequences." Just like that. After the fact, I realized that unforeseen was spelled wrong too. I've had this note stuck to my computer for the last three days.

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32AurorA05 — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 22:57:40 -0500

Um, let's see... "Fred comes up. And starts eating people. THIS IS SO NECESSARY. O.O"

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Piper the Perfect — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 03:40:34 -0500

Lovely couple of gems. I had these scenes that had to be written right then, so there were some parts that were sloppier than others. Always entertaining. The notes. Self-explanatory. [quote] Another story that has just popped into my head, at about 6 am in the morning after a rather fruitless night of sleep. Woke up at about three A.M after what? Four hours? Watched some F.R.I.E.N.D’s episodes this popped into my head while I was trying to fall asleep. So we start with this couple that have been married for four years, the woman is in college. She has two, three years left? She’s washing dishes, and her husband enters the apartment. This scene ensues(What a strangely proper introduction). Oh, and it is Sunday, December 18th, 2010. Ok, here we go. [/quote] [quote] End chapter(that was particularly good in my opinion, but don’t listen to me, I only got four hours of sleep and am emotionally exhausted)* [/quote] Thanks......self? And my absolute favorite: [quote] It’s a CONTEST! How many times can I say NODDED in the first ten sentences of a page!??! Honestly, we got to find a better word. [/quote] Yea, it's really that bad when it comes to that word. Oh, and trying to reconcile with myself that this idea that refuses to go away is not a good idea. [quote] What if, we mix all three ideas together? The pollution sky, the fantasy world, and this backstory of these two people going through a divorce. I’m insane, I’m actually insane. [/quote] And then a good ten minutes later, I type at the end of above note: [quote] …....It doesn’t sound all that bad. Does it? [/quote]

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St.Germain — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 06:50:47 -0500

I've started on notes for Script Frenzy, even though my idea is... less than formed. And so I gave myself this helpful piece of information: [quote]Here we go. One of those. I've got a vague feeling more than a premise. This is going to be difficult. What have we got? Blood, violence, and James McAvoy. What? Yeah, I know. But he better keep his damn shirt on, 'cause we've had quite enough of that.[/quote] I guess mental casting has already begun for this formless, plotless monstrosity. To be fair, my rallying cry against shirtlessness has a reason. In the two NaNos and one SF I've done, it's a common occurrence for my MMC's to be wounded, and end up shirtless in the course of treating said wounds. And it needs to stop!

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callmeIndigo — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:38:42 -0500

I'm revising, which means I'm leaving notes to myself in all the margins. Along with my writing "Stop that" every time Duke looks sheepish, this has led to the following: [quote]Revise to sound less inane[/quote] There are no other marks on that paragraph. [quote]Alcohol?![/quote] At the top of a page set in a coffee shop. [quote]Insert rambly transition[/quote] Various forms of this are repeated throughout, because I kept forgetting how Duke talks. [quote]Duke would not notice Yes he would[/quote] [quote]This sounds like Max's internal monologue![/quote] This refers to an incredibly whiny protagonist of a previous NaNo, and is written next to a poorly-executed random paragraph of angst. [quote]Why so defeatist?[/quote] [quote]Transition please[/quote] [quote]I hate prophecies, why did I do this?[/quote] The pages I've read are also peppered with "Oh god fix it" and "Rewrite rewrite rewrite!" because I didn't bother to actually make suggestions to myself.

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ObiKimono — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 22:37:25 -0500

I was laughing so hard. And actually, that would be a brilliant first sentence for a journal-type novel. :D

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murphyslawyer — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:47:30 -0500

Awwww, but James is so pretty with his shirt off! :P :P :P

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murphyslawyer — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:49:10 -0500

I had to burst out laughing when I saw this on my whiteboard: [quote]"interrogation about possible sluttiness or slut-like behaviour"[/quote] What in the actual fuck, self. *cracks up*

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strawmelon881 — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:27:44 -0500

Wow, that could actually be a viable prompt to kick-start a story.

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strawmelon881 — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:30:02 -0500

[quote=Piper the Perfect] [quote=You] What if, we mix all three ideas together? The pollution sky, the fantasy world, and this backstory of these two people going through a divorce. I’m insane, I’m actually insane. [/quote] [/quote] Hah, that does sound interesting, though.

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crazygirl9310 — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:06:10 -0500

I just have one question, is Dr. O a perminant nickname, because the entire time I read that I was like "Is this some bizzare Power Rangers fan fic?" Because Dr. O is what the Dino Thunder rangers call their science teacher and black ranger, Dr. Tommy Oliver.

