I know it's not much but I've just passed 5000 words and I'm so pleased with myself. Yes, I'm way behind and I have to do that 9 more times (holy cr4p!) but I just had to share.
What started as a semi-autobiagraphical road trip / coming of age / self discovery thing has turned quite sinister - how's everyone else doing? Has yours changed much from the original plan?
Hope to see you guys on Saturday - time and kids willing.
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Nov 8, 2007 - 08 34
Mine to was a semi-autobiagraphical / coming of age / self discovery thing and has also gone much darker than I expected, but I currently need a story hook to get mine going again. Although I have reached 10,000 words, I need something to kick it off again, so feel a bit stalled. also my job search has been getting in the way.
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Nov 8, 2007 - 08 40
Mine's still a sci-fi fest, but have now decided in the grand tradition of all sci-fi movies that only one person's going to get out alive (well actually it's two but one is comatose so doesn't count). Originally only one person was gonna cop it.
I was dared to include a zero gravity sex scene which has kinda changed the character dynamic a bit..............
Trouble is I've writted 5000 words of the beginning and 4000 of the end, and now have to work out whats going to fill the other 40,000.
----------You'll find me in a small dark box twiddling knobs...............
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Nov 8, 2007 - 08 44
Meant to add:
I didn't have an awful lot of plot planned, but a bit of internet research has actually focussed whats going to happen - less mystery now, more conspiracy theory.
annoyingly there doesn't seem to be a way of deleting posts.
----------You'll find me in a small dark box twiddling knobs...............
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Nov 8, 2007 - 13 52
How can I deviate massively from a non-existent plot?
----------Oh, and Hilda: What about the 'Edit' button?
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Nov 8, 2007 - 14 32
Technically speaking it should be my job as your esteemed moderator to be able to edit and delete posts. But I can't figure out how...and to be honest, you lot seem polite enough for me not to bother!
Congrats on the 5k and any other Big Milestones hit so far. I was priding myself on Sticking Exactly To Schedule, which was fine up until today... I need to be on 13,336 by midnight tonight, I did a 9 hour shift today, I've done no uni work, and its now 9pm and I unashamedly can't be arsed!!
Mine started off with An Idea - I've read a lot of stuff about the history of coffee for my phd, but I don't think that I'll be able to use a lot of it in the thesis, so I thought I'd stick it in a novel!! Some of my characters are actual historical figures - if not the most well known ones, Samuel Pepys pops up and gets coffee thrown at him, if that means anything to anybody. And Charles II keeps popping up and having sordid affairs. History is useful in that - give or take a few years - it provides a very handy plot! Unfortunately, at 12k in, I've got a random woman on a boat heading to south america with her parrot in tow, and an eccentric dutchman trying to run a coffee shop in london opposite a brothel, and I've been hinting at Something Nasty that happened to him in Java. But I don't know what it is yet. And I don't know where she's going, or what the brothel has to do with anything either... aaaaaaaaargh.
oo, well that was a bit long and rambly wasn't it? I shall shut up and type now.
----------"Curiosity is the cure for boredom. There is no cure for curiosity".
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Nov 8, 2007 - 14 46
My book is starting to stall... the last couple of days have just been un necessary 2000 word fight scene with a random vampire woman and an awful lot of rambling speech. I have no idea what the rest of the story is going to do but I don't think it's going to be readable at the end.
----------My God.... It's full of Typos.
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Nov 8, 2007 - 15 29
"I've got a random woman on a boat heading to south america with her parrot in tow, and an eccentric dutchman trying to run a coffee shop in london opposite a brothel, and I've been hinting at Something Nasty that happened to him in Java."
Maybe the something nasty involves a brothel run by the brother/sister of the one in london, in Java, and he the woman and parrot end up in a scenario that I will leave to your imagination....
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Nov 8, 2007 - 15 31
Now to my plot problem,
I have a teenager, who has just tried to take an overdose, realised its a mistake, and been through a night of super alertness as a result of the tablets she took.
