What strangeness has popped up in your story? http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486 jsights It's day 3 of NaNo. Surely some of you have had some extreme oddness show up in your novel already. I know I have! Courtesy of QuantumTea, I had a Pterodactyl of Love make a brief appearance in my novel. I think it may need to make an encore appearance before the month is over....it's really quite adorable. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 21:22:17 -0500 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_448099 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_448099 donbranson In mine there's a star system that people call the Ugly Triplets. I have no idea where that came from. Thu, 03 Nov 2011 21:33:10 -0500 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_448411 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_448411 harpsinger Well, first off, I'm the main character, which is kind of weird, but the story is based on a bizarre dream I had a few weeks back, and I was me in the dream, so what the heck. With my wild past, I have some great anecdotes to share that really happened, and one in particular is like a scene out of a cheech and chong movie. Also, I have explained, once and for all, the actual origin of vampires. I'm pretty excited about that! My current word count is 6858 words! Yeah! Fri, 04 Nov 2011 00:50:59 -0500 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_453449 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_453449 Paul Hawke I dont know about strangeness, but here I am 5000 words into the Nano novel and my main characters and plot thread have yet to appear. I mean, come on people, get a move on. At this rate you're going to be minor characters and an Android and a Vampire will take your place. Fri, 04 Nov 2011 08:53:38 -0500 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_459606 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_459606 Merideth Well I hit 7,000 words yesterday (a few hours sans baby did work out great for me!)... and there are no pteradactyls in my story, but I've been surprised how insane my character is looking so far instead of haunted. Oh... and funny moment related to my writing. I was in the middle of a scene where Joanna was getting all worked up and it was kind of intense and I was getting into it when the wind we had yesterday swept up and caught the screen door, throwing it wide open with a crash. Needless to say my character wasn't the only one whose heart skipped a beat right then. Since then I've been almost paranoid about making sure the door is latched and won't scare the bejesses out of me again. :) M. Fri, 04 Nov 2011 09:01:08 -0500 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_459754 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_459754 ShardAngel I've been reading Inkheart in between writing, and I must say I'm slightly concerned about any of my characters coming popping out of the story. The main oddity at the moment in my story is that iI'm constantly at odds with myself trying to write the story that is supposed to be without letting little things like fairies and wizards escaping into it to muck it up! Though a dragon or two wouldn't be amiss... too much. I also found out something about one of the important characters last night that is rather frightening. And it means that the main character doesn't have three sets of names... just two. Fri, 04 Nov 2011 09:30:32 -0500 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_460367 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_460367 banditsrubyangel So far I've had the great wolf Fenrir slaughter approximately five thousand people. He does it to tick off the trickster god Coyote, his former lover. It's never pretty when love dies. I've written 13675 words so far. I'm off work today, and I hope to add another 6000 by the weekend. Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:44:30 -0500 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_461975 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_461975 reona32 For some reason I'm not completely sure of, I included a sentence about a creeping shadow in my last chapter. I don't even know what the creeping shadow is. All I know is that I had to write in the little shadow. Is it normal to not know what the hell your fingers are doing? I am now worried about said creeping shadow. Oh, and I decided to have my two males characters snog the hell out of each other just for kicks and because I was cranky. I think I’ll kill someone today. (happy smile) *Patricia* Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:55:22 -0500 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_462201 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_462201 quantum tea We write so we CAN kill people... and not go to jail for it. Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:31:54 -0500 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_464377 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_464377 NozOnyCal I've been sick lately and my fever has made writing interesting. I promised myself I would have a plot surprise (bombshells I call them) every 10k words. I apparently am mashing two plot ideas together and didn't know it. Dragons and Steampunk... I suppose in a few more days it'll be Dragons, Steampunk, Zombies, and Vampires. Of course Zombies and Steampunk has a certain allure to it. Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:47:10 -0500 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_464732 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_464732 baroke this is weird: my MAIN character is running away with the story. i normally get sidetracked on some minor character and change the whole focus of the story. he just ordered a squad of soldiers to strip down and do 500 push ups in a public square, and he's only just going on duty. hopefully, by the end of the day, there will be more conventional weirdness. i'm thinking about irreverent divine intervention, but then, i'm almost always thinking about that... Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:50:17 -0500 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_464807 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_464807 ShardAngel Our sanity is still questioned regularly due to it though... Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:15:44 -0500 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_468519 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_468519 NozOnyCal As a young adult I kept my stories very tame. I was afraid that people would think what I was writing was a reflection on my personality. If it really is, then I'm a very dull person. :) Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:38:41 -0500 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_469207 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_469207 ShardAngel I like to believe our writing is a reflection of the world filtered through our rose colored lenses and regurgitated through our fingers. Or sometimes that it's where we came from that we write because we have no other way of retaining the memories of the worlds in which we belong. Oooooor we're all just quite mad. Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:43:49 -0500 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_469359 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_469359 ShardAngel Ooooo make a clockwork dragon! Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:44:15 -0500 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_469378 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_469378 NozOnyCal Blast it! Edward Teach and Moby Dick just showed up... I have no idea where this is going now. Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:10:35 -0500 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_470177 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_470177 Mendou Hmmm...... There's my main character (an eighteen-year-old girl, 5' 5" but sturdy) picking a fight with a man who can pick up a burnt-out armored car. There's also the the oh-so-sweet officer in the training camp who specializes in bipolar outbursts and assassinations...... Fri, 04 Nov 2011 22:10:09 -0500 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_479931 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_479931 Merideth You seem to be among friends here... I have found that when I'm upset writing a gory murder scene can really help :) Fri, 04 Nov 2011 22:56:34 -0500 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_481303 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_481303 tptigger I was planning on writing a fantasy novel, but I seem to be writing the fantasy version of the West Wing. Sort of. (In a campaign flash back) Sat, 05 Nov 2011 14:48:25 -0500 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_497323 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_497323 tptigger Did I say The West Wing? No, apparently it's fantasy Occupy Wall Street. Or something. Sat, 05 Nov 2011 14:51:54 -0500 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_497418 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_497418 NozOnyCal My dragons became aliens. *weep* I think this novel is writing itself. I just supply the energy. Sat, 05 Nov 2011 15:50:52 -0500 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_498936 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_498936 Shayrazor I wrote a 9-page scene where my characters eat pancakes because it is Saturday. They also have a communal fish tank where everyone shares one fish and has a different name for it. Also for some reason I set up a sup-plot about adopting a puppy. Did I mention my novel is about a group of bad-ass vampire hunters? Sat, 05 Nov 2011 19:32:27 -0500 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_505347 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_505347 CarriePika My story seems to be all over the place already! It started in the desert and now, here I am at 8000 words, and it's moved to an arctic region and my main character is on the verge of dying of hypothermia! The things I do to get his love interest to notice him. =( ♥ Sun, 06 Nov 2011 02:38:33 -0600 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_516236 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_516236 sjziolko Almost five thousand words in, two side characters literally broke the fourth wall, declared one the the main characters boring, and are about to perform a Valium- induced exorcism to get rid of him and move on with the story. I did not plan this at all. Only slightly annoyed that they waited this long to take over, and not force me to spend the last chapter writing incredibly boring dialogue. Mon, 07 Nov 2011 00:04:29 -0600 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_543585 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_543585 ashinypenguin Yesterday, a supporting character/possible love interest just randomly dropped in. I have no idea where she came from, but she's there. Tue, 08 Nov 2011 08:10:52 -0600 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_573382 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_573382 NozOnyCal Now the characters are trapped in a place where the space time continuum is "thin" and we know that time doesn't move in a straight line its, to quote the Doctor, "People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff. " In this particular place to move from room to room could mean jumping from one place in space and time to another. Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:01:28 -0600 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_587606 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_587606 Lell There's a hairclip that's full of acid that can melt a lock that just popped up in my story. How the acid is not melting the hairclip itself, I don't know. But thankfully, I follow the "Don't Explain the Joke" principle of writing, so I don't need to know. Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:05:47 -0600 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_590265 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_590265 baroke rofl, we have similar writing styles. it's no fun for the reader if you take away the mystery, i always say. Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:13:18 -0600 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_590397 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_590397 baroke it's also no fun for the writer if i have do too much research..... Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:14:01 -0600 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_590414 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_590414 mandymichel I think I may have coined a new term: suicide roadkill (to describe politicized squirrels intentionally getting hit by cars). Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:20:18 -0600 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_590534 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_590534 Mendou A fusion-powered flamethrower designed to be implanted in someone's (read: the main character's) body. Also, it has wings. Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:27:22 -0600 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=2#forum_thread_comment_590645 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=2#forum_thread_comment_590645 NozOnyCal That is why I love science fiction, I can just make it up as I go, no need to explain how it works cause I don't know either. I was planning to write a story and did all kinds of research before I even got a word written. When I was satisfied I knew enough about how people dressed, spoke, mannerisms, society and economy of Victorian London, I wrote one paragraph of the novel and quit. Wed, 09 Nov 2011 07:59:48 -0600 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_596552 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_596552 NozOnyCal I just think I got out-weirded here. Wed, 09 Nov 2011 08:00:48 -0600 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=2#forum_thread_comment_596559 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=2#forum_thread_comment_596559 Lell A fun way around explaining things is to have one character know everything, but stay in the POV of the character that knows nothing. First character is like "C'mon, how do you not know?" and second character is too embarrassed to ask. Is that mean? Yes. Do I care? It's November. I'll care in December. :) Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:07:53 -0600 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_598183 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_598183 tptigger I think you just beat my talking fish from '07. Thu, 10 Nov 2011 22:05:15 -0600 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=2#forum_thread_comment_632066 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=2#forum_thread_comment_632066 ShardAngel So pretty much like they write Doctore Who. ;) Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:03:54 -0600 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_640057 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_640057 Lell "I wear a condescending face now. Condescending faces are cool." Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:16:58 -0600 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_640279 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=1#forum_thread_comment_640279 swim559 Ugh! My story has to decided to completely change itself and take on a whole new persona. I'm shifting from a just general Middle School novel about the bad side of bullying to a tortured ghost seeking revenge on the new girl who dares to steal her boyfriend. It's getting creepy quick. :( I have no clue what I'm writing, so hopefully something makes sense soon! Sat, 12 Nov 2011 14:17:56 -0600 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=2#forum_thread_comment_661070 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=2#forum_thread_comment_661070 ashinypenguin I was writing and suddenly found out that my MC has a twin that's serving in the Peace Corps overseas. I had no idea about this. I also found out that one of my main supporting characters has a husband and two children, of which one child and the husband are dead. Sun, 20 Nov 2011 16:53:57 -0600 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=2#forum_thread_comment_783741 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=2#forum_thread_comment_783741 Paul Hawke The central Vampire character was meant to have 'gone liberal' and swallowed the political correctness of an east-coast ivy league college education. Years of hiding, she was tame. Early in the book she balked at hunting. Then she met someone and told her life-story. She just spent 3000 words brutally establishing that the Vampires on the starship have a new Matriarch, and cast all her "tame" culture aside and returned to the "old ways". Eeep. She scares even me - and I am meant to be writing her! Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:23:05 -0600 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=2#forum_thread_comment_820956 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=2#forum_thread_comment_820956 NozOnyCal I don't know if its strangeness but my novel ended with the dragon (not the clockwork one) went back in time trying to stop the events of my novel only to discover she was the catalyst of those events. Mon, 28 Nov 2011 08:04:31 -0600 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=2#forum_thread_comment_873970 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/usa-missouri-st-louis/threads/23486?page=2#forum_thread_comment_873970