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Telcontar — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:20:03 -0500

For my revisions: [quote]-Chapter culminates in Eschen's return to apt. & confessing everything to his plant. (fix funeral later.[/quote]

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Piper the Perfect — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 05:15:15 -0500

Despite my plea for sanity, I've fallen in love hard and fast with this story, and it has quite a few great scenes behind it already. Scenes that are in mind to write, and a character who minored in science. Her choice of course, and she's insisting I bring science into every aspect of this novel. *sigh*

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DefyGravy — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:10:46 -0500

[quote]But you know, those are traits people don't matter.[/quote] Someone please explain this to me. This was comparing two different characters from two different books in the hope of understanding either of them better.

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murphyslawyer — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:55:38 -0500

Months ago I got frustrated at a character (or rather, at his family tree) and wrote this on my whiteboard: [quote]Ronan, how do you exist? Cillian fucking random biatch---not like him. Writer does not understaaaaaand.[/quote] Well, the other day I had a breakthrough, and in a different colour marker, this is now written beneath the above words: [quote]Writer understands now!!!!! XD [/quote]

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TewiInaba — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:13:38 -0500

"There is a girl who is the server of the universe and makes sure it all works. BUT SHE'S A SERVER SO SHE'S NOT GOD OH I'M SO CLEVER" My brain suddenly does not appreciate my ideas.

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moomoo652 — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 23:49:10 -0500

When I came up for my first outline, it was this: "Pirates!" That's all I knew. And I made a few characters. Then, during our lunch break, my friend and I were in the hallway, and she started babbling about how my pirate adventure would go. So I grabbed the orange marker from behind the near by radiator, and began to scribble notes on my knee under my skirt… brilliant.

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Steampunk avi8or — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:56:56 -0500

For my book about a rock band rising to fame and awesomeness. [quote] PILLARS OF RAWK!!! and then the nerds are all like Corinthian or that other one? [/quote] I still don't know what that other kind of pillar is called. It starts with an 'i'. Anyways. I'm trying to come up with a name for a rock band in one of my books and for some reason PILLARS OF RAWK sounded awesome early in the morning. [quote] German exchange student lead singer yeah [/quote] [quote] Police guy is like you cant sing a song unless its about balloons and or puppies [/quote] [quote] Policeman gets his face melted off [/quote] Oh my. Face-melting solos are now literal apparently.

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callmeIndigo — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:21:25 -0500

I believe you're thinking of Ionic pillars/columns, if it's at all relevant.

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Geesafaire — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:52:43 -0500

[quote]Stupid Wikipedia protesting the Stop Pirates on the Interwebs. Or whatever SOPA means, other than being Spanish for "soup." I can't go and research clothes from the 1980s, so legwarmers it is. What's that, you say? There are other, more reputable sites I could use for research? Or even paper books? (to be read as said by the Hispanic maid from Family Guy when asked to bring her own Lemon Pledge from home:) …No… By the way, how did I get from legwarmers to a "I need more Lemon Pledge" reference?[/quote] Could've just wrote "Note to self: research the 1980s when Wiki is back," but nooo...

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Steampunk avi8or — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:20:38 -0500

That is relevant, thanks! XD

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crazygirl9310 — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:21 -0500

World building right now [quote] Royal Court ++Country is ruled by a ruthless king... ++Backed by a ruthless court... ++Backed by ruthless nobles... ++++With armies! [/quote] It just kind of made me giggle

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callmeIndigo — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:32:42 -0500

[quote]It's unfortunate that Ripplemire is dead. He had a cool name.[/quote] Um, yeah. And then I found an excuse for him to be alive, because I liked his name. Never mind the emotional turmoil of his sister, he's too well-named to die! [quote]he gets lost in a sewer (!)[/quote] Yes, the exclamation point is in there. Possibly because there is no legitimate reason for him to be in the sewer, but he has to be in order to make the plot work.

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ShidaHa — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:30:47 -0500

Earlier, I was organizing my unsorted documents and found a file that had only two words in it: [quote]War moose[/quote] I'm still trying to figure out how I ever got that idea. Although in fantasy, it could be a nice break from horses/dragons/griffins/other generic mounts. I might have just the character for this...

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Rushshock — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:16:35 -0500

Honestly, the Queen is a child. She was spoiled, rich and beautiful. Everybody just handed her things when she was young. However, now she’s grown more accustomed to taking something by force rather than it being handed to her. If she see’s something she wants, she goes after it. She doesn’t give up on it. That’s her pride getting in the way of her seeing something for what it really is, a silly goose chase. The Queen might rant about something or someone when she doesn’t get what she wants. She has been known to kill, maim and mentally scar that of her staff and guests during these rages. Lol, I love the Queen.

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callmeIndigo — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:12:44 -0500

Every time I go through my notes, I find more. I wrote this while planning for NaNo, and at the time I thought it was brilliant. Now I'm just confused. [quote]If I can find a Shakespearean theatre that would be hilarious, I should use that.[/quote] I'm pretty sure it has something to do with Othello, but that doesn't really explain anything. Oh, yes, and then there's this: [quote]Is there no death in Connecticut?![/quote] Connecticut: land of the immortals.