When she emerges, every else on the entire planet will have disappeared, but I don;t know why, or how to take it forward, and I have another 40,000 words to write
Oh, and I am going back to contracting in bristol monday to friday for 4 weeks from Monday - but I still plan to be in darlo on sarturday.
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Nov 9, 2007 - 02 01
suedo: my first thought was a massive game of hide and seek, then I thought, Where would John Prescot hide?
And you'd soon spot Geoffrey Archer as people pushed him out saying, Go hide somewhere else you creep.
Being the last person on the planet had been a running fantasy of mine since I was a kid ... and here I go, rambling on, wasted 1, 2, 4 ... lots of words .... could it be a drug induced mental condition, dual personality where one doesn't see people, just hears them as little squeaks? The other ... ummm ... THIS is why people who read my stuff suddenly become very polite, use the 'interesting' a lot, then I never see them again.
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Nov 9, 2007 - 04 20
I am in exactly the same boat. I've been rambling since about 12,000 words. I'm currently at about 16,000. Rambling 4,000 is quite impressive IMHO. I kind of know where I want to go, but I'm having problems getting there. I'm hoping a blitz at the weekend will get me on track again, but I may be being a bit optimistic.
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Nov 9, 2007 - 04 46
go sit on a swing - be a pendulum - inspiration will come.
Works for me - almost every time - but only if i don't take a pad and pen to write down all the great ideas i get inundated with.
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Nov 9, 2007 - 10 07
Oh, and Hilda: What about the 'Edit' button?
sorry should explain - I accidentally posted the same message twice (slow system) so edited the second one but couldn't delete it.
Am a moderator myself on another forum and have the power to move and delete whole threads if needs be, but even there there is a 'delete post' option for all users!
I haven't got to the waffling stage yet which might explain why I'm the lowest word count of our word warrers.
BTW has anyone tried to include some dares yet?
----------There's been quite a few on the London forum so I was thinking of trying to include a few.
You'll find me in a small dark box twiddling knobs...............
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Nov 9, 2007 - 10 08
Oh, and Hilda: What about the 'Edit' button?
sorry should explain - I accidentally posted the same message twice (slow system) so edited the second one but couldn't delete it.
Am a moderator myself on another forum and have the power to move and delete whole threads if needs be, but even there there is a 'delete post' option for all users!
I haven't got to the waffling stage yet which might explain why I'm one of the lowest word counts of our word warrers.
BTW has anyone tried to include some dares yet?
There's been quite a few on the London forum so I was thinking of trying to include a few.
You'll find me in a small dark box twiddling knobs............... ----------
You'll find me in a small dark box twiddling knobs...............
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Nov 9, 2007 - 12 48
I wouldn't call it an OFFICIAL dare, but my sister and me have been kinda challenging each other to get strange quotes in our books. I think she's wiining with somehting from Dr Seuss, I managed to get in a line from that famous children's book 'That's Not My Robot."
----------My God.... It's full of Typos.
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Nov 9, 2007 - 12 53
I haven't read that one, is it any good? I have 'That's Not My Puppy', but I have no idea where it came from, or how we came to own it (as happens so much with my kids' belongings.) Kayleigh probably nicked it in Tesco or something, which I wouldn't put past her because she's a little tea-leaf at times is my little babe.
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"it's not mine, it must have been put there by someone else... I swear, I've never seen that bubble-wrap before in my life
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Nov 10, 2007 - 15 15
I thought I was lowest Hilda?
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Nov 10, 2007 - 15 44
No, you're ahead of me at the moment. As I type this I'm officially on 10,418 words.
Might all change though. Mwah ha ha ha!
----------You'll find me in a small dark box twiddling knobs...............
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Nov 10, 2007 - 17 34
We now have That's not my Robot, Bunny, Penguin, Pirate + Teddy. (That's 5 different books by the way, though I would read that book... hmmmm an extra character for my end of the world scene looming.... Giant Robot bunny penguin Pirates.... with teddies.)
----------My God.... It's full of Typos.