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Winterwind — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:18:18 -0500

[quote]Next scene: Natalie meets a man in a store. There is SUSPENSE. IS THIS THE MYSTERIOUS GUY WHO WE MET JUST NOW? TUNE IN NEXT TIME AND FIND OUT![/quote] Apparently I turn into a TV show announcer when I'm tired.

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Steampunk avi8or — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:07:04 -0500

For my next Nano: [quote] The Great Freeing The Great Rebirth The Great Gaining of Identity The Great Event That I Can't Name Right Now [/quote] Fail. [quote] Dmitri is the therapist!!!! This is a huge plot bunny! And he's gay! [/quote] I felt the need to explain that this is a plot bunny. And Dmitri is apparently gay. I had no idea before I was writing that sentance. [quote] Hehehehehe #6275 I'm gonna therapize you! And #6275 is in the fetal position [/quote] Well apparently there is now a verb for giving someone therapy. And I bet #6275 would feel safe now that he's being therapized...

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Vynne — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:58:38 -0500

I have an idea about that fate=seamstress one. In Greek (I think) legend, the Fates (which controlled how/when/ what happened) were often pictured weavinga tapestry out of threads (golden?). So maybe you have a modern day/unconscious version? Hope this helps!

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miniwriter — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:30:49 -0500

I was looking through some notes I made last year, and on one page there's "The princess falls in love with the pineapple" and nothing else. Yes, that makes perfect sense, because everyone falls in love with a pineapple and there's no princess in any of my stories.

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maggiep — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:30:22 -0500

Lol. And how did that work?

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Sorrows-Laughter — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:09:49 -0500

"That awkward moment when you pull rank over your father to get your way. overwhelming, overemotional scene where hero is a superior a**hole." ummmm... yeah. shouldn't plot while watching tv.

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moomoo652 — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:16:19 -0500

It has actually functioned pretty well. Except I had to go and invent my own society cause I don't like writing about guys in main roles. XD

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callmeIndigo — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:40:37 -0500

I have finally discovered a note to myself on my marked-up manuscript which I don't remember the context of at all. Between two lines of text, above the phrase "flurry of motion", I have written one word, very small. That word is "Door". There is no explanation for this anywhere and I'm tremendously confused.

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thesudokukid — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 05:03:17 -0500

I know how you feel callmeindigo. In an area called Novel Notes I left myself a note saying [quote]Edit it so it's truly in Leo's Point of View [quote/] That's it. That's the entire note. And I left myself no kind of information on how to do that or anything and I'm really confused and all that. My first thought when I read that was "gee, thanks self."

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thesudokukid — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 05:05:00 -0500

I meant to put this. When are we getting the edit button back? [quote=thesudokukid] I know how you feel callmeindigo. In an area called Novel Notes I left myself a note saying [quote]Edit it so it's truly in Leo's Point of View [/quote] That's it. That's the entire note. And I left myself no kind of information on how to do that or anything and I'm really confused and all that. My first thought when I read that was "gee, thanks self." [/quote]

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lionhuntermo — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:08:04 -0400

I wrote this last night so I wouldn't forget how the chapter went: [quote]Kanji calls her a prostitute… Exi offers to leave, then to get a job… Dinner?… Bed[/quote] I was very sick and very tired. And here are some scene summaries: [quote]Epiphany sort of thing (Thurs night)[/quote] [quote]THE Sleepover (Friday night)[/quote] [quote]Kiss!!!! (Tues)[/quote] [quote]Office. Meh. Finny circles. (Tues)[/quote] There is no Finny in my novel. [quote]Erik drives her to doc for hand, finds out about stuff (Tues)[/quote] [quote]Mom yells; Erik sees her knocking on mirror (Tues)[/quote] Yes, knocking on a mirror. [quote]Plaaaann, Travel, Meet Evi and K (Tues)[/quote] [quote]Dinner and sleep i suppose[/quote] I should stop now...

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kunaineck — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 14:29:12 -0400

not very funny but... "Important Shiz happens."

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Story of Latea — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:51:00 -0400

Please excuse this if something is not spelled correctly. I'm using a computer for the first time, and I cantot see. I;m lgalley blind, sj I can;t see the keys. Mo franie is halpino me with lreaning the kesy. [quote=Mussulini] Actually, I'll just let my friend take over for the moment. [quote=Mussulini's Outline] A world infested with monsters, seven youths fight for freedom, with one beauty leading them all! Or so what ran through her head. Rose had been waiting around town, wandering about herself after the death of Clarice. What now? [/quote] This was the outline for Rose. She wasn't a main character, but she's a pretty pretty character. I'll add the rest later.

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bookhobbit — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:15:23 -0400

On the manuscript of my first draft, I crossed out "Oh, well. It didn't matter" and wrote "Worrying." in the margin. Just that. "Worrying." Is that descriptive of the sentence, or a suggestion to replace the sentence? The world may never know.

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bookhobbit — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:50:20 -0400

Oh, also, I have a pseudo-Egyptian setting I'm putting in the second draft, and my note for the place it's going is "INSERT EGYPT HERE"

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Nocturna — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 07:17:46 -0400

I have two quotes which are going to go on the first page as a sort of teaser for the story, and at the bottom of the page I wrote the quotes on I found this note: [quote] C is tortured by B while looking for E. D furious with C for running off to look for E alone. Oh! Is Aunt A one of the Fae too??!! [/quote] It looks like I'm writing a book populated by the alphabet...*sigh* I had no idea until now that the bulk of my main characters had such closely linked names alphabetically - I also have two T's, two M's, another A, and S and a W. It's like playing Scrabble...

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callmeIndigo — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:12:12 -0400

[quote]So a couple of them show up at the door while Anabelle is doing her introductory thing and are all cagey and threateny, which is not a word. And TEENNNSSIIONNN.[/quote] Oh, good, now I know exactly what to do. Also, thanks, self, I wouldn't have known that "threateny" isn't a word if you hadn't told me. [quote]CHARLES! As discovered by Travis, in an alley somewhere where WAIT DOES HE SMOKE WHAT NO whatever, he's in the alley for some reason.[/quote] Methinks I should know why my characters do what they do.

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Kookaburra17 — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:36:15 -0400

Just discovered a couple of gems in an older outline... "The prince ragequits" might be my favorite so far. "Aspeth promptly passes out" just makes me shake my head.

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Silenia — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 19:49:36 -0400

From an old notebook. According to the dates I put in here-and-there, probably from around December 2011 or Jan 2012. [quote]Female 1 goes... somewhere? Forest? No, too overdone. Old castle? Check story to see if there even is a fricking castle anywhere near there! NOTE TO SELF: NAME THAT FMC and soon, and draw up that map! No, no castle near there... but there are ruins there, aren't there? Hm, 30 miles away... fine, doable. How's she going to get there... some way, I guess. Meet FMC2 there. Why/How? FMC2 is not hiding from anything and not particulairy. pariculary. particulary. however you spell that f'ing word. interested in ruins, either. NOTE TO SELF: STOP CALLING her FMC2 when she ACTUAlly has a name. She does, right? Or am I confuzed again? 'NOTHER NOTE TO SELF: Stop using capitals for half of a note-to-self. ...I'm writing notes to myself. Which are not important for future reference/planning. Am I goin insnae. insan. insane? I'm going insane. ...oh, wait, she already was insane, right? That's why you call yourself Silly online, isn't it? ...Damn, now I'm talking about myself in a mix of second and third person. reaaaaally am insane. NOTE TO SELF: GOOOO TO SLEep. Silly is awake for tooooooo llomg. LONG. it's spelled LONG. anyway, too loooooong to think. at all. It's now... 3am. 3am already? Damn. That's what, 51 hours? Think so, not sure. When did I lsat sleep again? Not important. Can't sleep anyway. You can't thing either, thoug. think. though. looks like Silly canot spell either atm. cannot. point proven. ANYWAY, back to the PLANNING, SELF! Why is FMC2 (does shee have a name yet or not?) in/near those ruins when she's not interested in ruins and not hiding from anything? What is she actually doing before she meets with FMC1-who-needs-a-name? Right, she was travelling towards Whatever-town-that-needs-a-name. Or did I already name it? Don't care, will check later. Hiding from storm or such? NO. FAIL FAIL FAIL. Issue is that there is a draight. darught. DRAUGHT, remembr? Sandstorm? NOOOOO. Draught =/= dessert. ...and draught"s not equal to desert, either. Anyway, not weather. What reason than. Should've been then. REASON? ---- guess I'll think up one later.[/quote] And that kind of rambling goes on for... hm, four pages, give or take a few lines. Handwritten, too, and nearly unintelligible at times. The result of writing while awake for 51 hours - if I can trust my past self to have counted properly while awake for that long. Writing in non-native tongue doesn't really help at such moments either.

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ElliMelody — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 23:19:25 -0400

This si my synopsis of a plot bunny that appeared on my keyboard before I went into a cleaning-the-living-room rampage. [quote]Braelynn is a young girl in college who spends her spare time babysitting. One day, she is asked to take care of a little 8 year old, Naomi Brigham, and her little sister Ilish(Ili). Braelynn falls in love with little Naomi. But Naomi begins to act sick. Her parents claim it is soemthign common. Later, she is diagnosed with (insert deadly terminal illness here.) Naomi dies. Yeah, this thing needs help...[/quote] And thats after about a thousand times rewriting Naomi. Gonna do this for Nano next time, but frankly, Naomi's name is going to be butchered. So. Many. Times. I always end up writing Namoi. Would that name even be male or female? i might use it later...(watch me keep writing that one as Naomi....)

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FairytaleHero — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:10:52 -0400

I'm planning on re-writing a story I wrote a few years ago, and these are some notes from my so-called 'outline' for that... [quote]Also, GRACE. What the hell is she doing in this story? I honestly can't think of a single important thing she does. I'll need to work on that.[/quote] [quote]What's the plural of enigma? Because they're that. [/quote] [quote]It's kind of like a metaphor I guess. Oooh! This is the kind of thing they'd talk about in English classes and I'd usually think "the writer probably didn't MEAN for that to be a metaphor" BUT IT TOTALLY IS! [/quote] Then I went on to make a list of the "themes" in the story... [quote]So, like, themes: Discovery of ones self? I guess Family (an extremely disfunctional family but I think in the end they do love each other.) Trains Pancakes[/quote] Yeah... trains and pancakes... don't ask. [quote]Also, I have not got a motherflipping clue how Abby dies at the end. [/quote] [quote]How the fuck does KAra die? I'm thinking about making her not die, but that would totally fuck up Tallulah's storyline in the sequels. ugh I dunno I'm tired I'll think about this tomorrow. [/quote] I've always known that certain characters are meant to die in this story but I have no idea HOW any of them die... Uhh... I should probably work on that.

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callmeIndigo — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:57:44 -0400

I opened my planning notebook the other day and was immediately confronted by: [quote]Looks like there will have to be lesbians.[/quote]

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murphyslawyer — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:00:14 -0400

The ominous duck idea makes perfect sense if you've read Cassandra Clare's series... :D

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Chronophobia — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:00:16 -0400

From my plot /outline./ "They set off to find it, figure the rest out later." Of course I couldn't figure out the most VITAL parts to the plot. c.c"

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evil.mastermind — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 05:33:44 -0400

[quote=kunaineck] not very funny but... "Important Shiz happens." [/quote] I do that all the time. xD

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Thanatophobia — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:29:11 -0400

*ahem* "They meet. They travel. Fight monsters. More monsters. Then they kill big bad." And... that's my plot, folks! What was I thinking? I seem to have done this all the time........ (this was sort of old, but I found it and thought it was amusing...)

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Thanatophobia — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:29:43 -0400

Hm. Funny, that's pretty much the same thing I had in my notes xD

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murphyslawyer — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 22:38:06 -0400

This is a gem, even for me. I'm packing to move and just found this scrawled on a Post-It, then scratched out... does that make it better? "Sexual relationships?! He's SIX!!!" I don't know...

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topsecret — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 03:34:35 -0400

I wish we discussed trains and pancakes as themes of the stories we dissected in my English classes. Though pancakes would probably have to show up at some point in the story to be considered a possible theme.

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Story of Latea — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:14:48 -0400

My notes are usually terrible. I should really take more. Actually, maybe I should take notes on the research on dragons and dinosaurs that I'm dong. Yeah. Good practice. Ne.

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FairytaleHero — Thu, 03 May 2012 17:34:41 -0400

When my book is published and world-famous and people are studying it in English classes, they will discuss pancakes and trains. Theyre both very important plot points. Yup.

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FairytaleHero — Thu, 03 May 2012 17:35:00 -0400

I was filling in one of those character profile things to get to know my characters. And in the section for describing what they look like, I wrote [quote]He has hot eyebrows.[/quote] Um... okay.

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Carpe Verba — Thu, 03 May 2012 22:09:56 -0400

Trying to figure out how a dragon-like creature would fly if it looked more like a deer than a lizard: "like bat-like flying squirrels (vaguely) but flies through the air like a badminton birdie from h**l" Yeah. The sketch makes a /lot/ more sense....

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St.Germain — Thu, 03 May 2012 23:10:57 -0400

[quote=ankhta]"meat shop mel hates it"[/quote] This makes me smile. My name is Mel. And I'm a vegetarian.

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Syri_Rey4711 — Tue, 08 May 2012 00:43:18 -0400

Hi. I've been lurking for months. Don't mind me. So, I just found this and thought I'd post it. "And then the Atti letter thing. Yup. Don’t forget she should read something that later is obviously foreshadowing for Atti is struggling because Daddy dearest is like Hitler. But with proper motivation beyond being blindly racist. Because his little sister. And yeah. But mostly he sucks. Like Hitler. So. Yeah." ...And the worst part is, I can actually make sense of this. But wait. There's more. "Several centuries. Oldest of old people 700 years. Just over 1000 years ago catastrophe? No. 1700. Wait, no, 2800. Roughly. So four generations ago (fuzzy people). Tech. level is late 1600s to early 1800s. So gas lamps and maybe trains? Horse and buggy definitely. 1100BC to 700BC was catastrophe. Wait, BC. Did they have Jesus? Or was he not born because of changes? Butterfly effect and all? Woah. No Jesus. Weird. Huh. Anyway, range is good because Dark Ages and eruption of Mt. Something. Did not know that. Lucky. Greece???" Um. Greece was important somehow. I swear. I'm just not sure how. From the looks of those question marks, I wasn't too sure then either. "Kyra. SIS-type? Forest. Talent? Explains why not seek help or confide. Why SIS? Atti 'more important'?" < Crossed out with words "DOESN'T FEEL RIGHT" along the bottom. Well. That was helpful. "Next timeskip takes to Sixth set. Seventh set gigundoly important. Yuppers. Because HUMANS. One of sets is shorter because yeah. Similar to another one or something. OH! No. Child Ninth set shorter stage one because only Children. No adults. Duh." Um. No comment. "Kyra offer help Ki. Why? Returning favor? Empathize? Compassionate, I guess. Feel sorry for him. See tired. See trying to help friend/family. Was impulse, mostly. Help is impulse. Always." And there's a bunch of arrows branching down from each option to the sentence "Because she's Kyra and that's what she does." It's circled about fifty times, and it's like I was telling myself "God, you're so stupid." Well, reading it certainly makes me FEEL stupid. XD That's all I've got right now. I'd have to dig up my old composition books for more. I'm not sure I want to. No, actually, I'm sure I don't. Most of (Read: ALL) of what's in them is awful. It burns my eyes to read it, and I'm ashamed just thinking about it. Yikes. I'll go dig through them anyway, though, because I'm masochistic like that.

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Cherri — Tue, 08 May 2012 17:56:18 -0400

I opened one of my notebooks today, to make some notes on something else. My last note is a list of how the class system worked in an old novel. Most of it made sense, but I spent a good five minutes staring at this one line- [quote]Class One - Gout.[/quote] Now, class one would be the top/upper glass. Took me a while to realise that it's my hand writing, and I meant 'govt.', or government. I couldn't for the life of me work out where gout fitted into the story. xD

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murphyslawyer — Wed, 09 May 2012 14:32:43 -0400

In my early notes on my series' first book... one character murdered his stepfather. Comment on this: "Case was never solved. (How convenient!)" *headdesk*

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elvendork — Thu, 10 May 2012 14:15:18 -0400

Don't mind me, I've been editing *ahem* lurking *ahem* for the last few months. In going back through my journal to find my MC's mafia connection's name, I found a note that said only ***THE QUAGMIRE CLUSTER*** in big green letters. Which would be cool, you know, if I knew what that was. Or how it related to my high fantasy novel. Or why it was written in place of Mafia Guy's name.

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DigitalAir — Thu, 10 May 2012 19:03:11 -0400

"Okay. So I'm gonna be a complete cheatery-cheater and base my characters' personalities off Zodiac signs like a scrub." "

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Morigale — Fri, 11 May 2012 11:28:40 -0400

"THIS SCEEEEEENE! DELICIOUS EARLY CANDY!" ... you know those amazing scenes that pop into your head and you're basically just writing to get to? Yeah, this was one of those and it's like the first or second scene. So I had to crow about it in my notes apparently.

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Gun.Shott — Sat, 12 May 2012 23:14:49 -0400

"Must be more than 80 years dummy. Evolution! Maybe kick into hyper drive? 1,800 years? Blahhhhh giant lizards" ... You know... because everything makes more sense with giant lizards. I guess. I honestly can't remember what that note was for.

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Wolfgirl44 — Sun, 13 May 2012 18:08:52 -0400

My personal favorite plot-realization note has been "He's giving him nightmares because he wants him to come looking for him so he can kill him!" ...There's just so many ways to tell who is who in that statement. *sarcasm*

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Lady Ebonique — Mon, 14 May 2012 10:48:06 -0400

Haha! I LOVE this thread!!!!!! Late last night I was writing down a plot idea of a story that will kinda be like beauty and the beast, but not and I kept making side notes to myself. It came out looking something like this: [quote] His family--who are all about self image--desert him (wait a second, is that the right spelling? Will figure out when I'm not this lazy) so he moves into an apartment building where he lives all alone. (Thank you, Captain Obvious! Now it's time to call the DoRD to take you away! Urgh!) After sulking for a while, he finally begins to venture outside (at night of course when no one can see him) and explore the alleys and side streets of the city (not sure which one right now). [/quote] LOL at myself for being retarded when I'm half asleep! [quote] One night he's following her home from work and (yes, because stalking is all the rage in the dating world these days) he saves her from being mugged. Then (because somehow she didn't see his freakin' face the night before) she comes by in the morning to thank him for saving her. (Whaaaaat?! How does she know where he lives and why is she just now thanking him when she could have done that the day he saved her unless she was unconscious--which still makes no sense--and this is a super long run-on sentence so please stop now before you hurt yourself--GAH!) [/quote] Aparently my muse was trying to tell me that the plot sucked and I wasn't listening. Lovely notes! It looks like Gypsy--my muse--has grown a sarcasting bone to replace her funny one while I wasn't looking. WTG, Gypsy! NOT! What evs!

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murphyslawyer — Mon, 14 May 2012 14:43:37 -0400

Chapter summary I wrote last night: "Talk about all the feelings, then have all the sex." And the summary for the next chapter: "Morning after awkwardness all around!"

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Outlier- — Mon, 14 May 2012 16:15:34 -0400

I was looking through my notebook of plot ideas, and I found this Nobel prize-winning gem. "Something about a guy. Stuff happens which causes things to change (or maybe it doesn't?) and then the guy changes (or doesn't) because of reasons." I apparently thought that this was a coherent enough plot idea to write down.

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Clover313 — Mon, 14 May 2012 23:50:23 -0400

Argh! I just found a slip of notes, one of which simply says. "I know. That's exactly why." Which, I KNOW was some important, life-changing piece of information for one of my characters, and whatever it was about is there at the edge of my thoughts, but I just. Can't. Get to it! Haha... Wow. I obviously fail. I'm certain I have other poor notes other places, but that's what I had on hand. :)

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TANK Ex Mortis — Tue, 15 May 2012 00:04:39 -0400

Context is boring. [quote=I]the robot wants to be/achieve/understand the human idea of "cool". hipster robot. awesome. i'm thinking huge plastic glasses with no lenses and some kind of fake mohawk attached to her head with magnets. yes, that sounds like a girl i'd like to date.[/quote] [quote=I]1: Rob Liefeld-esque supermuscleclones -leader: a giant pulsating brain in a jar, obviously. also obviously, the brain has lost control of the gang and serves as a symbolic figurehead. or figurebrain. whatever [less funny notes] 4b: vampires, fuck yeah 4c: superheroes 5a: punk rock zombie junkies (zombiesm is a symptom of withdrawal from their drug of choice) 5b: hip-hop furries 9999999: pacifist gardeners[/quote] [quote=I]maybe it should start with something really mundane, and then spiral out of control. like he goes into town to buy a mop, and there's only one mop left in the store, and a beautiful girl buys it and he tries to talk to her, but she's abducted by terrorists. hahahaha awesome. the terrorists are hiding in the store's refrigerator behind the milk, OBVIOUSLY equally obviously, the girl is the terrorist's sister, they're like a 1950s nuclear family of terrorists, and this is just how they roll so it isn't actually a big deal them kidnapping her.[/quote]

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TANK Ex Mortis — Tue, 15 May 2012 00:06:29 -0400

Dangit, that wasn't meant to be a reply, now it looks like I'm ragging on Clover for giving context. And still no edit function for the forums, apparently.

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TANK Ex Mortis — Tue, 15 May 2012 14:06:26 -0400

[quote=I]maybe the antagonist was created as a body for the brain in a jar? and they have this kind of creepy pseudo-romance thing going on? yes sir, that is sexy hot.[/quote] [quote=I]plot things: 1. love polygon 2. robots vs. supermuscleclones 3. student council[/quote] [quote=I]2.) What is the protagonist doing right now? (Enter the story as late as possible, as Kurt Vonnegut said. Don’t start with the back story, you’ll filter that in later.) -going to middle school, probably early in the year if not the first day. also working on a massive couch made from the pelts of roadkill, which i just made up now, but hell yes, great idea.[/quote] [quote=I]right, so maybe he's obsessed with feet instead, and annie the robot has a bunch of feet or feet substitutes she switches between, and that's totally erotic to him, but also brings up a sort of objectification subtext, which is totally erotic to me[/quote]

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Clover313 — Tue, 15 May 2012 16:22:49 -0400

No biggy! I think we've all been there before. :) No offense taken here.

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FreakierThanThou — Tue, 15 May 2012 18:46:33 -0400

[quote]There are pubically funded schools[/quote] I don't want to know what that would be. Also, that's not even the correct spelling for publicly, which was what I was going for. [quote]Also, on an important plot note...[/quote] [quote]But that [religion] has lost a lot of momentum in recent years on account of sucking[/quote] Not that I'm judging or anything... [quote] The cost can range from a bad smell in your mouth to death[/quote] WTF? [quote] He and his second wife had two children together before she died of something sad. Now Derek is dying, possibly of the same sad thing, if I can find something that would infect two unrelated people living together. Maybe an STD or they're living on a mercury mine or something? Possibly one of their kids is sick, too.[/quote] I'm just really bloodthirsty today.

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Naffy — Wed, 16 May 2012 15:19:12 -0400

ha ha. I was reading all this and thinking that there's no way my own notes are like that because I'm just not cool enough but then I found this: [quote]Daughter cursed not to use her powers ---> eats her up ...HP points or something => NO. used all her powers to make his dragon only by day => refer to page...earlier.[/quote] yes.

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Naffy — Wed, 16 May 2012 15:36:24 -0400

*him

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ofmanatees — Wed, 16 May 2012 22:06:48 -0400

Oh man, I honestly have the worst notes ever... [quote]And this is probably from Sabine’s POV, so there’s lots of talks and stuff. And about halfway through, she gets kidnapped by a war dude, and REESE TO DA RESCUE. And THAT’S WHERE LILYA DIES WOOOOOOOT STUPID BITCH.[/quote] [quote]Speaking of which, Esme is killed by Julian’s friend, who accidently drowns her because she cant swim. Oops[/quote] [quote]he figured it was best to be loyal which is slightly out of character, but an epic flashback would save it[/quote] I later discovered an epic flashback only made it worse. [quote]TRIPPY DREAM SEQUENCES FROM EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!! he calls himself a rookie. I'M NOT SURE HOW THIS IS RELEVENT AT THIS TIME. SPARKS FLY!!![/quote] [quote]zeke expresses his frustration in being unable to find himself. LOL. it's dramatic.[/quote] [quoteThey fall in love, and it's almost like incest except not really. [/quote]

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turntechswaghead — Wed, 16 May 2012 23:03:53 -0400

So What I do with my planning is I put down the date and write so I can keep track of what I do And looking over all my notes today, I came across this [quote] Honestly, after figuring out the Gods the other day, I don't really have anything for today. I should really come up with an actual April 30th: Wow I actually stopped mid-sentence yesterday. Wow. [/quote]

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TANK Ex Mortis — Sun, 20 May 2012 13:49:59 -0400

[quote]I AM THE GENIUSEST, I WILL CHANGE MY NAME TO GENIUS MCSMARTS[/quote]

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FairytaleHero — Mon, 21 May 2012 18:18:07 -0400

I was just reading my outline for last year's JulNo. At one point, I wrote: [quote]VDD!!![/quote] I have not got a freaking clue what VDD stands for. Seriously. I can't for the life of me remember. It must have been important because I put 3 exclamation marks after it. I vaguely remeber writing it and thinking I would remember what it meant. But I have abslutely no clue. Here's the line that it came from, for context. [quote]Chapter 12: VDD!!! Go to POD. Ian recognises Al. Gaz tells Lulah about I/C. (R. pov.)[/quote] I understand what everything else means. And it still gives me absolutely no clues as to what VDD could be. I am so confused.

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thejustkat — Tue, 22 May 2012 23:42:29 -0400

[quote=Nocturna] I have two quotes which are going to go on the first page as a sort of teaser for the story, and at the bottom of the page I wrote the quotes on I found this note: [quote] C is tortured by B while looking for E. D furious with C for running off to look for E alone. Oh! Is Aunt A one of the Fae too??!! [/quote] It looks like I'm writing a book populated by the alphabet...*sigh* I had no idea until now that the bulk of my main characters had such closely linked names alphabetically - I also have two T's, two M's, another A, and S and a W. It's like playing Scrabble... [/quote] CBDEATTMMASW WASTED MEAT, BEAT, SEAT WET, MET, BET, DEBT CAT, MAT, BAT WEAR, BEAR, TEAR ... Yeah, you gotta lot of words there!

Re: Your Best Worst Notes

TANK Ex Mortis — Wed, 23 May 2012 10:23:31 -0400

[quote]she learns to like popular things and stuff. character development, motherfucker![/quote] [quote](pps OOOH or maybe, to save petunia, the antagonist finishes the transplant, deleting his personality entirely. YES SAD ENDINGS ARE BEST)[/quote]

Re: Your Best Worst Notes

TANK Ex Mortis — Wed, 23 May 2012 18:04:20 -0400

Someday I will write a story I enjoy as much as my notes for the story. [quote]Lena's parents announce to Lena that she'll have her brain put into a robot. it's like when your parents sign you up for piano lessons without your permission, but with invasive surgery instead of pianos.[/quote] [quote]Milo's parents are killed in a drive-by scatting (singing, not poop)[/quote] [quote]Lena's parents are fused as one organism and also they're a politician[/quote] [quote]the national government is a parliamentary republic organized into subgenres. i don't know what that means but it sounds good.[/quote] [quote]his parents were relatively well-off kung fu ravers (or beatniks) with a place in the suburbs across the street from the Skiczewski family[/quote]